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• Dictionary Of Literary Biography, PS221 .D45, Reference
  Twentieth-century American science-fiction writers, v. 8
  Multi-volume series offering bio-bibliographical information on significant British and American authors. Each volume is separately cataloged and includes a cumulative index to locate entries on individual authors.
• Contemporary Literary Criticism, PN771 .C59, Reference
  Multi-volume collection. Excerpts from current criticism of the works of today's novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers, scriptwriters, and other creative writers. (Authors now living or who died after Dec. 31, 1959).
  To locate entries on individual authors, use the cumulative index and/or last volume.
• Contemporary Authors, Z1224 .C63, Reference
  Multi-volume series. To locate entries on individual authors, use the cumulative index

Guides, Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

• Reference guide to science fiction, fantasy, and horror, Z5917.S36 B87 1992, Reference
• British and American utopian literature, 1516-1985 : an annotated, chronological bibliography, Z2014.U84 S28 1988, Reference
• Index to science fiction anthologies and collections, Z1231.F4 C65, Reference
• Science fiction writers : critical studies of the major authors from the early nineteenth century to the present day, PS374.S35 S36 1982, Reference
• Science fiction and fantasy literature : a checklist, 1700-1974 : with Contemporary science fiction authors II, Z5917.S36 R42, Reference
• Anatomy of wonder 4 : a critical guide to science fiction, Z5917.S36 A52 1995, Reference
• The Encyclopedia of science fiction, PN3433.4 .E53 1993, Reference
• FutureSpeak : a fan's guide to the language of science fiction, PN3433.4 .R64 1991, Reference
• Critical terms for science fiction and fantasy : a glossary and guide to scholarship, PN3435 .W64 1986, Reference

Circulating Collection

• What futurists believe, CB161 .C63 1989
• Foundations of futures studies : human science for a new era, CB158 .B45 1996
• Mapping the futures : local cultures, global change, HM101 .M266 1992
• The plot of the future : utopia and dystopia in modern drama, PN1650.F88 K58 1991
• SERIES:
  • Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy, 9 volumes.
  • Foundations of science fiction : a study in imagination and evolution
  • Great themes of science fiction : a study in imagination and evolution
  • When world views collide : a study in imagination and evolution
  • Out of the night and into the dream : a thematic study of the fiction of J.G. Ballard
  • Odd genre : a study in imagination and evolution
  • Staging the impossible : the fantastic mode in modern drama
  • The dystopian impulse in modern literature: fiction as social criticism
  • Into darkness peering : race and color in the fantastic

Books at Western Michigan University

• Science fiction writers : critical studies of the major authors from the early nineteenth century to the present day, PS374.S35 S36 1999, Reference
• Science fiction and fantasy reference index, 1985-1991 : an international author and subject index to history and criticism, Z5917.S36 S297 1993, Reference
• Predicting the future : an introduction to the theory of forecasting, CB158 .R47 1998
• Creating a new civilization : the politics of the Third Wave, HN17.5 .T636 1995
• International futures : choices in the creation of a new world order, H61.4 .H828 1993
• The Community of the future, HM131 .C74288 1998
• The fortune sellers : the big business of buying and selling predictions, CB158 .S456 1998
• Out of the blue : wild cards and other big future surprises : how to anticipate and respond to profound change, CB161 .P47x 1997
• Reworking success : new communities at the millennium, HT166 .T47x 1997
• The future is ours : foreseeing, managing and creating the future, CB158 .M38 1996
• The next 500 years : life in the coming millennium, CB161 .B459 1996

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• Futurist World Wide Web Links
• World Future Society
• Greater Boston Chapter of the World Future Society
• Feature Articles in World Future Society
• Lycos Classic Science Fiction
• Lycos Science Fiction

Use these points to evaluate the credibility of Websites:

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• Evaluating Web Resources
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• Evaluating Information Found on the Internet
  Johns Hopkins University Library
• The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, or Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Resources
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• Thinking Critically about World Wide Web Resources
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Millennial Madness

• Billions and billions : thoughts on life and death at the brink of the millennium / Carl Sagan Q173 .S24 1997
• Mapping the next millennium, Q162 .H315 1993
• Apocalypses : prophecies, cults, and millennial beliefs through the ages, BL503 .W43 1999
• Millennium, messiahs, and mayhem : contemporary apocalyptic movements, BL2520 .M55 1997
• Visionary fictions : apocalyptic writing from Blake to the modern age , PN701 .A34 1996
• Millennium rage : survivalists, white supremacists, and the Doomsday prophecy, HM206 .L26 1996
• Apocalypse now and then : a feminist guide to the end of the world, BL501 .K45 1996
• Prophecy & apocalypticism : the postexilic social setting, BS646 .C66 1995
• When time shall be no more : prophecy belief in modern American culture, BR526 .B58 1992
• The end of the world as we know it : faith, fatalism, and apocalypse in America, BR526 .W65 1997
• Radical religion in America : millenarian movements from the far right to the Children of Noah, BL503.2 .K37 1997

CCN.com In Depth Reports@2000

Calendars and their History
An explanation of calendars from several cultures and throughout time.
Reprinted from the Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac, P. Kenneth Seidelmann.

Center for Millennial Studies
Gateway to all aspects of the new Millennium.

Center for Millennial Studies: Millennial Sites
An excellent description of different approaches to the Millennium, with links to general sites as well as those dealing with specific attitudes towards the Millennium.

A Guide to Terminology in the Study of Millennial Movements
By Jennifer Snow, copyright 1997 by the Center for Millennial Studies and Jennifer Snow, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Utopia
Utopia as Mirror for a Life and Times
By Richard Marius Keynote Address, Loyola College of Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland.

Dystopia
Utopias and Dystopias
Out of This World: Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy, by the National Library of Canada.

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Early Science Fiction

• Science-fiction, the early years, Z5917.S36 B62 1990
• Science fiction writers : critical studies of the major authors from the early nineteenth century to the present day, PS374.S35 S36 1982
• Science fiction and fantasy reference index, 1878-1985 : an international author and subject index to history and criticism, Z5917.S36 S297 1987
• Foundations of science fiction : a study in imagination and evolution, PN3433.8 .P54 1987
• Explorers of the infinite: shapers of science fiction, PN3448.S45 M65 1974
• Science fiction before 1900 : imagination discovers technology, PN3433.5 .A45 1994
• Science fiction : history, science, vision, PN3448.S45 S33x
• When world views collide : a study in imagination and evolution, PN3433.8 .P55 1989
• Odd genre : a study in imagination and evolution, z PN3433.5 .P54 1994
• Metamorphoses of science fiction : on the poetics and history of a literary genre, PN3448.S45 S897
• The future of eternity : mythologies of science fiction and fantasy, PN3433.6 .F7 1982

ROBOTICS/COLONIZING SPACE
Pro: New Scientist: Alien Haven
Con: same

Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas
Provides information about the Center and its programs, data about science fiction and informed commentary, and occasional news about SF in general. It also provides links to other SF information sources.

Early Science Fiction Concepts
Descriptions with images of early science fiction concepts.
Jerry Woodfill of NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas developed this program known as the SPACE EDUCATORS' HANDBOOK for educational use. Approval to use copyrighted materials which are not public domain has been obtained except for items which are deemed "Fair Use" by the copyright act of 1976. Opinions and materials included in this program do not necessarily reflect NASA policy, research, or endorsement.

Science Fiction Research Bibliography
A Bibliography of Science Fiction Secondary Materials in Holland Library, Washington State University. By Paul Brians Department of English, Washington State University.

Ultimate Science Fiction Web Guide
Compiled by Magic Dragon Multimedia.

Timeline 19th Century
From the Ultimate Science Fiction Web Guide.

Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
Their official Nebula Award site.

World Science Fiction Society
Their official Hugo Award site.

Awards for Science Fiction Writing and Art Work
From CyberSpace Spinner.

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The Environment

• Beyond the warming : the hazards of climate prediction in the age of chaos, QC903 .M5 1996
• Climate of fear : why we shouldn't worry about global warming, QC981.8.G56 M64 1998
• Climate of hope : new strategies for stabilizing the world's atmosphere, QC981.8.C5 F4 1996
• The coming plague : newly emerging diseases in a world out of balance, RA651 .G37 1994
• The heat is on : the climate crisis, the cover-up, the prescription, QC981.8.G56 G45 1998
• Ending the explosion : population policies and ethics for a humane future, HQ766.15 .H65 1996
• Global meltdown : immigration, multiculturalism, and national breakdown in the New World disorder, HC79.E5 S5357 1998
• Feeding the ten billion : plants and population growth, HB871 .E92 1998
• Juggernaut : growth on a finite planet, HB849.4 .G73 1996
• The heavens are falling : the scientific prediction of catastrophes in our time, CB161 .K36 1992
• The global casino : an introduction to environmental issues, GF41 .M525 1995
• Global climate change : human and natural influences, QC981.8.C5 G66 1989
• The Energy-environment connection, TD195.E49 E543 1992
• A garden of unearthly delights : bioengineering and the future of food, S494.5.B563 M38 1995

Genetically-manipulated foods
Pro: Genetix Food Alert - Policies and Definitions
Con: Biotechnology Industry Organization

Artificial Intelligence
An Introduction to the Science of Artificial Intelligence
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research

EPA Global Warming Site
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Global and regional air site
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The Council for Responsible Genetics
The Council for Responsible Genetics (CRG), founded in 1983, is a national nonprofit organization of scientists, public health advocates and others which monitors the development of new genetic technologies and advocates for their responsible use. CRG works in the area of human genetics and commercial biotechnology and the environment. CRG programs foster informed public debate about the social, ethical and environmental implications of these genetic technologies through educational materials, position papers, model legislation, and the bi-monthly publication GeneWatch.

GeneWatch UK
GeneWatch is an independent organisation concerned with the ethics and risks of genetic engineering. It questions how, why and whether the use of genetic technologies should proceed and believes that the debate over genetic engineering is long overdue.

Population Studies Center: Resources on the Internet
From the University of Michigan. Links to sites on all aspects of population issues.

The Population Institiute
The Population Institute, 107 Second St., N.E. Washington, D.C. 20002

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The Family and Reproduction

• The gene wars : science, politics, and the human genome, QH445.2 .C66 1994
• Access to the genome : the challenge to equality, QH431 .M366 1998
• Perilous knowledge : the human genome project and its implications, QH445.2 .W55 1994
• All our families : new policies for a new century, HQ536 .E88 1998
• American families : a multicultural reader, HQ535 .A583 1999
• No more kin : exploring race, class, and gender in family networks, HQ536 .R65 1997
• The way we really are : coming to terms with America's changing families, HQ535 .C644 1997
• Out of the past : gay and lesbian history from 1869 to the present, HQ76.25 .M56 1994
• American gay, HQ76.3.N67 M87 1996
• St. James Press gay & lesbian almanac, HQ76.3.U5 S75 1998
• Love makes a family : portraits of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender parents and their families, HQ76.13 .K34 1999
• Changing sex : transsexualism, technology, and the idea of gender, RC560.G45 H38 1995
• The clone age : adventures in the new world of reproductive technology, RG133.5 .A57 1999
• Clones and clones : facts and fantasies about human cloning, QH442.2 .C55 1998
• A companion to bioethics, R724 .C616 1998
• The ethics of human cloning, QH442.2 .K37 1998
• Family bonds : adoption and the politics of parenting , HV875.55 .B38 1993
• The encyclopedia of adoption, HV875.55 .A28 1991

Human Genome Project
Pro: Genetics in the 21st Century
Human Gene Therapy: Present and Future
Con:Protecting Genetic Privacy: Why It is So Hard to Do
Ethical Issues in Human Gene Therapy

Feminism in the Future-Necessary?
General: Center for Women and Information Technology, from the University of Maryland.

REPRODUCTION/OVERPOPULATION/CLONING
General: CLONING SPECIAL REPORT from New Scientist.

Human Genome Project
Begun in 1990, the U.S. Human Genome Project is a 13-year effort coordinated by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health. The project originally was planned to last 15 years, but rapid technological advances have accelerated the expected completion date to 2003. Project goals are to identify all the more than 100,000 genes in human DNA, determine the sequences of the 3 billion chemical base pairs that make up human DNA, store this information in databases, develop tools for data analysis, and address the ethical, legal, and social issues (ELSI) that may arise from the project.

Definition of Cloning
From The Council of Research, Technology, and Innovation, April 1997.
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft - Kennedyallee 40 - 53175 Bonn - Letzte Änderung.

MEL Health Information Resources Human Cloning

Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute: National Adoption Organizations

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Power Relations and Surveillance

• Privacy in the information age, KF1263.C65 C38 1997
• Who owns information? : from privacy to public access , KF2979 .B67 1994
• Privacy on the line : the politics of wiretapping and encryption, KF9670 .D54 1999
• The End of Privacy: how total surveillance is becoming a reality,
• Technology and privacy : the new landscape, QA76.9.A25 T43 1997
• Global shift : transforming the world economy, HD2321 .D53 1998
• Globalization and its discontents, HF1359 .S37 1998
• Global corporations and national governments, HG4538 .B455 1996
• The myth of the global corporation, HD2755.5 .M96 1998
• Spaces of globalization : reasserting the power of the local, HF1359 .S69 1997
• When corporations rule the world , HD2326 .K647 1995

Surveillance/Global tracking systems
Pro: Global Positioning System Overview
Con:

GPS Vehicle Tracking Systems

The Center For Democracy & Technology
CDT is working for individual privacy on the Internet.

Censorship/Freedom of Information/Privacy Issues
Maintainted by Mike Van Fossen, Walter Davis Library, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Electronic Privacy Information Center

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Economics

• The euro and the dollar, HG136 .P7, Essays in international finance ; no. 205
• A concise history of European monetary integration : from EPU to EMU, HG930.5 .U47 1997
• Money and European union, HG925 .O94 1997
• Restructuring corporate America, HD2741 .C45
• The transformation of corporate control, HD3616.U46 F57 1990
• The case against the global economy : and for a turn toward the local, HD75.6 .C376 1996
• Global corporations and nation-states : do companies or countries compete?, HF1414 .G56

Globalization
Pro: GLOBAL FINANCIAL DATA The Eurodollar
Con:

The Euro
This is the European Commission's internet site dedicated exclusively to the euro.

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Star Trek and Futuristic TV shows and Movies

• The search for extraterrestrial life : essays on science and technology, QB54 .S417 1998
• Star trek and history : race-ing toward a white future, PN1995.9.S694 B37 1998
• The metaphysics of Star Trek, BD111 .H24 1997
• Androids, humanoids, and other science fiction monsters : science and soul in science fiction films, PN1995.9.S26 S26 1993
• Jungian reflections within the cinema : a psychological analysis of sci-fi and fantasy archetypes, PN1995.9.S26 I23 1998

Star Trek in the Classroom
By Robert Blake, Vanderbilt University, and Robert Sekuler, Brandeis University.

The Science of Star Trek
copyright 1993 by David Allen Batchelor, Ph. D. (This article may be copied freely in its entirety. Contact the author for permission to excerpt or publish for profit.)

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MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers
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