EAC349- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 112 pages long!)

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I inherited this text from a prof who used to teach this course. I really became fond of looking at this as a snapshot of north american science fiction from the golden weird and outcast genre. The one that gives space for the social misfits to say critique society and to imagine dystopian futures. Most sf in my own definition about the genre as a scholar. reading list that looks at this as a time period. Obviously h. g wells the time machine is a chronological text from the turn of the century. I also included some texts from edgy progressive writers, octavia butler is a black feminist writer who wrote to demonstrate how sf for her as a feminist. This is when it was erupting as a genre, typically in pulp magazines. That isn"t the only era of sf and it isn"t the only type that exists.