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No more than three people may sign up for one question. Sign up is on a first-come first-served basis. Please put your name in box at the end of the question if you'd like to do that question - unless, of course, three people have already signed up for it!Note that "assigned reading" is one of the major stories from the anthology, and not one of the quick stories I give in class. 

|Is science a necessary element of a ''science fiction '' story? Defend your argument using at least two of the assigned readings.

|What is the author saying about men's expectation of women in “Helen O'Loy” and “The Perfect Woman”“His Vegtable Wife”?

|Why did the author choose the narrator he did in “Helen O'Loy” “Nightfall” and “Flowers for Algernon”?

|Since SF stories can be set in any place or time, most begin by establishing the setting. Illustrate how this is done in four three of the assigned readings.

|By setting stories on other planets or using other races, the author is often holding a mirror up to our society or to human psychology. What is Asimov Murphy saying about us society in “Nightfall”“His Vegetable Wife”?

|Science fiction stories often have to deliver a lot of information to the reader, but don't want to deliver it in a tedious way (i.e. as a dry lecture). Describe and illustrate the techniques used to do this in four two of the assigned readings.