Week 4 Episode 4: Interview with Amy Butt, part 1

Parallel Worlds

Today we talk to Amy Butt, architect, lecturer, design tutor in architecture, and independent researcher. But today we’re talking about Amy’s other passion – science fiction. This is part one of a two-part podcast! Please listen in again tomorrow for more of our conversation.

If you want to read up on any of the subjects touched upon here, we talk about:

Novels / Short stories:

• Pamela Zoline (1988) The Heat Death of the Universe
• JG Ballard (1975) High Rise
• Moshin Hamid (2017) Exit West
• Doris Lessing (1974) Memoirs of a Survivor
• Kim Stanley Robinson (2017) New York 2140 (and briefly Three Californias Trilogy!)
• Octavia Butler (1993) Parable of the Sower
• Chen Qiufan (2013) The Waste Tide
• N. K. Jemisin (2013) The Fifth Season (book one of the Broken Earth trilogy)

Essays / Theory:

• J. G. Ballard (1962) “Which way to inner space”, New Worlds, #118
• Kodwo Eshun (2003) ‘Further Considerations on Afrofuturism’ The New Centennial Review, Volume 3, Number 2 - (quoted - “Assemble counter memories that contest the historical archive”)
• Kodwo Eshun (1998) More Brilliant than the Sun (book on the music of Afrofuturism)
• Dan Hassler-Forest (2014) “The Politics of World-Building: Heteroglossia in Janelle Monáe's Afrofuturist WondaLand” Para-doxa Volume 26
• Kathleen Spencer (1983) ‘"The Red Sun Is High, the Blue Low": Towards a Stylistic Description of Science Fiction’ Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 10, No. 1
• Darko Suvin (1979) Metamorphoses of Science Fiction: On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre

Many thanks to Amy for taking the time to talk to us! Full show notes at parallel.olliepalmer.com/podcast