====== SF 101 ======

http://io9.com/5626861/a-syllabus-and-book-list-for-novice-students-of-science-fiction-literature

== Genre Foundations ==

  * [[http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/84|Frankenstein]], Mary Shelley
  * [[http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/35|The Time Machine]], H. G. Wells
  * [[http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/62|A Princess of Mars]], Edgar Rice Burroughs
  * [[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/At_the_Mountains_of_Madness|At the Mountains of Madness]], H.P. Lovecraft

== Utopias and Dystopias ==

  * [[http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/32|Herland]], Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  * [[http://www.huxley.net/bnw/index.html|Brave New World]], Aldous Huxley
  * [[http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/o/orwell/george/o79n/|1984]], George Orwell
  * The Man In the High Castle, Philip K. Dick
  * The Female Man, Joanna Russ

== Robots ==

  * I, Robot, by Isaac Asimov
  * Neuromancer, by William Gibson
  * Saturn's Children, by Charles Stross

== Aliens ==

  * [[http://www.scaryforkids.com/who-goes-there-by-john-w-campbell/|Who Goes There]], John W. Campbell
  * Lilith's Brood, by Octavia Butler
  * The Secret City, by Carol Emschwiller

== Space Travel ==

  * [[http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/20782|Triplanetary]], E.E. "Doc" Smith
  * Downbelow Station, C.J. Cherryh
  * The Sparrow, Maria Doria Russell
  * Consider Phlebas, Iain M. Banks

== Science Fiction as Political Philosophy ==

  * [[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200331h.html|Orlando]], Virgina Woolf
  * Stranger In A Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
  * Dhalgren, Samuel Delaney
  * The Dispossessed, Ursula LeGuin
  * Anathem, Neal Stephenson