Hmm... maybe you're right about the length of the books. I took an AP english class in our high school, so length of the books really didn't matter. You stayed up reading them until you were done =^3
I suppose if you were offering a class to people who just liked science fiction, but didn't want to do the heavy reading of an advanced lit class then you'd cut down to short stories.
Re: Asimov, iRobot and the First Foundation book are short enough that you could read every short story in them with relative ease. Plus, you really NEED to read all of the stories of the First foundation book to "get" the book.
About 451, I suppose it is done to death these days. I'll give you that one :)
Anyway, it is QUITE possible to read all of those books (yes, even tolkien) in one year if your students really care about Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels. Hell, just reading a Game of Thrones for fun takes me only 2 days, all of the LOTR took me 1 week. It all depends on how much you really want to read the books ^_^
