Welcome to our second Backlisted special of 2023. Today we’re joined by the best-selling writer Una McCormack, returning for a record-breaking ninth appearance, having most recently participated in the Christmas episode dedicated to Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfield.
These specials are designed to fill the gap until the show proper returns in April. They differ from the usual Backlisted format in that they feature just one guest choosing a number of books in an area they know and care about.
This discussion covers five books that have inspired Una as a writer of science fiction from childhood onwards. The books are:
Sylvia Engdahl, The Far Side of Evil
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
Octavia Butler, Bloodchild and Other Stories
Katharine Burdekin, Proud Man
Vonda N. McIntyre, Star Trek: The Voyage Home
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Deadwood by Pete Dexter
The Godwits Fly by Robin Hyde
Notes from Under the Floorboards AKA Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Treacle Walker by Alan Garner
Something in Disguise by Elizabeth Jane Howard
Cassandra at the Wedding by Dorothy Baker
The Dream Songs by John Berryman
Elizabeth Costello by J.M. Coetzee
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The Plague and I by Betty MacDonald
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