Writing on Science Fiction
From Gerald R. Lucas
Even before my professional interest in literary studies, I was an avid science fiction reader. Even part of my dissertation addresses the genre. Here are some of my writings about sf (and maybe a couple about fantasy.)
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| Date | Title | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 2016-08-19 | “Utopian Fiction” | Published as an introduction to a course on utopian and dystopian science fiction. |
| 2014-09-11 | “‘How the Hell Should I Know?’ Imposed Cages in Three Postmodern Works” | Three texts, The X-Files’ “José Chung’s ‘From Outer Space,’” William Gibson’s “The Gernsback Continuum,” and Tim Pratt’s “Impossible Dreams,” offer three versions of reality in the intertwined narratives of three different couples. |
| 2013-12-21 | “Cyberpunk” | A three-minute, quick-and-dirty primer on cyberpunk. |
| 2013-08-17 | “A Clash of Kings: Some Thoughts” | Some thoughts about the second novel in A Song of Ice and Fire series. |
| 2013-07-25 | “A Game of Thrones and the Rise of Fantasy” | My first thoughts about George R.R. Martin’s epic fantasy series. |
| 2013-02-13 | “Blade Runner as Cyberpunk” | Ridley Scott’s 1982 classic may not be “cyberpunk,” but it definitely has elements of the genre. |
| 2013-01-30 | “Headspace v. Meatspace” | Is reality solely a product of meatspace? Some cyberpunks kick meatspace in the nuts. |
| 2010-11-03 | “Speculative Fiction” | A definition published in the The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction. |
| 2010-10-25 | “Clarke’s Utopian Vision” | Considering the science and mysticism of Arthur C. Clarke. |
| 2010-09-20 | “Dune and the Super Being” | The issue with super beings is that they’re super, non-human. This is a problem. |
| 2010-08-30 | “The Dream” | The significance of “the Dream” and reality in Borges, Clarke, and Gibson. |
| 2009-03-15 | “Breaking the Girl” | An examination of misogyny and oppression in Ovid, Poe, and Lem written for the PCA/ACA conference, 2009. |
| 2008-12-16 | “Katrinko Must Die: Techno-Alterations and the Human Code” | A look at Bruce Sterling’s Chattanooga Trilogy. |
| 2006-09-19 | “Gibson’s Merging Realities” | William Gibson’s 1981 short story “The Gernsback Continuum” pays homage to sf while bringing it into a new age. |
| 2006-02-02 | “They Should Have Sent a Poet” | Discusses teaching Contact in World Lit. |
| 2004-10-10 | “Three Versions of Science in Solaris” | Written for the FSU Literature and Film Conference, Fall 2004. |
| 1997-04-22 | “Asimov’s ‘Reason’” | A feminist reading of Asimov’s 1950 story from I, Robot. |
| 1995-04-17 | “Toward a Science Fiction Epic” | One of my oldest graduate school essays and my first conference paper, 1995. |
