Contents

• General Description
• Texts
• Provisional Course Requirements
• Provisional Schedule
• Provisional List of Essay Topics
• Select Bibliography of Reference Materials

General Description

This course introduces you to works of imaginative literature (poetry, plays, short stories, and science fiction) with scientific topics, and works of science (the treatise, popular science reporting, travel diary, essay, and the autobiography) with purposes more than utilitarian. We will read and discuss these texts, in chronological order, from 1800 to the present. Topics include artificial life and artificial intelligence (Mary Shelley, Gibson and Sterling, and Weizenbaum), geology, evolution, and extinction (Darwin, Tennyson, Huxley, Wells, Adams and Carwardine), entropy (Pynchon), quantum and chaos theory (Amis, Simmons, Stoppard), space travel (Niven), genetics (James D. Watson), and linguistic anthropology (Ian Watson). Important threads will be the relations of literary imagination and scientific creativity (Percy Shelley, Arnold, James Watson), and the mutual criticism each of these two cultures, science and literature, makes of one another.

The course anthology is John Carey's Faber Book of Science. This excerpts dozens of finely-written essays and books, mainly by scientists, and offers valuable insights into the intellectual currents of science culture for the past two centuries. We will also read complete works by five scientists, Darwin, Thomas Huxley, James D. Watson, Weizenbaum, and Carwardine (with Douglas Adams). The majority of required reading is literary work by poets (Keats, Tennyson, Frost), critics (Percy Shelley and Arnold), science-fiction writers (Mary Shelley, Wells, Niven, Ian Watson, Gibson and Sterling, and Simmons), mainstream novelists (Pynchon and Martin Amis), and one playwright (Stoppard). Additional readings, the subject of the seminar reports, are recommended for everyone but not required.

Texts

Texts are available from the Bob Miller Book Room, 180 Bloor Street West, Toronto, Ont. M5S 2V6. 416-922-3557. All texts are held together on a separate shelf there.

E-texts are or will be available on-line through the course Web page.

• Adams, Douglas, and Mark Carwardine. Last Chance to See. Pan, 1990. $13.99
• Amis, Martin. Einstein's Monsters. Penguin, 1987. $13.99
• Arnold, Matthew. "Literature and Science." 1882. Selected poems. Available on-line.
• Carey, John, ed. The Faber Book of Science. London: Faber and Faber, 1995. $19.99
• Darwin, Charles. Voyage of the Beagle. Ed. Janet Browne and Michael Neve. Penguin, 1839. $16.95
• Frost, Robert. Selected poems. Available on-line.
• Gibson, William, and Bruce Sterling. The Difference Engine. 1992: Vista, 1996. $8.99
• Huxley, Thomas. "Science and Culture." 1880. Available on-line.
• Keats, John. Selected poems and letters. Available on-line.
• Nivon, Larry. Ringworld. Del Ray, 1970.
• Pynchon, Thomas. The Crying of Lot 49. Harper, 1966. $17.00
• Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus. The 1818 Text. Ed. Marilyn Butler. 1818. $4.95
• Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Defence of Poetry. Available on-line.
• Simmons, Dan. The Hollow Man. Bantam, 1992. $7.99
• Stoppard, Tom. Arcadia. 1993: Guild America, 1995. $13.99
• Tennyson, Alfred lord. "In Memoriam." Available on-line.
• Watson, Ian. The Embedding. Carroll and Graf, 1973. $15.95
• Watson, James D., The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA. Ed. Gunther S. Stent. New York: W. W. Norton, 1980. $15.95
• Weizenbaum, Joseph. Computer Power and Human Reason. Penguin, 1976. $14.99
• Wells, H. G. The Time Machine. 1898; revised 1924. On-line.

Provisional Course Requirements

The course grade will consist of a first term test, an essay, a seminar paper, seminar participation, and a final examination, as follows:

1. first-term test: 10% (Dec. 10).
2. 2,500-word essay: 20% (due March 31).
3. term seminar paper (2,000 words; written copy to be handed in): 20%.
4. informed seminar participation: 10%.
5. 3-hour final examination: 40% (April-May).

Seminar paper (2,000 words). Each week, starting October 25, there will a Friday seminar. You will prepare a seminar paper based on a book or article. The provisional course schedule lists these topics. You should make your choice by October 1 or a topic and date will be assigned for you. Your seminar paper must be handed in by the following Monday class.

First term test. This will consist of passages for identification (author, work) and for comment. It will cover all texts scheduled in the first term.

2,500-word essay To spread your workload, you should do your seminar paper in one term, and your essay in the other term. Students who choose seminar topics in the first term should do their essays in the second term, and vice versa. All essays must be handed into me personally into class or date-stamped at the Porter's Lodge at Wetmore Hall. No e-mail submissions. Late essays will be penalized 5% per day late.

Seminar participation. I will take attendance at Friday seminars and look forward to your intelligent comments and questions.

Final exam. This will be administered by the Faculty, will cover the complete course, and will have both short and essay-style questions.

Provisional Schedule

First Term

• Week 1: Sept. 13, 15, 17.
  • Lectures: introduction; Michael Faraday, "On a Candle" (1849), in Carey, pp. 88-92; Thomas Huxley, "On a Piece of Chalk" (1868), in Carey, pp. 139-47.

• Week 2: Sept. 20, 22, 24.
  • Lectures: Mary Shelley, Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818)

• Week 3: Sept. 27, 29, Oct. 1.
  • Lectures: Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus

• Week 4: Oct. 4, 6, 8.
  • Lectures:
    • August Kekule, "Chains and Rings: Kekule's Dreams," in Carey, pp. 137-38;
    • John Keats, "Ode to a Nightingale";
    • Percy Bysshe Shelley, Defence of Poetry.

• Week 5: Oct. 11 (Thanksgiving, no class) 13, 15.
  • Lectures: Charles Lyell, "Those Dreadful Hammers" (1830-33), in Carey, pp. 71-78; Charles Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle (1839)

• Week 6: Oct. 18, 20, 22 (mid-term test).
  • Lectures: Voyage of the Beagle.
  • Friday October 22: Mid-term test.

• Week 7: Oct. 25, 27.
  • Lecture (Monday): Alfred lord Tennyson, "In Memoriam" (1850); Thomas Huxley, "Science and Culture" (1880); Matthew Arnold, "Literature and Science" (1882).
  • Seminar topics (Wednesday):
    • (1) Charles S. Blinderman, "The Great Bone Case." Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 14 (1970-71): 370-93. QH 301 P4 2 BMES.
    • (2) Philip Henry Gosse, Omphalos: an attempt to untie the geological knot (London: J. Van Voorst, 1857). QH 363 G66 SMC (cf. Philip Henry Gosse, "Adam's Navel," in Carey, pp. 95-105).

• Week 8: Nov. 1, 3, 5.
  • Lectures: H. G. Wells, The Time Machine (1898).
  • Seminar topics (Friday):
    • (1) Veronica Hollinger, "Deconstructing the Time Machine," Science-Fiction Studies 14 (1987): 201-21. PN 3448 S45S2 Robarts
    • (2) Kathryn Hume, "Eat or be Eaten: H. G. Wells's The Time Machine," Philological Quarterly 69 (1990): 233-51. P 1 P55 Robarts

• Week 9: Nov. 8, 10, 12.
  • Lectures: The Time Machine; Robert Frost, selected poems.
  • Seminar topics:
    • (1) Donald E. Palumbo, "The Politics of Entropy: Revolution vs. Evolution in George Pal's 1960 Film Version of H. G. Wells's The Time Machine," in Robert A. Latham and Robert A. Collins, eds., Modes of the Fantastic (Westport: Greenwood, 1995): 204-11. PN 56 F34I58 Robarts
    • (2) Norman N. Holland, "Reading Frost," The Brain of Robert Frost: A Cognitive Approach to Literature (London: Routledge, 1988): 16-50. PS 3511 R94Z745 Robarts

• Week 10: Nov. 15, 17, 19.
  • Lectures: Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49 (1966); John Updike, "Heat Death," in Carey, pp. 93-94.
  • Seminar topics:
    • (1) N. Katherine Hayles, "`A Metaphor of God Knew How Many Parts': The Engine that Drives The Crying of Lot 49," in New Essays on The Crying of Lot 49, ed. Patrick O'Donnell (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991): 97-125. PS 3531 Y6C736 1991 Robarts
    • (2) Max Born, Physics in my Generation: A Selection of Papers (London: Pergamum, 1956). QC 71 B666 PHYS. Cf. "Quantum Mechanics: Mines and Machine Guns," in Carey, pp. 281-85.

• Week 11: Nov. 22, 24, 26.
  • Lectures: The Crying of Lot 49.
  • Seminar topics:
    • (1) Peter Freese, "The Entropic End of the American Dream: Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49," Anglia 109 (1991): 60-86. PE 3 A62 Robarts
    • (2) Pamela Zodine, "The Heat Death of the Universe," The Heat Death of the Universe and other Stories (Telluride, Col., 1988). PS 3576 O36H43 1987 ROBA.

• Week 12: Nov. 29, Dec. 1, 3.
  • Lectures: James D. Watson, The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA (1968).
  • Seminar topics:
    • (1) John Limon, "The Double Helix as Literature," Raritan 5.3 (1986): 26-47. AS 30 R37 Robarts
    • (2) Francis Crick, What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery (New York: Basic Books, 1988). QH 31 C85A3 Trinity

• Week 13: Dec. 6, 8, 10 (term test).
  • Lectures: The Double Helix
  • Seminar topics:
    • (1) Leonard Isaacs, "Creation and Responsibility in Science: Some Lessons from the Modern Prometheus," in Mark Amsler, ed., Creativity and the Imagination: Case Studies from the Classical Age to the Twentieth Century (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1987): 59-104. BF 408 C7546 1987 ROBA.
    • (2) Greg Myers, "Making a Discovery: Narratives of Split Genes," in Christopher Nash, ed., Narrative in Culture: The Uses of Storytelling in the Sciences, Philosophy, and Literature (London: Routledge, 1990): 102-26. PN 212 N34 Robarts

Second Term

• Week 1: Jan. 3-7.
  • Lectures: Larry Nivon, Ringworld (1970).
  • Seminar topics:
    • (1) James E. Hicks, "Louis and Teela, Teela and Seeker: Sexual Relationships in Larry Niven's Ringworld," Extrapolation 31.2 (1990): 148-59. PS 374 S35E9 Robarts
    • (2) Card, Orson Scott, How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy (Cincinnati: Writer's Digest Books, 1990). Merril REF 808.02 CAR HOW

• Week 2: Jan. 10-14.
  • Lectures: Ringworld
  • Seminar topics:
    • (1) Gary, Westfahl, Cosmic Engineers: A Study of Hard Science Fiction (Westport: Greenwood, 1996). PS 374 S35W43 1996 ROBA.
    • (2) SETI Pioneers: Scientists Talk about their Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence,, ed. David W. Swift (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1990). QB 54 S44 1990 PASC

• Week 3: Jan. 17-21.
  • Lectures: Ian Watson, The Embedding (1973).
  • Seminar topics:
    • (1) Timothy J. Reiss, "How Can `New' Meaning be Thought? Fictions of Science, Science Fictions." Canadian Review of Comparative Literature 12.1 (March 1985): 88-126. PN 1 C35 ROBA.
    • (2) Meyers, Walter Earl, "A History of Linguistics in Science Fiction," Aliens and Linguists: Language Study and Science Fiction (Athens: U of Georgia Press, 1980): 146-92. PN 3448 S45M46 Robarts

• Week 4: Jan. 24-28.
  • Lectures: Joseph Weizenbaum, Computer Power and Human Reason (1976)
  • Seminar topics:
    • (1) Hans P. Moravec, Mind Children (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1988). Q 335 M67 PASC
    • (2) Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat (London, 1985). RC 454 S2 1985 BMED

• Week 5: Jan. 31-Feb. 4.
  • Lectures: Martin Amis, Einstein's Monsters (1987).
  • Seminar topics:
    • (1) John Hersey, Hiroshima. New York: Knof, 1985. D 767 .25 H6H4 ROBA.
    • (2) Moyle, David, "Beyond the Black Hole: The Emergence of Science Fiction Themes in the Recent Work of Martin Amis," Extrapolation 36.4 (Winter 1995): 304-15. PS 374 S3539 Robarts

• Week 6: Feb. 7-11.
  • Lectures: Martin Amis, Einstein's Monsters (1987).
  • Seminar topics:
    • (1) Rachel Falconer, "Bakhtin's Chronotype and the Contemporary Short Story." South Atlantic Quarterly 97 (1998): 699-732. AP 2 S75 Robarts
    • (2) Otto Robert Frisch, About Physics Today (New York: Basic Books, 1962) QC 778 F73 PASC. Cf. "Otto Frisch Explains Atomic Particles" (1960), in Carey, pp. 403-15.

• Feb. 14-18. Reading Week: no classes.

• Week 7 Feb. 21-25.
  • Lectures: Dan Simmons, The Hollow Man (1992); Caroline Series, Paul Davies, Tom Stoppard and Robert May, "Fractals, Chaos and Strange Attractors," in Carey, pp. 495-504.
  • Seminar topics:
    • (1) Pribram, Karl H., Languages of the Brain (New York: Brandon House, 1971). QP 360 .P75 Trinity.
    • (2) Rae, Alastair. Quantum Physics: Illusion or Reality? Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. QC 174.12 R335 1986 Erindale

• Week 8 Feb. 28-March 3.
  • Seminar topics: The Hollow Man.
    • (1) Dan Simmons, "Shapeshifters and Skinwalkers: The Writer's Curse of Negative Capability." Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 8.4 (1997): 398-418.
    • (2) Stewart, Ian, Does God Play Dice? The Mathematics of Chaos (Cambridge: Blackwell, 1990). Q 172 .5 C45S74 1990 PASC

• Week 9 March 6-10.
  • Lectures: Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine, Last Chance to See (1990)
  • Seminar topics:
    • (1) Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals (London: Hart-Davis, 1957). QH 151 D8 BMED
    • (2) Stephen Jay Gould, Wonderful Life: the Burgess Shale and the Nature of History (New York: W. W. Norton, 1989). QE 770 G67 1989 Trinity

• Week 10 March 14-18.
  • Lectures: William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, The Difference Engine (1992).
  • Seminar topics:
    • (1) Herbert Sussman, "Cyberpunk Meets Charles Babbage: The Difference Engine as Alternative Victorian History," Victorian Studies 38.1 (1994): 1-23. PR 463 V5 Robarts
    • (2) Charles Babbage, Charles Babbage and his Calculating engines: selected writings (New York: Dover, 1961). QA 75 B28

• Week 11 March 20-24.
  • Lectures:
  • Seminar topics: The Difference Engine
    • (1) Molly Abel Travis, "Cybernetic Esthetics: Hypertext and the Future of Literature," Mosaic 29 (1996): 115-29. Trinity
    • (2) Mondo 2000: A User's Guide to the New Edge, ed. Rudy Rucker, R. U. Sirius and Queen Mu (New York: HyperCollins, 1992). BP 605 N48M65 Robarts

• Week 12 March 27-31.
  • Lectures: Tom Stoppard, Arcadia (1993).
  • Seminar topics:
    • (1) Conversations with Stoppard, ed. Mel Gussow (London: N. Hern, 1995). PR 6069 T6Z464 Robarts
    • (2) Therese Fischer-Seidel, "Chaos Theory, Landscape Gardening, and Tom Stoppard's Dramatology of Coincidence in Arcadia." In Rudi Keller and Karl Menges, eds. Emerging Structures in Interdisciplinary Perspective. Tubingen: Francke, 1997. B 841.4 E48 1997 Robarts

• Week 13 April 3-7.
  • Lectures: Arcadia.
  • Seminar topics:
    • (1) N. Katherine Hayles, "Complex Dynamics in Literature and Science," Chaos and Order: Complex Dynamics in Literature and Science, ed. N. Katherine Hayles (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991): 1-33. PN 771 C44 1991 Robarts and Victoria
    • (2) Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt, "The Realm of Idle Phrases: Postmodernism, Literary Theory, and Cultural Criticism," Higher Superstitution (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994). Q 175.5 G757 PASC

Provisional List of Essay Topics

• Chaos theory and applications in Simmons' The Hollow Man and Stoppard's Arcadia.
• Compare Wells' The Time Machine and Watson's The Double Helix.
• "Do scientific creativity and literary imagination both focus on sex and death, or is this a naive reader's perspective?" Discuss with respect to three works on the course, including Watson's The Double Helix and Simmons' The Hollow Man.
• Elegiac responses to science by two of the following: Tennyson in In Memoriam, and one of Frost, John Updike, and one other.
• Entropy in Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 and one of Wells' The Time Machine and Pamela Zodine's "The Heat Death of the Universe."
• Evolution in Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle and one of Richard Dawkin's The Blind Watchmaker and Stephen Jay Gould's Wonderful Life.
• Memories of scientific holocaust in two of Amis's Einstein's Monsters, Primo Levi's The Periodic Table, and John Hersey's Hiroshima.
• 19th- and 20th-century explanations of human language, in Percy Shelley's Defence of Poetry, Ian Watson's The Embedding, and Weizenbaum's Computer Power and Human Reason.
• Science and moral justice in two of Shelley's Frankenstein, Watson's The Embedding, and Amis's Einstein's Monsters.
• Species and individuality in Adams and Carwardine's Last Chance to See and Oliver Sack's The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat.
• The discovery of old worlds in two of Darwin's The Voyage of the Beagle, Niven's Ringworld, and Adams and Carwardine's Last Chance to See.
• Visions of computing technology and the human in Weizenbaum's Computer Power and Human Reason and Gibson and Sterling's The Difference Engine.
• A comparable topic of your own choice, subject to approval. Submit the proposed title, a brief bibliography, and an explanation of why you want to write on it, to me in writing no later than November 29.

Select Bibliography

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• Amsler, Mark, ed. Creativity and the Imagination: Case Studies from the Classical Age to the Twentieth Century. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1987. BF 408 C7546 1987 Robarts
• Barnie, John. No Hiding Place: Essays on the New Nature and Poetry. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1996. PR 605 N3B37 1996 Robarts
• Barr, Marleen S. Feminist Fabulation: Space/Postmodern Fiction. Iowa City: U of Iowa Press, 1992. PN 3401 B38 1992 Robarts
• Bender, Bart. The Descent of Love: Darwin and the Theory of Sexual Selection in American Fiction, 1871-1926. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. PS 374 L6B46 1996 Robarts
• Benjamin, Marina, ed. A Question of Identity: Women, Science, and Literature. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1993. 809.93352042/Q5 OISE
• "Bibliography: Literature and Science." Clio: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Literature 4 (1974-). AS 30 C53 Robarts
• Bleiler, Everett, and Franklin, eds., Science Fiction Writers: Critical Studies of the Major Authors from the Early Nineteenth Century to the Present Day. New York: Scribner's, 1982.
• Bliss, Michael. The Discovery of Insulin. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1982. QP 572 I5 B54 Victoria College
• Bohnenkamp, Dennis. "Post-Einsteinian Physics and Literature: Towards a New Poetics," Mosaic 22.3 (Summer 1989): 19-30. PN 851 M6 Robarts
• Broderick, Damien. Reading by Starlight: Postmodern Science Fiction. London: Routledge, 1995. PS 374 S35B76 1995 Robarts
• Carroll, Joseph. Evolution and Critical Theory. Columbia: U of Missouri Press, 1995. PN 55 C37 1995 Robarts
• Diedrick, James. Understanding Martin Amis. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1995. PR 6051 M5Z62 Robarts
• Donawerth, Jane. Frankenstein's Daughters: Women Writing Science Fiction. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1997. PS 374 S35D66 1997X Robarts
• Emme, Eugene M., ed. Science Fiction and Space Futures: Past and Present. San Diego: American Astronautical Society, 1982. P 96 S34S28 1982 Robarts
• Extrapolation. Kent State University Press, 1972-. PS 374 S35 E9 Robarts Library
• Faraday, Michael. Course of Six Lectures on the Chemical History of a Candle. Marietta: Larlin, 1978. QD 39 F2 PASC
• Faraday, Michael. Faraday's Diary: being the various philosophical notes of experimental investigation during the years 1820-1862. London: G. Bell, 1932-36. Q 113 F37 PASC
• Foundation: The Review of Science Fiction. University of Liverpool, 1972-.
• Grant, J. Kerry. A Companion to The Crying of Lot 69. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994. PS 3531 Y6C735 Robarts
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• Gibson, Walker. "Behind the Veil: A Distinction between Poetic and Scientific Language in Tennyson, Lyell, and Darwin." Victorian Studies 2 (1958-59): 60-68. PR 463 V5 Robarts
• Gliserman, Susan. "Early Victorian Science Writers and Tennyson's `In Memoriam': A Study in Cultural Exchange." Victorian Studies 18 (1974-75): 277-308, 437-59. PR 463 V5 Robarts
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• Gross, Alan G. The Rhetoric of Science. 1990: Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996. [Darwin; Watson and Crick] Q 223 G77 1990 PASC
• Hawkins, Harriett. Strange Attractors: Literature, Culture, and Chaos. New York: Prentice Hall, 1995. PN 771 H348 1995 Robarts
• Hiroshima: Three Witnesses. Ed. and trans. Richard H. Minear. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990. D 767 .25 H6H672 1990 Robarts
• Horgan, John. The End of Science: Facing the Limits of Knowledge in the Twilight of the Scientific Age. London: Little, Brown, 1996. Q 175 H66 1996 ERIN and SCAR
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• Lerner, Frederick Andrew. Modern Science Fiction and the American Literary Community. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1985. PS 374 S35L4 1985 Robarts
• Levi, Primo. The Periodic Table. Trans. Raymond Rosenthal. London: Abacus, 1986. [memoir] PQ 4872 .E8S513 1984 Trinity
• Lewes, Dorothy. Dream Revisionaries: Gender and Genre in Women's Utopian Fiction, 1870-1920. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1995. PR 830 U7 L4 1995 Victoria College Library
• Livingston, Paisley. Literary Knowledge: Humanistic Inquiry and the Philosophy of Science. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1988. PN 49 .L54 1988 SMC
• Lundeen, Kathleen. "Keats's Post-Newtonian Poetics." Keats-Shelley Journal 44 (1995): 102-16. PR 4836 A14
• Lyell, Charles. Principles of Geology. 1st edn. 1830-33: Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990-91. QE 26 L956 1990 Victoria College
• Meadows, A. J. The High Firmament: A Survey of Astronomy in English Literature. Leicester: Leicester UP, 1969. PR 151 A7M4 Robarts
• Meyers, Walter Earl. Aliens and Linguists: Language Study and Science Fiction. Athens: U of Georgia Press, 1980. PN 3448 S45M46 Robarts
• Moyle, David. "Beyond the Black Hole: The Emergence of Science Fiction Themes in the Recent Work of Martin Amis," Extrapolation 36.4 (Winter 1995): 304-15. PS 374 S3539 Robarts
• Nadeau, Robert. Readings from the New Book on Nature: Physics and Metaphysics in the Modern Novel. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1981. PS 374 P45N3 Robarts
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• Norton, Peter. The Vital Science: Biology and the Literary Imagination, 1860-1900. London: Allen and Unwin, 1984. PR 468 S34 M67 1984 Robarts
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• Olson, Lance. William Gibson. San Bernardino, Calif.: Borgo Press, 1992. PS 8563 I282Z75 1992 Roba
• Paradis, James, and Thomas Postlewait, eds. Victorian Science and Victorian Values: Literary Perspectives. New York: New York Academy of Sciences, 1981. Q 11 N5 v. 360 Victoria College
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• Pinker, Steven. The Language Instinct. New York: Morrow, 1994. P 106 P476 1994 Robarts
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• The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence: SETI. Ed. Philip Morrison, John Billingham, and John Wolfe. Washington: NASA, 1977. QB 54 S4 PASC
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• Slade, Joseph W., Judith Yaross Lee, eds., Beyond the Two Cultures: Essays on Science, Technology, and Literature. Ames: Iowa State UP, 1990. PN 55 B49 1990 Robarts
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• Strehle, Susan. Fiction in the Quantum Universe. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992. PS 374 P45S77 1992
• Suvin, Darko. Metamorphoses of Science Fiction: On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre.
• New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979. PN 3448 S45S897 Robarts
• Tallbridge, John. "From Chronicle to Quest: The Shaping of Darwin's `Voyage of the Beagle.'" Victorian Studies 23 (1979-80): 325-45. PR 463 V5 Robarts
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• Wells, H. G. The Time Machine: an Invention: a Critical Text of the 1895 London First Edition. Ed. Leon Stover. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1996. PR 5774 T57 Robarts
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• Wyatt, John. Wordsworth and the Geologists. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. PR 5892 G42 W93 1995 Victoria College