Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Notes on Texts and Translations xiii
5. Introduction. The Ecology of Italian Science Fiction 1
6. Part I. Post-Boom Wastelands
7. 1. The Price of Oil: Petroculture and Environmental Degradation 41
8. 2. Lives in the Wasteocene: Environmental Justice and the Necropolitics of Disposability 63
9. Part II. Encountering Non-Human Otherness
10. 3. Domestic Jungles and Murderous Megaflora: Plants in Italian Science Fiction 89
11. 4. Texts of Meat: Representing Animal Exploitation 109 Crossing to the Other Shore: Animal Exploitation 109
12. Part III. Exit Strategies
13. 5. Alternative Ethics: Ecofeminism in Italian Science Fiction 133
14. 6. New Energies, New Minds: Italian Solarpunk and the Imagination of Sustainability 157
15. Conclusion. A Matter of the Imagination 178
16. Notes 185
17. Works Cited 211
18. Index 233