Narratives from the Multiverse

Notes

·      Interested in the development of humans

·      Dune film directed by David Lynch

·      Odd tone to the movie- melodramatic

·      Bedouin references

·      Genetic “death clocks” biochemical clocks

·      Life extension qualities and what it takes

·      60s and 70s Sci-Fi deals with life extension and mind expansion

·      Fiction of ideas vs. fiction of technology

·      Paranoia

·      Women Writing Space Opera

·      C.L. Moore- original space opera writers //30s and 40s// focuses more on the internal lives of her characters, psychology, intuition, emotion

·      Esp is very big for fantasy heroines

·      Leigh Brackett- The Big Sleep

·      Lois McMaster Bujold- Aral Vorkosigan and Cordelia Maismith- family sagas

·      Catherine Asaro- combines the romance novel with the conventions of science fiction- heavy science