Assigned Articles and Essays

aliens and humans in a hotel lobby reading magazines
© Franco Brambilla, Hotel Ambasciatori (2008)

Assigned articles and essays available online

Assigned articles and journal articles not available online (on Canvas)

  • -Isaac Asimov, “Easy to See the Future”  (1981)
  • -Andrea Bell, “Science Fiction in Latin America: Reawakenings” (1999)
  • -Arthur Clarke, “Hazards of Prophecy” (1972)
  • -Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, “Science Fiction and the Thaw” (2004)
  • -Samuel Delany, “About 5,750 words” (1968)
  • -Jane Donawerth, “Body Parts: Twentieth-Century Science Fiction Short Stories by Women” (2004)
  • -James Gunn, “The Worldview of Science Fiction” (1995)
  • -Veronica Hollinger, “Introduction: Women in Science Fiction and Other Hopeful Monsters” (1990)
  • -Xia Jia, “What Makes Chinese Science Fiction Chinese?” (2016)
  • -James Kelly, “Who Owns Cyberpunk?” (2012)
  • -Joshua La Bare, “The Future: ‘Wrapped… in That Mysterious Japanese Way” (2000)
  • -Gavriel Rosenfeld, “Why Do We Ask ‘What If?’ Reflections on the Function of Alternate History” (2002)
  • -Sherryl Vint, “Animal Alterity: Science Fiction and Human-Animal Studies” (2010)
  • -Michael White, “Ellison’s Harlequin: Irrational moral Action in Static Time” (1977)
  • -Gary Wolfe, “Coming to Terms” (2005)
  • -Yan Wu, “‘Great Wall Planet’: Introducing Chinese Science Fiction” (2013)