Let's dive into the mysterious, surreal, revealing and sometimes scary world of Science Fiction. Our SDG will introduce you to world-renowned, Science Fiction authors who happen to also be women. During our 10 weeks we will read and study: Ursula Le Guin, C.L. Moore, Tannith Lee, Octavia Butler, Leonora Carrington, Nnedi Okorafor as well as a selection of less well-known but equally talented authors. We will discuss their captivating and innovative writings, while exploring their fascinating lives.
Our readings will cover alternative physical and emotional futures for humans, alien life-forms on far-flung planets, and the technological advances that make these situations feasible. These stories will take us out of our everyday reality and into extraordinary realms of future possibilities and cautionary warnings.
Each week we will read two–three short to medium length stories.
Octavia Butler's psychological, humanistic parables of the modern world;
Leonora Carrington's surrealistic imaginings of reality;
Ursula Le Guin's iconic fantasy and science fiction;
Nnedi Okorafor's African-based magical realism;
Early classics of science fiction of the 1930's–1970's; and
Modern classics of science fiction from the 1980's–2017.
1 - Octavia Butler - Who was Octavia Butler?
Furor Scribendi, Blood Child and The Book of Martha
2 - Leonora Carrington-Who was Leonora Carrington?
The Debutante, My Flannel Knickers, The Royal Summons, The Oval Lady
3 - Leonora Carrington - A Man In Love
A Mexican Fairy Tale
Uncle Sam Carrington
How to Start a Pharmaceuticals Business
4 - Octavia Butler - Positive Obsession, Speech Sounds, The Evening and The Morning and The Night.
5- Nnedi Okorafor - Who was Nnadi Okorafor?
Kabu Kabu, How Inyang Got Her Wings and Long JuJu Man
6- Nnedi Okorafor - Windseekers, Tumaki, The Winds of Harmattan and Moom
7- Ursula Le Guin - Who was Ursula Le Quin?
Nine Lives and Sur
8 - Ursula Le Guin - Direction of the Road, The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, The Day Before the Revolution
9. Sisters of the Revolution - The Sleep of Plants, Home by the Sea, Northern Chess, The Grammarians Five Daughters
10. The Future is Female-All the Colors of the Rainbow, Another Rib, In Hiding - This is a lot of reading, but I could not choose.....
BOOKS TO PURCHASE: All are available in paperback and used.
1) Blood Child - Octavia Butler
2) Kabu Kabu - Nnedi Okorafor
3) The Wind's Twelve Quarters - Ursula Le Guin
SCANNED AND E-MAILED:
1) Early classics from "The Future is Female" - Lisa Yaszek, editor
2) The Complete Stories - Leonora Carrington