Books: Thomas M. Disch - The Brave Little Toaster ♥ China Miéville - Perdido Street Station Colson Whitehead - The Intuitionist. Social studies of science, fictionalized and intersectional with race and gender! Such a great book. James Tiptree, Jr. - Warm Worlds and Otherwise (collection; I'd prefer to nominate EVERYTHING EVER by her but that is not helpful) Samuel R. Delany - Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand. If I could, I'd list about seven more Delany works, but this is the best of the best, I think; no other work, novel or theory, has so forced me to rethink gender and logical structures so consistently and powerfully
Film (documentary): Silvia Casalino, director - No Gravity. It's spec fic, despite also being a doc about female space travel and Haraway's cyborgs, in that it imagines the first human on Mars as a woman and remixes Dr. Mae Jemisin's appearance on ST:TNG.
Anime: Top o Nerae! aka Gunbuster! (Anno Hideaki, dir.) Giant robots and girl crushes and really conveniently bizarre physics. I love this series like cake and I wish more people (even just two or three) liked it, too.
Book Series: Lucy M. Boston - Green Knowe series. Time travel, ghosts, evil tree spirits, and lost children finding homes. I think I must have *eaten* these books as a child because they're a part of my cognitive circuitry now.
US comic books: Guardians of the Galaxy (2008; authors Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning). Space opera done *superbly* well with a motley crew of bickering teammates of various species and sexualities, including a cosmonaut dog, sentient redwood, and a lesbian human cursed by a dragon.
Planet Hulk (2006; author Greg Pak) Hulk gets shot into space, fights for his life on a gladiator planet, helps liberate the planet and becomes king. Then everything goes to hell. It is so good and heartbreaking.
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Date: 2011-08-14 02:48 am (UTC)Thomas M. Disch - The Brave Little Toaster ♥
China Miéville - Perdido Street Station
Colson Whitehead - The Intuitionist. Social studies of science, fictionalized and intersectional with race and gender! Such a great book.
James Tiptree, Jr. - Warm Worlds and Otherwise (collection; I'd prefer to nominate EVERYTHING EVER by her but that is not helpful)
Samuel R. Delany - Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand. If I could, I'd list about seven more Delany works, but this is the best of the best, I think; no other work, novel or theory, has so forced me to rethink gender and logical structures so consistently and powerfully
Film (documentary):
Silvia Casalino, director - No Gravity. It's spec fic, despite also being a doc about female space travel and Haraway's cyborgs, in that it imagines the first human on Mars as a woman and remixes Dr. Mae Jemisin's appearance on ST:TNG.
Anime:
Top o Nerae! aka Gunbuster! (Anno Hideaki, dir.) Giant robots and girl crushes and really conveniently bizarre physics. I love this series like cake and I wish more people (even just two or three) liked it, too.
Book Series:
Lucy M. Boston - Green Knowe series. Time travel, ghosts, evil tree spirits, and lost children finding homes. I think I must have *eaten* these books as a child because they're a part of my cognitive circuitry now.
US comic books:
Guardians of the Galaxy (2008; authors Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning). Space opera done *superbly* well with a motley crew of bickering teammates of various species and sexualities, including a cosmonaut dog, sentient redwood, and a lesbian human cursed by a dragon.
Planet Hulk (2006; author Greg Pak) Hulk gets shot into space, fights for his life on a gladiator planet, helps liberate the planet and becomes king. Then everything goes to hell. It is so good and heartbreaking.