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Atwood, Margaret. Oryx and Crake. New York, NY: Anchor, 2004. ISBN: 9780385721677.

Baker, Russell. "Marriage á la Mode." New York Times, January 14, 1981.

———. "Completely Different." New York Times, March 28, 1982.

Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. [First edition published in 1953.] New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 1996. ISBN: 9780345410016.

Goldbarth, Albert. "The Future." In Great Topics of the World: Essays. New York, NY: Picador, 1995. ISBN: 9780312140878.

Haraway, Donna. "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century." In Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. New York, NY: Routledge, 1991, pp. 149-181. ISBN: 9780415903875.

LeGuin, Ursula. "Science Fiction and the Future." In Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places. New York, NY: Grove Press, 1997, pp. 142-143. ISBN: 9780802135292.

———. The Word for World is Forest. [First edition published in 1976.] New York: Penguin, 1981. ISBN: 9780425051856.

Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. [First edition published in 1949.] New York, NY: Plume, 2003. ISBN: 9780452284234.

Saunders, George. "My Flamboyant Grandson." In In Persuasian Nation. New York, NY: Riverhead, 2006. ISBN: 9781594489228.

Lunsford, Andrea A. Easy Writer: A Pocket Reference. 3rd ed. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2005. ISBN: 9780312433093.

Blade Runner. Directed by Ridley Scott, 1982.

The Matrix. Directed by Andy and Larry Wachowski, 1999.