For those in need of a fine literary education…

ONLINE SCIENCE FICTION COURSE
June 30-August 8, 2003
University of Connecticut
Instructor: Leigh Grossman
e-mail: english217@swordsmith.com
This course traces major themes and concepts in science fiction from
the Golden Age writers of the 1930s, through the New Wave of the 1960s
and 1970s, to the present day. You will read works by Asimov, Bradbury,
Heinlein, Clarke, Delany, Dick, Le Guin, and other seminal writers–
some still well-known and some almost forgotten– and learn about their
impact on the field. Mostly, the course traces the development and
impact of particular ideas in speculative fiction, along with the
relationship of science fiction literature to other genres and other
media. The state of the SF publishing field today– including the
dramatic editorial and demographic shifts of the last 10 years, and
some of the most important current writers– will also be an ongoing
focus of the course.
READING LIST:
A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter Miller

Fool’s War, Sarah Zettel

The Price of the Stars, Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald

The Forever War, Joe Haldeman

I, Robot, Isaac Asimov

Startide Rising, David Brin

Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep), Philip K. Dick

Expendable, James Alan Gardner

Modern Classics of Science Fiction, Gardner Dozois, ed.

The SFWA Grand Masters Volume 1, Frederik Pohl, ed.

The SFWA Grand Masters Volume 2, Frederik Pohl, ed.

To register, go to:

http://continuingstudies.uconn.edu/specialsessions/Summer_2003/index.html

You will need the following information:

Class #: 2110

Campus: STORR

Dept. ENGL

Course number: 217

Section: 921