Suicide and contemporary science fiction / Carlos Gutiérrez-Jones, University of California, Santa Barbara.

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

xii, 192 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-190) and index.

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.