Dr. Paul Brians, retired professor of literature (including SF) from Washington State University, joins me for a discussion of his website and book, as well as SFF movies and books, and some more recent reading recommendations outside the genre.
Find the book here: https://wmjasco.com/william-james-company/22-common-errors-in-english-usage-3rd-ed.html
Links:
Paul’s WSU website (includes links to the common errors site as well as many other things): https://brians.wsu.edu/
The podcast: https://commonerrorspodcast.wordpress.com/
Paul’s photography: https://goo.gl/photos/YAdSuyRMLNmnyHPa6
The big list of Paul’s recommendations, with what we talked about highlighted:
SF Favorites:
Samuel R. Delany: Trouble on Triton
Ursula Le Guin: The Dispossessed
Stanislaw Lem: Solaris (not movies)
Octavia Butler: Kindred
Philip K. Dick: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Brian Aldiss: Helliconia Spring
Harlan Ellison stories “not SF”
Thea von Harbou & Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, Italian version starring Mickey Mouse
SF Movies:
Brazil
2001: A Space Odyssey
Bladerunner
The Abyss
The Iron Giant
Wall-E
Fantasy
L. Frank Baum, Oz books
Homer: The Odyssey
Marie de France: Lais
Gottfried von Strassburg: Tristan
Johann von Goethe: Faust
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude
Salman Rushdie: The Satanic Verses
Study Guide: https://brians.wsu.edu/2017/02/08/cover-satanic-verses/
Philip Pullman: His Dark Materials
Alan Moore: Jerusalem
Neil Gaiman: Sandman series
Leone Ross: Popisho
Others:
Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary
Emile Zola: Germinal
Fyodor Dostoyevsky: The Brothers Karamazov
Hilary Mantel: Wolf Hall
Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart
Arundhati Roy: The God of Small Things
Sherman Alexie: Reservation Blues
David Guterson: Snow Falling on Cedars
Jonathan Evison: Small World
Elena Ferrante: My Brilliant Friend & Sequels
Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer: Grand Hotel Europa
Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn