In Episode 95, Gen and Jette finally take on the science fiction genre! We’ve put it off until now because neither of us thought we read much sci-fi, but it turns out we’ve read more than we thought and we actually love it! A lot of the books we talk about in this one might not be the ones that first come to mind when you think of sci-fi, but that’s what makes the genre so interesting — there’s so much variety!
Show Notes
Did you catch Jette’s not-reference to Paper Houses?
We’re going to cook up a recommendation list for getting into science fiction based on books you already like to read.
The Octavia Butler book about vampires is not Lilith’s Brood, it’s Fledgling.
Predictably, we couldn’t help talking about some films as well. There’s so much great science fiction out there!
Is sci-fi secretly our favourite genre?
We did our best to round up everything mentioned in the episode and list it below, but we talked about so much some things may have slipped through the cracks.
Books, Authors & Films Mentioned
Star Trek
Back to the Future
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu
Fauna by Christiane Vadnais
The Imago Stage by Karoline Georges
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer
Andy Weir – The Martian, Artemis, Project Hail Mary
Alien
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
Blake Crouch – Recursion, Dark Matter, Upgrade, Wayward Pines
Marvel Comics
Vicious by V.E. Schwab
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Ursula K. Le Guin – The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed, The Lathe of Heaven
Octavia Butler – Kindred, Lilith’s Brood, The Parable of the Sower
Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente
Isaac Asimov
Ray Bradburty
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
