Assigned Articles & Essays


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Assigned articles and essays available online (alphabetically sorted by author’s last name):
-Grace Dillon and Pedro Neves Marques, “A Conversation about Indigenous Futurisms” (2021)
-Steven James, “Artificials Should Be Allowed to Worship” (2019/Op-ed from the Future)
-Willi Lempert, “Navajos on Mars: Native Sci-Fi Film Futures” (2015/2019)
-Laura Miller, “The Cosmic Menagerie” (2012)
-Nnedi Okorafor, “African Science Fiction is Still Alien” (2011)


Assigned articles and journal articles not available online (alphabetically sorted by author’s last name):
-Isaac Asimov, “Easy to See the Future”  (1981)
-Andrea Bell, “Science Fiction in Latin America: Reawakenings” (1999)
-Arthur Clarke, “Hazards of Prophecy” (1972)
-Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, “Science Fiction and the Thaw” (2004)
-Samuel Delany, “About 5,750 words” (1968)
-Jane Donawerth, “Body Parts: Twentieth-Century Science Fiction Short Stories by Women” (2004)
-James Gunn, “The Worldview of Science Fiction” (1995)
-Veronica Hollinger, “Introduction: Women in Science Fiction and Other Hopeful Monsters” (1990)
-Xia Jia, “What Makes Chinese Science Fiction Chinese?” (2016)
-James Kelly, “Who Owns Cyberpunk?” (2012)
-Joshua La Bare, “The Future: ‘Wrapped… in That Mysterious Japanese Way” (2000)
-Gavriel Rosenfeld, “Why Do We Ask ‘What If?’ Reflections on the Function of Alternate History” (2002)
-Arielle Saiber, “Flying Saucers Would Never Land in Lucca: The Fiction of Italian Science Fiction” (2011)
-Sherryl Vint, “Animal Alterity: Science Fiction and Human-Animal Studies” (2010)
-Michael White, “Ellison’s Harlequin: Irrational moral Action in Static Time” (1977)
-Gary Wolfe, “Coming to Terms” (2005)
-Yan Wu, “‘Great Wall Planet’: Introducing Chinese Science Fiction” (2013)


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