Fall Quarter 2011

It's looking like my Independent Study class is a go. We've worked out a day of the week to meet, and Dr. S is going to tell the English Department to give me the go-ahead on a permit to register for a 499 class (which is the number of Independent Study). I'm living in a permanent giddy haze over this. Nuclear Holocaust Apocalypse Sf. And a month to wait until the class officially starts. This is pretty much all I've been thinking about lately.

The reading/film list looks like this:

Films and Television Series:

 1959

The Twilight Zone: “Time Enough To Last”

 1968

Planet of the Apes

 1984

Terminator

Novels:

 1950

Judith Merril, Shadow On the Hearth

 1960

Walter Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz

 1963

Philip K. Dick, Dr. Bloodmoney

 1980

Russell Hoban Riddley Walker (British)

 1985

David Brin, The Postman

 1987

Octavia Butler Xenogenesis: Dawn

 2008

Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Book 1

  

Short Stories:

 1946

Philip Morrison, “If the Bomb Gets Out of Hand” from One World Or None

 1947

Stuart Cloete, “The Blast”

 1951

Ray Bradbury, “There Will Come Soft Rains” and/or “Million Year Picnic”

from The Martian Chronicles

Harlan Ellison, “A Boy and His Dog”

Ha! Winning at life. Just a little bit.