UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL FLUMINENSE
INSTITUTO DE LETRAS
DEPARTAMENTO DE LETRAS ESTRANGEIRAS MODERNAS
Ficção Científica em Língua Inglesa
1º semestre de 2014
Prof. André Cardoso [[email protected]]
Descrição do curso:
O objetivo deste curso é fornecer uma introdução à ficção científica escrita em língua
inglesa. Seu foco será no conto, não só para possibilitar o contato com uma variedade maior de
temas, autores e épocas, mas também porque o conto sempre foi um meio de expressão importante
para a ficção científica. Além disso, trabalharemos também com alguns filmes. O cinema é um dos
principais fatores de popularização da ficção científica atualmente, e nos oferece a oportunidade de
examinar como os mundos alternativos propostos por ela encontram sua tradução através de sons e
imagens. Dado o enorme corpus desse gênero literário, não se pretende aqui fazer uma exploração
exaustiva de sua produção, mas sim dar uma ideia geral do campo, estudando alguns autores e obras
já considerados clássicos, além de exemplos da produção mais recente. Os textos foram organizados
em tópicos de acordo com alguns dos temas mais salientes explorados pela ficção científica ao
longo do tempo.
Plano de curso:
Fevereiro
18 – Apresentação do curso e orientação.
20 – Ursula Le Guin: “Introduction” (The Norton Book of Science Fiction) (trecho).
Viagem no tempo
25 – Ray Bradbury, “A Sound of Thunder” (1952) (The Golden Apples of the Sun and Other Stories);
Clifford D. Simak, “Over the River and Through the Woods” (1965) (The Norton Book of Science
Fiction).
27 – “Blink” (Doctor Who, temporada 3, episódio 10); Adam Roberts, “Shall I Tell You the Problem
with Time Travel?”.
Março
04 – Recesso de Carnaval.
06 – Recesso de Carnaval.
Mutantes
11 – Judith Merril, “That Only a Mother” (1948) (The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction); Richard
Matheson, “Born of Man and Woman” (1950) (The Science Fiction Hall of Fame).
13 – Bixby, Jerome, “It’s a Good Life” (1953) (The Science Fiction Hall of Fame).
O fim do mundo e depois
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18 – Theodore Sturgeon, “Thunder and Roses” (1947) (The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction);
Octavia Butler, “Speech Sounds” (1983) (The Norton Book of Science Fiction).
20 – Isaac Asimov, “Nightfall” (1941) (The Science Fiction Hall of Fame).
Nós e os outros
25 – C. L. Moore, “Shambleau” (1933) (The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction); Roger
Zelazny, “A Rose for Ecclesiastes” (1963) (The Science Fiction Hall of Fame).
27 – R. A. Lafferty, “Nine Hundred Grandmothers” (1966) (The Norton Book of Science Fiction);
Terry
Bisson,
“They're
Made
Out
of
Meat”
(1990)
(Disponível
em
http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html.).
Abril
01 – Ray Bradbury, “Mars Is Heaven!” (1948) (The Science Fiction Hall of Fame); Michael
Swanwick, “A Midwinter’s Tale” (1988) (The Norton Book of Science Fiction).
03 – Adam Roberts, “Anhedonia” (The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF) (2009); Arthur C.
Clarke, “The Sentinel” (1951) (The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction).
 Avaliação 1: Trabalho escrito sobre as primeiras unidades do curso (10 pontos), a ser entregue no
dia 10 de abril.
Transcendência
08 – Ted Chiang, “Exhalation” (2008) (The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction); Ken Macleod, “Jesus
Christ, Reanimator” (2007) (Starship Sofa Stories. Disponível em www.starshipsofa.com).
10 – Filme: Stanley Kubrick (dir.), 2001: A Space Odissey (2001: uma odisseia no espaço) (1968).
15 – Filme: 2001: A Space Odissey; Arthur C. Clarke, “The Nine Billion Names of God” (1953)
(The Science Fiction Hall of Fame).
17 – Feriado – Páscoa.
Realidades estremecidas
22 – Philip K. Dick, “Frozen Journey” (1980) (The Norton Book of Science Fiction) e “The Electric Ant”
(1969) (The Eye of the Sibyl and Other Classic Stories by Philip K. Dick).
Eu, robô
24 – Isaac Asimov, “Reason” (1941) (The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction); Brian Aldiss, “SuperToys Last All Summer Long” (1969) (The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction).
29 – Alfred Bester, “Fondly Fahrenheit” (1954) (The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction).
Maio
01 – Feriado – Dia do Trabalho.
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06 – Filme: Ridley Scott (dir.), Blade Runner (1982).
Pós-humano
08 – Discussão do filme Blade Runner; Paolo Bacigalupi, “The Fluted Girl” (2003) (Disponível em
http://www.webscription.net/chapters/1597801348/1597801348___2.htm.).
13 – Cordwainer Smith, “Scanners Live in Vain” (1948) (The Science Fiction Hall of Fame).
15 – Filme: Andrew Niccol (dir.), Gattaca (1997).
20 – Bruce Sterling, “Homo Sapiens Declared Extinct” (Nature, vol. 402, 11 November 1999. Disponível
em http://www.concatenation.org/futures/homo_lo.pdf); Charles Stross, “Rogue Farm” (2003) (The
Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction).
Cyberpunk
22 – William Gibson, “Burning Chrome” (1982) (The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction); Pat
Cadigan, “Pretty Boy Crossover” (1986) (The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction).
Utopia e distopia
27 – Filme: François Truffaut (dir.), Fahrenheit 451 (1966).
29 – Discussão do filme Fahrenheit 451; Cory Doctorow, “The Things that Make Me Weak and
Strange
Get
Engineered
Away”
(2008)
(Tor.com.
Disponível
em
www.tor.com/stories/2008/08/weak-and-strange).
Junho
03 – Ursula Le Guin, “Those Who Walk away from Omelas” (1973) (The Wind’s Twelve Quarters);
Kurt
Vonnegut,
Jr.,
“2BRO2B”
(1962)
(Project
Gutenberg.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/21279/21279-h/21279-h.htm); Joanna Russ, “When It Changed”
(1972) (The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction).
Questões atuais
05 – J. G. Ballard, “The Subliminal Man” (1962) (The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard); Jonathan
Lethem, “Access Fantasy” (1996) (The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye).
10 – Greg Egan, “Worthless” (1992) (disponível em Infinity Plus); Ian McDonald, “Sanjeev and
Robotwallah” (2007) (The Year’s Best Science Fiction – Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection).
12 – Recesso – Jogo do Brasil.
17 – Recesso – Jogo do Brasil.
19 – Feriado: Corpus Christi.
24 – Não haverá aula.
26 – Não haverá aula.
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 Avaliação 2: Trabalho escrito sobre as últimas unidades do curso (10 pontos), a ser entregue no
dia 03 de junho.
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Obras teóricas de interesse:
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PARRINDER, Patrick (org.). Learning from Other Worlds: Estrangement, Cognition, and the
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