@article{1482301,
      author = {Bulleid, Joshua,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1482301},
      title = {Vegetarianism and science fiction : a history of utopian  animal ethics /},
      abstract = {This is an important book on an important topic. From Mary  Shelley through to Octavia Butler, Anglophone science  fiction has repeatedly speculated about vegetarian variants  of utopian and dystopian futures. Yet, the topic is only  rarely and often very inadequately addressed in the  relevant secondary literature. Bulleids Vegetarianism and  Science Fiction: A History of Utopian Animal Ethics more  than fills the gap. It will be a must for all serious  scholars of the genre. Andrew Milner, co-author of Science  Fiction and Climate Change: A Sociological Approach. To  imagine alternative worlds allows a fiction writer to  re-imagine our relationships with the other animals.  Numerous novels envision an end to our tawdry and selfish  human-centered attitudes. How marvelous that Joshua Bulleid  examines, with care and alertness, this creative  refashioning of ethical commitments. Carol J. Adams, author  of The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian  Critical Theory. Vegetarianism and Science Fiction: A  History of Utopian Animal Ethics examines how vegetarian  ideals promoted within science fiction and utopian  literature have had a real-world impact on the awareness  and spread of vegetarianism and animal advocacy. Author  Joshua Bulleid explores how the genres engagements have  been altered to reflect changes in ethical and  environmental philosophy from the early-nineteenth century  to the present day, through an examination of the works of  major science fiction authors, including Mary Shelley, H.  G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick, Ursula K. Le  Guin, Ernest Callenbach, Marge Piercy, Octavia E. Butler,  Kim Stanley Robinson and Margaret Atwood within their  evolving social contexts. Joshua Bulleid is an independent  early career researcher from Melbourne, Australia. His  articles on vegetarianism and animal ethics have appeared  in Science Fiction Studies and Foundation, as well as the  Palgrave Macmillan collection Ethical Futures and Global  Science Fiction (2020) and The Edinburgh Companion to Vegan  Literary Studies (2022). He also hosts the Terry Pratchett  podcast Unseen Academicals.},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38347-2},
      recid = {1482301},
      pages = {1 online resource (xiv, 336 pages).},
}