Andy Sawyer

Teaching Science Fiction - Teaching the New English Andy Sawyer

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-255) and index. Biographical Note: ANDY SAWYER is librarian of the Science Fiction Foundation Collection at the University of Liverpool Library, UK, and Course Director of the School of Englishs MA in Science Fiction Studies. He is Reviews Editor of "Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction." He recently co-edited "Plan For Chaos," a previously unpublished novel by John Wyndham. He is the 2008 recipient of the Clareson Award for services to science fiction. PETER WRIGHT is Reader in Speculative Fictions at Edge Hill University, UK. He is the author of "Attending Daedalus: Gene Wolfe, Artifice and the Reader" (2003), co-editor of "British Science Fiction Television" (2005) and editor of "Shadows of the New Sun: Wolfe on Writing/Writers on Wolfe "(2007). He is currently co-editing "When Worlds Collide: The Critical Companion to Science Fiction Film Adaptations."Table of Contents: Notes on ContributorsWhy Teach Science Fiction?--"A. Sawyer &--P. Wright"A Short History of Science Fiction--"P. Kincaid"Theorising Science Fiction--"G. K. Wolfe"Teaching Utopia, Anti-Utopia and Science Fiction--"C. Ferns"Teaching Pulp Science Fiction--"G. Westfahl"Teaching Golden Age Science Fiction--"L. Yaszek"Teaching the New Wave--"R. Latham"Teaching Postmodern Science Fiction--"A. Butler"Teaching Gender and Science Fiction--"B. Attebery"Teaching Postcolonial Science Fiction--"U. Mehan"Teaching Latin American Science Fiction: A Case Study--"L. Ginway"Science Fiction and Curriculum Design--"A. Sawyer &--P. Wright"Further ReadingPublisher Marketing: The first text in 30 years to explore the pedagogic potential of that most intellectually stimulating and provocative form of popular literature: science fiction. Innovative and academically lively, it offers valuable insights into how SF can be taught historically, culturally and practically at university level.

Contributor Bio:  Wright, Peter PETER WRIGHT left school aged 14 and, after a year at Newbattle Abbey College, pursued a career in Community Education and youth work in Scotland. He has an extensive commitment to the voluntary sector, especially in founding or assisting in the development of new initiatives, including being the co-founder of the John Muir Award within the John Muir Trust and the founder of Youth in Trust within the National Trust for Scotland. Peter lives near Edinburgh with his wife. He has three children and a granddaughter. He has walked the entire watershed of Scotland.