"You take the blue pill — the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill — you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.": – The Matrix
Science Fiction is a thought experiment which speculates, employing questions and discourse around a series of what ifs. Science Fiction explores the uncanny (or unheimlich), which Sigmund Freud defined as something familiar yet repressed (The Uncanny 1919). In German, the word unheimlich means something along the lines of unhomely, creating a sense of terror or fear in alienation. What do “home” and “alien” mean and to whom? Science Fiction experiments with multivalent selves. Science Fiction reveals. What it reveals is often up to readers and where they are on their personal journeys. Neil Gaiman writes, “Each of these books will take you somewhere else. When you return you may not be entirely the same person you were when you left. / May you return without harm, and may your travels never be entirely safe” (“What We Talk About When We Talk About Science Fiction”).
F2F TR 9:30 - 10:45; TR 11:00 - 12:45
Spring 2026
Dr. James Ivory
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