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Re: Teaching SF/F/H

Bellamy, Maria-English Teacher BHS — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:59:02 GMT

"That Only a Mother" and "Johnny Got His Gun" both have that slow reveal that is delicious to the reader! hope I have that second title right.

Re: Summertime Worldcon

Bellamy, Maria-English Teacher BHS — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:47:23 GMT

My school starts Aug 1, usually sooner for teachers. I was actually allowed to attend Phil by my district as a work-related trip, had to pay my own way but

Re: Worldcon

nathanielwms — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:28:54 GMT

Maria, that's a valuable question. Denvention was incredibly kind in hosting AboutSF's Teaching Workshop. We had a small but passionate group (14 plus

bookexpo (formerly aba) NYC 2009?

LynnieK@... — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:36:19 GMT

hmm.. my mind is working... anyone (authors, editors, booksellers, librarians,etc) planning to attend bookexpo in NYC in May 2009? maybe... we could put

Re: Teaching SF/F/H

LynnieK@... — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:16:02 GMT

In a message dated 10/7/08 3:49:35 PM Eastern Daylight Time, dianeturnshek@... writes: One with a background so dark it's almost a character of its

RFF advocate Julie Czerneda

Dave Anderson — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:54:54 GMT

The Master of Ceremonies for * Anticipation*, the 67th World Science Fiction Convention, Montréal, Québec, to be held

Summertime Worldcon

Dave Anderson — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:46:52 GMT

RE: I wonder if a summertime Worldcon would get more in attendance than fall. Because of school starting, it's really difficult for students & teachers to

Re: Teaching SF/F/H

mroseshaff@... — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:25:16 GMT

Hey there Diane - and rff gang I like "Conquest of Gola" as a unique perspective of the human (male) world from an "alien" civilization. It is also fairly

Re: Teaching SF/F/H

Andy Love — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:57:38 GMT

I read the first one of that trilogy - I should find the other ones sometime. Andy PS. "Vesta" not "Vespa" ... From: Greg Roelofs To: rff@yahoogroups.com

Re: Teaching SF/F/H

Greg Roelofs — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:39:48 GMT

... Asimov's "Marooned off Vespa" is a classic science-based short story, too. (Aside: I just finished J. Gregory Keyes' trilogy about the _other_ Alfred

Re: Teaching SF/F/H

Andy Love — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:54:30 GMT

Diane writes: The class will mostly center on writing, but to illustrate certain points that go along with lectures, I'll have the students read short stories

Re: Teaching SF/F/H

George A. Trosper — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:01:07 GMT

... This may not matter in the end, but my academic background in English plus linguistics is screaming at me to make a minor correction. The site linked to

Re: Teaching SF/F/H

George A. Trosper — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:47:34 GMT

There's an anthology (owned by a Salt Lake library, not by me), that contain several sex-related stories by PJF. One of them, set in and under the canals of

Re: Teaching SF/F/H

Gunn, James E — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:01:16 GMT

The best unreliable narrator is Alfred Bester's "Fondly Fahrenheit"--in fact, the central issue of the story is figuring out who the narrator is. Also could

Re: Teaching SF/F/H

DocJam00@... — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:52:02 GMT

Philip Jose Farmer's "The Lovers" and/or its sequel deal with alien sex better than most. Robert James ... From: Diane To: