Fantasy and Science Fiction: The Human Mind, Our Modern World through Coursera.

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Course Syllabus

This course comprises ten units. Each will include a significant reading, typically a novel or a selection of shorter works, as indicated in the Suggested Readings section below. I will offer video discussions of each of the readings and also of more general topics in art and psychology that those readings help illuminate. Each unit

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[cobalt_00]

Oh, man, Frankenstein was awesome - I took a fantasy literature course in my last year at undergrad and that was by far the best thing we read. :D
I've read Doctorow's For The Win, but not Little Brother. It raised interesting ideas but wasn't my favourite of his (Eastern Standard Tribe).