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Environmental Science Fiction
As a genre, Green Sci-Fi includes fictional worlds where green science is the new magic typically portrayed as awe-inspiring and dangerous. Like magic, the new science has its villainous practitioners as well as its good ones. While its stories can be noiresque, in aggregate, Green Sci-Fi promotes an optimistic view of humanity’s capacity to innovate itself out of the dark places its own biology and self-interest leads it. Thus, as its eponymous name suggests, Green Sci-Fi tends to emphasize natural world preservation and restoration in its fiction.

Whether it is set in a future like Roddenberry’s Star Trek where the people of Earth live in unified peace, prosperity, and harmony, or in a post-dystopian world like WALL-E’s that is recovering from the fall out of man-made catastrophes, Green Sci Fi paints an anti-apocalyptic vision of the future. Although Green Sci Fi is not dystopian, neither is it utopian. The worlds described in Green Sci Fi still harbor their villains and heroes who vie for mastery over the increasingly awesome sciences and technologies of the future—technologies that sometimes derive directly from nature itself.

Legacies of Green Sci Fi include:

In Literature – Dune, Frank Herbert;

In Film – Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek WALL-E

In TV – Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek;

Contemporary contributions to the genre include:

In Literature – Glide, Bill Gourgey;

In Film – James Cameron’s Avatar;

In TV – Manga: Avatar, the Last Airbender; Archimedies1 (talk) 19:53, 3 October 2011 (UTC)