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Swords, Sorcery, and Socialism
An exploration of the politics and themes hiding inside our genre fiction.
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Creation: Part 2
Episode Date: August 4, 2024A crossover episode with Trevor from The History of Persia from a couple years ago. We discuss historicity, Zoroastrianism, and well, creation!patreon...
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Creation: Part 1
Episode Date: July 25, 2024A crossover episode with Trevor from The History of Persia from a couple years ago. We discuss historicity, Zoroastrianism, and well, creation!patreon...
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This Is How You Lose The Time War
Episode Date: June 29, 2024We are back for the end of Pride Month with one of Aurora's favorite books, the lesbian scifi love story This Is How You Lose The Time War. Robot...
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Cyberpunk 2077: Part 2
Episode Date: April 22, 2024In the 2nd part of our conversation about Cyberpunk 2077 we are rejoined by Roberto to talk The Soul of Theseus, morality, and sexism in the player co...
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Cyberpunk 2077 - Part 1
Episode Date: April 12, 2024We have brain worms we need to exorcise, and so we've invited our friend Roberto on to talk about the video game Cyberpunk 2077. Made by CD PROJE...
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The Transall Saga
Episode Date: January 27, 2024What if the kid from Hatchet went to the post apocalypse future instead of Canada? That's what we're here to discuss in Gary Paulsen's...
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The Poppy War
Episode Date: December 6, 2023*CONTENT WARNING* What happens when you take a YA novel and throw in a healthy dose or horrendous war crimes? The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang! We talk wi...
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The Three Body Problem
Episode Date: October 15, 2023Aliens, math, and the utter failure of the Cultural Revolution are the main points of discussion in this episode about The Three Body Problem by Liu...
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2 Year Review
Episode Date: September 25, 2023It's been 2 years since we started the pod, so we wanted to take a quick look back at what we've learned, and talk about what's coming...
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Queering The Lord of the Rings: An Interview with Dr. Sara Brown
Episode Date: September 6, 2023It's a very special episode for our 2 year anniversary. We sat down with Dr. Sara Brown, Chair of Language and Literature at Signum University, t...
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I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
Episode Date: August 17, 2023This week we cover a classic of the scifi genre: Harlan EllIson's seminal short story, "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream". Horror, hu...
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Last Battle
Episode Date: July 23, 2023This is the end! Of Narnia anyway. Asha and Ketho are rejoined by Trevor and Alex to discuss Revelations for children. A false prophet, a gay unicorn,...
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician's Nephew
Episode Date: July 11, 2023It's time for Genesis! Ketho and Asha are joined by Trevor from The History of Persia to talk about the 6th book in the Narnia series, "The...
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The Chronicles of Narnia: Books 4 & 5
Episode Date: June 28, 2023Part 2 of our 4 part series on C. S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia. Ketho and Asha discuss The Silver Chair and The Horse And His Boy. We have...
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The Chronicles of Narnia: Books 1-3
Episode Date: June 13, 2023We begin our 4 part series covering the entire Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis. Covered here are The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, Prince Cas...
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The First 1984: We
Episode Date: May 4, 2023It's a crossover spectacular! A little while back Asha and Ketho went on the Tsar Power Podcast to discuss the first dystopian novel about a tota...
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The Lord of the Rings: Hope
Episode Date: April 16, 2023It's the Asha episode. She goes into detail about what hope is in the works of Tolkien, reads some selected quotes, then gives a talk about how t...
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Parable of the Sower
Episode Date: April 3, 2023Imagine a world where the climate crisis gets so bad that the US brings back company towns and slavery. A far stretch, but Octavia Butler has already...
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Everything Everywhere All At Once [Unlocked Bonus]
Episode Date: March 14, 2023In honor of all the awards and hype around this movie right now, we decided to unlock this bonus episode from last summer! Existential nihilism, dadai...