Science fiction goes green Eric C. Otto explores literary science fictions engagement with a central concern of our times ecological degradation. Situated at the intersection of science fiction studies and environmental philosophy Green Speculations Science Fiction and Transformative Environmentalism highlights key works of environmental science fiction that critique various human values for their roles in instigating such degradation. ampampnbsp The books receiving ecocritical treatment in Green Speculations include George R. Stewarts Earth Abides 1949 Frank Herberts Dune 1965 Ursula K. Le Guins The Word for World Is Forest 1972 Joan Slonczewskis A Door into Ocean 1986 Kim Stanley Robinsons Mars trilogy 1993 1994 1996 and Paolo Bacigalupis The Windup Girl 2009. Otto reads these and other important science fiction novels as educative in their representations of environmental issues and the environmental philosophies that have emerged in response to them. ampampnbsp Green Speculations demonstrates how environmental science fiction can be read not only as reflecting the ideas of environmental philosophies such as deep ecology ecofeminism and ecosocialism but also as instrumental in thinking through the tenets of these philosophies. As such the book places science fiction at the center of environmentalism and considers the genre to be an essential tool for prompting needed social and cultural transformation.