SF Seminars

Seminar Programme

Reading given is suggested. Read at least one text.

the fathers and mothers of the monster
Pre-texts of SF
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein, The Last Man
Jules Verne: Voyage to the Moon, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
H.G. Wells: The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Island of Dr Moreau

creatures from the id
The Pulps and B Movies 1920s/30s pulpstyle and 1940s/50s films: some texts will be provided, and films from your brains

reality fiction
SF Architexts
Neal Stephenson: Snow Crash, The Diamond Age
Iain M. Banks: Consider Phlebas, The Player of Games, Use of Weapons, Against a Dark Background, Excession
Russell Hoban: Riddley Walker

short, sharp, futureshock
The SF Short Story Ray Bradbury: various anthologies
Arthur C. Clarke: various anthologies
Isaac Asimov: various anthologies

the archaeopsychic past
The New Wave
J.G. Ballard: The Drought, The Drowned World, Crash, The Atrocity Exhibition, Supercannes
Brian Aldiss: Barefoot in the Head, Frankenstein Unbound, Earthworks, Heliconia trilogy, any short story collections
Philip K. Dick: Ubik, Flow My Tears The Policeman Said, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, A Scanner Darkly, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

he impregnated herself
Time Travel and Time Paradox H.G. Wells: The Time Machine
Robert Heinlein: 'All You Zombies', 'By His Bootstraps'
Ray Bradbury: 'The Sound of Distant Thunder'

sex, drugs, mirrorshades
Cyberpunk William Gibson: Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Virtual Light, Idoru
Bruce Sterling: Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology
Jeff Noon: Vurt, Pollen, Nymphomation, Automated Alice, Needle in the Groove, Pixel Juice

alt.history
Alternative pasts in SF Philip K. Dick: The Man in the High Castle
William Gibson and Bruce Sterling: The Difference Engine
Jack Womack: Going Going Gone

don't panic
Parodic and comic SF Douglas Adams: The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and sequels
Grant Naylor: Red Dwarf, Better Than Life
Terry Pratchett: Mort, any other Discworld novels

mindwarps
Hard SF
Alastair Reynolds: Revelation Space
Greg Egan: Diaspora, Axiomatic
Greg Bear: Eon, Eternity, Legacy, Moving Mars, Blood Music, The Forge of God, Anvil of Stars

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the fathers and mothers of the monster Pre-texts of SF	Mary Shelley: Frankenstein, The Last Man Jules Verne: Voyage to the Moon, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea H.G. Wells: The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Island of Dr Moreau
creatures from the id The Pulps and B Movies	1920s/30s pulpstyle and 1940s/50s films: some texts will be provided, and films from your brains
reality fiction SF Architexts	Neal Stephenson: Snow Crash, The Diamond Age Iain M. Banks: Consider Phlebas, The Player of Games, Use of Weapons, Against a Dark Background, Excession Russell Hoban: Riddley Walker
short, sharp, futureshock The SF Short Story	Ray Bradbury: various anthologies Arthur C. Clarke: various anthologies Isaac Asimov: various anthologies
the archaeopsychic past The New Wave	J.G. Ballard: The Drought, The Drowned World, Crash, The Atrocity Exhibition, Supercannes Brian Aldiss: Barefoot in the Head, Frankenstein Unbound, Earthworks, Heliconia trilogy, any short story collections Philip K. Dick: Ubik, Flow My Tears The Policeman Said, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, A Scanner Darkly, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
he impregnated herself Time Travel and Time Paradox	H.G. Wells: The Time Machine Robert Heinlein: 'All You Zombies', 'By His Bootstraps' Ray Bradbury: 'The Sound of Distant Thunder'
sex, drugs, mirrorshades Cyberpunk	William Gibson: Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Virtual Light, Idoru Bruce Sterling: Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology Jeff Noon: Vurt, Pollen, Nymphomation, Automated Alice, Needle in the Groove, Pixel Juice
alt.history Alternative pasts in SF	Philip K. Dick: The Man in the High Castle William Gibson and Bruce Sterling: The Difference Engine Jack Womack: Going Going Gone
don't panic Parodic and comic SF	Douglas Adams: The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and sequels Grant Naylor: Red Dwarf, Better Than Life Terry Pratchett: Mort, any other Discworld novels
mindwarps Hard SF	Alastair Reynolds: Revelation Space Greg Egan: Diaspora, Axiomatic Greg Bear: Eon, Eternity, Legacy, Moving Mars, Blood Music, The Forge of God, Anvil of Stars