On Tue, 15 Apr 1997 11:55:38 -0400 sue hagedorn wrote:
> What exactly did they object to in Door Into Ocean? I would love to
teach
> it, but I've had a bad experience before--I taught More Than Human,
and the
> students were universally thumbs down--I haven't yet figured out if
it was
> because it was too dated, not interesting to them, or if my
presentation
> fell flat.
One way I now approach this is to start with the first sf I began with.
After all, reading sf is a skill! I would no-more start with Delany that I
would start a German class on Goethe. I am currently teaching a
course on the American City using short stories from non-sf and sf
anthologies (this produced interesting effects when one student
pointed out that Delany's Time Considered as a Helix of
Semi-Precious stones read like film noir). We started with Edward
Bellamy, Hugo Gernsback, Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg. We
get to Russ, Delany, Gearhart and other "difficult" writers later in the
course. Maybe you already do this?
Farah
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