0G192: Consider Phlebas and Galactic Just War pt.3
Aug 12, 2022
We survived, and yet like all Culture protagonists we've been fundamentally changed by the experience. Can we return to the safety and normalcy of other sci-fi after this? Will we eventually succumb to ennui and ask to be frozen in stasis until Banks is reincarnated and starts writing again? Guess we'll have to...
0G191: Consider Phlebas and Philosophy of Scale pt.2
Aug 10, 2022
A book so big we barely manage to cover even a piece of it in three episodes. Don't be deceived by the vaguely unsatisfying nature of the narrative on first reading, this book is a culture ship packed with philosophy. In part two our minds reel as we attempt to grasp the scale of the Culture and the space...
0G190: Consider Phlebas and Critiquing the Culture pt.1
Jul 22, 2022
0G189: Three Robots Exit Strategies and Billionaire Preppers
Jul 8, 2022
Congrats, you've been selected to be a servant in my billionaire bunker. You'll be required to get an implant that will explode if you try to hurt me, but other than that you'll be totally free to survive the apocalypse and live out the rest of your life feeding me and cleaning up after me. Doesn't that sounds...
Listener Qs 30
Jun 24, 2022