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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The Inheritors by William Golding
The Constant Nymph by Margaret Kennedy
Frost in May by Antonia White
The World According to Garp by John Irving
The Journal of a Disappointed Man by W.N.P. Barbellion
Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
A La Recherche du Temps Perdu by Marcel Proust
Riceyman Steps by Arnold Bennett
Edith's Diary by Patricia Highsmith
The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald
The Breaking Point by Daphne du Maurier
Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
The Soul of Kindness by Elizabeth Taylor
Of Walking in Ice by Werner Herzog
The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
Books about The Beatles
Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
Miss Buncle's Book by D.E. Stevenson
The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino
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