LITR 4632: Literature of the Future

Web-Highlights 2005

Thursday, 2 June: narrative: apocalypse conclude Genesis and Revelation

Web-highlighter: Bryan Hyde

Tuesday, 7 June: narrative: apocalypse conclude Parable of the Sower;

Web-highlighter: Mark Anthony Chapa

Thursday, 9 June:  narrative: evolution "Stone Lives" (handout) and "Bears Discover Fire" (FP 17-28); "Somebody up there Likes Me" (VN 208-237)

Web-highlighter: Liavette Peralta

Tuesday, 14 June: narrative: evolution conclude The Time Machine (90-120; ch. 6 through epilogue; "Afterword," 121-125; narrative: alternative futures Bruce Sterling & Lewis Shiner, "Mozart in Mirrorshades" (handout)

Web-highlighter: Bryan Lestarjette

Thursday, 16 June: narrative: alternative futures "Garden of Forking Paths" (handout); "The Gernsback Continuum" (BC 23-35); "Better Be Ready 'bout Half Past Eight" (VN 22-47);

Web-highlighter: Jenn House

Monday, 27 June: scenario: utopia / dystopia / ecotopia: K. S. Robinson, “Introduction” to Future Primitive. "Chocco," (FP 189-214); "House of Bones," (FP 85-110); "They're Made out of Meat," (VN 69-72

Web-highlighter: Kevin Kaup

Tuesday, 28 June: scenario: off-planet; alien contact & near-contact: "Men on the Moon" (VN 238-247); "Hinterlands" (BC 58-79); "Homelanding," (VN 3-7)."The Poplar Street Study" (VN 140-148); "The Belonging Kind" (BC 43-57).

Web-highlighter: Irving Peralta