Recommended articles and essays available online
These are alphabetically sorted by author’s last name.
- Anne Goodyear (Bowdoin Art Museum director), “On the moon and art”
- -Carl Abbott, “Community in Cities of the Future”
- -Margaret Atwood, “Are Humans Necessary?”
- -Lewis Beale, “William Gibson: We Are All Science Fiction Writers Now”
- -Andy Beckett, “Accelerationism: How a Fringe Philosophy Predicted the Future We Live In”
- -Aliette de Bodard, “A Few Disjointed Thoughts On Other Cultures and Diversity in SFF”
- –Tom Cassauwers, “What Our Science Fiction Says About Us”
- -Ruth La Ferla, “Afrofuturism, the Next Generation”
- -Jori Finkel, “For Latin Artists in Sci-Fi Show, Everyone’s an Alien”
- -Adam Frank, “Yes, There Have Been Aliens”
- -Andrew Fraknoi, “SF Stories with Good Astronomy & Physics” (pdf list)
- -Michelle Goldberg, “The Darkness Where the Future Should Be”
- -Jayson Greene, “Why is Our SF So Glum About A.I.?”
- -Lev Grossman, “2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal”
- -Ursula Le Guin, “The Golden Age”
- -Donna Haraway, “A Cyborg Manifesto”
- -Bill Joy, “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us”
- -Jill Lepore, “Elon Musk Is Building a Sci-Fi World, and the Rest of Us Are Trapped in It”
- -B.D. McClay, “Joanna Russ, the Science-Fiction Writer Who Said No”
- -China Miéville, “Forward Thinking”
- -New York Times editors, “What Will the World Look Like in 2030?”
- -Annalee Newitz, A Better Internet Is Waiting for Us
- -NPR, Body Hacking Movements Rises Ahead of Moral Answers
- -Dennis Overbye, “How Possibilities of Life Elsewhere Might Alter Held Notions of Faith”
- -Jeff Ryman, “100 African Writers of SFF”
- -Arielle Saiber, “Flying Saucers Would Never Land in Lucca: The Fiction of Italian SF” (2011)
- -Leah Schnelbach, “How German Theology and Russian Mysticism Shape Our View of Outer Space”
- -Miles Schneiderman, “Inside Science Fiction’s Compassionate Revolution”
- -Judith Shulevitz, “Why do we need the liberal arts? Because it gives us sci-fi”
- -Vandana Singh, “Alternate Visions: Some Musings on Diversity in SF”
- -Tim Urban, “The Fermi Paradox”
- -Fran Wilde, Please, Stop Printing Unicorns (Op-ed from the Future)
- -Grace Dillon and Pedro Neves Marques, “A Conversation about Indigenous Futurisms” (2021)
- -Steven James, “Artificials Should Be Allowed to Worship” (2019/Op-ed from the Future)
- -Willi Lempert, “Navajos on Mars: Native Sci-Fi Film Futures” (2015/2019)
- -Laura Miller, “The Cosmic Menagerie” (2012)
- -Nnedi Okorafor, “African Science Fiction is Still Alien” (2011)
- -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)
- -Arielle Saiber, “Flying Saucers Would Never Land in Lucca: The Fiction of Italian Science Fiction” (2011)
- -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)
Academic journals available to order through ILL
- Alambique (in Spanish and Portuguese)
- Extrapolation – (ProQuest) (Liverpool University Press)
- Helíce (in Spanish)
- Fanfir (Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research)
- Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction – (ProQuest)
- Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts
- Science Fiction Studies – (JStor)
- Science Fiction Film and Television from Project Muse (Bowdoin-provided access) general access here
- SFRA Review