Supplementary Material: Speculative Fiction (1 Viewer)

[glitterfairy]

This thread will contain a definitive list of supplementary material, which will be regularly updated – you do not need to search through the entire thread. Feel free to add to the list, however NO QUESTIONS IN THIS THREAD PLEASE! Only suggestions. Ta

All “what related texts should I use?” threads will be DELETED.

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AUTHORS
- Douglas Adams
- Jasper Fforde
- Neil Gaiman
- Terry Pratchett

NOVELS
- Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
- The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams
- Foundation series by Isaac Asimov
- I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
- Handmaiden’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- Orxy & Crake by Margaret Atwood
- The Light of Other Days by Arthur C Clarke
- The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
- Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde
- Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman
- American Gods by Neil Gaiman
- Stardust by Neil Gaiman
- Dune series by Frank Herbert, Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Utopia by Thomas More
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Mars Series (Red Mars, Blue Mars, Green Mars) by Kim Stanley Robinson
- Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien
- Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
- The Chrysalids by John Wyndham

POETRY
- Kubla Khan by Coleridge
- The Wasteland by T.S Elliot
- Why We Tell Stories by Lisel Mueller

SHORT STORIES
- Get Off the Unicorn (Anne McCaffrey)

FILMS
- 2001: A Space Odessey
- AI
- Batman Vs Godzilla
- Gattaca
- Matrix
- Metropolis
- Minority Report
- Mirrormask
- Stargate

TV SERIES
- Lord of the Rings
- Stargate SG1
- Stargate Atlantis

MISC
- Beowulf
- Kalevala (epic Finnish poem)
- Sci-Fi Anime
- The Sandman by Neil Gaiman (graphic novel series)
- War of the Worlds (musical)
- Fahrenheit 451
- The Republic by Plato (basis of all utopian/dystopian writings)

 

[ArtOfLosing]

I have some poems to add to the list

Kubla Khan by Coleridge
Why We Tell Stories by Lisel Mueller

we have looked at both of these in class and they work well.

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[Archaelus]

Other possibilities include:

Authors:
Sean Williams
Shane Dix
Robert Jordan (The Wheel of Time series)
Ian Irvine
David Eddings
David Gemmel (Lord of The Silver Bow, etc)
R.A. Salvatore
Simon Brown
Terry Goodkind

...the list goes ever onwards...aha...a pun...

 

[lou_217]

V for Vendetta

 

[jazzmuzik]

also any of the "Ender's game" series by Orson Scott card

 

[ArtOfLosing]

Joss Whedon's film SERENITY - I used this as my supp last year

 

[greycats]

Children of Men - Film (Alfonso Cuaron) or book(P.D.James), I'm using the film

Interview with the Vampire - Again, film (David Geffen) or book (Anne Rice), using the book this time

Also considered using 'The Song of Phaid the Gambler' (Mick Farren), but I didn't want to ruin the book by analysing the shit out of it so I couldn't read it again ;p

 

[Arsenic]

Short story: "Colour Vision" by Mary Rosenblum. Brilliant, easy to talk about, fits into Fantasy nicely.

 

[alisonnnn]

I don't know the directors of these, but:
ultraviolet [movie]
aeonflux [movie] may be a two word title... not sure.
van helsing [movie]
nineteen eighty-four [book] george orwell
equilibrium [movie]
the brothers grimm [movie]
king arthur [movie]


and that is all that I could think of, I'm using serenity, which was mentioned in another post, so I didn't repeat it, and nineteen eighty-four, ultraviolet and van helsing if I can't find something else fantasy.