TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bishop,Katherine E.
AU  - Higgins,David
AU  - Määttä,Jerry
TI  - Plants in science fiction: speculative vegetation 
T2  - New dimensions in science fiction
SN  - 9781786835604
AV  - PN3433 .P536 2020
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Cardiff
PB  - University of Wales Press
KW  - Plants in literature
KW  - Science fiction
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Speculative fiction
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Intro --; Title Page --; Copyright Page --; Series Editors' Preface --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Contributor Biographies --; Introduction --; Part 1: Abjection --; 1. Weird Flora: Plant Life in the Classic Weird Tale --; 2. 'Bloody unnatural brutes': Anthropomorphism, Colonialism and the Return of the Repressed in John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids --; 3. Botanical Tentacles and the Chthulucene --; Part 2: Affinity --; 4. Between the Living and the Dead: Vegetal Afterlives in Evgenii Iufit and Vladimir Maslov's Silver Heads; 5. Vegetable Love: Desire, Feeling and Sexuality in Botanical Fiction --; 6. Alternative Reproduction: Plant-time and Human/Arboreal Assemblages in Holdstock and Han --; Part 3: Accord --; 7. Sunlight as a Photosynthetic Information Technology: Becoming Plant in Tom Robbins's Jitterbug Perfume --; 8. The Question of the Vegetal, the Animal, the Archive in Kathleen Ann Goonan's Queen City Jazz --; 9. Queer Ingestions: Weird and Sporous Bodies in Jeff VanderMeer's Fiction --; 10. The Botanical Ekphrastic and Ecological Relocation --; Selected Bibliography --; Notes; 2; b
N2  - Plants in Science Fiction, the first-ever volume on plants (and fungi) in science fiction, allows us to speculate further on what - or who - plant life may be while exploring how we understand ourselves in relation to the complex world of flora
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