United Nations, 102, 109
Unknowability Thesis, 228, 230
utopia: animal utopia in City, 47; Arcadian-Utopian dialectic, 1–3, 16; Australia in utopian fiction, 115–16; cognitive estrangement and, xi, 62; critical utopian tradition, 179; historical otherness and, 14; Le Guin non-capitalist utopias, 56, 59; planetary awareness and, 207–8; as political desire, 60–61; religious utopia, 255–56; science faction as anti-utopian, 202–3; utopian possibility in Kim Stanley Robinson, 246–47; utopian world in Men Like Gods, 32; world reduction in, 61, 62–73; yin utopianism, 62–68, 72. See also ecotopia
Vacca, Roberto, 40
vampires, 13–14
Vance, Jack, 253
Van Vogt, A. E., 78
Veiras, Denis, 115
Venter, Eben, 150
Verne, Jules, 104, 253
Vietnam War, 88
virtual reality, 44–45
virtual space, 9
Wagar, W. Warren, 49
WALL-E, 3, 14–16
Walton, Robyn, 116
Ward, Barbara, 104, 107
War of the Worlds, The (H. G. Wells): overview, 26–30; advanced extraterrestrials in, 25–26, 34; apocalyptic theme in, 48–49; as “first contact” narrative, 77
waste spaces, 11, 31, 49, 51, 107, 111. See also dystopian fiction; eco-catastrophe narratives; pollution
Watson, Ian, 88–89
Weiner, Norbert, x
Weinstone, Ann, 229
Weisman, Alan (The World Without Us), 193–200, 203n4
Wells, H. G.: apocalyptic theme in, 48–49; biotic invasion in, 83; ecological ideas in, 25; evolution ethics in, 43; optimism-pessimism dialectic in, 25; pessimistic tradition in, 81. Works: Anticipations, 25; The Food of the Gods, 48–49, 83; The Island of Doctor Moreau, 25, 48–49; Men Like Gods, 17, 25, 32–34, 37; A Modern Utopia, 25; The Time Machine, 2, 25, 48–49; The War of the Worlds, see main heading; When the Sleeper Wakes, 43
Whedon, Joss, 5
White, Hayden, 243
White, Lynn, 91
Whitehead, Alfred North, 211, 219
Williams, William Appleman, 82
Winterson, Jeanette, 127–28, 131
Wolf, Eric, 78
Wolfe, Gary K., 49
Wonder Stories, 42. See also Man Who Awoke, The
Wood, Felicity, 144
Woodward, Christopher, 11–12
Woodward, Wendy, 146–47
Woolf, Virginia, 144
Word for World Is Forest, The (Ursula K. Le Guin), 17, 60, 67
World Without Us, The (Alan Weisman), 193–200, 203n4
Wylie, Philip, 40
Wyndham, John, 79, 82
Zardoz, 40
Zermelo, Ernst, 217
Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu), 66, 68, 70
Ziegler, Rob, 41
Žižek, Slavoj, 12, 182–83, 200–203, 204n27, 205n23, 205n29, 212
Zoo City (Lauren Beukes), 143
ZPG: Zero Population Growth (activist group), 100
ZPG: Zero Population Growth (film), 99–100, 111
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