Comments by "David Bockoven" (@davidbockoven161) on "Philosophical Science Fiction (and Fantasy) You Should Read" video.

  1. In the video, Jared floated the idea of doing a video on magical realism. That would be awesome. Perhaps do just a separate video on Borges, however? If he does, this list of stories would be the ones I'd most like to hear Jared discussing: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14lxjNI_VtPLLXXsEC_pLu1yv5wYdroTUuFBmv3B27dE/edit?usp=sharing
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  2. Two more books Jared might consider under the rubric of "philosophical" magical realist fiction: Invisible Cities by Calvino and Einstein's Dreams by Lightman. The premise of the first book is that Marco Polo is giving a sort of field report to Kublai Khan of some very strange places. The premise of the second book is that while Einstein is writing the paper on special relativity he has a series of dreams of places where the laws of physics work rather differently.
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