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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.)

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.
2013-01-30	“Headspace v. Meatspace”	Is reality solely a product of meatspace? Some cyberpunks kick meatspace in the nuts.
2010-10-25	“Clarke’s Utopian Vision”	Considering the science and mysticism of Arthur C. Clarke.
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.
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 Visions of Science: Lem’s, Tarkovsky’s, and Soderbergh’s Solaris.”	Written for the FSU Literature and Film Conference, Fall 2004.
1995-04-17	“Toward a Science Fiction Epic”	One of my oldest graduate school essays and my first conference paper, 1995.