Science Fiction is the genre of new worlds and new ideas. This seminar will explore the intersection of the two: the way in which creation of alternative ontological spaces is used to represent scientific, social, and psychological problems of (post)modernity. While engaging with cutting-edge theories of SF, with a particular emphasis on the genre’s narratology, we will read a variety of both classical and contemporary SF texts. The texts include (but are not limited to) H. G. Wells’ The Time Machine, Stanislaw Lem’ Eden, Christopher Priest’s The Inverted World, Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash, Greg Bear’s Eon, Jack McDevitt’s The Engines of God, short stories by Philip K. Dick and others.