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C LIT 242

Science Fiction

3 units

Fall 2022

Topics

  • International science fiction
  • Scientific ambition
  • Class conflict
  • Totalitarianism
  • Environmental destruction

Readings

  • Bould, Mark, Andrew M. Butler, Adam Roberts, and Sherryl Vint. The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction. Routledge, 2011. ISBN 9780415453790.
    recommended
    ISBN 9780415453790
  • Forster, E. M. “The Machine Stops.” 1909. https://www.ele.uri.edu/faculty/vetter/Other-stuff/The-Machine-Stops.pdf ↗
    unspecified
  • Lui, Ken [as printed], editor. Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation. Selections. Tor, 2018. ISBN 9780765384201.
    unspecified
    ISBN 9780765384201
  • McCarthy, Cormac. The Road. Vintage, 2007 [2006]. ISBN 9780307387899.
    unspecified
    ISBN 9780307387899
  • Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Penguin, 2008 [1949]. ISBN 9780141036144.
    unspecified
    ISBN 9780141036144
  • Rich, Nathaniel. Odds Against Tomorrow. Picador, 2014 [2013]. ISBN 9781250043641.
    unspecified
    ISBN 9781250043641
  • Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. Dover, 1994 [1818]. ISBN 9780486282114.
    unspecified
    ISBN 9780486282114
  • Verne, Jules, and Michel Verne. “In the Year 2889.” 1889. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/19362/19362-h/19362-h.htm ↗
    unspecified
  • Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse-Five. Dell, 1991 [1969]. ISBN 9780440180296.
    unspecified
    ISBN 9780440180296
  • Wells, H. G. The Time Machine. Dover, 1995 [1898 as printed]. ISBN 9780486284729.
    unspecified
    ISBN 9780486284729
Sources