Carlos Gutiérrez-Jones, University of California, Santa Barbara.
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xii, 192 pages ;
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24 cm
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-190) and index.
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Living to wonder: Darwin and H.G. Wells' The island of Doctor Moreau -- Stranded contacts: the transformative potential of grief in Stanislaw Lem's Solaris -- Stealing kinship: William Gibson's Neuromancer and artificial intelligence -- Escaping one's self: narcissism and cycles of violence in inception and looper -- Environmental adaptation: creative apocalypse in Margaret Atwood's Maddaddam trilogy -- Afterword: Creative self-destruction and 9/11.