Practicing Science Fiction

Karen Hellekson is a freelance copy editor and independent scholar. She is coeditor of the open access journal Transformative Works and Cultures and of the quarterly SFRA Review. She lives in Maine. Craig B. Jacobsen teaches at Mesa Community College in Arizona. He is coeditor of the quarterly SFRA Review. Patrick B. Sharp is an associate professor at California State University, Los Angeles. He has written extensively on science fiction. Lisa Yaszek is associate professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her most recent work was on galactic suburbia.

• Table of ContentsPreface      —KAREN HELLEKSONPART 1. TEACHINGIntroduction: Teaching with Science Fiction      —CRAIG B. JACOBSEN1. Grokking Rhetoric through Science Fiction: A Practical Examination of Course Construction      —JEN GUNNELS2. Incorporating Science Fiction into a Scientific Rhetoric Course      —MICHAEL J. KLEIN3. Revealing Critical Theory’s Real-Life Potential to Our Students, the Digital Nomads      —JASON W. ELLISPART 2. READING AND WRITINGIntroduction: Reading and Writing SF      —PATRICK B. SHARP4. Reading/Writing Martians: Seeing Techne and Poiesis in The War of the Worlds      —CHARLES HARDING5. The Creation of Heinlein’s “Solution Unsatisfactory”      —EDWARD WYSOCKI6. Entropy, Entertainment, and Creative Energy in Ben Bova      —DONALD M. HASSLERPART 3. MEDIAIntroduction: Media and Science Fiction      —KAREN HELLEKSON7. Investigating the Postmodern Memory Crisis on the Small Screen      —SUSAN A. GEORGE8. Text’s Resistance to Being Interpreted: Unconventional Relationship between Text and Reader in Watchmen      —HO-RIM SONG9. “Breathe, baby, breathe!” Ecodystopia in Brazilian Science Fiction Film      —ALFREDO SUPPIAPART 4. WOMENIntroduction: Women and Writing      —LISA YASZEK10. Hail the Conquering Campbellian S/Hero: Joanna Russ’s Alyx      —EILEEN DONALDSON11. Essentialism and Constructionism in Octavia E. Butler’s Fledgling      —KRISTEN LILLVIS12. Joanna Russ and the Murder of the Female Child: We Who Are About To...       —REBEKAH SHELDON13. Learning to Listen, Listening to Learn: The Taoist Way in Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Telling      —JAMES H. THRALLAbout the Contributors      Index