Literature & Culture (Science Fiction) Syllabus
Canvas Access
August 19: No Class–New Student Convocation
August 21: Introduction to LBST 2212 “Science Fiction”
August 23: Isaac Asimov’s “Cult of Ignorance” (1980) on Canvas
August 26: Isaac Asimov’s “Reason” and Robert Heinlein’s “All You Zombies–“
August 28: Futurism and F. T. Marinetti
Marinetti, F. T. “The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism”
Marinetti, F. T. “Destruction of Syntax…”
Marinetti, F. T. “War, the World’s Only Hygiene”
August 30: R. A. Lafferty’s “Slow Tuesday Night”
September 2: No Class–Labor Day
September 4: The Past’s View of the Future (retro sci-fi)
September 6: Test 1 on Canvas–no class meeting
September 9: Wells, H. G. Time Machine (1895)—$1.29 on Kindle or read online.
September 11: Wells, H. G. Time Machine (1895)
September 13: Wells, H. G. Time Machine (1895)
September 16: The Alien Other
September 18: Post-apocalyptic Worlds
September 20: Dystopian Visions
September 23: World’s Beyond
September 25: Gender Studies and Science Fiction
September 27: Test 2 on Canvas–no class meeting
Begin reading Shelley’s Frankenstein
September 30: Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein (1818) (available here)
October 2: Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein (1818) (available here)
October 4: Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein (1818) (available here)
Fall Break: No Classes 10/07 & 10/08
October 9: Newitz, Annalee. Autonomous (2017)
October 11: Newitz, Annalee. Autonomous (2017)
October 14: Newitz, Annalee. Autonomous (2017)
October 16: Newitz, Annalee. Autonomous (2017)
October 18: Test 3 on Canvas–no class meeting
October 21: Sci Fi in the Domestic Sphere
October 23: Social Aphasia
October 25: Dust in the Wind
October 28: Gender Liminality and Roles
October 30: Games Reality Plays (part 1)
November 1: Games Reality Plays (part 2)
November 4: Lai, Larissa. Salt Fish Girl (2002)
November 6: Lai, Larissa. Salt Fish Girl (2002)
November 8: Test 4 on Canvas–no class meeting
November 11: Lai, Larissa. Salt Fish Girl (2002)
November 13: Lai, Larissa. Salt Fish Girl (2002)
November 15: Lai, Larissa. Salt Fish Girl (2002)
November 18: Adams, Douglas. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1979)
November 20: Adams, Douglas. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1979)
November 22: Adams, Douglas. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1979)
November 25: Test 5 on Canvas—no class meeting
November 27: No Class—Thanksgiving Break
November 29: No Class—Thanksgiving Break
December 2: Technology and Immortality
December 4: Posthumanism (?)
LAST CLASS
December 11: Final Exam (cumulative)—On Canvas
You’ll have two and a half hours.