Plants in Science Fiction - Speculative Vegetation (Hardcover)

Plants have played key roles in science fiction novels, graphic novels and film. John Wyndham's triffids, Algernon Blackwood's willows and Han Kang's sprouting woman are just a few examples. Plants surround us, sustain us, pique our imaginations and inhabit our metaphors - but in many ways they remain opaque. The scope of their alienation is as broad as their biodiversity. And yet, literary reflections of plant-life are driven, as are many threads of science fictional inquiry, by the concerns of today. Plants in Science Fiction is the first-ever collected volume on plants in science fiction, and its original essays argue that plant-life in SF is transforming our attitudes toward morality, politics, economics and cultural life at large - questioning and shifting our understandings of institutions, nations, borders and boundaries; erecting and dismantling new visions of utopian and dystopian futures.

General

Imprint:	University Of Wales Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	New Dimensions in Science Fiction
Release date:	May 2020
First published:	2020
Editors:	Katherine E. Bishop • David Higgins • Jerry Maatta
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	272
ISBN-13:	978-1-78683-559-8
Categories:	Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Science fiction Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > Film theory & criticism Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
LSN:	1-78683-559-2
Barcode:	9781786835598

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