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Nature's Warnings: Classic Stories of Eco-Science Fiction
Author: | Mike Ashley |
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British Library, 2020 |
Series: | British Library Science Fiction Classics: Book 12 |
1. Lost Mars |
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Book Type: | Anthology |
Genre: | Science-Fiction |
Sub-Genre Tags: | Climate Fiction (Cli-Fi) |
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Synopsis
Science fiction has always confronted the concerns of society, and its greatest writers have long been inspired by the weighty issue of humanity's ecological impact on the planet. This volume explores a range of prescient and thoughtful stories from SF's classic period, from accounts of exhausted resources and ecocatastrophe to pertinent warnings of ecosystems thrown off balance and puzzles of adaptation and responsibility as humanity ventures into the new environments of the future.
Featuring stories crucial to the evolution of eco-science fiction from Philip K. Dick, Margaret St. Clair, J. D. Beresford and more, this timely collection is a trove of essential reading.
Contents:
- 7 - Introduction (Nature's Warnings: Classic Stories of Eco-Science Fiction) - essay by Mike Ashley
- 21 - Survey Team - (1954) - short story by Philip K. Dick
- 39 - The Dust of Death - [The Doom of London] - (1903) - short story by Fred M. White
- 59 - The Man Who Hated Flies - (1929) - short fiction by J. D. Beresford
- 71 - The Man Who Awoke - [The Man Who Awoke - 1] - (1933) - novelette by Laurence Manning
- 113 - The Sterile Planet - novelette by Nat Schachner (variant of Sterile Planet 1937) [as by Nathan Schachner]
- 145 - Shadow of Wings - short fiction by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding [as by Elizabeth Sanxay Holding]
- 175 - The Gardener - (1949) - short story by Margaret St. Clair
- 191 - Drop Dead - (1956) - novelette by Clifford D. Simak
- 229 - A Matter of Protocol - [Contact (Jack Sharkey)] - (1962) - short story by Jack Sharkey
- 247 - Hunter, Come Home - (1963) - novelette by Richard McKenna
- 297 - Adam and No Eve - (1941) - short story by Alfred Bester
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