Audio lectures finished

I'm at a break in the Honor Harrington audiobook series; as previously mentioned only the horrible abridged version is available, so I'm reading it from the text. It's 880 pages and I'm only 1/3 through. There are some spinoff books that I could start on but I don't want to be reading two stories in the same universe that are separated by only 5 years or so.

So anyway, I'm doing some TTC lectures instead.

• A History of St Patrick
  
  • quick 40 minute summary of Patrick's life
  
  
• Science Fiction - The Literature of the Technological Imagination
  
  • A very good quick coverage of SF literature, its roots in romanticism and the victorian fascination of science as it dispelled superstition, from Mary Shelly all the way up through Gibson and cyberpunk. With such a short course (8 lectures) only the milestone authors were covered; Shelly, Verne, Wells, Heinlein, Clarke, Bradbury, LeGuin, Kubrick, Gibson, and a few others. A whole lecture is spent on pulp culture, and fandom gets a bit of time too.
  
  
• Search for Intelligent Life in Space
  
  • This was a waste of time. If you know what the Drake equation and SETI@Home are, he doesn't have anything to say that you don't know already.