This course will examine the literature of science fiction in a chronological survey, from the early 1900s with H. G. Wells (1903) up to the beginning of the 2000s with Ken Liu (2004) and beyond as time allows, with the focus being a survey of major science fiction literature, its authors, genres, and themes. It is designed first as a survey course of science fiction literature: chronological as well as thematic. Some major areas to be examined may include time travel, space travel, stories of Mars, aliens, interstellar war, conceptions of gender, cyberpunk, artificial intelligence, robots, cyborgs, dystopia, and apocalypse. The course is designed to develop students’ reading, writing and research skills using literary works elected from the SF novel and short story – through which students will gain a broad understanding of SF. We will begin the course with a discussion into defining what SF is, and we will return to this at the end of the course, not only accurately defining it, but describing how it has changed over more than one hundred years and likely will continue to change—and how SF is such a particular useful form for examining the human condition.