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245 1 0 _aPlants in science fiction :
_bspeculative vegetation /
_cedited by Katherine E. Bishop, David Higgins and Jerry Määttä.
260 _aCardiff :
_bUniversity of Wales Press,
_c(c)2020.
300 _a1 online resource (xiii, 254 pages)
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490 1 _aNew dimensions in science fiction
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505 0 0 _aIntro --
_tTitle Page --
_tCopyright Page --
_tSeries Editors' Preface --
_tContents --
_tAcknowledgements --
_tContributor Biographies --
_tIntroduction --
_tPart 1: Abjection --
_t1. Weird Flora: Plant Life in the Classic Weird Tale --
_t2. 'Bloody unnatural brutes': Anthropomorphism, Colonialism and the Return of the Repressed in John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids --
_t3. Botanical Tentacles and the Chthulucene --
_tPart 2: Affinity --
_t4. Between the Living and the Dead: Vegetal Afterlives in Evgenii Iufit and Vladimir Maslov's Silver Heads
505 0 0 _a5. Vegetable Love: Desire, Feeling and Sexuality in Botanical Fiction --
_t6. Alternative Reproduction: Plant-time and Human/Arboreal Assemblages in Holdstock and Han --
_tPart 3: Accord --
_t7. Sunlight as a Photosynthetic Information Technology: Becoming Plant in Tom Robbins's Jitterbug Perfume --
_t8. The Question of the Vegetal, the Animal, the Archive in Kathleen Ann Goonan's Queen City Jazz --
_t9. Queer Ingestions: Weird and Sporous Bodies in Jeff VanderMeer's Fiction --
_t10. The Botanical Ekphrastic and Ecological Relocation --
_tSelected Bibliography --
_tNotes
520 0 _aPlants 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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650 0 _aPlants in literature.
650 0 _aScience fiction
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aSpeculative fiction
_xHistory and criticism.
655 1 _aElectronic Books.
700 1 _aBishop, Katherine E.,
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700 1 _aHiggins, David,
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700 1 _aMäättä, Jerry,
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856 4 0 _uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2486903&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518
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