Michael Bérubé explores the surprising insights of classic and contemporary works of SF that depict civilizational collapse and contemplate human extinction.
Michael Bérubé explores the surprising insights of classic and contemporary works of SF that depict civilizational collapse and contemplate human extinction.
Michael Bérubé is an Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Literature at Pennsylvania State University and a former president of the Modern Language Association. He is the author of twelve books, including Life as We Know It: A Father, a Family, and an Exceptional Child and What's Liberal About the Liberal Arts? Classroom Politics and "Bias" in Higher Education.
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Preface Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: Learning to Die 1. The Augmentation of the Complexity and Intensity of the Field of Intelligent Life: The Potential Ex- Human of The Left Hand of Darkness 2. Desperate Measures: Justifiable Despair in The Three- Body Problem and Oryx and Crake 3. Inherit the Wasteland: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Cede the Planet to the Smart Machines 4. Better Children: Octavia Butler and Genetic Destiny Epilogue: Just Kill Me Now Notes Index
Preface Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: Learning to Die 1. The Augmentation of the Complexity and Intensity of the Field of Intelligent Life: The Potential Ex- Human of The Left Hand of Darkness 2. Desperate Measures: Justifiable Despair in The Three- Body Problem and Oryx and Crake 3. Inherit the Wasteland: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Cede the Planet to the Smart Machines 4. Better Children: Octavia Butler and Genetic Destiny Epilogue: Just Kill Me Now Notes Index
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