online course texts

Scriptural Texts of Creation & Apocalypse (Index)

• Genesis (selections)

• Revelation 

• The "Little Apocalypse" (Matthew 24)

• St. Paul on "The Rapture" (1 Thessalonians 4:15-17)

The Time Machine

"Garden of Forking Paths"

Burning Chrome

[The rest of this page is under development]

Definitions & examples of utopia, dystopia

LITR 5737 Literary and Historical Utopias

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Cyberpunk classics online

list of futuristic texts

Websites of literary terms

A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples (University of Kentucky Classics)

All-American: Glossary of Literary Terms (U of North Carolina-Pembroke)

The Virtual Classroom Glossary of Literary Terms

Literary Terms

Glossary of Poetic Terms

The Literary Encyclopedia

Literary Encyclopedia Glossary of Terms

Virtual Salt Glossary of Literary Terms

Glossary of Theological Terms

Glossary of Grammatical Terms

Glossaries, Concordances, Quotations on the Web

MLA style sheet

Galaxies (for off-planet literature)

VRML map of local galaxies

Milky Way galaxy map

Milky Way photo mosaic

Knut Lundmark of Lund Observatory’s drawing of Milky Way

Messier Catalog of galaxy images

Contributed Links

The Pulling Moon, a futuristic novel by Heidi Wyss

Feminist Science Fiction, Fantasy and Utopia

Octavia Butler bibliography (from Feminist Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Utopia)

Unofficial Octavia Butler webpage

Octavia Butler interview

Octavia Butler biographical article

Callenbach's Ecotopia Emerging (Small, Local Community website)

Science Fiction Studies (Depauw University)

Dr. Sparks's Science Fiction Site at Clemson

Times of the Sign (mildly eccentric personal theology on Second Coming)

Technovelgy.com (examples of sf becoming tech reality)