AUSTIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE

Prof co-authors Sci-Fi text

Anne-Marie Thomas, an ACC English professor, has co-authored a textbook on science fiction. Thomas, who leads the community college's honors program, came up with the idea while teaching a course with an emphasis on contemporary science fiction.

"I could not assign a science fiction textbook because there simply weren't any in existence," Thomas said. "There are a number of anthologies that feature short fiction, but I wanted to provide a survey of the development of science fiction as a cultural form as well as an introduction to the basic critical approaches that have been used to illuminate the genre."

She took a yearlong sabbatical to write "The Science Fiction Handbook" with M. Keith Booker of the University of Arkansas.

Austin American-Statesman, 5-1-09

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