Lesson 1: History of Science Fiction
The Land Ironclads by H G Wells First World War: Tank Battles , https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/home/
Lesson 2: Visual Culture and Science Fiction
Metropolis, Voyage de la Lune,
Lesson 3: British Empire and Science Fiction
As Easy as A B C by Rudyard Kipling Kipling and SF, With the Night Mail (1909), With the Night Mail (gutenberg link)
Lesson 4: Living in a Dystopia
Billenium by J G Ballard
Resources: The Unrealized horrors (article on 1960s population bomb), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Wave_science_fiction, https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/sf_magazines (the magazine era - 1920 - 1960)
Lesson 5: State Control
Text: “A Criminal Act” by Harry Harrison, notes are here
Lesson 6: Mars and Man
A Martian Odyssey by Stanley G. Weinbaum
Resources: Listen to the radio broadcast (1938) , A Martian Odyssey (WIKI) The effect of the broadcast
Lesson 7: Biopunk
Text: Karl and the Ogre by Paul J McAuley , notes are here
Movie to watch: District Nine ,
Resources: http://larsschmeink.de/?p=4866&lang=en, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biopunk
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The following lessons 8 to 13 are part of End Sem syllabus.
Lesson 8: Alternative Societies (Animals and Man)
Text: "Second Dawn" by Arthur C Clarke, notes are here
Lesson 9: Time, Space and Colonization
Text: The Monster by A E Vogt, notes are here
Lesson 10: Consumer Culture and Science Fiction
Text: The Tunnel under the World" by Frederick Pohl
Resources: 1963 Interview
Lesson 11: Biopunk Dystopia
Piecework by David Brin
Frankenstein , The Handmaid's Tale, Do Electric Androids Dream of Sheep?
Lesson 12: Predestination
Film Predestination , Robert Heinlein's "All you Zombies"
Lesson 13: Man and Machines
Text: "Who can Replace A Man?" by Brian Aldiss , notes are here