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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Reclaiming Enemy-Occupied Territory: Saving Middle-earth, Narnia, Westeros, Panem, Endor, and Gallifrey -- Margaret Atwood and the Newfound Importance of Climate Fiction -- The Inklings and Religiously Informed Ecological Fiction -- (Un)Intentional Cli-Fi Authors: Philip Pullman, Octavia Butler, and George R. R. Martin -- 1. Star Wars, Hollywood Blockbusters, and the Cultural Appropriation of J. R. R. Tolkien -- Joseph Campbell's Monomyth and the Cinematic Ecological War Narrative -- Tolkien's Skeptical View of Film Adaptations -- How to Ruin The Hobbit-Or- So Much Depends upon Black Emperor Butterflies -- Unsuitable for Adaptation: Lord of the Rings -- The Problem of the Uniformly Evil Orc Race -- 2. Of Treebeard, C. S. Lewis, and the Aesthetics of Christian Environmentalism -- The Devastation of Nature in Lord of the Rings -- The Devastation of Nature in The Last Battle -- The Question of Allegory: The Space Trilogy, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Silmarillion, and The Lord of the Rings -- Tolkien's Cordial Dislike of Allegory -- The Lewis and Tolkien Relationship -- The Fruits of "Shared Universe" Building: Reading Lewis's The Space Trilogy (1938-1945) as a Sequel to Tolkien's Lord of the Rings (1954) -- 3. The Time Lord, the Daleks, and the Wardrobe -- The Doctor and the Inklings -- Doctor Who as Climate Fiction -- Is the Doctor John Lennon? -- The Daleks: An Iconic, Neofascist Menace -- Is the Doctor Running from His Own Fascist Tendencies? -- Is the Doctor Jesus Christ or Aslan? The Influence of C. S. Lewis -- The Last Great Time War and the Wars against Morgoth -- 4. Noah's Ark Revisited: 2012 and Magic Lifeboats for the Wealthy -- The Flood: Tolkien's Recurring Nightmare -- 2012, Dominion Theology, and Climate Change Denial In a Republican-Controlled America, Is Action on Climate Change Remotely Possible? -- 5. Race and Disaster Capitalism in Parable of the Sower, The Strain, and Elysium -- On Elysium, Daybreakers, The Strain, and Pacific Rim -- Snowpiercer: The Perils of Hacking the Planet as a Last Resort -- 6. Eden Revisited: Ursula K. Le Guin, St. Francis, and the Ecofeminist Storytelling Model -- Abigail Adams, John Adams, and the Unfulfilled Promise of the American Revolution -- Overlapping Interfaith Perspectives on "The Fall": The Fall is Ongoing -- The Fall Can Be Reversed -- Replacing the Killer Story with the Life Story: Ecofeminists and Francis of Assisi -- 7. MaddAddam and The Handmaid's Tale: Margaret Atwood and Dystopian Science Fiction as Current Events -- MaddAddam, the Great Plains PetroBaptists, and the Return of the Wolf of Gubbio -- A Message of Hope? -- 8. Ur-Fascism and Populist Rebellions in Snowpiercer and Mad Max: Fury Road -- Umberto Eco's Ur-Fascism in Apocalyptic Narratives -- Revolt of the Matriarchs: Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents -- The Ur-Fascist as God -- Women as Victims and Heroes in the Mad Max Series -- 9. Tolkien's Kind of Catholic: Suzanne Collins, Empathy, and The Hunger Games -- Identifying Tolkien's Spiritual Successor -- Spartacus and the Roman Empire, The Hunger Games and the United States -- Katniss Everdeen and a Revolution of Empathy -- 10. The Cowboy and Indian Alliance: Collective Action against Climate Change in A Song of Ice and Fire and Star Trek -- Winter Isn't Coming: Ice Zombies as an Allegory for Climate Change -- George R. R. Martin's Inspirations for A Song of Ice and Fire -- "Jim . . . they're dying": Making Peace with the Klingons in Star Trek -- The Cowboy and Indian Alliance -- 11. What Next? Robert Crumb's "A Short History of America" and Ending the Game of Thrones How Will It All End? -- Epilogue. Who Owns the Legacy of J. R. R. Tolkien? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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