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ENGL 243/002: Speculative Fiction (January 2025)
ENGL 243/002: Speculative Fiction Term 2 | TTh 2:00-3:30pm Canvas Login | My Website Synthetic Humans; Posthuman Dystopias “We make Angels. In the service of Civilization. There were bad angels once … I make good angels now.” – Niander Wallace, … Continue reading
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ENGL 243/001: Speculative Fiction (January 2024)
ENGL 243/001: Speculative Fiction Term 2 | TTh 2:00-3:30 p.m. Canvas Login | My Website Synthetic Humans, Posthuman Dystopias “We make Angels. In the service of Civilization. There were bad angels once … I make good angels now.” – Niander … Continue reading
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ENGL 243/001: Speculative Fiction (January 2023)
ENGL 243/001: Speculative Fiction Term 2 | TTh 12:30-2p Canvas Login | My Website Synthetic Humans; Posthuman Dystopias “We make Angels. In the service of Civilization. There were bad angels once … I make good angels now.” – Niander Wallace, … Continue reading
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English 243/002: Speculative Fiction (January 2022)
ENGL 243/002: Speculative Fiction: Commodified Populations; Posthuman Dystopias Dr. Gisèle M. Baxter Canvas Login | My Website Term 2 | TTh 12:30-2p “We make Angels. In the service of Civilization. There were bad angels once … I make good angels … Continue reading
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English 243/001 Speculative Fiction/Science Fiction (January 2021)
Science Fiction and Fantasy/Speculative Fiction – Term 2 TTh 12:00 p.m. Dr. Gisèle M. Baxter Canvas login | My website NOTE: This course will be Web-oriented: it will be fully online and delivered through Canvas. This status differs from that of … Continue reading
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English 243/001: Science Fiction and Fantasy/Speculative Fiction (September 2019)
Science Fiction and Fantasy/Speculative Fiction – Term 1 MWF 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. – Gisèle M. Baxter Canvas login The Posthuman Prometheus: Frankenstein’s Legacy in the Artificial Humans of Speculative Fiction “Have you ever retired a human by mistake?” – Rachael … Continue reading
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English 243/951: Science Fiction and Fantasy (Summer 2019)
UBC Summer 2019 Term 2 (July-August); MW 6-9 p.m. Buchanan D316 Dr. Gisèle M. Baxter Canvas login | My website The Posthuman Prometheus: Frankenstein’s Legacy in the Artificial Humans of Speculative Fiction “Have you ever retired a human by mistake?” – Rachael … Continue reading
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English 100/017: Reading and Writing About Literature (January 2018)
ENGL 100/017: Strange Creatures – Gisèle M. Baxter Term 2 TTh 2:00-3:30 p.m. “Have you ever retired a human by mistake?” – Rachael to Deckard, Blade Runner From V for Vendetta to The Hunger Games to The Walking Dead, the near-future … Continue reading
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