145. Teaching SF/F w/ David Annandale (A Discussion)

Space, monsters, and wooden desks, oh my! Author David Annandale joins the crew to answer the following question: What SF/F properties do you think should be taught? We discuss books, short stories, film, and much more (plus, there’s a little discussion of some recent films, such as Oblivion). Feel free to leave a comment with your own suggestions!

We hope you enjoy the episode!

(I will make a list of all the stuff mentioned this weekend, along with lists of all the other stuff I’ve been meaning to make for previous episodes.)

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Here’s the episode (show notes are below):

Episode 145 — Download (MP3)

Intro and Discussion (0:00 – 1:21:10)

Check out David’s books! They are awesome!

Here’s the list of stuff mentioned on the show (minus things we named as jokes):

Books

Robert Heinlein
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
“The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” by Ursula K. Le Guin
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
The Female Man by Joanna Russ
“When It Changed” by Joanna Russ
One For Sorrow by Christopher Barzak
“Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories by Susanna Clarke
Gormenghast Series by Mervyn Peake
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
“Bloodchild” by Octavia Butler
Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
“Hello Moto” by Nnedi Okorafor
The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction by Justine Larbalestier
Dauthers of Earth by Justine Larbalestier
The Road to Science Fiction by James Gunn
“The Girl Who was Plugged In” by
“The Calorie Man” by Paolo Bacigalupi
“The Paper Menagerie” by Ken Liu
“I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” by Harlan Ellison
“The Cold Equations” by Tom Godwin
“Making the Woman” by Lucy Taylor
“Lost in the Funhouse” by John Barth
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Titus Andronicus
The Tempest

Movies

2001: A Space Odyssey
A Clockwork Orange
The Lord of the Rings
2081
Pumzi
District 9
Metropolis
Attack the Block
Pans Labyrinth
Tsotsi
War of the Worlds (2005)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Harry Brown
Enemy Mine
The Haunting (1963)
The Haunting (1999)
Princess Mononoke
Legend
The Princess Bride
The Neverending Story
Blade Runner
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Exorcist
The Thing
Dawn of the Dead
The Celebration
Titus
Forbidden Planet

Comics

The Watchmen by Alan Moore

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