Magazines

Analog Science Fiction and Fact (formerly Astounding)

Asimov’s Science Fiction

Interzone

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction

Novels

Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (1975)

Greg Bear, Blood Music (1985)

Iain M. Banks, The Culture Series (1987-2012)

C.J. Cherryh, Cyteen (1988)

Pat Cadigan, Synners (1991)

Karen Joy Fowler, Sarah Canary (1991) [The Jane Austen Book Club, 2004]

Maureen F. McHugh, China Mountain Zhang (1992)

Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (1992)

Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash (1992)

Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (1992)

Nancy Kress, Beggars in Spain (1993)

Kathleen Ann Goonan, Queen City Jazz (1994)

Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age, or a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer (1995)

Greg Egan, Diaspora (1997)

Nalo Hopkinson, Brown Girl in the Ring (1998)

Sheree Thomas, ed. Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora (2001)

Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake (2003)

Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler’s Wife (2003)

Bill Campbell, Sunshine Patriots (2004)

Geoff Ryman, Air, or Have Not Have (2004)

Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go (2005)

Jack McDevitt, Seeker (2005)

Charles Stross, Accelerando (2005)

Max Brooks, World War Z (2006)

Andy Duncan, “Unique Chicken Goes in Reverse” (2007)

Ian McDonald, Brasyl (2007)

Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games (2008)

Cory Doctorow, Little Brother (2008)

Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go (2008)

Paolo Bacigalupi, The Windup Girl (2009)

China Miéville, The City & the City (2009)

Cherie Priest, Boneshaker (2009)

Connie Willis, Blackout and All Clear (2010)

Ernest Cline, Ready Player One (2011)

Chan Koonchung, The Fat Years (2011)

Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 (2011)

John Scalzi, Redshirts (2012)

Andy Weir, The Martian (2012)

Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (2012)

Ted Chiang, The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling (2013)

Karen Lord, The Best of All Possible Worlds (2013)

William Gibson, The Peripheral (2014)

Cixin Liu, The Three-Body Problem (2014)

Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death (2015)

During this week, we read William Gibson’s “Burning Chrome” and watched the X-Files episode written by Gibson titled, “Kill Switch.” In this final after class writing assignment, summarize your reading and viewing, and summarize your notes.

This last after class writing assignment is due before the final exam next week.

No work will be accepted after the final exam.

Write a summary about Octavia Butler’s “Speech Sounds” and your notes about her, Feminist SF, and Afrofuturism, and post it as a comment to this blog entry.

Stay tuned next week for cyberpunk!

After today’s class, type a summary of your notes and a summary of Le Guin’s “Nine Lives” story. Copy-and-paste your summaries into a comment to this blog entry before next week.

Type up a summary of the reading and lecture notes and post them as a comment to this blog entry. Remember to keep up with this important writing component of the class! We are nearly at the end of the semester!

Type up a summary of the reading and lecture notes and post them as a comment to this blog entry. Remember to keep up with this important writing component of the class!

In our previous class, we began discussing Feminist SF and Pamela Zoline’s “The Heat Death of the Universe.” Write a summary of your notes and reading and post it as a comment to this blog entry.

Since you were all studying for your exam today, I did not post this summary assignment over the weekend. Please post your summary of the Star Trek episode here as a comment to this blog entry by the end of the week.

Write your summary of today’s lecture, discussion, and reading and save it some place safe (on your computer, Dropbox, etc.). Then, copy-and-paste it into a comment to this blog post. Remember, save your work someplace other than OpenLab to protect and archive the important writing that you do.

After today’s class, write a summary of the lecture notes on Harlan Ellison and Philip K. Dick, and our discussion of the short stories we read by them respectively. Copy-and-paste your summary (saved elsewhere) into a comment to this blog entry.