Background

Issues in Literature and Science

These items have been prepared by students in LBST 491, Senior Seminar in Literature and Science, at California State University Fullerton.  

Issues raised in Powers’s Galatea 2.2
        The Pygmalion Story
        The Turing Test
        Structural Features of the Novel

“Book Previews” of Seminal Texts
        Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, 1818.
        H.G. Wells, The Time Machine, 1898.
        H.G. Wells, The World Set Free, 1914.
        Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, 1932.
        George Orwell, 1984, 1949.
        Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, 1953.
        Walter Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz, 1959.
        Russell Hoban, Riddley Walker, 1980.
        Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, 1973.
        William Gibson, Neuromancer, 1984.
        Kurt Vonnegut, Galapagos, 1985.
        Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, 1991.
        Richard Powers, The Gold Bug Variations, 1991.

Links Organized by Topic
        The Gaia Hypothesis.