Comments | wolfskins: Sci-fi fans, help me out for a minute?

wolfskins

Sci-fi fans, help me out for a minute?

Sep 07, 2008 14:06

The Philosophy of Science Fiction. This is an honest to gods helf-semester course at my school, and I am currently taking it! Needless to say, I am insanely excited about it. We're supposed to be watching 5 or so movies throughout the class, and reading 5 sci-fi novels as well as a collection of more "classic" philosophical readings (Huma, Neitzche ( Read more... )

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wendelah1 September 7 2008, 23:08:31 UTC

There are plenty of women scifi writers out there, award-winning scifi writers. I will have a list for you by tomorrow. You might consider posting this at whileaway, a scifi community concerned with women's isssues. Would you mind if I posted this same question at my journal, too?

wolfskins September 7 2008, 23:20:22 UTC

By all means, YES! Go ahead and post the question at your journal :)

And thanks for the heads-up on the LJ community, I'll be checking it out.

wendelah1 September 11 2008, 06:21:02 UTC

Here is a link to my post. I am too lazy to rewrite all of the names.
women in scifi post. I hope this helps.

lemonee_wonder September 8 2008, 22:49:56 UTC

I have to say i don't know a lot actually. I know of fantasy written by female authors, but not a lot of sci-fi. I'll ask some friends at school who do a lot more reading than i do. Send me the list of books you have, i'll have to check some of them out. :D

wolfskins September 9 2008, 00:23:18 UTC

Yeah, I know a there are a ton of female fantasy writers out there. I figure I shouldn't be so surprised my class's reading list is composed of all male authours, but, I guess that being a PHILOSOPHY class, the list would have been a bit more well-rounded and diverse.

I am a bit confused by your, "Send me the list of books you have" comment. The course reading list is posted in the LJ entry, my short list of suggestions is also posted there.

The only book written by a woman authour that I HAVE gotten around to reading are the first two of C. J. Cherry's Chanur books. I do own a few other sci-fi novels by women (all yet-to-read), but they are either less tied in with philosophy, or likely too specific-interest for a general class.

lemonee_wonder September 9 2008, 04:03:08 UTC

Heh, duur. For some reason i thought you had another list. Don't pay attention to me, i have 90 owl images to make. It is frying my brain. XD

semenkhare September 10 2008, 01:29:14 UTC

Haha, that class sounds awesome, if you're into philosphy and analyzing books according to various philosophies (which I assume is what this class is about?). Oh, and, er, speedreading :P

Sorry I can't help you out with your question. I just can't think of any. There was one book I was thinking of, but I can't remember the title of it, and now that I think more about it, I'm pretty sure it was written by a man. If I ever figure out what book I'm thinking of, I'll let you know if it fits your criteria.

wolfskins September 10 2008, 01:50:16 UTC

The class is our Prof's "baby"; he started it up at LU and at the university he previously taught at. I'm pretty sure it's a course about being a huge geek and tying that in to his philosophy credentials.

Not that I'm saying it's not valid, because sci-fi obviously can deal heavily with philosophical issues.

We are also going to watch movies in that class :)

I'll report back to you if he says anything more about B5, or has anything funny to say about ST.