What is it about?

Tears in Rain is set in Madrid in 2109, a large city in a heavily polluted dystopic world which has seen several wars, alien contacts, genetic engineering, teletransportation, pollution and dramatic climate changes due to ecophobia and a limitless appetite for resource exploitation. It is a world in which the management, privatization and monopolization of vital resources by large multinationals have caused scarcity; exacerbating the environmental injustice towards those who contribute least to it. This situation translates into social tensions and the marginalization of those humans, replicants and aliens who are forced to live in the most degraded areas. The goal of this article is to explore fear, the dissolution of the self, the construction of peoples as monstruous others, the preoccupation of bodies which are modified and nature as a space of crisis n Rosa Montero´s novel.

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Why is it important?

One of the most read Spanish SF works and a best seller in its English version is finally analysed for an English speaking audience

Perspectives

To open up a dialogue between English speaking criticism and SF criticism with Ecogothic parameters

Dr Emilio L Ramon
Universidad Catolica de Valencia San Vicente Martir

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This page is a summary of: Tears in Rain: An Ecogothic Hardboiled Tribute to Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, January 2024, University of La Laguna,
DOI: 10.25145/j.recaesin.2024.89.07.
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