Name the Selection
Moxon loses a chess game to his automaton
Maxon Master
Name of Rappacini's daughter
Beatrice
Born in 1911 in Indianapolis, Indiana
C.L. Moore
1980s movement that stresses dystopian stories and neo-liberal politics.
Cyberpunk
Series featuring Data, a robot who questions the meaning of his existence
Star Trek: The Next Generation
References Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity
Famous singer and actress who dies in a theater fire in "No Woman Born"
Deirdre
Lecturer at King's College in London
Sarah Howe
Movement that combined 19th-century and technological aesthetics
Steampunk
Science fiction (and other dystopian literature) often have this purpose
Social Commentary
Crowley's message is that technology cannot help people escape
Snow
Narrator in "I Sing the Body Electric" who beings as a boy and ends as an old man.
Tom
Taught creative writing at Yale and retired in 2018
John Crowley
Subgenre that integrates human technology with the natural world
Solarpunk
Has boomed in the 21st century, yet many people have concerns about it
AI
Work addressed to the son of the writer and first performed by his wife
Mushroom Hunters
Character who was meant to cure Beatrice but instead kills her
Baglioni
His work included television and film screenwriting and continued until his death in 2012
Ray Bradbury
Late 1800s period that featured pulp magazines that helped popularize science fiction
Golden Age
This trope references Prometheus giving fire to the people
Fire in Ancient Greek myth
Explores the timelessness of parenting and the effect of machines on humanity
I Sing the Body Electric
This character from "I Sing the Body Electric" symbolizes mortality and immortality.
Nefertiti
Two writers who lived through the Civil War
Hawthorne & Bierce
This period of science fiction explores themes like climate change, gender, space exploration, racism, and colonialism.
2000s - 2010s
Novel that many people consider the foundation of science fiction
Frankenstein