Essay 1: Compare, contrast, and evaluate Narratives of the Future

Tom Britt, A Gift to the Dead and a Warning to the Living

Rebecca Dyda, Discovering the Truth

Vicente Garza, Spirals, Lines, and Branches

Kimberly Hall, The Power of Three

Nikki Jones, The Three Narratives: Hand in Hand

Timothy Morrow, A Phoenix Must First Burn: Analyzing Decline in Future Narratives

Zach Thomas, Where is Our Humanity?

Christa Van Allen, Telling Tales of Tomorrow

Essay 2: Isolate a personal/professional topic in our course or readings (to be extended in final exam) 

Rebecca Dyda, Science Fiction through Time

Vicente Garza, Are We There Yet, Or, Do We Even Want To Be?

Kimberly Hall, Back to the Future

Marion Johnson, The Rise of A.I.

Nikki Jones, Science Fiction: A Tangible Future

Timothy Morrow, All Lilies Wither: Analyzing Violence towards Women in Science Fiction

Juan Segeada, Legal Tender of Tomorrow

Zach Thomas, Low Tech Future

Christa Van Allen, Singularity and Human Empathy