[Air-L] Literary stuff for courses

Barry Wellman wellman at chass.utoronto.ca
Fri Apr 15 17:25:21 PDT 2016


Amanda, et al

I've read and used two of what you ask:

EM Forster, "The Machine Stops" is great--and short.
Wonderful antidote to SV hype.

RUR is stilted, old--good for us to get a historical sense, but I don't 
think students would relate. I'd rather show "Ex Machina" Or read a chunk 
of Asimov's _The Naked Sun_

YMMV

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