Companion Ponyfic Reading List for GET1025/GEK2041 Science Fiction and Philosophy · 4:50pm Nov 16th, 2015
This is a post aimed at very specific set of people - if you're taking this module, and watch My Little Pony (or you're Professor Holbo. Hi Prof!). If you are, then please read ahead for my recommended companion reading list. These are all fairly short stories by some of the best authors on this site, and they are all worth your time - that's a Pinkie Promise (cross my heart, hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye). Not all weeks have stories suitable for them, but I do try my best to fill this list up.
WEEK 3 – 4 Trapped In The Matrix!
"Shutdown" by Cupcakes
*"Freedom" from the short story collection Love Letters For a Girl I Hate by GaPJaxie
"Arcadia" by Blueshift
WEEKS 5 – 6 Frankenstein and Genre; or, ‘It’s Alive!’
"I Am Demon" by Aquaman
WEEK 7 Man And Superman
"Queen of Queens" by JawJoe
WEEK 8 Fate (Plus Zombies)
"Que Sera, Sera" by Ponydora Prancypants
WEEK 9 Disaster/Dystopia/Utopia
"Destruction of the Self" by Cold in Gardez
"Nineteen Neighty-Four" by Blueshift
WEEK 10 Women, Little Boys and Aliens
"Babel" by Cold in Gardez
WEEK 11 The Force, The Franchise, The Fandom
*"Intern" by GapJaxie
WEEK 12 Fantasy and Science Fiction
*"Hoofprints" from the short story collection Obiter Dicta by GhostOfHeraclitus
"The Iridescent Iron Rat" by horizon
* = Most relevant to the week's topics. The above list is based on the syllabus for this module taken in Sem 1 AY15/16.
