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Thanks, Ron. I've decided to use Brooks Landon's Science Fiction After 1900: From Steam Man to the Stars. It's out in paper now. Not a conventional history, but it makes the points I want made and at just the right level for my students. I'll be using the Norton Book of Science Fiction for short fiction. I'm well aware of its limits--omitting earlier and non-U.S., but the editors' biases otherwise match my own. I used it a few years ago when the State Department sent me to Germany to train Gymnasium (high school) teachers in teaching about the U.S. using SF. It worked quite well. Paul >Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 11:47:17 EST >From: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: Grad Course Design > >Paul: > >Don't know if it is still in print or not, but Kingsley Amis' _New Maps of >Hell_, 1960, was generally regarded as one of the finest references for the >"Early" and Golden Ages of SF. It's commonly available as a used book. > >Incidentally, will you be studying SF shorts as well as SF novels? Truly >different literary techniques involved in the authorship of short stories >vice longer SF pieces. That, in itself, might be an interesting topic for >discussion in your class. -- Paul Brians, Department of English Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-5020 [log in to unmask] http://www.wsu.edu/~brians