Episode 31: Science-fiction

Good Librations Podcast Episode 31

It's Alive! Plug in and enter the fray as we look at sci-fi through the ages. Also, we discuss who the father - or mother - of sci-fi really is; how Star Trek very nearly fell at the final frontier and was saved by Lucille Ball; and whether science-fiction is reaching its event horizon. And seriously, Homer, you don't belong in this episode.

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Shelf-absorbed (books we reviewed)

  • The Time Police series by Jodi Taylor
  • Red Rising by Pierce Brown

 

Doing Time Jodi Taylor  Red Rising Pierce Brown

Shelf-important (things we mentioned)

A Beginner's Guide to Science Fiction | The New York Public Library

Don't get lost in space: a guide to science fiction subgenres - Pan Macmillan

What is Science Fiction? | OSU Guide to Literary Terms | College of Liberal Arts | Oregon State University

How a Teenager Invented Science Fiction: The Story of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein – Qwiklit

20 Interesting Facts about Science Fiction – Interesting Literature

Jules Verne: Father of Science Fiction?

‘The Father of Science Fiction’: 10 Facts About H. G. Wells | History Hit

Differences between reading and watching | Science Fiction & Fantasy forum

Does anyone else find science fiction easier to watch, film or TV, as opposed to reading? : r/Fantasy

In Science Fiction the Race for Female Readers Should Be Underway – Women's eNews

Science fiction's women problem - ABC News

Being male is not a prerequisite for hard SF | Science fiction books | The Guardian

Feminist Science Fiction Is the Best Thing Ever

Chainmail Bikinis and Other Sexism in Science Fiction and Literature - Ploughshares

Women in Space - How Lucille Ball Saved Star Trek® and the Impact on NASA | Memorial Spaceflights

Ursula K. Le Guin's Revolutions

Why the internet is still obsessed with Octavia E. Butler, decades after her death

Margaret Atwood: ‘I am not a prophet. Science fiction is really about now’ | Margaret Atwood | The Guardian

Margaret Atwood | Biography, Books, & Facts | Britannica

Nobody Wants to Buy The Future: Why Science Fiction Literature is Vanishing - Typebar Magazine

When science fiction inspires real technology | MIT Technology Review

Read Before Assembly: The Influence Of Sci-Fi On Technology And Design

Future shock: 11 technologies that science fiction predicted | Micron Technology Inc.

The 'slave Leia' controversy is about more than objectification | Star Wars | The Guardian

Nobody Wants to Buy The Future: Why Science Fiction Literature is Vanishing - Typebar Magazine : r/printSF

Romantasy and BookTok driving a huge rise in science fiction and fantasy sales | Books | The Guardian

 

Authors/creators

  • Mary Shelley
  • Lord Byron
  • Jules Verne
  • H.G. Wells
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Polidori
  • Lucille Ball
  • Alice Sheldon
  • James Tiptree Jr
  • Octavia E. Butler
  • Terry Pratchett
  • Arthur C. Clarke
  • Edward Bellamy

 

Books/written works

  • Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  • I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
  • The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
  • The Odyssey by Homer
  • The Martian by Andy Weir
  • Dune by Frank Herbert
  • Marvel’s Black Panther series
  • War Girls by Tochi Onyebuchi
  • The Road by Cormac McCarthy
  • The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
  • 11/22/63 by Stephen King
  • The Wind-up Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan
  • Neuromancer by William Gibson
  • Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
  • Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
  • The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
  • The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
  • Project Nemesis by Jeremy Robinson
  • Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
  • Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
  • Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
  • Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
  • Annihilation by Jeff Van Der Meer
  • Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
  • The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi
  • Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey
  • The Gunslinger by Stephen King
  • This is How you Lose the Time-War by Amal El-Mohtar
  • Timeline by Michael Crichton
  • The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
  • The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
  • Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon
  • The Long Winter series by A.G. Riddle
  • The Adventures of Caleb Williams by William Godwin
  • A Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Contact by Carl Sagan
  • A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
  • Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
  • Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  • Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  • Divergent by Veronica Roth
  • Beyond Lies the Wub by Philip K. Dick

 

Film/TV:

  • Blade Runner
  • The Matrix
  • Jurassic Park
  • Firefly
  • Star Wars
  • Timeline
  • Star Trek
  • Battlestar Galactica
  • Doctor Who
  • Terminator
  • Alien
  • The 5th Element
  • Akira (anime)
  • Back to the Future
  • Guardians of the Galaxy
  • I, Robot
  • Edge of Tomorrow
  • Lost
  • Westworld
  • The Hunger Games
  • Severance
  • The Orville
  • Frankenstein
  • The Martian
  • Children of Men
  • Planet of the Apes
  • Ready Player One
  • Project Hail Mary
  • Robocop
  • Superman
  • Soylent Green
  • Wall-E
  • Don’t Look Up

I just can't help my-shelf

  • Atlanta Nights by Travis Tea
  • Planet of the Knobheads by Stanton A. Coblentz
  • Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Before the Coffee gets Cold by Tashikazu Kawaguchi

Shelf-obsessed (further reading and listening)

  • Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  • Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
  • The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin
  • Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  • The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
  • Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
  • Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
  • Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
  • Discworld series by Terry Pratchett