Science fiction and climate change : a sociological approach /

"Despite the occasional upsurge of climate change scepticism amongst Anglophone conservative politicians and journalists, there is still a near-consensus amongst climate scientists that current levels of atmospheric greenhouse gas are sufficient to alter global weather patterns to disastrous ef...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Milner, Andrew (Author), Burgmann, J. R. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2020.
Series:Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ; 63.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Ice, fire and flood : a short pre-history of climate fiction
  • A theoretical interlude
  • Climate fiction and the world literary system
  • The classical dystopia in climate fiction
  • The critical dystopia in climate fiction
  • The problem of fatalism in dystopian climate fiction
  • Base reality texts and eutopias
  • Cli-fi in other media.