Recommended+Reading

Use this page to recommend favorite books, stories, poems, plays, comics, graphic novels...anything in print relating to Fantasy and Science Fiction. I'll start with one.





If this anthology was still in print, it definitely would have been ordered for this class. There are still some low cost used copies on Amazon



I just found another wonderful website with full texts online; this one is the Classics Illustrated series. It takes classic literature and turns them into long-comics/short-graphic-novels. The ones on the site range from //The Iliad// to //Frankenstein// to //A Journey to the Center of the Earth//.

I just saw this ad for a book not yet out, by Haruki Murakami...and it made me start wondering why it is we do not typically classify him as a Science Fiction writer (nor do I think we typically label Kazuo Ishiguro--novelist--nor Wong Kar Wai--film writer/director--as Science Fiction writers); is there a possibility we have a Western-culture bias in using "science fiction" as a label? I noticed that for Ishiguro's latest novel made into a film (//Never Let Me Go//) the film was labeled SciFi even if the novel wasn't; however, I can believe that in Ishiguro's case, this may be due to his also writing British Period dramas like //The Remains of the Day//. Overall, though, it seems the term "fantasy" is more liberally applied to Eastern writers/writing, while the term "science fiction" is usually applied to Western writers/writing. media type="youtube" key="ICjVqeKw10g" height="315" width="560"