Teaching Science Fiction [Hardcover]

Teaching Science Fiction is the first text in thirty years to explore the pedagogic potential of that most intellectually stimulating and provocative form of popular literature: science fiction. Innovative and academically lively, it offers valuable insights into how SF can be taught historically, culturally and practically at university level.Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors A Chronology of Significant Works Introduction; A.Sawyer ?& P.Wright Through Time and Space: A Brief History of Science Fiction; P.Kincaid Theorising Science Fiction: The Question of Terminology; G.K.Wolfe Teaching Utopia, Anti-Utopia, and Science Fiction; C.Ferns Teaching the Scientific Romance; A.Roberts Teaching Pulp Science Fiction; G.Westfahl Good SF: Teaching the Golden Age as Cultural History; L.Yaszek Teaching the New Wave; R.Latham Postmodernism, Postmodernity and the Postmodern: Telling Local Stories at the End of Time; A.M.Butler Teaching Gender and Science Fiction; B.Attebery Teaching Postcolonial Science Fiction; U.Mehan Teaching Latin American Science Fiction and Fantasy in English: A Case Study; M.E.Ginway Teaching Science and Science Fiction: A Case Study; M.Brake ?& N.Hook Design, Delivery and Evaluation; A.Sawyer? & P.Wright Further Reading Index

a provocative, up-to-date guide to the full range of modern science fiction and the challenges it presents to students and teachers. - Patrick Parrinder, Emeritus Professor of English, University of Reading, UK

'Teaching Science Fiction not only effectively explores what it means to teach sf but also actually teaches the genre to its readers...Teaching Science Fiction is an essential addition to the bookshelves of current or prospective teachers of sf. Its contributors provide the insight that can be found in a teaching narrative, while not losing sight of the critical role of context in making pedagogical decisions. They provide rationales for their course constructino and explain the resuld