Monthly Archives: May 2016

Contemporary Science Fiction and Some Personal Favorites

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)

After Class Writing: “Burning Chrome” and “Kill Switch”

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.