I Think I’m Going Back To College Now

That revelation is due largely to a university offering a course I can get behind. Arizona Western College will offer English 220, a science fiction class, for the first time this fall.
Instructor Ed Schubert will emphasize “proto-science fiction” — works of early English literature that dealt with science fiction concepts before any such term got coined.
He selected classic texts as preferred by the college’s English department but also because “I think it will be more interesting for students to see how old some science fiction ideas really are.”
Pre-20th century works covered in the class include Sir Thomas Moore’s “Utopia,” …read more