Focused on selected texts by Paolo Bacigalupi, this book explores science fiction as a platform for activist interventions. It discusses genealogical debates, genre conventions of cyberpunk and biopunk, cognitive estrangement, metaphoric strategies and metonymic tactics, and analyses Bacigalupi's texts in the context of ecocriticism.
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Focused on selected texts by Paolo Bacigalupi, this book explores science fiction as a platform for activist interventions. It discusses genealogical debates, genre conventions of cyberpunk and biopunk, cognitive estrangement, metaphoric strategies and metonymic tactics, and analyses Bacigalupi's texts in the context of ecocriticism.
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