The political economy of speculative fiction
A special Christmas Episode of Androids and Assets where the boys and special guest Candace talk about the reason for the season, struggling against empire.
We also recommend: Divine Intervention (2002) Dir Elia Sulieman
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | iHeartRadio | TuneIn | Deezer | RSS
It’s the third anniversary of starting this podcast so we’re doing our third Luc Besson film. (You’re right, we started on a Luc Besson film and if we did one every anniversary this would be our fourth. You got us. We missed one.)
Lucy is a terrible movie; starting from a flawed premise and ending in a flawed conclusion. It’s also racist and misogynist. It gets all of the science wrong. It misunderstands human history. The bar doesn’t get much lower than this.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | iHeartRadio | TuneIn | Deezer | RSS
Gautam Bhatia, author of The Wall, joins us to talk about his debut novel. The Wall is chock full of ideas and questions the role of law, the effects of strictly constrained resources, and how hierarchy interacts with democracy.
We mentioned our Bookshop; unfortunately, The Wall is not included in that database so you will have to ask your local bookseller to find it.
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers
The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson
Chosen Spirits by Samit Basu
Analog/Virtual: and Other Simulations of Your Future by Lavanya Lakshminarayan
Mending Wall by Robert Frost
“Something of Freedom is Yet to Come”: The Entangled Histories of Science Fiction and Capitalism by Olav Rokne in Strange Horizons
And Now His Lordship is Laughing by Shiv Ramdas in Strange Horizons
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | iHeartRadio | TuneIn | Deezer | RSS