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Intro To Using This Online Textbook
About Your Instructor
Don’t Panic – Use the Library
Science Fiction Introduction
Aye, and Gomorrah. . .
Samuel Delany
Bloodchild
Octavia Butler
Burning Chrome
Chippoke Na Gomi
Misha Nogha
eyes I dare not meet in dreams
Frankenstein Chapter 5
Mary Shelley
The Game of Rat and Dragon
Cordwainer Smith
The Golem
Avram Davidson
The Heat Death of the Universe
Pamela Zoline
The Machine Stops
E.M. Forster
Non Zero Probabilities
NK Jemisin
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
Out of All Them Bright Stars
Nancy Kress
People of Sand and Slag
“A Princess of Mars” excerpt
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Pulp Magazines
various
Rappacchini’s Daughter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Robbie
Isaac Asimov
Rogue Farm
Shambleau
there comes a rain softly
Velvet Fields
Anne McCaffrey
War of the Worlds
H.G. Wells
We Can Remember It For You Wholesale
Philip K. Dick
A Short Introduction to Fantasy
The Call of Cthulhu
HP Lovecraft
Creation
Jeffrey Ford
The Dead Girl’s Wedding March
Cat Rambo
Dracula (Chapters 1-4)
Bram Stoker
The Drowned Giant
JG Balllard
The Gray Wolf
George MacDonald
A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai’i
Alaya Dawn Johnson
Journey Into the Kingdom
M Rickert
The Loves of Lady Purple
Angela Carter
The Mark of the Beast
Rudyard Kipling
The Monkey’s Paw
WW Jacobs
Narrow Valley
RA Lafferty
The Old Nurse’s Story
Elizabeth Gaskell
The Paper Menagerie
Ken Liu
These Deathless Bones
The Three Infernal Jokes
Lord Dunsany
Two Hearts
Wolfland
Tanith Lee
The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (excerpt)
Jules Verne
Alice Through the Looking Glass (Chapter 4)
Lewis Caroll
Bisclaravet (Lay of the Werewolf)
Marie de France
Black Amazon of Mars
Leigh Brackett
The Black Cat
Edgar Allan Poe
The Body-Snatcher
Robert Lewis Stevenson
The Bone Woman
Charles de Lint
Chapter Six
Stephen Graham Jones
The Confessions of the Chelmsford Witches
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court excerpt
Mark Twain
The Dark
Karen Joy Fowler
The Emissary
Ray Bradbury
Ender’s Game
Orson Scott Card
The Fairie Queen Book 1 Canto 1
Edmund Spencer
Friend Island
Francis Stevens
The Ghost in the Cap’n Brown House
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Goblin Market
Christina Rosetti
Gulliver’s Travels (A Voyage to Lilliput)
Jonathan Swift
Harrison Bergeron
Kurt Vonnegut
Have Not Have
Geoff Ryman
The Hobbit (Riddles in the Dark)
JRR Tolkein
The Legend of Saint Kummernis
The Life of Saint Margaret of Antioch
Jacobus de Voragine (1230-1298) and Archbishop of Genoa
The Lottery
Shirley Jackson
The New Atlantis
Ursula K. Le Guin
Nightside
Mercedes Lackey
The Raft
Stephen King
Rat
James Patrick Kelly
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Samuel Coleridge
Salvador
Lucius Shepard
Sundance
Robert Silverberg
Supertoys Last All Summer Long
Brian Aldiss
A True Discourse Declaring the Damnable Life and Death of One Stubbe Peeter
The Women Men Don’t See
James Tiptree
Extra Stories
(1991)
Ah, the nineties and its lovely dark fantasy, see instructor for this reading.
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