ENGL 208B
Science Fiction
Winter 2022
Topics
- Science-fiction genre boundaries
- Technology and social change
- Technoscientific anxiety
- Ethics and responsibility
- Alien encounters and difference
Readings
- Science Fiction
- Isaac Asimov — The Bicentennial Man; Robot Dreams; Little Lost Robot
- Aliette de Bodard — The Shipmaker
- Octavia Butler — Amnesty
- Ted Chiang — The Lifecycle of Software Objects
- Philip K. Dick — Second Variety
- E. M. Forster — The Machine Stops
- William Gibson — Burning Chrome
- Naomi Kritzer — Cat Pictures Please
- Nnedi Okorafor — Spider, the Artist
- Ursula K. Le Guin — Mazes; Nine Lives
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- syllabus ↗Winter 2022
- Any format of the assigned texts is accepted; reading list is selective.