January 19

I defy you to best this reading list, from the syllabus of my “Science Fiction and Science Fact” class this semester.

• Camille Flammarion, Omega: the Last Days of the World (1894)
• H.G. Wells, The Invisible Man (1897)
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland (1915)
• George S. Schuyler, Black No More (1931)
• Ursula Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)
• Octavia E. Butler, Kindred (1979)
• Doris Lessing, The Fifth Child (1988)

Seriously, this is what I get to read for class credit!  Along with some Charles Darwin and Ray Bradbury thrown in.

This must be how people feel when they take a class in their area of expertise.  Gleeful, with a little bit of awe.

(In other news, I lived through the first day of teaching this semester.  One day down, thirty eight to go.)