Gary K. Wolfe, How Great Science Fiction Works
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This booklet accompanies a video course of 24 31-minute lectures covering the history and themes of science fiction. Each chapter ends with a short list of 'readings'; a bibliography at the end lists recommended nonfiction, websites, and fiction.
Ranked: No
Titles Cited: 72
Publication: The Great Courses, 2016
Compile Notes
Compiled here are the fiction titles in the Bibliography, excepting for now two works of short fiction.
Ranked: No
Titles Cited: 72
Publication: The Great Courses, 2016
Compile Notes
Compiled here are the fiction titles in the Bibliography, excepting for now two works of short fiction.
- Isaac Asimov, The Foundation Trilogy (series, 1951-1953)
- Isaac Asimov, I, Robot (Gnome, 1950)
- Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale (McClelland and Stewart, 1985)
- Paolo Bacigalupi, The Water Knife (Knopf, 2015)
- J. G. Ballard, Crash (Jonathan Cape, 1973)
- Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas (Macmillan, 1987)
- Stephen Baxter, Evolution (Gollancz, 2002)
- Stephen Baxter, Ring (HarperCollins, 1994)
- Gregory Benford, In the Ocean of Night (Dial Press/James Wade, 1977)
- Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination (NAL/Signet, 1957)
- James Blish, A Case of Conscience (Ballantine, 1958)
- James Blish, Cities in Flight (series, 1970)
- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (Ballantine, 1953)
- Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles (Doubleday, 1950)
- John Brunner, The Sheep Look Up (Harper & Row, 1972)
- Algis Budrys, Rogue Moon (Fawcett Gold Medal, 1960)
- Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars (McClurg, 1917)
- Karel Capek, R.U.R.: Rossum's Universal Robots (Oxford University Press/Humphrey Milford, 1923; Czechoslovakia 1920)
- Suzy McKee Charnas, Walk to the End of the World (Ballantine, 1974)
- C. J. Cherryh, Downbelow Station (DAW, 1981)
- Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood's End (Ballantine, 1953)
- Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars (Harcourt Brace, 1956)
- Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Gollancz, 1973)
- Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle (Putnam, 1962)
- Jack Finney, The Body Snatchers (Dell, 1955)
- Karen Joy Fowler, Sarah Canary (Henry Holt, 1991)
- William Gibson, Neuromancer (Ace Special, 1984)
- Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (St. Martin's, 1974)
- M. John Harrison, Light (Gollancz, 2002)
- Robert A. Heinlein, Orphans of the Sky (Gollancz, 1963)
- Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers (Putnam, 1959)
- Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land (Putnam, 1961)
- Frank Herbert, Dune (Chilton, 1965)
- Nalo Hopkinson, Brown Girl in the Ring (Warner Aspect, 1998)
- Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon (Harcourt, Brace and World, 1966)
- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness (Ace Special, 1969)
- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Word for World Is Forest (Berkley, 1976)
- Stanislaw Lem, Solaris (Walker, 1970; Poland 1961)
- Jack London, The Scarlet Plague and Other Stories (Alan Sutton, 1995)
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road (Knopf, 2006)
- Walter M. Miller, Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz (Lippincott, 1959)
- Thomas More, Utopia (Abraham Vele, 1551; Netherlands 1516)
- Nnedi Okorafor, The Book of Phoenix (DAW, 2015)
- George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (Secker & Warburg, 1949)
- Frederik Pohl & C. M. Kornbluth, The Space Merchants (Ballantine, 1953)
- Alastair Reynolds, Revelation Space (Gollancz, 2000)
- Kim Stanley Robinson, Aurora (Orbit, 2015)
- Kim Stanley Robinson, Forty Signs of Rain (HarperCollins UK, 2004)
- Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (HarperCollins, 1992)
- Joanna Russ, The Female Man (Bantam, 1975)
- Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow (Villard, 1996)
- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (Lackington Hughes, 1818)
- Robert Silverberg, ed., Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume One (Doubleday, 1970)
- Robert Silverberg, The World Inside (Doubleday, 1971)
- Edward E. Smith, The Skylark of Space (Buffalo , 1946)
- Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men (Methuen, 1930)
- Olaf Stapledon, Star Maker (Methuen, 1937)
- Neal Stephenson, Seveneves (Morrow, 2015)
- Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash (Bantam Spectra, 1992)
- Bruce Sterling, Zeitgeist (Bantam Spectra, 2000)
- George R. Stewart, Earth Abides (Random House, 1949)
- Lavie Tidhar, Osama (PS Publishing, 2011)
- James Tiptree, Jr., Her Smoke Rose Up Forever (Arkham House, 1990)
- Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Webster , 1889)
- A. E. van Vogt, Slan (Arkham House, 1946)
- Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon (J. Hetzel, 1865)
- H. G. Wells, The Time Machine (Henry Holt, 1895)
- H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds (Heinemann, 1898)
- Connie Willis, Doomsday Book (Bantam Spectra, 1992)
- Gary K. Wolfe, ed., American Science Fiction: Nine Classic Novels of the 1950s (Library of America, 2012)
- Gene Wolfe, The Book of the New Sun (1980-1983)
- Yevgeny Zamyatin, We (Dutton, 1924)
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