Three Hugo winners enter our Book Club. “Spin” by Robert Charles Wilson, “Hyperion” by Dan Simmons, and “The Yiddish Policeman’s Union” by Michael Chabon. Also: Why sequels suck.
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The Incomparable Participants: Jason Snell, Glenn Fleishman, Dan Moren, Scott McNulty, and Greg Knauss. The Incomparable Theme Song composed by Christopher Breen. An MP3 version is available.
Updated on Thursday evening, November 11, to fix a strange empty spot and add an explanation about what “work me like a ham” means. But you have to listen to the end. And re-download if you missed it.
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Please note that this episode contains spoilers for the three books mentioned above. The AAC version of the podcast has been demarcated with chapter breaks so you can skip some (or, heck, all!) of the spoilers for those books. Presumably so you can come back later after you’ve read the books, right?
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Links
- “Spin” by Robert Charles Wilson
- “Hyperion” by Dan Simmons
- “The Yiddish Policeman’s Union” by Michael Chabon
- Books by Neal Stephenson: “Zodiac”, Baroque Cycle part 1, part 2, part 3, Snow Crash
- “Carter Beats the Devil” by Glenn David Gold and “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay” by Michael Chabon
- The anthology of short stories Jason couldn’t remember is “Stories of Your Life and Others” by Ted Chiang.
And chances are good our next Book Club book will be How to Life Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu.
Once again, a great podcast! Upon hearing you like aspects of magical realism and yiddish/existing cultural references, have you considered reading or talking about the works of Latino/a & Black authors in Sci-Fi/Speculative fiction?
What's the title of the novel you guys talked about that was about a rich guy in the 50s who built a computer that generated literature?