Teaching

To think that a writer could post to a forum and, instead of writing "I've begun", writing "I begun" is just too hard to believe...

Yet I did that in my post, "Teaching by Doing"--- ;-(

I begun a science fiction project and made the decision to involve others in my writing activity. I consider this a form of teaching since they first interact with the project by having discussions with the main character of the proposed book.

From the discussions, I'll be creating a series of stories informed by the discussions.

Then, the stories will be transformed (after more discussion) into the final book.

I'd appreciate any and all feedback on this idea!

Here's the introduction site: http://sites.google.com/site/notesfromanalien0/

This kind of takes up where Paul Alkon leaves off.

I have Istvan Aggott, a Canadian of Hungarian extraction, taking notes for me on JOVO SZAZAD REGENYE (A NOVEL OF THE COMING CENTURY), which was published in two volumes in 1872 and 1874. There was a German translation in 1879 but, to the best of my knowledge, it has never appeared in any other language.

A friend did a somewhat rough translation of the preface by J.H. Rosny to his first collection of storiies, L'Immolation (1887), which included his first sf story "Les Xipehuz" (translated 80 years later by Damon Knight as "The Shapes"). No doubt Brian Stableford will do a better translaton of the preface as part pf his Rosny projecft for Black Coat Prss. But even in this version, it strikes me that it anticipates the attitude, as opposed to the dialectic of Zamytain's "On Synthetism" (1923).

--J.J.P.

PREFACE

(Response to an anonymous letter regarding Le Bilateral)

I will be using Card, "Ender's Game," Yolen, "Briar Rose," and P. K. Dick, "The Man in the High Castle," among other texts in my fall law and literature class. I'd like to share what I am hoping to do with them in this context, and hear from others who have worked with any or all of these in an undergraduate setting. The course is "culturally diverse" within general education, and also part of our legal studies minor, which I advise. Themes I want to address include war, genocide, the other, gay rights, and how we govern ourselves.

Unless I'm missing something, I appear to be one of the first to post anything to this Forum. So, unaccustomed as I am...

I just thought I would flag up some resources relating to Ray Bradbury.

My website, www.bradburymedia.co.uk, is an always-under-construction place where I am cataloguing media adaptations of Ray Bradbury's work. I also provide the most detailed bibliography of Bradbury's short stories anywhere on the web (he said, modestly).