Andrew Milner Andrew Milner i(A31353 works by)
Born: Established: 1950 ;
Gender: Male
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1 y separately published work icon Ethical Futures and Global Science Fiction Zachary Kendal (editor), Aisling Smith (editor), Giulia Champion (editor), Andrew Milner (editor), Cham : Palgrave Macmillan , 2020 20052555 2020 multi chapter work criticism criticism

'Ethical Futures and Global Science Fiction explores the ethical concerns and dimensions of representations of the future of global science fiction, focusing on the issues that dominate utopian, dystopian and science fiction literature. The essays examine recent visions of the future in science fiction and re-examine earlier texts through contemporary lenses. Across fourteen chapters, the collection considers authors from Algeria, Australia, Canada, China, Egypt, France, Germany, Haiti, India, Jamaica, Macedonia, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, the UK and USA. The volume delves into a range of ethical questions of immediate contemporary relevance, including environmental ethics, postcolonial ethics, social justice, animal ethics and the ethics of alterity.'

Source: publisher's blurb

1 A Short Pre-History of Climate Fiction Andrew Milner , J.R. Burgmann , 2018 single work criticism
— Appears in: Extrapolation , vol. 59 no. 1 2018; (p. 1-23)

'The paper argues that contemporary climate fiction is a subgenre of sf rather than a distinct and separate genre for two main reasons: first, because its texts and practitioners relate primarily to the sf “selective tradition”; and, second, because its texts and practitioners articulate a “structure of feeling” that accords centrality to science and technology, in this case normally climate science. Not only is “cli-fi” best understood as sf, it also has a much longer history than is commonly allowed, one that arguably stretches back to antiquity. The paper distinguishes between texts in which extreme climate change is represented as anthropogenic and those where it is represented as theogenic, geogenic, or xenogenic;it also provides a brief sketch of the (pre-)history of stories of anthropogenic, xenogenic, and geogenic extreme climate change.'

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1 Utopia and Utopian Studies in Australia Andrew Milner , Verity Burgmann , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: Utopian Studies , vol. 27 no. 2 2016; (p. 200-209)
'There are no independently Australian translations of Thomas More’s Utopia. Nor is there any equivalent in Australia to the Society for Utopian Studies in North America or the Utopian Studies Society in Europe. Nor are there any extant formal research groups or undergraduate or graduate courses in utopian studies. There are, however, distinctively Australian traditions of utopian writing, both eutopian and dystopian, and also a limited field of Australian utopian studies, essentially the work of individual scholars. This article attempts a brief description of both.' (Publication summary)
1 The Sea and Eternal Summer : An Australian Apocalypse Andrew Milner , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: Green Planets : Ecology and Science Fiction 2014; (p. 115-126) SF Commentary , April no. 96 2018; (p. 31-42)
1 The Sea and Eternal Summer: Science Fiction, Futurology and Climate Change Andrew Milner , 2013 single work
— Appears in: Australasian Journal of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology , no. 3 2013;
'This paper will be concerned to analyse what is almost certainly the earliest Australian climate change dystopia. In 1985 George Turner published a short story, The Fittest, in which he began to explore the fictional possibilities of the effects of global warming. He quickly expanded this story into a full-length novel published as The Sea and Summer in Britain and as Drowning Towers in the United States. The Sea and Summer is set mainly in Melbourne, a vividly described, particular place, terrifyingly transformed into the utterly unfamiliar. Turner’s core narrative describes a world of mass unemployment and social polarisation, in which rising sea levels have inundated the Bayside suburbs; the poor ‘Swill’ live in high-rise tower blocks, the lower floors of which are progressively submerged; the wealthier ‘Sweet’ in suburbia on higher ground. The paper will argue that Turner’s novel is long overdue a positive critical re-evaluation.' (Publication abstract)
1 1 Literature, Culture and Society: The Politics of Australian Cultural Theory Andrew Milner , 1994 single work criticism
— Appears in: Representation, Discourse and Desire : Contemporary Australian Culture and Critical Theory 1994; (p. 35-69)
Milner offers a synchronic and diachronic view of a number of the major critical theories in the Australian context and indicates some of the major Australian responses to various critical movements. - from the editor's note
1 On the Beach : Apocalyptic Hedonism and the Origins of Postmodernism Andrew Milner , 1994 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Studies , November no. 7 1994; (p. 190-204)
1 Apocalypse Australia Andrew Milner , 1993 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 153 1993; (p. 36-37)
1 Postmodernism and Popular Culture Andrew Milner , 1990 single work criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin , Autumn vol. 49 no. 1 1990; (p. 35-42)
1 The 'English' Ideology : Literary Criticism in England and Australia Andrew Milner , 1985 single work criticism
— Appears in: Thesis Eleven , vol. 12 no. 1985; (p. 110-129)
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