Professor Dinah Birch starts by talking about the novel The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin. All about swopping genders and a bit too intellectual for me. John Klute tells us about The Dispossessed, "An extraordinary novel" but not for me. I just wish they would give us some context. However, up next we hear about Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale from 1985 that I did like. But The Female Man by Joanna Russ? This is about feminist writers but up next are those who write about race. Such as Kindred by Octavia E Butler and Dhalgren by Samuel R Delaney. I had nver even heard of any of these.
We are told that science fiction has become a melting pot and many African and Ascian writers are mentioned. Ted Chiang is the writer of Arrival (Stories of Your Life etc) that became a hit movie. It was Susan Sontag who wrote The Imagination of Disaster. But suddenly we are pitched into modern sci fi films such as The Matrix and superhero worlds. This is narrated by the producer of the series Adrian Munsey going off into his artful territory which I find tedious. But the last section starts with King Kong before tracking right back to the early black and white horror films such as 1953's War of the Worlds and It Came From Outer Space. This series is actually allover the place. Just one episode to go.
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