Books: Ursula K. LeGuin: The Left Hand of Darkness. I loaned my supposedly non-SF-reading mother my copy of this and she refuses to give it back. I had to buy another copy, because I need it in my room as in my life. Samuel R. Delany: Aye, And Gomorrah, and other stories (short story collection) -- as above. The best introduction to Delany is probably his short stories. Nicola Griffith: Slow River -- as above. Nalo Hopkinson: Midnight Robber -- as above. Nnedi Okorafor: Who Fears Death -- I haven't loaned it to my mother because I know she won't give it back and I'll have to buy another copy. Because I will not go without having a copy of this in my apartment. Philip K. Dick: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? -- better than the movie, which would probably be my eleventh entry on this list.
Book series: Informal Remarks Towards the Modular Calculus (a.k.a. Trouble on Triton plus the Return to Nevèrÿon series) by Samuel R. Delany -- I want to teach an introductory course on semiotics using these books. The Patternmaster series by Octavia Butler -- terrifyingly possible, and more so each day.
Music: Janelle Monae -- Metropolis/The ArchAndroid. (Yes, it was in the intro post, but seriously -- that's some brilliant SF. Especially for those of us who are fans of cyborg/android theory and subversive pop music. And/or those of us who want to play bass for her next project.) Magma -- the Kobaïan cycle. (French science-fiction prog-rock. They invented their own language for this. Also, search for "Magma misheard lyrics" on YouTube and take the link for "Philosphy War!" by klestgeistzeit. Or just go here if you know and/or can't stand Slavoj Žižek -- I'm in the "and" camp.)
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Ursula K. LeGuin: The Left Hand of Darkness. I loaned my supposedly non-SF-reading mother my copy of this and she refuses to give it back. I had to buy another copy, because I need it in my room as in my life.
Samuel R. Delany: Aye, And Gomorrah, and other stories (short story collection) -- as above. The best introduction to Delany is probably his short stories.
Nicola Griffith: Slow River -- as above.
Nalo Hopkinson: Midnight Robber -- as above.
Nnedi Okorafor: Who Fears Death -- I haven't loaned it to my mother because I know she won't give it back and I'll have to buy another copy. Because I will not go without having a copy of this in my apartment.
Philip K. Dick: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? -- better than the movie, which would probably be my eleventh entry on this list.
Book series:
Informal Remarks Towards the Modular Calculus (a.k.a. Trouble on Triton plus the Return to Nevèrÿon series) by Samuel R. Delany -- I want to teach an introductory course on semiotics using these books.
The Patternmaster series by Octavia Butler -- terrifyingly possible, and more so each day.
Music:
Janelle Monae -- Metropolis/The ArchAndroid. (Yes, it was in the intro post, but seriously -- that's some brilliant SF. Especially for those of us who are fans of cyborg/android theory and subversive pop music. And/or those of us who want to play bass for her next project.)
Magma -- the Kobaïan cycle. (French science-fiction prog-rock. They invented their own language for this. Also, search for "Magma misheard lyrics" on YouTube and take the link for "Philosphy War!" by klestgeistzeit. Or just go here if you know and/or can't stand Slavoj Žižek -- I'm in the "and" camp.)