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Animals and Science Fiction
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- Creator
- edited by Nora Castle and Giulia Champion
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- First edition
- Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2024]
- ©2024
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (376 pages)
- ISBNs
- 9783031416958, 3031416953, 3031416945
- Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter Summaries -- Works Cited -- Chapter 2: From Animal Alterity to Animal Studies and SF Today: A Conversation with Sherryl Vint -- Introduction -- The Discussion -- Works Cited -- Primary Reading List -- Part I: Affect and Identity -- Chapter 3: "Safe in Each Other's Scaly Arms": Solace, Oddkinship, and the Third Position in African Speculative Texts -- Introduction -- The Familiar Other -- The Third Position -- Expansion -- Works Cited -- Chapter 4: Playing the Animal: Imagining the Nonhuman Animal in Two-Dimensional Action and Adventure Games -- Introduction -- Speculation, Play, and Animals -- A Frog Out of Water: Frogger -- Bringing to Light the Fly: The Plan -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Ludography -- Chapter 5: Philip K. Dick's Dr. Bloodmoney and the Species Politics of Risk -- Introduction -- Risky Futures -- Whole Earth Humanism -- Works Cited -- Part II: Animal Communication -- Chapter 6: Listening to Nonhuman Animals in Science Fiction Film: Establishing Empathy Through Dinosaur Voices in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom -- Introduction -- The Anthropocene, Animal Voice, and Science Fiction -- Sentimentality and the Spectacle of Suffering -- Establishing Subjectivity Through Voice -- "They're Alive, Like Me": Sentimentality Versus Subjectivity -- Conclusion: A Post-Anthropocentric Approach to Animal Voices -- Works Cited -- Chapter 7: "Muzzle for the Queen": Settler-Nonhuman Entanglements in Australian Speculative Ecofiction -- Introduction -- More-Than-Human Communication in The Animals in That Country -- Settler-Nonhuman Mythologies and Postcolonial Badlands in Flames -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Chapter 8: Reading the Speaking Animal: Biotechnology and Animal "Uplift" in Adam Roberts's Bête
- Introduction -- Talking Animals and "Uplift" Sf -- Critical Animal Uplift in Bête -- Intelligence and Subjectivity -- Naming and (Mis)Recognition -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Chapter 9: Spacefaring Animals and Their Humans: A Study in Extraction, Exploitation, and Co-evolution -- Introduction -- Agency of the Spacefaring Animal -- Patterns of Extraction and Exploitation -- Cooperation and Co-evolution -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Part III: Bio-intervention and Corporeality -- Chapter 10: To "Jump" into an Animal's Body: Empathy, Care, and ResExtendas in Emma Geen's The Many Selves of Katherine North -- Introduction -- Animal Communication and Bodily Identities -- Research vs. Body Tourism -- Conclusion: The Limits/Benefits of Technology and the Imagination -- Works Cited -- 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 -- Introduction: The Xenotext and The Xenotext: Book 1 -- The Origin of (Alien) Life: "The Late Heavy Bombardment" -- An Alien Guest: "The March of the Nucleotides" -- Alien Microbes and "The Bacterial Sublime" -- Bees and Their Genetic Alienness: "Nucleobases" -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Chapter 12: Disemboweling the Hyperreal in Bong Joon-ho's Okja -- Introduction -- Hyperreality and the Flesh-Food System -- Fabricating Simulacra in Okja -- Disemboweling Simulacra -- Works Cited -- Chapter 13: A Change of Heart: Animality, Power, and Black Posthuman Enhancement in Malorie Blackman's Pig-Heart Boy -- Introduction -- Boy -- Heart -- Pig -- Posthuman Bodies and Postspecies Boundaries -- Anthropocentrism, Rights, and Power -- Animalized Beings and "The Dreaded Comparison" -- The Promise of Black Enhancement -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Part IV: Community (Re)building and Entanglements
- Chapter 14: Africanfuturist Assemblages of the Undersea in Nnedi Okorafor's Lagoon -- Introduction -- Oil and Water -- Multispecies Kinships -- An Africanfuturist Ecocriticism -- Works Cited -- Chapter 15: To Build a World: The Return of Biota in Thomas King's The Back of the Turtle -- Introduction -- Turtle and the Speculative Mode -- The Return of Biota and Community -- Works Cited -- Chapter 16: A Multispecies Right to the City? Reimagining the Speculative Narratives of Urban Sustainability -- Introduction -- History Repeating: Identifying Problematic Patterns in Urban Design Texts -- Considering the Perspective of Other Animals -- Improving Bringing Back Nature Perspectives -- Works Cited -- Part V: (Future) Fossils, Ancestrality, and Haunting -- Chapter 17: Divination with Digital Animals: Sci-fi Realism in Jia Zhangke's Tian Zhuding (A Touch of Sin) -- Introduction -- Sci-fi Realism: Tracking the Compression of Time -- Online Animals: Weibo and the Logic of the Feed -- The Horse and the Tiger: Animals, Violence, and Political Critique -- The Snake: Ancient and Modern in Compressed Time -- Animals Omens: Reading the Internet, Reading Fate -- Works Cited -- Chapter 18: "The Face of Extinction": On Haunted Futures with Machine-Animals -- Introduction -- Unpacking the Game World -- Sawtooths and Stormbirds and Scorchers, Oh My! -- Symbiogenesis -- Ghosts of the Past, Visions of the Future -- Speculative Futures -- Works Cited -- Chapter 19: Mesozoic Miscegenation: Erotic Fiction's Resurrection of Dinosaurs -- Introduction -- The Living Past -- The Modern Era -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Chapter 20: A "Speculation Built on Fact": On Dougal Dixon's Zoology of the Future -- Introduction -- After Man's Structure, Methodology, and Materiality -- Reading After Man as Scientific Fiction -- Visualizing a Future Zoology -- Refocusing the Present
- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index