I preferred The Time Machine over War of the Worlds, but the former might not fit your idea as well.
I prefer Time Machine as well, but yeah, not so much with the theme. (Perhaps I should change my theme to time travel...) And I really like Sarah's unit on WotW above.
I've heard Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick is good, but have not read it yet.
Same here. It was made into Blade Runner, that I know.
Wow, I haven't read scifi in quite a while. I need to go to the library.
Yeah, I've been negligent lately as well. Stupid grad school.
By the way, I don't know what would fit for books other than Hitchhiker's Guide, but humor captures my attention much better than many other things these days. Using books and other media that have a sense of humor about them would motivate me in such a class.
Yeah, I can't think of another humorous SF novel either. (Connie Willis has some funny short stories, but that's all I can think of.) A doctoral student already does an Inquiry into Humor class, too, so...yeah.
Also, Doctor Who or other non-American scifi tv might be nice too. Red Dwarf is fun.
Yeah, I noticed the Americacentricity of it after I posted. (If I were doing dystopias, I would totally include Zamyatin's We.) I would like to include DW, but Rusty has pissed me off so much that I can't even look sanely at the new stuff, and the old ones would probably bore the kids to tears. (Although I might subject them to "Ark in Space" just for the green bubblewrap monster. Hee!)
Haven't seen Red Dwarf. Should I?
I definitely want to hear more of your planning!
Eeee. I will totally be posting more on this.
ETA: Oooh, almost forgot a book I am reading currently: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions.
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Date: 2009-03-06 05:45 am (UTC)I prefer Time Machine as well, but yeah, not so much with the theme. (Perhaps I should change my theme to time travel...) And I really like Sarah's unit on WotW above.
I've heard Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick is good, but have not read it yet.
Same here. It was made into Blade Runner, that I know.
Wow, I haven't read scifi in quite a while. I need to go to the library.
Yeah, I've been negligent lately as well. Stupid grad school.
By the way, I don't know what would fit for books other than Hitchhiker's Guide, but humor captures my attention much better than many other things these days. Using books and other media that have a sense of humor about them would motivate me in such a class.
Yeah, I can't think of another humorous SF novel either. (Connie Willis has some funny short stories, but that's all I can think of.) A doctoral student already does an Inquiry into Humor class, too, so...yeah.
Also, Doctor Who or other non-American scifi tv might be nice too. Red Dwarf is fun.
Yeah, I noticed the Americacentricity of it after I posted. (If I were doing dystopias, I would totally include Zamyatin's We.) I would like to include DW, but Rusty has pissed me off so much that I can't even look sanely at the new stuff, and the old ones would probably bore the kids to tears. (Although I might subject them to "Ark in Space" just for the green bubblewrap monster. Hee!)
Haven't seen Red Dwarf. Should I?
I definitely want to hear more of your planning!
Eeee. I will totally be posting more on this.
ETA: Oooh, almost forgot a book I am reading currently: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions.
I've heard good things about that one. Hmmm...