{"product_id":"terraforming-chris-pak-9781781382844","title":"Terraforming: Ecopolitical Transformations and Environmentalism in Science Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book explores the emergence and development of terraforming in science fiction from H.G. Wells's \u003ci\u003eThe War of the Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e (1898) to James Cameron's blockbuster \u003ci\u003eAvatar\u003c\/i\u003e (2009). Terraforming is the process of making other worlds habitable for human life. Its counterpart on Earth - geoengineering - has begun to receive serious consideration as a way to address the effects of climate change. This book asks how science fiction has imagined the ways we shape both our world and other planets and how stories of terraforming reflect on science, society and environmentalism. It traces the growth of the motif of terraforming in stories by such writers as H.G. Wells and Olaf Stapledon in the UK, American pulp science fiction by Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke, the counter cultural novels of Frank Herbert, Ursula K. Le Guin and Ernest Callenbach, and Pamela Sargent's \u003ci\u003eVenus\u003c\/i\u003e trilogy, Frederick Turner's epic poem of terraforming, \u003ci\u003eGenesis\u003c\/i\u003e, and Kim Stanley Robinson's acclaimed \u003ci\u003eMars\u003c\/i\u003e trilogy. It explores terraforming as a nexus for environmental philosophy, the pastoral, ecology, the Gaia hypothesis, the politics of colonisation and habitation, tradition and memory. This book shows how contemporary environmental awareness and our understanding of climate change is influenced by science fiction, and how terraforming in particular has offered scientists, philosophers, and many other readers a motif to aid in thinking in complex ways about the human impact on planetary environments. Amidst contemporary anxieties about climate change, terraforming offers an important vantage from which to consider the ways humankind shapes and is shaped by their world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Chris Pak\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1781382840\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781781382844\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Liverpool University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 262\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.80d","brand":"Chris Pak","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48088768708863,"sku":"9781781382844","price":61.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0720a2c0-a898-457c-bc27-0361a735d476.jpg?v=1769106511","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/terraforming-chris-pak-9781781382844","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}