JP Schiller: Lit of Horror, Fantasy, and Sci-Fi

Semester Total:  118 points  (14 + 82 + 2 = 98) + 20 = 118 Zoom Classes Attended:  14 out of 15 classes  (14 points)  Full Reading List:      ( Links directly to the blog post are embedded as well)      * = JP's Absolute Favorites Official Readings:  (82 points total) * Frankenstein  by Mary Shelly  (6 points) -  Week 1 Interview with a Vampire   (6 points)   -  Week 2 A Wild Sheep Chase   (6 points)   -  Week 3 * Annihilation  by Jeff VanderMeer   (6 points)   -  Week 4 * Akata Witch  by Nnedi Okorafor   (5 points)   -  Week 5 * The Hobbit   (6 points)   -  Week 6 The Night Circus   (6 points)   -  Week 7 Ananzi Boys (6 Points)   -  Week 8 * The Martian   (6 Points)   -  Week 9 Babel-17   (5 Points)   -  Week 10 Bloodchild   (2 Points, Required Reading)  Cyberpunk Short Stories   (5 Points)   -  Week 11 *Trail of Lightning   (5 Points)  -  Week 12 * Zone One   (5 Points)  -  Week 13 Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy on Radio   (6 Points)  - Week 14 Personal Writing for Final Class 

"Sketch Two" Writing Prompt on Week Activity Page (2 Points) When the automatic lights begin to flicker on and my phone emits soft morning tones, I know I'm doomed to be conscious. I try to cling to it, the soft darkness of sleep, but it slowly recedes and the soreness in my joints returns. I crack my eyes open and take the ceiling and wall with blurry vision. The rounded edges of my living quarters and soft metal tones all feel sophisticated, which was why I picked this unit. A sense of class when living in a tin can, but that's to be expected when space had to be rationed. I blink rapidly, trying to clear the gunk around my eyes. I could hear the low buzz of the floor heaters turning on, and my slippers being placed on the floor by my HEST1A droid. A "helpful, economical, self-sufficient caretaker" robot, which was an older model market by its 1A status, but by far still my favorite version of the machine. The humanoid versions they had now these days stil

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Episodes (6 Points) Out of all the things I wish existed from this science fiction work, I think the Babel Fish would be the first. Although I'd be much more worried about cleaning my ears and this is the one device I think humans might be able to make with their own language in the next fifty years, I find the concept of being able to understand anything from anyone at any given space quadrant is an incredibly useful tool. Well, besides a towel. I think a guide to the galaxy would also come in handy if traversing time and space and found the whole premise of Douglas Adams's work to be, well, novel!  This audio drama shared some roots in the animated "Yellow Submarine" film by the Beatles if Doctor Who was taken along for the ride. A lot of the nonsensical and frivolous details of a story being delivered in a nonchalant deadpan always gets a laugh out of me. The sci-fi elements are serious in their construction and feel very