![]() ![]() Published at the height of the crisis, and concerning itself with the monumental challenge of bringing just one person home, the novel writes contested economic discourses into cultural fable. ![]() ![]() ![]() The 2008 financial collapse in the US led to millions losing their homes and posed a serious challenge to the legitimacy of mainstream economic principles. This essay examines the diverse political-economic registers of Andy Weir’s The Martian (2011) in terms of its symbolic response to the material and ideological crises of the Great Recession. Thomas Strychacz The Political Economy of Potato Farming in Andy Weir’s The Martian Abstract. Bodies That Remember: Historical Revision and Embodied Age in Joan Slonczewski’s Children Star and Brain Plague “Then Came Pantropy”: Grotesque Bodies, Multispecies Flourishing, and Human-Animal Relationships in Joan Slonczewski’s A Door into Ocean Radio, the Genome, and Greg Bear’s Biological Fiction The Antipatriarchal Male Monster as Limited (Anti) Hero in Richard K. Urban Decay and Sexual Outlaws in the Blade Runner Universe False Gods and Libertarians: Artificial Intelligence and Community in Amad `Abd al-Salām al-Baqqāli’s The Blue Flood and Heinlein’s The Moon is a Harsh Mistress Utopia, Inc.: A Manifesto for the Cyborg Corporation The Political Economy of Potato Farming in Andy Weir’s The Martian ![]()
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