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The francophone and anglophone worlds have longstanding distinct if complementary traditions for staging the primordial literary gesture, the imagining of the “What if”. This course will confront the two cultures in early works like Cyrano de Bergerac’s Histoire comique des états et empires du soleil, C. N. Ledoux’s utopian workers’ paradise, or Jules Verne's novels. It will then address the modern literate spaces in which the two traditions cross-fertilize each other— for example the French reception of Philip K Dick’s oeuvre, Korogodski’s Pink Noise-A Posthuman Tale, Catherine Dufour’s Le Goût de l’immortalité, cyberpunk, mangas co-authored by francophone artists and writers, the “9e art” of the high graphic novels, especially the Cités obscures of Schuitten and Peeters, or hybrid French/anglophone MMOG communities like Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed. The materials will be in French or English, so the ability to understand French is necessary, with class discussion in English. Undergraduates are welcome with permission of the instructor, and this course may count for the French major or minor.