Science Fiction & Society with A. D. Boynton II
This is an introductory course of the genre of “science fiction”, literature that pushes the bounds of both the human imagination and the laws of natural, biological, astrological, and temporal sciences. Science and speculative fiction are at the heart of many literary, artist, and expressive cultures all around the world; across human history, people have told stories about the alien, the ghost, the vampire, outerspace, and the supernatural to understand the real world around them and articulate new future-places yet to come. Through the study of an assortment of novels, short fiction and other media, students in this course will explore how science fiction and its sibling-genres (fantasy, horror, dystopian, post-apocalyptic, gothic, magical realism) unveil truths about human societies, politics, and philosophies.
This is an introductory course of the genre of “science fiction”, literature that pushes the bounds of both the human imagination and the laws of natural, biological, astrological, and temporal sciences. Science and speculative fiction are at the heart of many literary, artist, and expressive cultures all around the world; across human history, people have told stories about the alien, the ghost, the vampire, outerspace, and the supernatural to understand the real world around them and articulate new future-places yet to come. Through the study of an assortment of novels, short fiction and other media, students in this course will explore how science fiction and its sibling-genres (fantasy, horror, dystopian, post-apocalyptic, gothic, magical realism) unveil truths about human societies, politics, and philosophies.