NOVELS ------ [SELECTED] Asimov, Isaac. "I, Robot" Brin, David. "Earth" [RESERVED] Burdick, Eugene and Wheeler, Harvey. "Fail-Safe" Egan, Greg. "Permutation City" [SELECTED] Forster, E.M. "The Machine Stops". 1901. Gibson, William. "Neuromancer" [SELECTED] Gibson, William. "Idoru" Heinlein, Robert. "Friday" [RESERVED] Jones, D.F. "Colossus" [SELECTED] Orwell, George. "1984" Shelley, Mary. "Frankenstein" Stephenson, Neal. "Cryptonomicon" Stephenson, Neal. "Snow Crash" (first part especially) [SELECTED] Stephenson, Neal. "The Diamond Age" [SELECTED] Vonnegut, Kurt. "Player Piano" [SELECTED] Wells, H.G. "The Time Machine" SHORT STORIES ------------- [SELECTED] Aldiss, Brian "Supertoys Last All Summer Long" (inspiration for the movie: AI) [SELECTED] Asimov, Isaac. "The Bicentennial Man" Dick, Philip K. "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" (inspiration for the movie: Blade Runner) Dick, Philip K. "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale" (inspiration for the movie: Total Recall) Egan, Greg. "Learning To Be Me" can be found in Gardner Dozois's "The Year's Best Science Fiction, Volume 8. 1990" Ellison, Harlan. "I Have No Mouth" Ellison, Harlan. "Human Operators" [SELECTED] Lem, Stanislaw. "Cyberiad" in his collection "Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age" Lethem, Jonathan. "Walking the Moons," can be found in Gardner Dozois's "The Year's Best Science Fiction" Volume 8. 1990. Sterling, Bruce. "The Compassionate, the Digital". 1985 (short story in "Globalhead") [SELECTED] Vinge, Verner. "True Names" (short story in "True Names: and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier") TELEVISION EPISODES ------------------- An entire television series explores too many different themes to be worthwhile, but a particular episode/episode-arc is fair game. Various anthology sci-fi TV shows (eg. "The Twilight Zone", "Ray Bradbury Theatre", "The Outer Limits") are good potential sources. "The X Files" and the various "Star Trek" series might have good episodes as well. MOVIES ------ Capricorn One (1978) Max Headroom (1985) [TV Movies, then series] Alphaville (1965) The Desk Set (1957) - Spenser Tracy, Katherine Hepburn ExistenZ (1999) [SELECTED] West World (1973) Modern Times (1936) [SELECTED] Enemy of the State (1988) [SELECTED] Blade Runner (1982) [RESERVED] Colossus: The Forbin Project (1969) [SELECTED] Dark City (1998) [SELECTED] Metropolis (1927) [SELECTED] The Net (1995) [SELECTED] A Clockwork Orange (1971) [SELECTED] Strange Days (1995) [SELECTED] Total Recall (1990) [SELECTED] A.I. (2001) [SELECTED] The Matrix (1999) [SELECTED] WarGames (1983) [SELECTED] The Net (1995) [SELECTED] Fail-Safe (1964) - motion picture with Henry Fonda [SELECTED] Fail Safe (2000) - TV Movie with George Clooney and Richard Dreyfuss [SELECTED] Short Circuit (1986) [SELECTED] Sneakers (1992) [SELECTED] You've Got Mail (1998) [SELECTED] Toys (1992)