Aldiss, Brian. Billion Year Spree: The True History Science Fiction. New York: Shocken Books, 1973. A helpful guide to science fiction over time.

Asimov, Isaac. "The Ugly Little Boy." In Tomorrow's Children, edited by Isaac Asimov. New York: Doubleday, 1966.

A child, brought, by time machine, from the Neanderthal Age, experiences prejudice.

Bradbury, Ray. "All Summer in a Day." In Tomorrow's Children, edited by Isaac Asimov. New York: Doubleday, 1966. A child who knows too much is ostracized by her peers and misses summer.

Butler, Octavia. Dawn. New York: Warner Books, 1987. Genetic experimentation and prejudice abound in this novel.

Davenport, Basil. The Science Fiction Novel: Imagination and Social Criticism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1959. A helpful book for literary critics.

Hughes, M. “Science Fiction as Myth and Metaphor.“ ALAN Review. (1992): 2-5. An author discusses her work in terms of its logic, character, mythc, and metaphorical...