Lecture 1. What is science fiction?

Lecture 2. The roots of science fiction

Lecture 3. Mysterious lore, marvelous tech: the 1930s

Lecture 4. Hard-boiled science fiction: the 1940s

Lecture 5. The grand master: Robert A. Heinlein

Lecture 6. Onward and outward: the 1950s, space travel, apocalypticism, and the beautiful weirdness of Cordwainer Smith

Lecture 7. A new set of questions: the "new wave" of the 1960s and 1970s

Lecture 8. The world builder: Frank Herbert

Lecture 9. The surrealists: Ballard and Bradbury

Lecture 10. The computer revolution: cyberpunk and the 1980s

Lecture 11. Post-punk: Neal Stephenson

Lecture 12. Women and gender

Lecture 13. The satirists

Lecture 14. The shape of things to come.