Life, the Universe, and Everything:
Science Fiction, Religion and the Questions that Drive Us

 

Links of interest

Citing an etext in one of your papers? Here's a guide explaining how to it correctly: http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/citex.html

Donna Haraway "The Cyborg Manifesto"

Author pages

Neil Gaiman http://www.neilgaiman.com/ reading for 9/18 (http://www.neilgaiman.com/exclusive/essay05.asp)

Sandman fan sites: http://www.flooby.com/vertigo/sandman.htm

Neil Gaiman story for the Matrix.net (http://whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com/cmp/neil_g.html)

Seconday characters in the Sandman Series : http://www.geocities.com/thilia_1999/supporters.html

Comic book characters database (searchable): http://pc59te.dte.uma.es/cdb/main.htm

Philip K. Dick http://www.philipkdick.com/ (run by fans of PKD)

http://www.philipkdick.com/interviews/goldman.htm

http://www.themodernword.com/scriptorium/dick.html

The full script from Minority Report: http://sfy.iv.ru/sfy.html?script=minority_report

Commentary for watching the film The Matrix (1999) by Lee M. Silver http://www.princeton.edu/~wws320/Films/Matrix.htm

http://www.ds2.pg.gda.pl/~colan/screenplay.htm

What is the Matrix (official site) (http://whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com/)

Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics (http://www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/)

Stanislaw Lem on PKD (http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/backissues/5/lem5art.htm)

Jean Baudrillard Simulacra and Science Fiction (http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/backissues/55/baudrillard55art.htm) There are two essays on this site -- read only the first one and be prepared for a long, slow read, as it is very dense.

Baudrillard and Hollywood: subverting the mechanism of control and The Matrix by Jim Rovira (http://www.uta.edu/english/apt/collab/texts/hollywood.html)

 

 

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