Episode 78: Fiction, Imagination and the Other
Detail from “Books Give Us Wings,” collage by Barbara Fisher 2014. I took the original collage, and ran it through about three different digital art apps and changed the color and the art style for this version.
Hello, my dear Keelian friends!
I hope you know by now that Morganna and I are serious book nerds. Because we are. And this episode is all about our book nerd tendencies.
Originally, it was to be about all media that has affected our view of The Other, BUT, as we went on, we went on and on about novels and pretty much ran out of time. And we didn’t even talk about the novels of one particular author who is very dear to us both.
So….there are more episodes like this coming. Featuring film, TV series, art, music and the novels of one of our favorite authors, Graham Joyce.
And we’ll still probably talk about books in those episodes, too because—it’s what we do.
Before I start listing the books and authors here as promised, I do want to apologize for my own personal slow-wittedness in this episode. I didn’t realize it, but I had a fever and an ear infection going on while we recorded and it made me a little bit daft. Losing words, names and ideas in mid-sentence.
But Morganna takes up the slack admirably and makes some really, really good points about fiction, imagination and The Other, especially near the end of the episode.
Books and Authors (And a TV Show-and some Movies!!!) Mentioned in this Episode:
Brian Froud and Alan Lee: Faeries.
Edgar Allen Poe: Everything. Especially his short stories.
Ray Bradbury: The October Country, Golden Apples of the Sun, Dandelion Wine, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Green Shadows, White Whale, “The Small Assassin.”
H.P. Lovecraft: Everything.
H. G. Wells : War of the Worlds
Jules Verne: From the Earth to the Moon, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Dianna Wynn Jones: The Chronicles of Crestomancy, Howl’s Moving Castle
Rod Serling: “The Twilight Zone,” “The Night Gallery”
Theodore Sturgeon: E. Pluribus Unicorn
Lewis Carroll: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass
Jane Werner: The Giant Golden Book of Elves and Fairies
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm: Tales of the Brothers Grimm
Angela Carter: The Bloody Chamber, In The Company of Wolves
Tanith Lee: Red as Blood: Tales from the Sisters Grimmer, Redder than Blood
Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling: Snow White, Blood Red; Black Thorn, White Rose; Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears; Black Swan, White Raven; Silver Birch, Blood Moon; Black Heart, Ivory Bones
Jane Yolen: All of her books
Charles de Lint: Everything, especially Memory and Dream, Someplace to be Flying
Raymond Feist: Faerie Tale
Emma Bull: War for the Oaks
Terri Windling: Wood Wife
Charles Leland: Aradia: The Gospel of Witches
Erica Jong: Witches
Jane Parkhurst: Isobel
Tamora Pierce: Wild Magic, Wolf Speaker, Emperor Mage, The Realms of the Gods
Peter S. Beagle: The Last Unicorn, Tamsin, “A Fine and Private Place” (And watch the film “The Last Unicorn,” too……)
Terry Pratchett: Wyrd Sisters
”Practical Magic” (movie)
Gerald Gardner: High Magic’s Aid
Graham Joyce: Most all of his books—look for an episode about just his books.
