Library Contents

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• Science Fiction Studies (University of Kansas Course)
  • Course Outline
  • Lesson 1: In the Beginning
  • Lesson 2: Toward Verne: 1800-1885
  • Lesson 3: The Birth of the Mass Magazines: 1885-1911
  • Lesson 4: The Rise of the Pulps: 1911 - 1926
  • Lesson 5: Scientifiction: 1926 - 1938
  • Lesson 6: John W. Campbell's Astounding: 1938 - 1950
  • Lesson 7: Alternate Worlds: 1950 - 1965
  • Lesson 8: The New Wave: 1965 - 1978
  • Lesson 9: Modern Voices: 1978 - 2006
  • Lesson 10: The Shape of Things to Come
  
  
• Using Science Fiction in Other Subjects
  • Science Fiction for French Students
  • Science Fiction for Mathematics Students
  • Science Fiction for Physics Students
  
  
• Educational Materials for Tor Books
  • A Scholar of Magics by Caroline Stevermer - Reader's Guide (doc)
  • A School for Sorcery by E. Rose Sabin - Teaching Kit (doc)
  • Alosha by Christopher Pike - Reader's Guide (doc)
  • Among the Dolls by William Sleator - Reader's Guide (doc)
  • Beyond the Hanging Wall by Sara Douglass - Reader's Guide (doc)
  • Dragon and Soldier by Timothy Zahn - Reader's Guide (doc)
  • Dreams and Visions edited by M. Jerry Weiss and Helen S. Weiss - Reader's Guide (doc)
  • Flying in Place by Susan Palwick - Reader's Guide (doc)
  • Fur Magic by Andre Norton - Reader's Guide (doc)
  • Hawkes Harbor by S. E. Hinton - Reader's Guide (doc)
  • Invasion of the Road Weenies by David Lubar - Reader's Guide (doc)
  • Octagon Magic by Andre Norton - Reader's Guide (doc)
  • Pay the Piper by Jane Yolen and Adam Stemple - Reader's Guide (doc)
  • The Green Futures of Tycho by William Sleator - Reader's Guide (doc)
  • The Lost Journals of Ven Polypheme - Interactive Curriculum (off-site)
  
  
• Teaching H.G. Wells' The Time Machine
  • Biography of H.G. Wells
  • Chapter-by-Chapter Study Guide
  • Discussion and Writing Topics
  • Literature Lessons
  • Social Studies and The Time Machine
  • Vocabulary in The Time Machine
  
  
• Academic Projects on Science Fiction
  • Alienness and Humanity in "Lament of the Keeku Bird" by Kathleen Sky (doc)
  • Critique of the Detective Genre in the SF Genre: "The Big Dream" by John Kessel (doc)
  • Robert Silverberg's Sailing to Byzantium (doc)
  • Science, Fiction and Curriculum Innovation (pdf)
  • Teaching Larry Niven's "Neutron Star" (doc)
  
  
• Other Lessons and Educational Material
  • A Basic Science Fiction Library
  • Graduate Programs in Science Fiction
  • Research Library Collections of SF
  • The Worldview of Science Fiction