Remembrance of Podcast’s Past

We talk about Death’s End the 2010 novel from Cixin Liu. Translated into English in 2016 by Ken Liu, it was short-listed for the Hugo Award for Best Novel and winner of the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.

This is a big book with lots of big ideas. It excels where it thinks up new scientific ideas. It stumbles when it strays into talking about social issues, which it often does.

Podcast 9 3/4ths – The Patriarch Who Lived

We’re talking about Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s [Sorcerer’s] Stone. It’s a simple story with a lot of unintended consequences. Part one of an ongoing series in which the Androids and Assets team reads the entire series.