[ExI] SF books taught in college classes

[Michael LaTorra]

Many people -- and I count myself among them -- consider "Light of Other
Days" to be among the most exquisite short stories in the genre. One of my
students said it moved her to tears.

On Wed, Mar 3, 2021, 3:38 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> 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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