Course Materials

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Study Guides and Documents

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• Plagiarism Checker (Do this before submitting your paper)

• How to submit an assignment to Canvas

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• Study Music I

• Study Music II

• Study Music III

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• Science Fiction and Fantasy Syllabus

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• A Guide To Science Fiction Subgenres

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• Chapter Reading & Reflection Questions Rubric

• Literary Analysis Interpretive Essay Rubric

• The Weekly Rubric​

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Frankenstein Unit

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• Frankenstein Literary Analysis Worksheet

• Frankenstein Cultural Analysis by Lee E. Heller (excerpt)

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Dune Film Unit

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• Dune Glossary of Terms (abridged)

• Dune Crossword Puzzle

• Dune Film Questions

• Dune Study Guide

• Dune Wiki

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Short Stories Unit

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• Omelas Socratic Seminar Worksheet

• Science Fiction Hall of Fame Reflection

• Fondly Fahrenheit Questions

• "On Projection" Essay

• Contemporary Science Fiction & Fantasy Literature Review

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Gattaca Film Unit

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• Gattaca Film Questions

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Comparative Literary Analysis Unit

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• Comparative Literary Analysis Worksheet

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Final Project

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• Final Project Instructions and Rubric

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Books

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• Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley

• Frankenstein Audiobook (unabridged 1831 Edition)

• Video: The Myth of Prometheus

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• Dune (1965) by Frank Herbert

• Video: Dune Prologue (1984 Extended Version)

• Video: Dune Prologue (1984 Theatrical Version)

• Video: Dune Prologue (1984 Extended Theatrical Version)

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• Slaughterhouse Five (1969) by Kurt Vonnegut

• Slaughterhouse Five Audiobook

• Comparative Analysis: Report From Iron Mountain by Leonard C. Lewin

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• Brave New World (1931) by Aldous Huxley

• Brave New World Audiobook

• Brave New World Audiobook Timestamps

• Comparative Analysis: Between Two Ages by Zbigniew Brzezinski

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• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (1968) by Philip K. Dick

• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep Audiobook

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• The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein

• The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress Audiobook

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• The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin

• The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Audiobook

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Short Stories

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Classic

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• The Nine Billion Names of God (1953) by Arthur C. Clark

• The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas (1973) by Ursula K. Le Guin

• Fondly Fahrenheit (1954) by Alfred Bester

• Flowers For Algernon (1958) by Daniel Keyes

• Farewell to the Master (1940) by Harry Bates

• Nightfall (1941) by Isaac Asimov

• “Repent, Harlequin!” said the Ticktockman (1965) by Harlan Ellison

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Contemporary

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• The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy by Charles N. Brown and Jonathan Strahan (eds.) (2004)

  • Bloodchild (1984) by Octavia E. Butler

• An Alphabet of Embers by Rose Lemberg (ed.) (2016)

  • Moult by Nin Harris

  • Everything Under One Roof by Zen Cho

  • Absinthe Fish by M. David Blake

  • Telomerase by Ian Muneshwar

  • Five Lessons in the Fattening Room by Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali

  • Exorcisms by Sonya Taffee

• The New Voices of Fantasy by Peter S. Beagle and Jacob Weisman (eds.) (2017)

  • Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers by Alyssa Wong

  • A Kiss With Teeth by Max Gladstone

  • The Cartographer Wasps And The Anarchist Bees by E. Lily Yu

  • Here Be Dragons by Chris Tarry

• Robots Vs. Fairies by Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe (eds.) (2018)

  • Build Me a Wonderland by Seanan McGuire

  • Quality Time by Ken Liu

  • Ironheart by Jonathan Maberry

  • Adriftica by Maria Dahvana Headley

• How Long 'Til Black Future Month? by N.K. Jemisin (2018)

  • Red Dirt Witch

  • The Narcomancer

• Sooner Or Later Everything Falls Into The Sea by Sarah Pinsker (2019)

  • Sooner Or Later Everything Falls Into The Sea

  • Talking With Dead People

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Videos

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• The Brain Hack  (Sci-Fi Short Film)

• The OceanMaker (Sci-Fi Short Film)

• Resignation (Sci-Fi Short Film)

• Perfectly Natural (Sci-Fi Short Film)

• Future Boyfriend (Sci-Fi Short Film)

• Let Them Die Like Lovers (Sci-Fi Short Film)

• The Black Hole (Sci-Fi Short Film)

• Incoming Call (Sci-Fi Short Film)

• Unearthed (Sci-Fi Short Film)

• The Emissary (Sci-Fi Short Film)

• Liminal (Sci-Fi Short Film)

• Kept (Sci-Fi Short Film)

• Final Offer (Sci-Fi Short Film)

• The iMom (Sci-Fi Short Film)

• Doubles (Sci-Fi Short Film)

• A Date in 2025 (Sci-Fi Short Film)

• What if Wendy (Sci-Fi Short Film)

• Memoir (Sci-Fi Short Film)

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Further Reading: Science Fiction & Fantasy Anthologies

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• The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories by Tom Shippey (ed.) (2003)

• The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy by Charles N. Brown and Jonathan Strahan (eds.) (2004)

• The Winds Twelve Quarters by Ursula K. Le Guin (2004)

• Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the 20th Century by Orson Scott Card (ed.) (2004)

• The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume 1:1929-1964 by Robert Silverberg (ed.) (2005)

• The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume 2A by Ben Bova (ed.) (2009)

• The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume 2B by Ben Bova (ed.) (2010)

• The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction by Arthur B. Evans and Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr., et al. (eds.) (2010)

• The Big Book of Science Fiction by Jeff VanderMeer and Ann VanderMeer (eds.) (2016)

• An Alphabet of Embers by Rose Lemberg (ed.) (2016)

• The New Voices of Fantasy by Peter S. Beagle and Jacob Weisman (eds.) (2017)

• Robots Vs. Fairies by Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe (eds.) (2018)

• How Long 'Til Black Future Month? by N.K. Jemisin (2018)

• Sooner Or Later Everything Falls Into The Sea by Sarah Pinsker (2019)

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“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.." ~ Arthur C. Clark