Practicing science fiction: critical essays on writing, reading and teaching the genre

Preface / Karen Hellekson

Introduction: teaching with science fiction / Craig B. Jacobsen

Grokking rhetoric through science fiction: a practical examination of course construction / Jen Gunnels

Incorporating science fiction into a scientific rhetoric course / Michael J. Klein

Revealing critical theory's real-life potential to our students, the digital nomads / Jason W. Ellis

Introduction: reading and writing SF / Patrick B. Sharp

Reading/writing Martians: seeing techne and poiesis in The war of the worlds / Charles Harding

The creation of Heinlein's "solution unsatisfactory" / Ed Wysocki

Entropy, entertainment, and creative energy in Ben Bova / Donald M. Hassler

Introduction: media and science fiction / Karen Hellekson

Investigating the postmodern memory crisis on the small screen / Susan A. George

Text's resistance to being interpreted: unconventional relationship between text and reader in Watchmen / Ho-Rim Song

"Breathe, baby, breathe!" ecodystopia in Brazilian science fiction film / Alfredo Suppia

Introduction: women and writing / Lisa Yaszek

Hail the conquering Campbellian s/hero: Joanna Russ's Alyx / Eileen Donaldson

Essentialism and constructionism in Octavia E. Butler's Fledgling / Kristen Lillvis

Joanna Russ and the murder of the female child: We who are about to

/ Rebekah Sheldon

Learning to listen, listening to learn: the Taoist way in Ursula K. Le Guin's The telling / James Thrall.