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SF Crossing the Gulf (Episode 09): Children of God

Posted on February 6, 2013 by Karen Burnham in SF Crossing the Gulf // 6 Comments

Welcome back for Season 2, Part 1 of SF Crossing the Gulf!

Here’s our notional reading list for the coming season:

  • Children of God, Mary Doria Russell
  • Jagannath, Karin Tidbeck
  • Starmaker, Olaf Stapledon
  • Till We Have Faces, C. S. Lewis
  • Shadow of the Torturer, Gene Wolfe
  • Napier’s Bones, Derryl Murphy
  • Selected short fiction of Cordwainer Smith [TBD]
  • Flatland, Edwin Abbott
  • Distances, Vandana Singh
  • “Single Bit Error”, Ken Liu

With all rights reserved to change our minds, of course. And if you’re just joining us: SPOILER ALERT! We want to discuss these books in detail, and we can’t do that if we’re pretending that no one knows the ending.

Related posts:

  1. SF Crossing the Gulf (Episode 08): Season 1 Wrap Up
  2. SF Crossing the Gulf (Episode 11): “Star Maker” by Olaf Stapledon
  3. SF Crossing the Gulf (Episode 15) — “Flatland” by Edwin Abbott and “Shadow Postulates” by Yoon Ha Lee
  4. SF Crossing the Gulf (Episode 16a): Rediscovery of Man by Cordwainer Smith
About Karen Burnham (76 Articles)
Karen is vocationally an engineer and avocationally a sf/f reviewer and critic. She has worked on the Orion and Dream Chaser spacecraft and written for SFSignal, Strange Horizons, and Locus Magazine.
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6 Comments on SF Crossing the Gulf (Episode 09): Children of God

  1. Paul (@princejvstin) // February 6, 2013 at 10:03 am //

    I’ve read a number of these, but spoiler warning taken.

    And hurrah, Crossing the Gulf is back!

  2. Carl V. // February 6, 2013 at 10:20 am //

    I am in the midst of reading Jagannath right now. It is quite the experience. A good one, but very different than much of the short fiction I normally read.

  3. tam // February 6, 2013 at 11:31 am //

    Maybe you should discuss The Best of All Possible Worlds. I hear that’s pretty good.

  4. Scott Laz // February 6, 2013 at 1:40 pm //

    I’m glad to see this return… The lineup looks very interesting!

  5. thommo // February 6, 2013 at 2:21 pm //

    Embarrassingly excited to see Stapledon on your list.

  6. Paul (@princejvstin) // February 7, 2013 at 10:19 am //

    Hey Karen and Karen.

    If you were to do The Gods Themselves in a Season 3 of the podcast, I think that would be a swell idea. Especially what you think of the middle section.

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