20th-Century Speculative Fiction
Reading List

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Books wills be available early in the semester at the Tech Bookstore on Main Street; online texts will be available here.. Fictive texts in syllabus order.


Fictive

H. G. Wells,
War of the Worlds

Jules Verne,
The Master of the World

R. Silverberg, ed.,
Science Ficiton Hall of Fame,
Vol. I
P. Sargent, ed.,
Women of Wonder: The Classic Years

Robert Heinlein,
The Past Through Tomorrow

Arthur Clarke,
Childhood's End

Walter Miller, Jr.,
A Canticle for Leibowitz

Philip K. Dick,
Game Players of Titan

Italo Calvino,
Cosmicomics

Stanislaw Lem,
The Cyberiad

Ursula Le Guin,
The Dispossessed

John Brunner,
Stand on Zanzibar

Naomi Mitchison,
Solution Three

Non-Fictive (mostly)

Edward James,
Science Fiction in the 20th Century

John Huntington,
Rationalizing Genius

Sarah Le Fanu,
Feminism & Science Fiction

Mark Rose,
Alien Encounters

Gary K. Wolfe,
The Known and the Unknown

Various,
Bits