Teaching Behold the Man w/ Professor Rowland Wymer

About this episode

Professor Rowland Wymer discusses his article on Michael Moorcock's Behold the Man and his experiences in science fiction.

In a blasphemous conjunction of the spheres, this year is the 60th anniversary of the publication of the novella Behold the Man in New Worlds issue 166 - and a few weeks ago patron Nick Hopkinson sent me the link to an article by Professor Rowland Wymer in Vol 52 no 2 of the Interdisciplinary Critical Journal Mosaic from June 2019, titled The Imitation of Christ: Michael Moorcock's Behold the Man. The conjunction was completed when the Professor agreed to hop in to Derry & Toms to talk about his article, his journey into SF and how he came to teach it, living and drinking in Hull and lots of other stuff along the way. We briefly talk about Russian SF too, so here I am talking to Ralph Lovegrove on his excellent Fictoplasm Podcast about Roadside Picnic.

People in this episode

Host: STIMBOT5000

Guest: Professor Rowland Wymer

Topics covered

• science fiction
• literature analysis
• teaching
• Michael Moorcock
• Russian SF
• 60th anniversary

Keywords

• Behold the Man
• Michael Moorcock
• science fiction
• Professor Rowland Wymer
• literature
• Russian SF
• Mosaic
• New Worlds

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Interdisciplinary Critical Journal Mosaic, New Worlds

Books & works: Behold the Man, Roadside Picnic

Places: Hull, Derry & Toms

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