Animals and Science Fiction
“This is a strong contribution to the field(s) of animal studies and science fiction. Indeed, I would recommend it in both fields separately as well as in the combined field where I work. I am especially impressed by the generous range of texts, from bacteria to games to film to novels, and with som...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2024, 2024
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2024 |
| Series: | Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Chapter 19. Mesozoic Miscegenation: Erotic Fiction’s Resurrection of Dinosaurs
- Chapter 20. A “speculation built on fact”: On Dougal Dixon’s Zoology of the Future
- Chapter 1. “Introduction: Reading the Speculative Animal”
- Chapter 2. From Animal Alterity to Animal Studies and SF Today: A Conversation with Sherryl Vint
- Chapter 3. “Safe in each other’s scaly arms”: Solace, Oddkinship, and the Third Position in African Speculative Texts
- Chapter 4. Playing the Animal: Imagining the Nonhuman Animal in 2-Dimensional Action and Adventure Games
- Chapter 5. Philip K. Dick’s Dr. Bloodmoney and the Species Politics of Risk
- Chapter 6. Listening to Nonhuman Animals in Science Fiction Film: Establishing Empathy through Dinosaur Voices in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
- Chapter 7. “Muzzle for the Queen”: Settler-Nonhuman Entanglements in Australian Speculative Ecofiction
- Chapter 8. Reading the Speaking Animal: Biotechnology and Animal “Uplift” in Adam Roberts’s Bête
- Chapter 9. Spacefaring Animals and Their Humans: A Study in Extraction, Exploitation, and Co-Evolution
- Chapter 10. To “Jump” into an Animal’s Body: Empathy, Care, and ResExtendas in Emma Geen’s The Many Selves of Katherine North
- Chapter 11. “alien guest, courting the goodwill of a demonic microbe”: Living Poetry, NHAs and “Aliens Among Us” in Christian Bök’s The Xenotext: Book 1
- Chapter 12. Disemboweling the Hyperreal in Bong Joon-ho’s Okja
- Chapter 13. A Change of Heart: Animality, Power, and Black Posthuman Enhancement in Malorie Blackman’s Pig-Heart Boy
- Chapter 14. Africanfuturist Assemblages of the Undersea in Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon
- Chapter 15. To Build a World: The Return of Biota in Thomas King’s The Back of the Turtle
- Chapter 16. A Multispecies Right to the City? Reimagining the Speculative Narratives of Urban Sustainability
- Chapter 17. Divination with Digital Animals: Sci-fi Realism in Jia Zhangke’s Tian Zhuding (A Touch of Sin)
- Chapter 18. “The Face of Extinction”: On Haunted Futures with Machine Animals