This action research encompasses three phases. The responses gave an insight into the reasons behind the students’ reluctance and apprehensions towards the course and provided the researchers with the relevant input to prepare the intervention measures during the course. As a preliminary way forward in equipping students with a grounding in the fundamental concepts necessary for the study of science fiction genre, this paper gathers retrospective opinions from former students as well as captures opinions of incoming students with regard to this course. Instead of facilitating in-depth discussions with regard to themes and issues during the tutorials, the course coordinator had to spend a large amount of time explaining surface level meaning of the texts to the students. However, through tutorial discussions, presentations and written assignments, it is evident that students have difficulties in relating the works of fiction to contemporary contexts. communication and critical thinking skills through discussions of different themes within science fiction and to train students to be perceptive to the connection between science fiction and real life issues.
Among the intended objectives of the course are to develop in students. The course is carried out through a one hour lecture and a two hour tutorial per week for fourteen weeks. Campbell, Jr., Twilight (1934)Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon (1959)Roger Zelazny, For a Breath I Tarry (1966)Samuel R.This paper is part of an action research carried out on SKBS 2193 Science as Narrative, a compulsory course for all second year students of BA Literature in English Programme in Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. Cherryh, Cassandra (1978) Ian McDonald, Recording Angel (1996) Cultural Contexts: Mircea Eliade, from The Myth of the Eternal Return (1949 1954) Susan Sontag, The Imagination of Disaster (1965) 6. Ballard, Terminal Beach (1964)Stanislaus Lem, How the World Was Saved (1967)Sakyo Komatsu, Take Your Choice (1967)C.J. Clarke, The Nine Billion Names of God (1953)J.G. From The Organization Man (1956) Fredric Jameson, Progress versus Utopia or Can We Imagine the Future? (1982) 5. Utopias and DystopiasDamon Knight, Country of the Kind (1955) Harlan Ellison, "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman (1965)Joanna Russ, When It Changed (1972)John Varley, The Persistence of Vision (1978) Mike Resnick, Kirinyaga (1988)Nalo Hopkinson, Something to Hitch Meat to (2001) Cultural Contexts: William H. Heinlein, "All You Zombies-" (1959)Robert Silverberg, When We Went to See the End of the World (1972)Kim Stanley Robinson, The Lucky Strike (1984)Connie Willis, At the Rialto (1989)Ted Chiang, Story of Your Life (1998) Cultural Contexts: John-Paul Sartre, From Being and Nothingness (1943) Michio Kaku, To Build a Time Machine (1994) 4. Haraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century (1985 1991) 3. Dick, Second Variety (1953)Kate Wilhelm, Baby, You Were Great (1966)James Tiptree, Jr., The Girl Who Was Plugged In (1973)William Gibson, Burning Chrome (1985)Ken Liu, The Algorithms for Love (2004) Cultural Contexts: Jean Baudrillard, The Precession of the Simulacra (1981) Donna J. Artificial LifeIsaac Asimov, Liar! (1941)Philip K. Le Guin, Vaster Than Empires and More Slow (1971)Greg Egan, Wangs Carpets (1995) Cultural Contexts: Carl Gustav Jung, The Shadow (1951) Frantz Fanon, The Fact of Blackness (1952) 2.
Weinbaum, A Martian Odyssey (1934)Frederic Brown, Arena (1944)Ray Bradbury, Mars Is Heaven! (1948)Sonya Dorman, When I Was Miss Dow (1966)Ursula K. Chronological Contents Alternative Thematic ContentsA Brief Introduction to Science Fiction and Its HistoryA Selective Guide to Science Fiction Research Part One: Stories 1.
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