Plants in Science Fiction

Katherine E. Bishop is Assistant Professor at Miyazaki International College.David Higgins teaches English at Inver Hills College in Minnesota.Jerry Määttä is Associate Professor (Docent) at the Department of Literature, Uppsala University, Sweden.

• ContributorsIntroduction - Katherine E. BishopAbjectionWeird Flora: Plant Life in the Classic Weird Tale - Jessica George‘Bloody unnatural brutes’: Anthropomorphism, Colonialism and the Return of the Repressed in John Wyndham’s The Day of the Triffids - Jerry MäättäBotanical Tentacles and the Chthulucene- Shelley SaguaroAffinityBetween the Living and the Dead: Vegetal Afterlives in Evgenii Iufit's and Vladimir Maslov’s Silver Heads - Brittany RobertsVegetable Love: Desire, Feeling, and Sexuality in Botanical Fiction - T. S. MillerAlternative Reproduction: Plant-time and Human/Arboreal Assemblages in Holdstock and Han - Elizabeth Heckendorn CookAccordSunlight as a Photosynthetic Information Technology: Becoming Plant in Tom Robbins’s Jitterbug Perfume - Yogi Hale HendlinThe Question of the Vegetal, the Animal, the Archive in Kathleen Ann Goonan’s Queen City Jazz - Graham J. MurphyQueer Ingestions: Weird, Vegetative Bodies in Jeff VanderMeer’s Fiction - Alison SperlingThe Botanical Ekphrastic and Ecological Relocation - Katherine E. BishopSelected BibliographyIndex

“Science fiction teaches us to ‘be-with others better.’ This is the core argument of Plants in Science Fiction, captured in one of its chapters and suffused throughout. Readers will come away with a profound and challenging understanding of what it means to be human, as well as a deep appreciation for the critical function of science fiction in a threatened world.”