A Meal of Thorns 04 – PERELANDRA with Taylor Driggers
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Taylor Driggers joins us to talk about the second volume in C.S. Lewis's SPACE TRILOGY. A richly-described and philosophical science fiction story, PERELANDRA has a lot that's interesting and a lot that's pretty weird when you think about it.
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Credits:
- Guest: Taylor Driggers
- Title: Perelandra by C.S. Lewis
- Music by Giselle Gabrielle Garcia
- Artwork by Rob Patterson
- Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough
References:
- Queering Faith in Fantasy Literature: Fantastic Incarnations and the Deconstruction of Theology by Taylor Driggers
- The Ursula Le Guin Archives
- Laurie Marks’ Elemental Logic novel series
- Philophantast conference
- The Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic at the University of Glasgow
- Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman (and our episode on it)
- The Two Doctors Górski by Isaac Fellman
- The other two novels in the Space Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet and That Hideous Strength
- Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia
- The Inklings (wiki link)
- Lewis’s A Grief Observed
- Lewis’s final novel Till We Have Faces
- Ursula Le Guin’s review of Lewis’s The Dark Tower
- Lewis’s The Great Divorce, Pilgrim’s Regress, and The Screwtape Letters
- Stephen Metcalf, “Language and Self-Consciousness: The Making and Breaking of C.S. Lewis’ Personae” in Word and Story in C. S. Lewis: Language and Narrative in Theory and Practice ed. Peter J. Schakel & Charles A. Huttar
- Lewis’s debate with Elizabeth Anscombe
- J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings
- Ridley Scott’s Alien
- “Sehnsucht”, the concept of inconsolable longing
- The Transformers franchise
- Aamer Rahman on defeating Nazis
- Satan (Milton’s version)
- Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness and specifically the religion/philosophy of the Handdara
- Sofia Samatar’s The Practice, The Horizon, and the Chain
- Casella’s essay on (not) defending science fiction against criticisms of complicity
- Taylor’s seminar for his work with the Le Guin Fellowship on historicizing queerness in fantasy and “queer hiddenness in the archive”, available online this fall/winter.
- Greg Egan’s “Oracle”, available on his site (and in the collections Oceanic and The Best of Greg Egan)
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