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The Handmaid's Tale | The Great American Read
Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale is the focus of a Great American Read video that urges viewers to read this dystopian novel about a villainous society that oppresses women and minority groups.
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Margaret Atwood Explains the Dystopia of The Handmaid's Tale
Talk about a teaser! A short video from the PBS series, The Great American Read, offers just enough information about Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale to fascinate viewers and have them reaching for the book. The author asserts she...
TED-Ed
Why Should You Read “Dune” by Frank Herbert?
Not every reader is a sci-fi fan. Sad, but true. However, a short TedEd video may just convince nonfans to delve into Frank Herbert's modern epic Dune. Who could help but be intrigued by an epic tale of heroes, villains, and monsters?
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Ready Player One
Ready Player One has been praised as a novel that captures the vitality, the allure, and the essence of the virtual reality experience. Speakers in a short video share their rationale for why Ernest Clines' dystopian novel should be...
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Heroes and Hope in Frank Herbert's Dune
Wil Wheaton shares his rationale for why readers should vote for Frank Herbert's Dune as their choice for the Great American Read program. His talk touches on the major themes of the novel and its central conflicts.
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Dune
Dune remains one of the most popular science fiction tales ever written. Find out why with a short video that argues for including Frank Herbert's tale of sandworms and Fremen, Mentats and witches, villains and heroes in the Great...
Crash Course
2001 - A Space Odyssey: Crash Course Film Criticism
Will the advancement of technology doom interpersonal relationships? Like the score for Jaws, the music for the opening sequence of Stanley Kubrick's 2001- A Space Odyssey stirs the imagination of viewers. Cinema lovers and film...
TED-Ed
Titan of Terror: The Dark Imagination of H.P. Lovecraft
Science fiction and horror story geeks will love a carefully crafted video about H.P. Lovecraft. Those new to the Cthulhu Mythos and "Lovecraftian" fiction are introduced to the Great Old Ones, Yog-Sothoth, and Azathoth.
TED-Ed
Why Should You Read Sci-Fi Superstar Octavia E. Butler?
Introduce science fiction fans to writer Octavia E. Butler with a short video that argues for why readers should add her works to their must-read list.
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The Evolution of Science Fiction
How is it that science fiction writers have displayed the uncanny ability to predict the future? An informational video discusses the genre of science fiction and explains how it has developed. Discussions of specific texts, such...
TED-Ed
Why Should You Read "The Handmaid's Tale"?
Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, published in 1985, remains a timeless and cautionary tale. Naomi Mercer offers a cogent argument for why Atwood's speculative fiction should should be a part of the modern language arts canon.
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Nerding out on Star Wars Science
Are light sabers possible? Could the Death Star really vaporize a planet the size of Earth? Take a look at the science behind the fiction with a video from the American Chemical Society's Reactions series. Physicists sound off on the...
TED-Ed
Everything You Need to Know to Read "Frankenstein"
It was a dark and stormy night in 1815 when Mary Shelley began drafting a ghost story in response to a competition suggest by Lord Byron. Find out more about Shelley, her life, and events that influenced what is called the...
TED-Ed
How Science Fiction Can Help Predict the Future
Fortune tellers have their glass ball, futurists have their charts of trends, and science fiction writers have their imaginations. Which would you use to predict the future? See what this video has to say about predicting the...
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A Conversation with Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury's enthusiasm for books and libraries comes through in this short video and is sure to engage readers. Young writers will also be inspired by Bradbury's comments on his sources of inspiration and his writing process.
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Learn Out Loud: Literary History and Criticism [Free Audios]
More than twenty-five free audio or video files from renowned scholars which provide some in-depth literary criticism as well as the scope of literary history. Many of these are university lectures while others are interviews from...
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Pbs Learning Media: It's Lit! Collection
It's Lit! is a series of 14 smart, funny video essays from PBS Digital Studios about our favorite books and why we love to read. The series delves into topics like the evolution of YA, how science fiction mirrors our own anxieties, and...
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Pbs: The Left Hand of Darkness and Gender Fluidity: Ursula K. Le Guin
In 1969, Ursula K. Le Guin published a groundbreaking novel called "The Left Hand of Darkness" that questioned binary concepts of gender. Learn about the backlash from fans that found the book too controversial as well as criticism from...
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Pbs: Science Fiction and Fantasy as Serious Literature: Ursula K. Le Guin
Learn how science fiction and fantasy transformed over time from a marginalized genre into prestige literature in this video [1:37] from the American Masters film Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin. Renowned writer Ursula K. Le Guin helped to...
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Watchmen
Science Friday talks with one of the co-creators of the graphic novel Watchmen, and with a physicist who was a consultant to the feature film.
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Penguin Random House: Rh Kids: Tomorrow Code by Brian Falkner: Book Trailer
This video is a book preview to the dystopia novel Tomorrow Code by Brian Falkner. The end of the world started quietly enough for Tane Williams and Rebecca Richards. Now the two adolescents must find a code to save themselves and the...
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Penguin Random House: Rh Kids: Torment by Lauren Kate: Book Trailer
This video is a preview for the young adult novel Torment, the second novel in the addictive Fallen series, from best-selling author Lauren Kate. Luce learns what the Shadows are, and how she can use them as windows on her previous...
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Penguin Random House: Rh Kids: Trash by Andy Mulligan
This video includes an animated video of Andy Mulligan's novel Trash. In an unnamed Third World country, in the not-so-distant future, three "dumpsite boys" make a living picking through the mountains of garbage on the outskirts of a...
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Penguin Random House: Dashner Download # 7: Do You Play Video Games?
This site shares insights from the author of the Maze Runner and Mortality Doctrine series, James Dashner. In this interview, he discusses whether the plot of his latest novel, The Eye of Minds, could happen in real life.