How Great Science Fiction Works

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Call Number: DVD 809.387 Wo Oversize
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Downtown 1st Floor 4-week checkout	DVD 809.387 Wo Oversize	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown 1st Floor 4-week checkout	DVD 809.387 Wo Oversize	4-week checkout	Due 04-29-2024

Compact discs.
24 lectures ; 30 minutes per lecture.
Mary Shelley and the birth of science fiction -- Science fiction in the 19th century -- Science fiction treatments of history -- Evolution and deep time in science fiction -- Utopian dreams and dystopian nightmares -- The rise of the science fiction pulps -- The golden age of science fiction stories -- The spaceship as a science fiction icon -- The robot: from Capek to Asimov -- The golden age of the science fiction novel -- From Mars to Arrakis: the planet -- The science fiction wasteland -- Invasions, space wars, and xenocide -- Religion in science fiction -- Science fiction's new wave -- Encounters with the alien other -- Environmentalism in science fiction -- Gender questions and feminist science fiction -- Cyberpunk and the 1980's -- The 1990's: the new space opera -- The artifact as a science fiction icon - Science fiction's urban landscapes -- Science fiction in the 21st century -- The future of science fiction.
Lectured by Gary Wolfe.
"Discover how science fiction reflects and inspires our highest cultural and technological aspirations - as well as our darkest fears" -- cover.
DVD.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Great Science Fiction Course submitted by husdant on August 9, 2020, 12:15am The lecturer, Gary Wolfe, has a deep and wide knowledge of, and love for science fiction. I have really enjoyed this course.

Meet me at infinity submitted by tarascon on July 31, 2023, 6:43pm More please!