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Many of my colleagues at work often "diss" science-fiction. I almost ask them......How Dare You? I usually leave it alone and swiftly try to guide them into sci-fi(often through Ender's Game) has anyone else had this problem or just me?
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Once when I worked at Kinko's, I was on my break in the back room, reading...guess what..Ender's Game..when a certain young lady I worked with came back and asked what class I "had" to read that for. I told her, "No, I am just reading this for pleasure". You should have seen the look of credulity on her face..after opening and closing her mouth like a fish a few times, she remarked "You're weird" and walked away.
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I teach a unit on science fiction to my seventh graders, including some McCaffrey, Wells, and Bradbury...these are the authors included in our accepted textbook, but I'm fortunate to have any at all. I find that the students I teach who possess the strongest vocabularies, broadest minds, and greatest imaginations, are usually science fiction readers. Still, it's hard to convince co-workers that teaching the material is a legitimate use of educational time. Sigh.
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I took a class in Science Ficion literature last semester, and unfortunately everything was overanalyzed. We read Ender's Game, and even though Card says not to look for deep and arcane connections in the beginning, even it was overanalyzed. Oh well. Posts: 903 | Registered: May 2003
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Actually, he says you can look for deep and arcane meanings, but you can also get a lot out of it just by reading it.
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We read H2G2 for my Gen Ed math class in college. IIRC, it was my professor's way of connecting the subject material (basically learning how to use Excel) to Christian faith. How ironic is that?
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No problem here. Reading Sci-fi is seldom criticize. My sister who has a high degree in modern literature and classical literature like read one between a Victor Hugo's and a Umberto Eco's. I also read many different type of book.
Nevertheless, at school, Classics are the only type of books teached. Fortunatelly, Some Classical autors have writen fantastic like Guy de Maupassant (Le Horla), Gustave Flaubert (Salambô), And especially Jules Verne and Edgar Allan Poe.
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