In this episode, Nelson talks to Jonathan Craig about Science Fiction, and whether it has literary value. Jonathan is a writer, policy advisor, accessibility consultant, and the former editor of Blind Citizen's News. He was an artistic advisor for Convergence: a speculative game about climate emergency.
The theme song is 'Zaftik' and was composed and performed by Nelson Rufatt.
Books and Other Pieces that were Mentioned
1)
“Ian McEwan: ‘Who’s going to write the algorithm for the little white lie?’”
By Tim Adams
The Guardian, April 2019
2)
Machines Like Me
By Ian McEwan
Jonathan Cape, 2019
3)
Orthodoxy
By G. K. Chesterton
First published by John Lane, The Bodley Head in 1908
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/130
4)
“The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species”
By Ken Liu
Printed in Lightspeed, August 2012
https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-bookmaking-habits-of-select-species/
5)
Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown
By Virginia Woolf
The Hogarth Press, 1924
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/63022
6)
Frankenstein, Or The Modern Prometheus
By Mary Shelley
First printed without being attributed to Shelley by Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, and Jones on 1 January, 1818
7)
The Machine Dynasty Trilogy
By Madeline Ashby published between 2012 and 2020 by Angry Robot
8)
The Lifecycle of Software Objects
By Ted Chiang
Subterranean Press, 2010
9)
“Hobbits in Space?”
By J. G. Ballard
Appeared in Timeout, 1977
https://markingham.org/2015/12/24/hobbits-in-space/
10)
The War of the Worlds
By H. G. Wells
First published in hardcover by William Heinemann in 1898
11)
Nineteen Eighty-Four
By George Orwell
Originally published by Secker and Warburg on 8 June, 1949
12)
“Science Fiction and Mrs Brown”
By Ursula K. Le Guin
First printed in The Language of the Night
Putnam, 1979
13)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
By Philip K. Dick
Doubleday, 1968
14)
The Cement Garden
By Ian McEwan
Jonathan Cape, 1978
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