Whole Text Book List
Cyborgs, Cyberpunk and Speculative Fiction
Asimov, Isaac. "Foundation" trilogy.
Bear, Greg. Darwin's Radio or Blood Music.
Benford, Gregory. Timescape, or Eater
Brin, David. any of the "uplift" series orThe Heart of the Comet (Brin and Benford).
Butler, Octavia. Dawn. Warner, 1997.
Dick, Phillip K. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Ballantine, 1996.
Gibson, William. Neuromancer ed Terry Carr. Ace, 1984.
Le Guin, Ursula. The Left Hand of Darkness or The Lathe of Heaven. Ace, 1991.
Niven, Larry and Jerry Pournelle. The Mote in God's Eye, 1974.
Piercy, Marge. He, She, and It. Crest, 1993, or Woman on the Edge of Time. Crest, 1990.
Stephenson, Neal. Snow Crash. Bantam, 1993, or The Diamond Age. Bantam, 1996.
Tepper,Sheri. Beauty, or Six Moon Dance , or The Gate to Woman's Country. 1997.
Willis, Connie. Bellweather.
CSUN: English 305 Tentative Schedule
CSUN: English 305cmp Tentative Schedule
The following tentative schedule includes readings from:
- Presence of Others AKA POO
- Rules of Thumb AKA ROT
Please check back for changes and updates. Complete all readings by due dates. Summary and responses
(online journal) of POO readings are due within one week of our class discussion. Readings from ROT are given as background for that week's work.
Last revised Jan 07
- Week 1: (Course content and contracts)
Jan 30 - Feb 1
- T: Syllabus/ phone/email info
- TH: FAQs / interviews
- Week 2: (Course requirements /Intros)
Feb 6 - 8
- T: Intros /
- TH: skim preface materials in POO (xxv-43).
- TH: In class timed writing
- Week 3: (Education)
Feb 13 - 15
- T: Discuss Rose (POO)
- TH: Discuss Spayde (POO)
- Week 4 (Education)
Feb 20 -22
- T: Discuss student article choice (from popular media)
- TH: paper assignment heuristics
- TH: Nominate and choose articles (4) from Cultural Myth section
- Week 5 (revision)
Feb 27 - Mar 1
- T: Development /organization workshop paper #1
- T: Rubric / self evaluations of in-class essay #1
- TH: Workshop paper / self eval of in-class essay #1 due
- Week 6 (revision)
Mar 6 - 8
- T: Editing workshop / review MLA format (ROT)
- T: Annotated bibliography assignment -- Branham
- TH: Paper #1 Due in a pocket folder with all drafts and self
evaluation sheet
- TH: POO reading - TBA
Last revised Sept 06
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