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Arranged around six central science fiction themes, Science Fiction, Compact Edition introduces you to the genre as a whole through carefully selected readings. Through the major works, authors, themes, and contexts of science fiction, you learn to think and write critically about how the genre reflects and affects culture.

Contents

Table of Contents

Chronological Contents

Alternative Thematic Contents

A Brief Introduction to Science Fiction and Its History

A Selective Guide to Science Fiction Research

Part One: Stories

1. Alien Encounters

Stanley G. Weinbaum, A Martian Odyssey (1934)

Frederic Brown, Arena (1944)

Ray Bradbury, Mars Is Heaven! (1948)

Sonya Dorman, When I Was Miss Dow (1966)

Ursula K. Le Guin, Vaster Than Empires and More Slow (1971)

Greg Egan, Wang’s Carpets (1995)

     Cultural Contexts:

     Carl Gustav Jung, The Shadow (1951)

     Frantz Fanon, The Fact of Blackness (1952) 

2. Artificial Life

Isaac Asimov, Liar! (1941)

Philip K. Dick, Second Variety (1953)

Kate Wilhelm, Baby, You Were Great (1966)

James Tiptree, Jr., The Girl Who Was Plugged In (1973)

William Gibson, Burning Chrome (1985)

Ken Liu, The Algorithms for Love (2004)

     Cultural Contexts:

     Jean Baudrillard, The Precession of the Simulacra (1981)

     Donna J. Haraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century (1985; 1991)

3. Time

C.L. Moore, Vintage Season (1946)

Robert A. Heinlein, "All You Zombies--" (1959)

Robert Silverberg, When We Went to See the End of the World (1972)

Kim Stanley Robinson, The Lucky Strike (1984)

Connie Willis, At the Rialto (1989)

Ted Chiang, Story of Your Life (1998)

     Cultural Contexts:

     John-Paul Sartre, From Being and Nothingness (1943)

     Michio Kaku, To Build a Time Machine (1994)

4. Utopias and Dystopias

Damon Knight, Country of the Kind (1955)

Harlan Ellison, "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman (1965)

Joanna Russ, When It Changed (1972)

John Varley, The Persistence of Vision (1978)

Mike Resnick, Kirinyaga (1988)

Nalo Hopkinson, Something to Hitch Meat to (2001)

     Cultural Contexts:

     William H. Whyte, Jr. From The Organization Man (1956)

     Fredric Jameson, Progress versus Utopia; or Can We Imagine the Future? (1982)

5. Disasters and Apocalypses

Arthur C. Clarke, The Nine Billion Names of God (1953)

J.G. Ballard, Terminal Beach (1964)

Stanislaus Lem, How the World Was Saved (1967)

Sakyo Komatsu, Take Your Choice (1967)

C.J. Cherryh, Cassandra (1978)

Ian McDonald, Recording Angel (1996)

     Cultural Contexts:

     Mircea Eliade, from The Myth of the Eternal Return (1949; 1954)

     Susan Sontag, The Imagination of Disaster (1965)

6. Evolutions

John W. Campbell, Jr., Twilight (1934)

Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon (1959)

Roger Zelazny, For a Breath I Tarry (1966)

Samuel R. Delany, Driftglass (1967)

Greg Bear, Blood Music (1983)

Terry Bisson, Bears Discover Fire (1990)

     Cultural Contexts:

     Stephen Jay Gould, Nonmoral Nature (1982)

     Marvin Minsky, Will Robots Inherit the Earth? (1994) 

Acknowledgments

Index

 

 

 

 

Authors

Heather Masri

Heather Masri is a full-time faculty member at New York University, where she earned her Ph.D. in literature and has served as assistant dean in the General Studies Program, an interdisciplinary liberal arts program. Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts grows out of her popular seminar on science fiction and technology, one of a series of writing intensive courses she’s taught on literature and critical theory. She is a member of the Science Fiction Research Association, and has been teaching science fiction at New York University since 1990.


A compact edition of “the best anthology for teaching science fiction, ever”

Arranged around six central science fiction themes, Science Fiction, Compact Edition introduces you to the genre as a whole through carefully selected readings. Through the major works, authors, themes, and contexts of science fiction, you learn to think and write critically about how the genre reflects and affects culture.

Table of Contents

Chronological Contents

Alternative Thematic Contents

A Brief Introduction to Science Fiction and Its History

A Selective Guide to Science Fiction Research

Part One: Stories

1. Alien Encounters

Stanley G. Weinbaum, A Martian Odyssey (1934)

Frederic Brown, Arena (1944)

Ray Bradbury, Mars Is Heaven! (1948)

Sonya Dorman, When I Was Miss Dow (1966)

Ursula K. Le Guin, Vaster Than Empires and More Slow (1971)

Greg Egan, Wang’s Carpets (1995)

     Cultural Contexts:

     Carl Gustav Jung, The Shadow (1951)

     Frantz Fanon, The Fact of Blackness (1952) 

2. Artificial Life

Isaac Asimov, Liar! (1941)

Philip K. Dick, Second Variety (1953)

Kate Wilhelm, Baby, You Were Great (1966)

James Tiptree, Jr., The Girl Who Was Plugged In (1973)

William Gibson, Burning Chrome (1985)

Ken Liu, The Algorithms for Love (2004)

     Cultural Contexts:

     Jean Baudrillard, The Precession of the Simulacra (1981)

     Donna J. Haraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century (1985; 1991)

3. Time

C.L. Moore, Vintage Season (1946)

Robert A. Heinlein, "All You Zombies--" (1959)

Robert Silverberg, When We Went to See the End of the World (1972)

Kim Stanley Robinson, The Lucky Strike (1984)

Connie Willis, At the Rialto (1989)

Ted Chiang, Story of Your Life (1998)

     Cultural Contexts:

     John-Paul Sartre, From Being and Nothingness (1943)

     Michio Kaku, To Build a Time Machine (1994)

4. Utopias and Dystopias

Damon Knight, Country of the Kind (1955)

Harlan Ellison, "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman (1965)

Joanna Russ, When It Changed (1972)

John Varley, The Persistence of Vision (1978)

Mike Resnick, Kirinyaga (1988)

Nalo Hopkinson, Something to Hitch Meat to (2001)

     Cultural Contexts:

     William H. Whyte, Jr. From The Organization Man (1956)

     Fredric Jameson, Progress versus Utopia; or Can We Imagine the Future? (1982)

5. Disasters and Apocalypses

Arthur C. Clarke, The Nine Billion Names of God (1953)

J.G. Ballard, Terminal Beach (1964)

Stanislaus Lem, How the World Was Saved (1967)

Sakyo Komatsu, Take Your Choice (1967)

C.J. Cherryh, Cassandra (1978)

Ian McDonald, Recording Angel (1996)

     Cultural Contexts:

     Mircea Eliade, from The Myth of the Eternal Return (1949; 1954)

     Susan Sontag, The Imagination of Disaster (1965)

6. Evolutions

John W. Campbell, Jr., Twilight (1934)

Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon (1959)

Roger Zelazny, For a Breath I Tarry (1966)

Samuel R. Delany, Driftglass (1967)

Greg Bear, Blood Music (1983)

Terry Bisson, Bears Discover Fire (1990)

     Cultural Contexts:

     Stephen Jay Gould, Nonmoral Nature (1982)

     Marvin Minsky, Will Robots Inherit the Earth? (1994) 

Acknowledgments

Index

 

 

 

 

Heather Masri

Heather Masri is a full-time faculty member at New York University, where she earned her Ph.D. in literature and has served as assistant dean in the General Studies Program, an interdisciplinary liberal arts program. Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts grows out of her popular seminar on science fiction and technology, one of a series of writing intensive courses she’s taught on literature and critical theory. She is a member of the Science Fiction Research Association, and has been teaching science fiction at New York University since 1990.


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