BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION
1945-1989
TOPICS/ READING LIST
class I Dystopia and political fiction in Britain in the 20th century
Aldous Huxley Brave New World (selected) & George Orwell 1984 (selected)
class II Disaster stories in the 1940s and 1950s
A.C. Clarke "The Star" & H.F. Heard "The Great Fog"
class III-IV Social Darwinism and Science Fiction/ Disaster novels and the
Cold War
John Wyndham The Midwich Cuckoos
class V Sociological Science Fiction
J.G. Ballard "Thirteen to Centaurs" and Robert Jones "The Island"
class VI Psychological Science Fiction
Kingsley Amis "Mason's Life" and Peter Philips "Dreams Are Sacred"
class VII - IX The 'New Wave' in the British Science Fiction
Angela Carter Heroes and Villains & John Brunner "The Totally Rich"
class X - XI 'Urban catastrophes'
J.G. Ballard High-Rise
class XII Gender and Science Fiction
J.T. McIntosh "Made in U.S.A." & Tanith Lee "Written in Water"
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additional reading
Aldiss, B. Billion Year Spree, London 1973
Clute, J. and Nicholls, P. (red.) The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, London 1993
Csicsery-Ronay, I. The SF of Theory: Baudrillard and Haraway [w]: „Science Fiction Studies” nr 55,
listopad 1991
Gunn, J. The British Way (vol. 7 of The Road to Science Fiction), Clarkston 1998
Haraway, D. A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth
Century, [w:] Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature, New York 1991
Hollinger, V., Gordon, J. (red.) Edging into the Future. Science Fiction and Contemporary Cultural
Transformation, Philadelphia 2002
Jackson, R. Fantasy the Literature of Subversion, London 1991
Kagarlicki, J. Co to jest fantastyka naukowa?, tłum. K. W. Malinowski, Warszawa 1977
Merill, J. England Swings SF, New York 1968
- Parrinder, P. Science Fiction. Its Criticism and Teaching, London, New York 1980
- (red.) Learning from Other Worlds: Estrangement, Cognition and the Politics of Science Fiction and
Utopia, Liverpool 2000- Science Fiction. A Critical Guide, London, New York 2002
Punter, D. The Literature of Terror, New York 1996
Scholes, R., Rabkin, E. Science Fiction. History. Science. Vision, Oxford 1977
Suvin, D. Metaphors of Science Fiction: On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre, New Haven
1979
Todorov, T. The Fantastic. A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre, tłum. R. Howard, London 1973
Zgorzelski, A. Fantastyka. Utopia. Science Fiction, Warszawa 1980