We are going to create
a website that gives a summary of botany in science fiction, and also a
discussion of science fiction works that deal with plant life. Also
we will provide links to any relevant sites and lists of books used and
discussed.
What has been found
on the web (what is listed below) is very random at best. There are
small blurbs on science fiction and botany but nothing that gives any real
information to someone who is very interested in the subject. We
hope to create a site that consolidates all the information we can find,
so that anyone looking for botany in science fiction material can find
it in one simple site, or links to other sites.
Since there is barely
anything on the web for botany in science fiction, we intend to put up
as much information as we can. The only restriction we can see is
the lack of material that can be used. This doesn't mean we can find
any content, but that what we find will all be "doable".
5 web sites:
http://www.usrbin.ca/damon/plants.html
A Tribute to Foliage
in Science Fiction
http://ursu.uregina.ca/~carillon/mar28/cheese.html
review of Day of
the Triffids
http://www.teleport-city.com/movies/reviews/scifi/mushroom.html
review of Attack
of the Mushroom People
http://www.scifig.com/scifi/classic.htm
review of Silent
Running
http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/exper/kcramer/anth/Hartwell.html
Hard Science Fiction
10 SF works:
man and interaction
with plants:
Charlotte Perkins
Gillman, Herland
Larry Niven, Integral
Trees
whole planet as organism:
Stanislaw Lem, Solaris
Ursula LeGuin, Vaster
than Empires and More Slow
Ursula LeGuin, Word
for World is Forest
pissed off plants:
Our Angry Earth,
Asimov
Stanislaw Lem, Star
Diaries, The 25th Voyage
mutant space potatoes
John Wyndam, Day
of the Triffids
loss of flora/fauna
as end of the world:
Daniel Quinn, Ishmael
environmental disaster
John Christopher,
No Blades of Grass
unclassified:
H.G. Wells, Time
Machine
Edmund S. Graves,
The Dolphin Queen
http://www.physics.helsinki.fi/whale/literature/fiction.html
Mia Molvray, Peculiar
Plants
http://www.sff.net/people/mmolvray/rhynia.htm
Thomas M. Disch, The
Genocides
alien invaders win,
and the hardy survivors are reduced to the status of vermin
living inside huge alien farm plants
Piers Anthony, Omnivore
a fungus
John Boyd, The Pollinators
of Eden
movies:
Creepshow - Stephen
King touches a meteorite and is taken over by some alien grass
50's version of The
Thing
giant carrot as
invader from space
Silent Running
from http://www.scifig.com/scifi/classic.htm
Day of the Triffids
(1962)
from http://www.rockymusic.org/sfdf/