Teaching Science Fiction

BRIAN ATTEBERY Professor of English, Idaho State University, USA MARK BRAKE Professor of Science Communication, University of Glamorgan, UKANDREW M. BUTLER Independent ScholarCHRIS FERNS Professor of English, Mount Saint Vincent University, Nova Scotia, CanadaM. ELIZABETH GINWAY Associate Professor of Portuguese, University of Florida, USANEIL HOOK Senior Lecturer in Science Communication, University of Glamorgan, UK PAUL KINCAID Independent ScholarROB LATHAM Associate Professor of English, University of California, Riverside, USAADAM ROBERTS Professor Nineteenth-Century Literature, Royal Holloway University of London, UKGARY WESTFAHL Lecturer in English, University of California, Riverside, USAGARY K. WOLFE Professor of Humanities and English, Roosevelt University, USALISA YASZEK Associate Professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

• Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors A Chronology of Significant Works Introduction; A.Sawyer  & P.Wright Through Time and Space: A Brief History of Science Fiction; P.Kincaid Theorising Science Fiction: The Question of Terminology; G.K.Wolfe Teaching Utopia, Anti-Utopia, and Science Fiction; C.Ferns Teaching the Scientific Romance; A.Roberts Teaching Pulp Science Fiction; G.Westfahl Good SF: Teaching the Golden Age as Cultural History; L.Yaszek Teaching the New Wave; R.Latham Postmodernism, Postmodernity and the Postmodern: Telling Local Stories at the End of Time; A.M.Butler Teaching Gender and Science Fiction; B.Attebery Teaching Postcolonial Science Fiction; U.Mehan Teaching Latin American Science Fiction and Fantasy in English: A Case Study; M.E.Ginway Teaching Science and Science Fiction: A Case Study; M.Brake  & N.Hook Design, Delivery and Evaluation; A.Sawyer  & P.Wright Further Reading Index

"a provocative, up-to-date guide to the full range of modern science fiction and the challenges it presents to students and teachers. - Patrick Parrinder, Emeritus Professor of English, University of Reading, UK'Teaching Science Fiction not only effectively explores what it means to teach sf but also actually teaches the genre to its readers...Teaching Science Fiction is an essential addition to the bookshelves of current or prospective teachers of sf. Its contributors provide the insight that can be found in a teaching narrative, while not losing sight of the critical role of context in making pedagogical decisions. They provide rationales for their course constructino and explain the results achieved. Interestingly, the book is perhaps just as useful to beginning sf scholars, whether or not they intend to teach the genre, as the chapters provide succinct and readable introductions to many iof the critical aspects of the contemporary study of science fiction' - Craig B. Jacobsen, Science Fiction Studies