Speculative Fiction
Subjectivity, Social Speculation, and Technology
Readings


The materials below are listed in syllabus order, and additional shorter items will be added occasionally...Ý 

Tentative listing for Fall 1997


Writer Text
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Octavia Butler Dawn (Xenogenesis Trilogy, vol. 1)
Sheri Tepper The Gate to Women's Country
Neal Stephenson Diamond Age
William Gibson Idoru
Greg Bear Moving Mars
Samuel R. Delany Trouble on Triton
Greg Egan Permutation City
Marge Piercy He, She, and It
Eleanor Arnason Ring of Swords (optional)
 

Non-Fiction This listing is not yet complete and is presently unordered.
Writer Text
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Edward James "Reading Science Fiction"Ý
Samuel R. Delany "About 5,000 Words"
John Huntington "Reading Popular Genres" (and/or)Ý 
"An Economy of Reason: The Motives of the Technocratic Hero" (and/or) 
"Reason and Love: Woman and Technocracy" (and/or) 
"History, Politics, and the Future"
Donna Harraway "Cyborg Manifesto"
Jean Baudrillard "The Three Orders of Simulacra"
Paul Virilio "The Data Coup d'Etat"
Paul Virilio "The Art of the Motor"
Kroker & Weinstein "The Theory of the Virtual Class"
Kroker & Weinstein "Virtual Ideology"