[ExI] SF books taught in college classes

[William Flynn Wallace]

If you have not read 'The Light of Other Days' you are in for a treat -
very interesting concept, which I will not reveal.   bill w

On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 4:08 PM Michael LaTorra via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Before my retirement, I taught a course in SF&F. I structured the course
> around weekly thematic topics, such as personhood, aliens, etc. Most weekly
> reading assignments included a chapter from a novel as well as one more
> short stories that fit the theme of the week. The class was very popular.
>
> Here is a list of the assigned books. A couple of the books are short
> story collections. I'm not listing here which stories from those
> collections were assigned. The individual stories listed below were
> included in a special ebook that was created for this course by a textbook
> publisher based on my story requests. The publisher handled copyright
> issues and other matters, which saved me a lot of time.
>
> LITERATURE OF SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY English 328
>
> Reading list for course taught by Prof. Michael LaTorra
>
>
> NOVELS / STORY COLLECTIONS
>
> "The Player of Games" by Iain M. Banks
>
> "Accelerando" by Charles Stross
>
> "Small Gods" by Terry Pratchett
>
> "The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge"
>
> "Borges: Collected Fictions" by Jorge Luis Borges
>
>
> SHORT STORIES (not from the STORY COLLECTIONS above)
>
> "The Perfect Man" by Lauren McLaughlin
>
> "Reasons to Be Cheerful" by Greg Egan
>
> "Learning to Be Me" by Greg Egan
>
> "Oceanic" by Greg Egan
>
> "—All You Zombies—" by Robert Heinlein
>
> "Blood Music" by Greg Bear
>
> "Guardian Angel" by Arthur C. Clarke
>
> "The Nine Billion Names of God" by Arthur C. Clarke
>
> "Light of Other Days" by Bob Shaw
>
> "The Last Question" by Isaac Asimov
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 1:11 PM Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> https://io9.gizmodo.com/11-science-fiction-books-that-are-regularly-taught-in-c-1716713814
>>
>> This is from 2015. I wonder how much it would be updated. Anyhow, it
>> looks like some of the usual suspects here. BNW and 1984 were taught in
>> high school for me.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Dan
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