Whole Text Book List

Last revised 16 Sept 02

Cyborgs and Dis/Utopian Science Fiction

  • Asimov, Isaac. Any of the "foundation" or robot series.
  • Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid's Tale.
  • Bear, Greg. Darwin's Radio or Blood Music.
  • Benford, Gregory. Timescape, or Eater
  • Brin, David. any of the "uplift" series orThe Heart of the Comet (Brin and Benford).
  • Butler, Octavia. Dawn. Warner, 1997.
  • Card, Orson Scott. any of the Ender's Game series. Tor, 1992.
  • Niven, Larry and Jerry Pournelle. The Mote in God's Eye, 1974.
  • Piercy, Marge. He, She, and It. Crest, 1993.
  • Piercy, Marge. Woman on the Edge of Time. Crest, 1990.
  • Le Guin, Ursula. The Left Hand of Darkness or The Lathe of Heaven. Ace, 1991.
  • Powers, Tim. Expiration Date
  • Simmons, Dan. Hyperion
  • Tepper, Sheri. Beauty
  • Tepper, Sheri. Six Moon Dance
  • Tepper, Sheri. The Gate to Woman's Country. 1997.

    • Classics

  • Butler, Samuel. Erewhon. hard to get
  • Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451.
  • Delaney, Samuel. Nova. may be out of print.
  • Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World.
  • More, Sir Thomas. Utopia. difficult prose
  • Orwell, George. 1984.
  • Wells, HG. The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds..

    Cyberpunk

  • Dick, Phillip K. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Ballantine, 1996.
  • Gibson, William. Neuromancer ed Terry Carr. Ace, 1984.
  • Stephenson, Neal. Snow Crash. Bantam, 1993.
  • Stephenson, Neal. The Diamond Age. Bantam, 1996.

    • Non-Fiction

  • Stephenson, Neal. In the Beginning was the Command Line.
  • Cherny, Lynn and Elizabeth Weise, Eds. Wired Women : Gender and New Realities in Cyberspace. Seal Press, 1996.
  • Dyson, Ester. Release 2.0: A Design for Living in the Digital Age. Broadway, 1997.
  • Hafner, Katie and Matthew Lyon. Where Wizards Stay up Late: The Origins of the Internet. Simon & Schuster. 1997.
  • Hafner, Katie and John Markoff. Cyberpunk: Outlaws & Hackers on the ComputerSimon and Schuster, 1995.

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