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These 19 stories explore meteorological, agricultural and biological technologies, alternative histories, arcologies and communes, the beauty in flooded cities, innovations in cross-continental travel, animals on the verge of extinction, androids, reality tv shows, new food sources, environmental refugees, blurring the divide between humans and animals, and friendship, family and love.

Ecofiction --- Climatic changes --- Short stories

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Recent years have seen a burgeoning of novels that respond to the environmental issues we currently face. Among these, Louise Squire defines environmental crisis fiction as concerned with a range of environmental issues and with the human subject as a catalyst for these issues. She argues that this fiction is characterized by a thematic use of'death,'through which it explores a'crisis'of both environment and self. Squire refers to this emergent thematic device as'death-facing ecology'. This device enables this fiction to engage with a range of theoretical ideas and with popular notions of death and the human condition as cultural phenomena of the modern West. In doing so, this fiction invites its readers to consider how humanity might begin to respond to the crisis.

English fiction --- American fiction --- Ecofiction, American --- Death in literature --- American ecofiction --- American literature --- English literature --- History and criticism --- E-books

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Une fable écologique qui parle de la surconsommation, de recyclage, de pollution, de déforestation, etc. Et le fil conducteur, ce sont ces rêves qui guident la jeune fille dans le présent. L'intrigue est assez pauvre et oscille entre le récit onirique, le documentaire et la science-fiction. Un conte contemporain engagé dont la difficulté littéraire pourrait en décourager certains. Utile dans un cadre didactique pour familiariser les jeunes à la protection de la nature. [SDM] Anna est une jeune Norvégienne de 16 ans. Mais déjà, elle a une conscience aiguë de la préservation de la nature et des dangers inhérents au changement de climat. Avec son petit ami Jonas, elle décide de fonder une association pour la défense de l'environnement. En parallèle, la nuit, elle rêve d'un futur où la Terre a subi tous les outrages. L'homme est en cause bien sûr, puisqu'il a laissé la planète mourir à petit feu. Anna fait de plus en plus de rêves mêlant fiction et réalité. Dans ses rêves prémonitoires, elle se trouve dans la peau de Nova, son arrière-petite-fille, qui lui reproche l'état catastrophique de la planète. [SDM]

Precognition --- Global warming --- Climatic changes --- Human beings --- Environmental protection --- Roman écologique --- Ecofiction

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Since the Industrial Revolution, humans have transformed the Earth’s atmosphere, committing our planet to more extreme weather, rising sea levels, melting polar ice caps, and mass extinction. This period of observable human impact on the Earth’s ecosystems has been called the Anthropocene Age. The anthropogenic climate change that has impacted the Earth has also affected our literature, but criticism of the contemporary novel has not adequately recognized the literary response to this level of environmental crisis. Ecocriticism’s theories of place and planet, meanwhile, are troubled by a climate that is neither natural nor under human control. Anthropocene Fictions is the first systematic examination of the hundreds of novels that have been written about anthropogenic climate change.Drawing on climatology, the sociology and philosophy of science, geography, and environmental economics, Adam Trexler argues that the novel has become an essential tool to construct meaning in an age of climate change. The novel expands the reach of climate science beyond the laboratory or model, turning abstract predictions into subjectively tangible experiences of place, identity, and culture. Political and economic organizations are also being transformed by their struggle for sustainability. In turn, the novel has been forced to adapt to new boundaries between truth and fabrication, nature and economies, and individual choice and larger systems of natural phenomena. Anthropocene Fictions argues that new modes of inhabiting climate are of the utmost critical and political importance, when unprecedented scientific consensus has failed to lead to action.

Ecofiction --- Ecofiction, American --- Climatic changes in literature. --- Environmentalism in literature. --- Roman écologique --- Roman écologique américain --- Climat --- Environnementalisme dans la littérature. --- Ecofiction. --- Ecofiction, American. --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique. --- Changements, dans la littérature. --- Changements --- Dans la littérature. --- American ecofiction --- Eco-fiction --- Environmental fiction --- Green fiction --- Nature fiction --- Climatic changes in literature --- Environmentalism in literature --- History and criticism --- American fiction --- Fiction --- Thematology --- American literature --- Ecofiction - History and criticism --- Ecofiction, American - History and criticism --- Roman écologique. --- Écologisme --- Changements climatiques --- Littérature --- Dans la littérature. --- Thèmes, motifs

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Contemporary visions of the future have been shaped by hopes and fears about the effects of human technology and global capitalism on the natural world. In an era of climate change, mass extinction, and oil shortage, such visions have become increasingly catastrophic, even apocalyptic. Exploring the close relationship between science fiction, ecology, and environmentalism, the essays in Green Planets consider how science fiction writers have been working through this crisis. Beginning with H. G. Wells and passing through major twentieth-century writers like Ursula K. Le Guin, Stanislaw Lem, and Thomas Disch to contemporary authors like Margaret Atwood, China Miéville, and Paolo Bacigalupi-as well as recent blockbuster films like Avatar and District 9-the essays in Green Planets consider the important place for science fiction in a culture that now seems to have a very uncertain future. The book includes an extended interview with Kim Stanley Robinson and an annotated list for further exploration of """"ecological SF"""" and related works of fiction, nonfiction, films, television, comics, children's cartoons, anime, video games, music, and more. Contributors include Christina Alt, Brent Bellamy, Sabine Höhler, Adeline Johns-Putra, Melody Jue, Rob Latham, Andrew Milner, Timothy Morton, Eric C. Otto, Michael Page, Christopher Palmer, Gib Prettyman, Elzette Steenkamp, Imre Szeman

Environmentalism in literature. --- Ecology in literature. --- Ecofiction --- Science fiction --- Eco-fiction --- Environmental fiction --- Green fiction --- Nature fiction --- Fiction --- History and criticism. --- Ecology in literature --- Environmentalism in literature --- History and criticism --- Science fiction - History and criticism --- Ecofiction - History and criticism