Seeing as very little recent critical work has been done on teaching science fiction, both Andy Sawyer and Peter Wright’s Teaching Science Fiction (2011) and Farah Mendelsohn’s The Intergalactic Playground…
Gormley, K. & McDermott, P. (2014). “We Don’t Go on the Computers Anymore”: How Urban Children Lose in Learning Digital Literacies. The Educational Forum, 78, 248-262. Key Concepts The Achievement…
Becky Chamber’s novel The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet is clearly rooted in the tradition of the space opera sub-genre of SF. Set in the far-future, this novel…
Nicole Kornher-Stace in her novel Archivist Wasp blends science fiction with fantasy and ghost stories and, in doing so, builds a world that is dynamic and removed from the author and…
World Building as Extrapolation in Parable of the Sower
World Building as Extrapolation in Parable of the Sower Example Assignment: Grade 12 University English (ENG 4U) Octavia E. Butler in Parable of the Sower tells the story of…
