Sharing some of my syllabi as requested! Obviously these syllabi don’t encompass the entire genre but I hope they serve as a good conversation-starter :)
For context I frame the course with Derrida’s “Law of Genre” which argues that genres are constructs, so you have books here that are more conventionally SFF and others that are bordering on irrealism.
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last updated May, 2026
Love the list but Midnights With You is contemporary romance not sci-fi/fantasy.
Thanks! I know that’s technically what it’s labeled under, but I teach the course with Derrida’s “The Law of Genre” about how genres are fluid and constructed! Midnights with You has a speculative element that borders on irrealism and I think it’s important to trouble those genre boundaries especially with cultural mythologies :)