Italian Science Fiction and the Environmental Humanities

Introduction: Greening Italian Science Fiction - New Approaches to a Long-Lasting Genre
Daniel A. Finch-Race, Emiliano Guaraldo, Marco Malvestio

Section I: Science in the Anthropocene

Herbert Pagani's Mégalopolis: A Rock Opera between Dystopian Science Fiction and Ecological Utopia
Eleonora Lima

Cultural and Ecological Extinction in Primo Levi's Science-Fiction
Michele Maiolani

What Kind of Science? Italian Science Fiction Writers against the Economic Boom
Daniele Comberiati

Section II: Visions of Extinction

Ecofeminist Care at the End of the World: Collaborative Survival in Niccolò Ammaniti's Anna and Maria Rosa Cutrufelli's L'isola delle Madri
Raffaella Baccolini and Chiara Xausa

Barbarism, Animalization, and the End of the World: Fantasies of Regression and Mutation in Italian Science Fiction
Simona Micali

A Post-Apocalyptic Garden of Eden. Marco Ferreri's Il Seme dell'Uomo
Emiliano Guaraldo

Section III: Urban Landscapes and Industrial Capitalism in a Rapidly Changing Country

Industrial Wonders and Pitfalls in Émile Souvestre's Le Monde tel qu'il sera en l'an 3000 (1846) and Agostino della Sala Spada's Nel 2073! (1874)
Daniel A. Finch-Race

Spaceships in the Anthropocene: Peter Kolosimo and the End of (Our) Times
Marco Malvestio

Uncanny Spaces in Inhuman Times: The Art of Giacomo Costa
Matteo Gilebbi

Against Eco-Fascism: Space and Place in Tullio Avoledo's Furland
Florian Mussgnug

Section IV: Posthuman, More-than-Human, and Interspecies Relations

Green Traces: Vegetal Imagination in Italian Science Fiction from Gilda Musa to Solarpunk
Enrico Cesaretti

Bonsai Children, Enchanted Gardens: Nature as Artifice in Paolo Zanotti's Dystopian Fairy Tale
Valentina Fulginiti

'All We Need is Love'?: Eros, Agape, and Koinonia in the Time of Mass Extinction
Danila Cannamela

Eco-Horror: Human-Animal Encounters in Italian Science-Fiction Films
Robert A. Rushing

Solarpunk, or rather Solartivismo: An Interview with Francesco Verso
Arielle Saiber