In Unknown Worlds of the Merril Collection, host Oliver Brackenbury interviews special guests about notable history and new frontiers in the worlds of science fiction, fantasy and horror as found in Toronto’s Merril Collection, the Western Hemisphere’s largest publicly accessible archive of genre materials.
Produced by Chris Dickie. Interviews have been edited for length and content.
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In Unknown Worlds of the Merril Collection, host Oliver Brackenbury interviews special guests about notable history and new frontiers in the worlds of science fiction, fantasy and horror as found in Toronto’s Merril Collection, the Western Hemisphere’s largest publicly accessible archive of genre materials.
Produced by Chris Dickie. Interviews have been edited for length and content.
York University's Professor Allan Weiss joins host Oliver Brackenbury for a discussion on the history of utopian and dystopian speculative fiction.
Links to some of the things mentioned in this episode:
Allan Weiss (http://www.yorku.ca/aweiss/)
Thomas More's “Utopia”
Platos “The Republic”
H.G. Wells “The Time Machine”
“The Machine Stops” by E. M. Forster
“Hard Times” by Dickens
Problem Novels
“We” by Yevgeny Zamyatin
“Moon of the Crusted Snow” by Waubgeshig Rice
Drew Hayden Taylor
Neal Stephenson's “The Hieroglyph Project”
MIT Twelve Tomorrows Series
Nalo Hopkinson
The Mutopian Manifesto
“A Modern Utopia” and “The Sleeper Awakes” by H.G. Wells
“Herland” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Protopia
“Other Covenants: Alternate Histories of the Jewish People” by Mark Shainblum & Andrea D. Lobel
Unknown Worlds of the Merril Collection
In Unknown Worlds of the Merril Collection, host Oliver Brackenbury interviews special guests about notable history and new frontiers in the worlds of science fiction, fantasy and horror as found in Toronto’s Merril Collection, the Western Hemisphere’s largest publicly accessible archive of genre materials.
Produced by Chris Dickie. Interviews have been edited for length and content.
