Science Fiction Roots and Branches

Part 1 Some roots: Victorian science fiction and fantasy: counter projects: William Morris and the science fiction of the eighteen eighties, Darko Suvin; H.G.Wells' "The War of the Worlds", Stanislaw Lem; "Dracula" adn "The Beetle": imperial and sexual guilt and fear in late Victorian fantasy, Rhys Garnett. Part 2 Some branches: post-war science fiction: scientists in science fiction - enlightenment and after, Patrick Parrinder; the world as code and labyrinth: Stanislaw Lem's "Memoirs found in a bathtub", Jerzy Jarzebski; the neglected fiction of John Wyndham - "Consider Her Ways", trouble with lichen and web, Thomas D.Clarenson and Alice S.Clarenson; Frank Herbert's "Dune" and the discourse of Apocalyptic ecologism in the United States, R.J.Ellis; Ursula K.LeGuin and Time's dispossession, Robert M.Philmus. Part 3 Some Branches: contemporary feminist responses: men in feminist science fiction - Marge Piercy, Thomas Berger, and the End of Masculinity, Marleen Bar; the destabilization of gender in Vonda MacIntyre's "Superluminal", Jenny Wolmark; man-made monsters - Suzy McKee Charnas' "Walk to the End of the World" as Dystopian feminist science fiction, Anne Cranny Francis.