SF Crossing the Gulf (Episode 09): Children of God
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.
I’ve read a number of these, but spoiler warning taken.
And hurrah, Crossing the Gulf is back!
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.
Maybe you should discuss The Best of All Possible Worlds. I hear that’s pretty good.
I’m glad to see this return… The lineup looks very interesting!
Embarrassingly excited to see Stapledon on your list.
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.