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New “Looking Back on Genre History”

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Entry posted by eldritchhobbit · Wednesday at 12:30 PM

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On my latest “Looking Back on Genre History” segment on the StarShipSofa podcast (Episode 754), I discuss (in a spoiler-free way!) Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins, intellectual history, and genre references. Here is the link!

Pictured is the cover of Sunrise on the Reaping: A Hunger Games Novel by Suzanne Collins. The cover art is purple, and it shows the image of a flint-striker pendant depicting a snake facing a mockingjay.

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Pictured is part of a quote by Scottish Enlightenment thinker David Hume, a quote listed as an epigraph to Sunrise on the Reaping. The relevant part reads, "Nothing appears more surprising to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few; and the implicit submission, with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers...." The key phrase here is "implicit submission."

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Pictured is a quote from the late-eighteenth-century protest poem "The Common and the Goose," which is quoted in Sunrise on the Reaping. This excerpt reads, "The law demands that we atone/ When we take things we do not own,/ But leaves the lords and ladies fine/ Who take things that are yours and mine."

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