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

 Author

Title

Publisher

ISBN #

Price

Arthur C. Clarke

Childhood's End  (1953)

 Ballantine 0-345-34795-1 $5.99

Theordore Sturgeon

More Than Human  (1953)

 Carrol & Graf 0-88184-918-9 $3.95

Philip K. Dick

We Can Build You  (1972)

 Random House 0-679-75296-X $11.00

James Tiptree, Jr.

Brightness Falls
From the Air  (1985)

 St. Martin's 0-312-85407-2 $9.95

Octavia Butler

Adulthood Rites   (1988)

 Warner 0-445-20903-8 $5.99

Neal Stephenson

The Diamond Age  (1995)

 Bantam 0-553-57331-4 $6.50
 

Copies of these texts will be available from the Tech Bookstore (on Draper Rd. in Blacksburg, VA; on the web at http://www.techbookstore.com/).  Of course, these texts should be in print, and they all should be available through other online sources, such as Amazon Books or Barnes & Noble.

  Restricted Readings
These online readings are available only to members of the class.

Non-Fiction
Selected online readings will also be assigned from the list below.

 
Writer
Text
 

Edward James "Reading Science Fiction"
Mark Rose "Genre"
"Paradigm"
Samuel R. Delany "About 5,000 Words"