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Adventures in Teaching: The Space Opera Syllabus Reading List

July 29, 2015 by Shaun Duke 5 Comments

As most of you are aware by now, I’m teaching an upper division literature course in fall.  The theme:  American space opera.  A few weeks ago, the department approved my syllabus, so come the end of next month, I will be teaching a whole lot of really interesting works.  Here’s what my students will be reading: [Read more…] about Adventures in Teaching: The Space Opera Syllabus Reading List

Filed Under: Adventures in Teaching Tagged With: Brian Aldiss, C.J. Cherryh, C.L. Moore, Elizabeth Bear, Leigh Brackett, literature, Science Fiction, space opera, teaching, Tobias S. Buckell, Ursula K. Le Gin, Yoon Ha Lee

Book Review: Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear

April 21, 2015 by Shaun Duke Leave a Comment

For someone who considers themselves a fan of Elizabeth Bear’s work, I sure haven’t talked about her work all that much on this blog.  Two of my favorite science fiction novels — Carnival and Dust — were written by Bear, so it should come as no surprised that her latest novel, Karen Memory, would entice me equally as much as her much earlier work.  This novel, of course, is not the same kind of thing as Carnival and Dust, both more connected to a long and storied tradition of science fictional writing.  Karen Memory is delicious late 19th-century pulp pastiche steampunk!
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Filed Under: Book Reviews Tagged With: Book Reviews, Books, Elizabeth Bear, Karen Memory, steampunk

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