Storyological 2.05 - THE WINDMILL WAS INSIDE OF YOU ALL ALONG
Storyological
English - March 13, 2017 13:51 - 29 minutes - 40.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsBooks Arts Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In which we discuss "The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees" by E. Lily Yu & "The Janitor in Space" by Amber Sparks. Also. Men in Black, colonialism, and archetypal wasps.
In which we discuss,
1. "The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees" by E. Lily Yu, Clarkesworld, 2011.
2. "The Janitor in Space" by Amber Sparks, American Short Fiction, 2014.
along with, among other things...
That one story “The Wretched and the Beautiful” by E. Lily Yu in Motherboard.
That one Locus Magazine spotlight on E. Lily Yu.
That one interview E. Lily Yu did with Uncanny Magazine.
That one interview Amber Sparks did with American Short Fiction.
That one essay about Instagram as a cabinet of curiosities
That one About Me on Amber Sparks on website.
On God in Space
Religion in Sci-Fi and Fantasy
“Does God have a place in science fiction?”
On Individuals and Archetypes
That one archetypal tale, The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan.
That one archetype, Death, which Neil Gaiman imagined as a young woman in Sandman.
Wordy People and Things
That one short story collection “A Model World” by Michael Chabon which epigraphs a quote from “The Map Poem” by Elizabeth Bishop.
That one poem, “The Map Poem” by Elizabeth Bishop.
That one book Animal Farm by George Orwell.
Also, this one article from the New York Review, “What Orwell Really Meant” by George Orwell.
Cinematical Things
The stacked perspective on display at the end of Men in Black.
That one episode of Babylon 5 ”A View from the Gallery” which is told from the perspective of two maintenance workers.