Canon to the left of me, canon to the right (episode 17 of the podcast)

Colin and Phil return, buoyed by the news that Science Fiction 101 has risen to number 6 in Feedspot's league table of Best UK Sci-Fi Podcasts!

Our main discussion topic the contentious issue of the "canon" of science fiction, triggered by a blog post by Dr Shaun Duke. We also have a movie quiz, and the usual round-up of past/present/future SF.

Here are links to the items we discuss:

• Shaun Duke's blog post on the SF canon, and why it doesn't exist
• Duke's follow-up post, including a draft SF canon from 1961!
• The full sci-fi movie quiz, from Triviawell
• Stephen King's Firestarter, basis of a new (and old) movie
• Short film based on Arthur C. Clarke's "The Nine Billion Names of God"
• The LA Times Ray Bradbury Prize-winning short story collection Spirits Abroad by Zen Cho
• A new Doctor Who!
• The new Emeka Walter Dinjos Memorial Award honours writers with disabilities and writers who depict disability in SF.

 

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