Science Fiction has long been the subject of serious research, and the databases below can help UT scholars find relevant monographs, peer-reviewed journals, and other scholarly resources.
Depending on your topic, you may need to search a variety of databases. The search tools linked below include articles published in academic journals centered on literary, film, and cultural studies. If you have questions about using these tools, contact Gina Bastone, the English Librarian: g.bastone@austin.utexas.edu
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Updated regularly. Offers a high-quality, interdisciplinary archive to support scholarship and teaching. Includes archives of over 1,000 leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. The entire corpus is full-text searchable, offers search term highlighting, includes high-quality images, and is interlinked by millions of citations and references.
For more information on ebooks see the Ebook Guide
Anatomy of Wonder by 
Brave New Words by 
The Cambridge Companion to Utopian Literature by 
A Companion to Science Fiction by 
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy by 
Trillion Year Spree by The Visual Encyclopedia of Science Fiction by 
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