<div dir="ltr">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.<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>LITERATURE OF SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY English 328<br><br>Reading list for course taught by Prof. Michael LaTorra<br><br><br>NOVELS / STORY COLLECTIONS<br><br>"The Player of Games" by Iain M. Banks<br><br>"Accelerando" by Charles Stross<br><br>"Small Gods" by Terry Pratchett<br><br>"The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge"<br><br>"Borges: Collected Fictions" by Jorge Luis Borges<br><br><br>SHORT STORIES (not from the STORY COLLECTIONS above)<br><br>"The Perfect Man" by Lauren McLaughlin<br><br>"Reasons to Be Cheerful" by Greg Egan<br><br>"Learning to Be Me" by Greg Egan<br><br>"Oceanic" by Greg Egan<br><br>"—All You Zombies—" by Robert Heinlein<br><br>"Blood Music" by Greg Bear<br><br>"Guardian Angel" by Arthur C. Clarke<br><br>"The Nine Billion Names of God" by Arthur C. Clarke<br><br>"Light of Other Days" by Bob Shaw<br><br>"The Last Question" by Isaac Asimov<br><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 1:11 PM Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><a href="https://io9.gizmodo.com/11-science-fiction-books-that-are-regularly-taught-in-c-1716713814" target="_blank">https://io9.gizmodo.com/11-science-fiction-books-that-are-regularly-taught-in-c-1716713814</a><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Dan</div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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