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 Contents Preface KAREN HELLEKSON PART 1. TEACHING Introduction: Teaching with Science Fiction CRAIG B. JACOBSEN 1. Grokking Rhetoric through Science Fiction: A Practical Examination of Course Construction JEN GUNNELS 2. Incorporating Science Fiction into a Scientific Rhetoric Course MICHAEL J. KLEIN 3. Revealing Critical Theorys Real-Life Potential to Our Students, the Digital Nomads JASON W. ELLIS PART 2. READING AND WRITING Introduction: Reading and Writing SF PATRICK B. SHARP 4. Reading/Writing Martians: Seeing Techne and Poiesis in The War of the Worlds CHARLES HARDING 5. The Creation of Heinleins Solution Unsatisfactory EDWARD WYSOCKI 6. Entropy, Entertainment, and Creative Energy in Ben Bova DONALD M. HASSLER PART 3. MEDIA Introduction: Media and Science Fiction KAREN HELLEKSON 7. Investigating the Postmodern Memory Crisis on the Small Screen SUSAN A. GEORGE 8. Texts Resistance to Being Interpreted: Unconventional Relationship between Text and Reader in Watchmen HO-RIM SONG 9. Breathe, baby, breathe! Ecodystopia in Brazilian Science Fiction Film ALFREDO SUPPIA PART 4. WOMEN Introduction: Women and Writing LISA YASZEK 10. Hail the Conquering Campbellian S/Hero: Joanna Russs Alyx EILEEN DONALDSON 11. Essentialism and Constructionism in Octavia E. Butlers Fledgling KRISTEN LILLVIS 12. Joanna Russ and the Murder of the Female Child: We Who Are About To... REBEKAH SHELDON 13. Learning to Listen, Listening to Learn: The Taoist Way in Ursula K. Le Guins The Telling JAMES H. THRALL About the Contributors Index