LITR 4632: Literature of the Future

Web-Highlights 2007

Tuesday, 5 June: narrative: apocalypse finish reading Parable of the Sower (through p. 296)

Web-highlighter (midterms concerning Parable of Sower): Lindsey Kerckhoff

Monday, 11 June: narrative: evolution "Somebody up there Likes Me" (VN 208-237); begin The Time Machine ("Life of H. G. Wells," v-viii; "Introduction," ix-xvi; pp. 1-64 (through ch. 5).

Web-highlighter (midterms on evolution and/or Time Machine): Paula Upham

Tuesday, 12 June: narrative: evolution conclude The Time Machine (65-120; ch. 6 through epilogue; "Afterword," 121-125; narrative: alternative futures Bruce Sterling & Lewis Shiner, "Mozart in Mirrorshades" (handout)

Web-highlighter (midterms on alternative futures): Ashley Schaller

Tuesday, 19 June: scenario: high tech; virtual reality (style: cyberpunk, anti-romance): "Johnny Mnemonic," (BC 1-22);  "Burning Chrome," (BC 168-191); "The Logical Legend of Heliopause and Cyberfiddle" (VN 159-180).

Web-highlighter (final exams from previous semesters): Ashley Jones

Monday, 25 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: Jenny Aleman-Spray