List of books from the How Science Fiction has Shaped ... and Not Shaped the Future

How Science Fiction has Shaped … and Not Shaped the Future Bibliography

 

List of books and media mentioned in the talk: listed in the order of presentation.  You can see the presentation on Resident Apps or on Youtube.

  1. Frankenstein, or, the Modern Prometheus. By Mary W. Shelley. Free ebook at http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/84 Free audio book at https://librivox.org/frankenstein-dramatic-reading-by-mary-shelley/
  2. From the Earth to the Moon. By Jules Verne. Free ebook at http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44278 Free audio book at https://librivox.org/from-the-earth-to-the-moon-by-jules-verne/
  3. Looking Backward: 2000 to 188 By Ralph Bellamy. Free ebook at http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25439 Free audio book at https://librivox.org/looking-backward-2000-1887-by-edward-bellamy/
  4. “From the London Times’ in 1904”, published in The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, and Other Stories. By Mark Twain. Free ebook at http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3251 Free audio book at https://librivox.org/the-man-that-corrupted-hadleyburg-and-other-stories-by-mark-twain/
  5. The Shape of Things to Come. By H. G. Wells
  6. 1984. By George Orwell.
  7. Star Trek Communicator. Bluetooth working replica at https://www.thewandcompany.com/communicator/
  8. “Flash Crowd”, published as novella in Three Trips in Time and Space, by Robert Silverberg, ed. Also republished in collection of Niven’s work in The Flight of the Horse 
  9. Snow Crash. By Neal Stephenson