Friday, September 14, 2018

World Science Fiction


So I'm teaching a course in World Science Fiction next semester.

These are the books I'm making them buy:

Joanna Sinisalo, The Core of the Sun 
ISBN-13: 978-0802124647
Grove Press

Jo Walton, Thessaly (or The Just City) 
ISBN-13: 978-0765332660
Tor Books

Octavia Butler, Bloodchild 
ISBN-13:
 978-1583226988
Seven Stories Press

N.K. Jemisin, The Stone Sky 
ISBN-13: 978-0316229296
Orbit

In Other Lands, Sarah Rees Brennan
ISBN-13: 978-1618731203
Big Mouth House

The Other Half of the Sky, ed Athena Andreadis
ISBN-13: 978-1936460441
Candlemark & Gleam



I'm also having them read a couple of online manga/webcomics (not the entire series, just chapters) and showing them a couple of movies. The movies aren't decided yet, but I'm thinking Snowpiercer and Train to Busan might be among them.

Thoughts? I'm especially up for short story and movie reccs.



2 comments:

Athena Andreadis said...

Your list is still mostly US authors. A few suggestions:

Memory of Water, Emmi Itaranta

Ambiguity Machines, Vandana Singh

Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne

Solaris, Stanislaw Lem (also made into a very good film by Tarkovsky)

Smilla's Sense of Snow, Peter Hoeg (also made into a very good film)

The Fifth Element, Luc Besson director

delagar said...


Thanks, Athena! That's very helpful.