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Intro To Using This Online Textbook
About Your Instructor
Don’t Panic – Use the Library
1. Science Fiction Introduction
2. Aye, and Gomorrah. . .
Samuel Delany
3. Bloodchild
Octavia Butler
4. Burning Chrome
5. Chippoke Na Gomi
Misha Nogha
6. eyes I dare not meet in dreams
7. Frankenstein Chapter 5
Mary Shelley
8. The Game of Rat and Dragon
Cordwainer Smith
9. The Golem
Avram Davidson
10. The Heat Death of the Universe
Pamela Zoline
11. The Machine Stops
E.M. Forster
12. Non Zero Probabilities
NK Jemisin
13. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
14. Out of All Them Bright Stars
Nancy Kress
15. People of Sand and Slag
16. “A Princess of Mars” excerpt
Edgar Rice Burroughs
17. Pulp Magazines
various
18. Rappacchini’s Daughter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
19. Robbie
Isaac Asimov
20. Rogue Farm
21. Shambleau
22. there comes a rain softly
23. Velvet Fields
Anne McCaffrey
24. War of the Worlds
H.G. Wells
25. We Can Remember It For You Wholesale
Philip K. Dick
26. A Short Introduction to Fantasy
27. The Call of Cthulhu
HP Lovecraft
28. Creation
Jeffrey Ford
29. The Dead Girl’s Wedding March
Cat Rambo
30. Dracula (Chapters 1-4)
Bram Stoker
31. The Drowned Giant
JG Balllard
32. The Gray Wolf
George MacDonald
33. A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai’i
Alaya Dawn Johnson
34. Journey Into the Kingdom
M Rickert
35. The Loves of Lady Purple
Angela Carter
36. The Mark of the Beast
Rudyard Kipling
37. The Monkey’s Paw
WW Jacobs
38. Narrow Valley
RA Lafferty
39. The Old Nurse’s Story
Elizabeth Gaskell
40. The Paper Menagerie
Ken Liu
41. These Deathless Bones
42. The Three Infernal Jokes
Lord Dunsany
43. Two Hearts
44. Wolfland
Tanith Lee
45. The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate
46. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (excerpt)
Jules Verne
47. Alice Through the Looking Glass (Chapter 4)
Lewis Caroll
48. Bisclaravet (Lay of the Werewolf)
Marie de France
49. Black Amazon of Mars
Leigh Brackett
50. The Black Cat
Edgar Allan Poe
51. The Body-Snatcher
Robert Lewis Stevenson
52. The Bone Woman
Charles de Lint
53. Chapter Six
Stephen Graham Jones
54. The Confessions of the Chelmsford Witches
55. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court excerpt
Mark Twain
56. The Dark
Karen Joy Fowler
57. The Emissary
Ray Bradbury
58. Ender’s Game
Orson Scott Card
59. The Fairie Queen Book 1 Canto 1
Edmund Spencer
60. Friend Island
Francis Stevens
61. The Ghost in the Cap’n Brown House
Harriet Beecher Stowe
62. Goblin Market
Christina Rosetti
63. Gulliver’s Travels (A Voyage to Lilliput)
Jonathan Swift
64. Harrison Bergeron
Kurt Vonnegut
65. Have Not Have
Geoff Ryman
66. The Hobbit (Riddles in the Dark)
JRR Tolkein
67. The Legend of Saint Kummernis
68. The Life of Saint Margaret of Antioch
Jacobus de Voragine (1230-1298) and Archbishop of Genoa
69. The Lottery
Shirley Jackson
70. The New Atlantis
Ursula K. Le Guin
71. Nightside
Mercedes Lackey
72. The Raft
Stephen King
73. Rat
James Patrick Kelly
74. Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Samuel Coleridge
75. Salvador
Lucius Shepard
76. Sundance
Robert Silverberg
77. Supertoys Last All Summer Long
Brian Aldiss
78. A True Discourse Declaring the Damnable Life and Death of One Stubbe Peeter
79. The Women Men Don’t See
James Tiptree
Fantasy Required Readings
Two Hearts (from the author’s website)
Two Hearts by Peter S. Beagle
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