What is Science Fiction?

W 1/7 Introduction.
F 1/9 Hoffman, "The Sandman" (on the WWW at <http://gaslight.mtroyal.ca/sandman.htm>)

M 1/12 Doyle, "The Disintegration Machine"; "Introduction" (DOSF xi-xvi); "Through World War I" (DOSF 2-9)

I, Robot/Only Human

W 1/14 Asimov, "Robbie"; "The Forties" (DOSF 140-147)
F 1/16 McCaffrey, "The Ship Who Sang"; "The Sixties" (DOSF 261-270)

M 1/19 Dick, "The Electric Ant" (DOSF 301-317)
W 1/21 Gibson, Neuromancer; "The Eighties" (DOSF 398-407)
F 1/23 Neuromancer continued.

M 1/26 Neuromancer continued.
W 1.28 Neuromancer continued.
F 1/30 Neuromancer continued.

M 2/2 Neuromancer continued.
W 2/4 check of thesis statements; class optional.

The Uses of Time

F 2/6 viewing of "City on the Edge of Forever" PAPER 1 DUE

M 2/9 discussion of "The City on the Edge of Forever"
W 2/11 Resnick, "For I Have Touched the Sky"
F 2/13 Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz; "The Fifties" (DOSF 190-199)

M 2/16 Canticle continued.
W 2/18 Canticle continued.
F 2/20 Canticle continued.

M 2/23 Canticle continued.
W 2/25 Canticle continued.
F 2/27 MIDTERM EXAM

Selves, Aliens, and Other Monsters

Sunday, 3/1, 7 PM: viewing of Them!

M 3/2 discussion of Them!
W 3/4 Bradley, "Death Between the Stars"
F 3/6 LeGuin, The Left Hand of Darkness; "The Seventies" (DOSF 320-330)

M 3/9 Left Hand continued.
W 3/11 Left Hand continued.
F 3/13 Left Hand continued.

3/16 - 3/29 SPRING BREAK

M 3/23 Left Hand continued.
W 3/25 Left Hand continued.
F 3/27 thesis check; class optional

Utopias and Dystopias

M 3/30 Vonnegut, "Harrison Bergeron," online at <http://instruct.westvalley.edu/lafave/hb.html>
W 4/1 LeGuin, "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas," online at <http://harelbarzilai.org/words/omelas.txt> SECOND PAPER DUE
F 4/3 Niven, "Cloak of Anarchy"

M 4/6 Butler, Parable of the Sower; "The Nineties" (DOSF 480-487)
W 4/8 Parable continued.
F 4/10 Parable continued.

M 4/13 Parable continued.
W 4/15 Parable continued.
F 4/17 Parable continued.

M 4/20 last day of class

F 4/23 3:30 - 5:30 PM FINAL EXAM