ENGL 2245 -- Science Fiction: Web Resources

The aim of this resource "is to provide a comprehensive, scholarly, and critical guide to science fiction in all its forms. All entries are free online."

Find biographies, analyses, and critical assessments of authors and their works.

This free website gathers high quality literary criticism chosen by “a human editor [who] screens and selects internet articles….Articles that are selected were written by recognized scholars and signed, or by well-known authors commenting on other writers, or in the case of unsigned introductory articles, have been published online by reputable organizations and publishers from the print and academic world.”

In this critical essay, Yvonne De La Cruz analyzes the work of writers, such as Isaac Asimov, whose work explores themes involving artificial intelligence and robotics,

Out of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), this site provides an online home for "one of the larger single-author archives in the United States, and a hub for scholarship on the work of Ray Bradbury and science fiction."

"In this article excerpt [from the MIT Technology Review], a British researcher discusses why AI and cybernetics are moving beyond the realm of science fiction—but warns that the technologies also raise significant ethical questions."

Critical essay by Nicola Nixon.

"María Goicoechea explores the posthuman tendencies of Anglo-American popular culture as they are manifested in the representations of the cyborgs, clones, and artificial
intelligences that populate cyberpunk science fiction."

Margaret Atwood analyzes Brave New World in this article.

This critical essay by William Matter, which was originally published in Science Fiction Studies, examines Huxley's Brave New World in the context of other literary works on utopia.

This Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Locke covers his life and philosophy.

The Norton Anthology of English Literature host this site, Norton Topics Online. It provides a broad overview of the Romantic Period and Gothic Literature, including Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, within the context of that period.

This Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Rousseau covers his life and philosophy.

Critical essay by renowned literary critic, Francine Prose, in the New Republic.