Christopher Nolan: Interstellar

Post your reviews here!

William Gibson: "The Gernsback Continuum"

http://web.archive.org/web/20071020151042/http://americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/it/1988/1/1988_1_34_print.shtml

Afrofuturism Resources

OVERVIEW:

Mark Dery's Black to the Future:
http://thenewblack5324.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/mark-dery-black-to-the-future.pdf
An overview from The Guardian:
http://www.theguardian.com/science/political-science/2014/jan/07/afrofuturism-where-space-pyramids-and-politics-collide
From Ytasha Womack, author of Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy
http://bitchmagazine.org/post/interview-with-ytasha-womack-on-afrofuturism-and-the-world-of-black-sci-fi-and-fantasy

https://aconerlycoleman.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/on-afro-futurism-or-im-a-black-woman-from-the-future/

MUSIC:

Sun Ra:
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jun/15/sun-ra-jazz-interstellar-voyager
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSNvdLpLx-0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qjiQwD7VCI

George Clinton (Parliament/Funkadelic):
http://thequietus.com/articles/16045-george-clinton-interview-parliament-funkadelic
http://artery.wbur.org/2014/03/02/george-clinton-afrofuturism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiqmEibSY0I
http://www.cc.com/video-clips/ll9zy0/key-and-peele-funky-nonsense

A pride of my hometown, electro pioneer Drexciya's Black Atlantis concept chronicles the survival of murdered African captives who establish a civilization under the waves of the Middle Passage.
http://www.globaldarkness.com/articles/drexciya.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imKh_TKqHt4

Flying Lotus:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lXD0vv-ds8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rmFTc51Zk0

Janelle Monae:
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/aug/26/janelle-monae-sister-another-planet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq74HPAm_wE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHgbzNHVg0c
http://thequietus.com/articles/04889-janelle-mon-e-the-archandroid-afrofuturism

IMAGE:

http://basquiat.com/
https://rootsandwires.wordpress.com/tag/basquiat/
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/h/hoban-basquiat.html

H. G. Wells: The Time Machine

GATTACA

Selections from Gulliver’s Travels

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4ktaHQOHjZ_aTgxRkpieGwxcnc/edit?usp=sharing

Mary Shelley: Frankenstein

Excerpts from Amazing Stories

Choose some excerpts from this site:

http://www.pulpmags.org/amazingstories_page.html

I suggest reading bits of issues, as they tend to be overly long, then reporting back here with your findings.

F. T. Marinetti: “The Futurist Manifesto”

Here's a link to an archived version of the text:

http://vserver1.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/~crshalizi/T4PM/futurist-manifesto.html

Karel Čapek: Rossum’s Universal Robots

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4ktaHQOHjZ_cncyd2VtSVIyaHM/edit?usp=sharing

Isaac Asimov: “Robbie” from I, Robot

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4ktaHQOHjZ_bXlVMWdaRnQxSDg/edit?usp=sharing

Isaac Asimov: “Liar!” from I, Robot

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4ktaHQOHjZ_OFFhSUVPdl9SVFk/edit?usp=sharing

Ridley Scott: Blade Runner

Stan Lee, Jack Kirby: Fantastic 4 #1

Stan Lee, Larry Leiber, Don Heck & Jack Kirby: Tales of Suspense #39

Kurt Vonnegut: “Harrison Bergeron”

http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html

Octavia Butler: “Bloodchild”

http://boblyman.net/englt392/texts/bloodchild.pdf

Stanley Kubrick: 2001: A Space Odyssey

W. E. B. Du Bois: The Comet

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15210/15210-h/15210-h.htm#Chapter_X

Jean-Michel Basquiat: Images

Parliament/Funkadelic & Sun Ra

William Gibson: Neuromancer

Neil Harbisson: "I Listen to Color" & Beardyman's "Polyphonic Me"

Harbisson's TED Talk:
http://www.ted.com/talks/neil_harbisson_i_listen_to_color#t-62901

Harbisson's Huffington Post Interview:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/23/cyborg-neil-harbisson-interview_n_2745307.html

Beardyman's "Polyphonic Me" TED Talk:
http://www.ted.com/talks/beardyman_the_polyphonic_me?language=en

Donna Haraway's "Cyborg Manifesto" (RECOMMENDED/OPTIONAL):
http://www.egs.edu/faculty/donna-haraway/articles/donna-haraway-a-cyborg-manifesto/

The Wachowskis: The Matrix