Borges! Borges! Borges!
Jeff Patterson, John E. O. Stevens and Fred Kiesche welcome back Kate Sherrod and Jonah Sutton-Morse to discuss Jose Luis Borges!
Perhaps optimistically, we “assigned” four stories: Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius; The Circular Ruins; The Library of Babel; The Garden of Forking Paths—and ended up only really scratching the surface of one! It is clear that we will be back to this subject many more times (before we even start to branch off into “authors that we also like”!).
Sit down, pour yourself a good port and settle in. And please let us know what stories (or essays, or poetry) you would like to see us cover next!
Jorge Luis Borges on Wikipedia.
SF Encyclopedia on Jorge Luis Borges
Paris Review, Jorge Luis Borges: The Art of Fiction
Ficciones (many editions)
Collected Fictions (Penguin)
Labyrinths (many editions)
Listen to this episode (1 hour, 50 minutes)
Show Notes
Additional notes on the main topic plus Culture Consumed!
Pulp Sonnets (paper and eBook)
Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum
Philip K. Dick: The Valis Trilogy
William Ashbless, The William Ashbless Memorial Cookbook
William Ashbless, Offering the Bicentennial Edition of The Complete Twelve Hours of the Night
Gene Wolfe, The Book of the New Sun—Shadow & Claw; Sword & Citadel
Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel
James S.A. Corey, Nemesis Games
Henry James, The Princess Casamassima
Darren Wershler-Henry, Iron Whim—A Fragmented History of Typewriting
Jorge Luis Borges and Medieval Germanic Literatures (M.J. Toswell)
Robert K. Merton, On the Shoulders of Giants—A Shandean Postcript
Colson Whitehead, Underground Railroad
Helen S. Wright, A Matter of Oaths
Sarah Tolmie, The Stone Boatmen
Sun Yung Shin, Unbearable Splendor
FIYAH: Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction
Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad (editor), Islamicates Volume I—Anthology of Science Fiction Short Stories Inspired from Muslim Cultures (review here)
Gerry Canavan, Octavia E. Butler (Modern Masters of Science Fiction)
Grant Morrison, Aditya Bidikar, N.S. Sathish, and Jeevan J. Kang, Avatarex
Paul Cornell and Jimmy Braxton, Vampirella
Amy Chu and Carlos Gomez, Red Sonya
Monica Valentinelli and Jaym Gates (editors), Upside Down: Inverted Tropes in Storytelling
Jaym Gates (editor), Genius Loci
Alec Ash, The Economist—1843: Folding Meanings
The Borges Center (University of Pittsburgh)
Jorge Luis Borges, The Aleph and Other Stories
Bibliography of Adolfo Bioy Casares
Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omealas—A Story
Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum
Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
Umberto Eco, Postcript to The Name of the Rose
Adele J. Haft, Jane G. White, and Robert J. White, The Key to the Name of the Rose
Christopher Miller, The Cardboard Universe—A Guide to the World of Phoebus K. Dank
Neil Gaiman and Co., The Sandman Volume 1, The Sandman Volume 2.
Homer, The Odyssey (translated by Robert Fagles)
The Man Who Would Teach Machines to Think
Douglas R. Hofstadter, Godel, Escher Bach—An Eternal Golden Braid
Godel Escher Bach—A Mental Space Odyssey
J.S. Bach, Endlessly Rising Modulation Canon
Ben Aaronovitch, Midnight Riot
Charles Stross, The Jennifer Morgue
Bernal Alpha: Afterwords and Acknowledgments
2017: The Year in Graphics (44)
