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This course explores how science fiction functions as a literature of social and political critique just as much as it offers readers an imaginative escape to future or alien worlds. Students will read classic novels, novellas, short stories, and view films that confront such themes as artificial intelligence, posthumanism, ecological catastrophe and the role of technology in creating dystopias and utopias. The combination of reading, writing, discussion, and in-class presentations offers students a unique opportunity to immerse themselves in a particular genre as they journey “where no one has gone before.”