.ZeroStar is an Actual Play Podcast hosted by Paul Courvoisier and played by Matty McManee as Vinyl Flyaway Samantha Odber as Nyx Nedra Thomas Dagroot as Kaze Jake Dagroot as Cpt, Rust Duckers We are playing "Uncharted Worlds" by Sean Gomes
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SheKnows How To's cover everything from home repairs and family finances to fun recipes and beauty tips. Watch & learn!
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Podcast about all things motorcycle racing including news and race previews and reviews British Superbikes World Superbikes Road Racing MotoGP @Lbrakers on Twitter lastofthelatebrakers Instagram lastofthelatebrakerspod@gmail.com
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Best Frenzy is a live Facebook show hosted by lifelong best friends Mark and Tracy. The two recount past best friend adventures and reflect on what makes a good best friend a better best friend. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bestfrenzy/support
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Spectology: The Science Fiction Book Club Podcast
Adrian & Matt: Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror Literature Enthusiasts
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Interview w/ the Hugo Administrator, Will Frank, on how & why to get involved with the Hugos
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Today Adrian is joined by Will Frank, this year's Hugo Awards Administrator, to talk all things Hugos. We discuss why you might want to nominate and vote for the Hugos, how exactly to get membership to do so (anyone can do it!), the special Video Game award, and why recent events that might have turned some people off will hopefully not be repeated…
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Announcement: Spectology "series finale" and the future of the podcast
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Soo.... we've had a hard time keeping to a regular schedule recently, so Matt, Bee, & I (Adrian) have been discussing what we want the podcast to look like in the future. In this episode, I just talk openly about those thoughts, our plan through the end of the year, and how the podcast might change come 2021. I may write up a longer thing later, bu…
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28.2: Do You Dream of Terra-Two? post-read: Belief, Depression, and Courage in Sociological Hard SF
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Bee is back (although Estelle could not join us due to IRL events) to discuss Temi Oh's wonderful debut novel, Do You Dream of Terra-Two? (https://bookshop.org/a/1159/9781534437401). With hints of Dark Eden, Semiosis, and Unkindness of Ghosts, this novel tackles the lives on a group of young people who are sent off to colonize a new world. It's pro…
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Digital Book Tour: Kathleen Jennings on Flyaway: Small Towns, Fairytales, and Linguistics
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This week Bee is joined by writer & artist Kathleen Jennings to talk about her book Flyaway. Flyaway is a fairy tale-influenced (or structured?) Australian Gothic novel (or novella?). Small town landscapes and linguistics, productive misinterpretations of fairy tales, Kurt Vonnegut, and what it's like to write a strict first-person novel with a sle…
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Digital Book Tour: Somaiya Daud on Mirage & Court of Lions: Body doubles, court politics, and historical science fantasy.
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This week, Adrian is joined by Somaiya Daud to discuss her new book, Court of Lions, the 2nd in the Mirage Duology (https://bookshop.org/a/1159/9781250126450). Somaiya and Adrian discuss genre mash-ups, body doubles, court politics, the legacy of French colonialism on Moroccan culture, the lack of beautiful dresses in the newest Star Wars trilogy, …
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28.1: Do You Dream of Terra-Two pre-read w/ Bee & Estelle: Alternate History, Destiny, and Space Travel
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This month Adrian is joined by Bee & Estelle to talk about Do You Dream of Terra-Two? by new British author Temi Oh (https://bookshop.org/a/1159/9781534437401). Bee of course is from the Spectology podcast, where they run our Digital Book Tour. And Estelle runs the phenomenal Abolish Time zine on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/abolish_time/ .…
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27.2: The Lesson by Cadwell Turnbull post-read w/ Lydia: Colonial Power in SF and Rural & Island Culture.
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Lydia joins us again as we discuss The Lesson by Cadwell Turnbull! We absolutely loved this novel, which details the life of island inhabitants living under a passively repressive regime of extra-terrestrials, who are here on Earth for unspecified reasons. There is resistance, there are people who want to work with the aliens, there are people who …
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Digital Book Tour: WM Akers on Westside Saints, detective novels, RPGs, and sequels
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This week we're joined by WM Akers to promote his new novel, Westside Saints (https://bookshop.org/a/1159/9780062854049). Bee and WM talk Westside Saints (and its predecessor, Westside), an alternate history detective novel about a woman who solves "tiny mysteries" until they get much bigger. They also talk about how tabletop RPG design reflects an…
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Digital Book Tour: Nick Mamatas on Move Under Ground, a novel of Beat literary figures fighting Lovecraftian monsters
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Today Bee is joined by Nick Mamatas, Bram Stoker award-winning editor & author of the just-re-released novel Move Under Ground. (https://bookshop.org/a/1159/9780486841861) Bee & Nick talk about writing modern Lovecraftian stories & his looming influence, the joy of reading referential stories, and typographic style as a carrier of meaning. The audi…
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27.1: The Lesson by Cadwell Turnbull pre-read w/ Lydia: Alien invasion and a history of capitalism & colonialism.
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We're back? We're back. Mostly. This month Matt is still out, and Adrian is joined by Lydia, a childhood friend of his from Homer, Alaska, to talk about the post-colonial alien invasion story The Lesson by Cadwell Turnbull (https://bookshop.org/a/1159/9781094081298). It's about life on the US Virgin Islands after an alien spaceship takes up home on…
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Digital Book Tour: Nino Cipri on Finna, a story of parallel universes as found in low-wage furniture stores
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Sometimes a book comes along that is both so unlike anything that came before it, but also so vital & perfectly voiced that once reading it, it's impossible to imagine a world where that book hasn't always existed. Nino Cipri's novella Finna (bookshop or ebook) is one such book. It's a story about life under late capitalism, about that eerie feelin…
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Welcome to .ZeroStar, an Actual Play, Sci-fi podcast where we play "Uncharted Worlds" by Sean Gomes and try not to go too off the rails as we do so. Our story is set nearly 2000 years in the future after Earth's sun has met an early end forcing humanity to redistribute themselves among the most fertile array of heavenly bodies they could find... Fo…
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Digital Book Tour: SA Jones on The Fortress, a book about restorative justice inside an all-women society
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For our fourth Digital Book Tour episode, Adrian is joined by Serje Jones, whose new book The Fortress (https://bookshop.org/a/1159/9781645660026) has been published by our friends at Erewhon books. Serje & Adrian discuss restorative justice, writing trans-inclusive feminist science fiction, and feeling emotions in the body instead of in the mind. …
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No new ep today, it's not our voices you need to hear. Try listing to shows like "Fanti" or "Minority Korner" to learn more about whats going on and how you can help. Check out these resources; https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bUJrgX8vspyy7YttiEC2vD0DawrpPYiZs94V0ov7qZQ/htmlview https://www.amnesty.org/en/get-involved/take-action/tell-canada…
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26.2: The True Queen post-read w/ Reading the End: Inclusion in Historical Fantasy, Comfort Reads, Sisterhood, and more
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Hey all, a few things: 1. This is really late. Sorry about that! It's because of: 2. The audio quality is really bad. Matt's computer essentially crashed during recording, so we had to use the back-up recording which was also screwed up by the whole situation. So it's bad, and I've done my best to make it listenable. Anyway, I hope you enjoy this e…
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Welcome to .ZeroStar, an Actual Play, Sci-fi podcast where we play "Uncharted Worlds" by Sean Gomes and try not to go too off the rails as we do so. Our story is set nearly 2000 years in the future after Earth's sun has met an early end forcing humanity to redistribute themselves among the most fertile array of heavenly bodies they could find... Fo…
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Digital Book Tour: Melissa Caruso on The Obsidian Tower, a story of a young woman on the run from her own magical power
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Bee is joined by Melissa Caruso, author of the Sword & Fire trilogy, and the upcoming Obsidian Tower, available June 2nd. One woman will either save an entire continent or completely destroy it in a captivating epic fantasy bursting with intrigue and ambition, questioned loyalties, and broken magic. Bee & Melissa discuss her new book, role playing …
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Digital Book Tour: Veronica Roth on Chosen Ones, a story of what happens after the "chosen ones" have saved the world
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Bee is joined this time by Veronica Roth, bestselling author of the Divergent series, to discuss her new adult novel, Chosen Ones. Chosen Ones takes place after a group of people has saved the world from the Dark One. After the Dark One fell, the world went back to normal . . . for everyone but them. After all, what do you do when you're the most f…
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In Conversation: Our Favorite Underrated SF Movies, with Seth Heasley of the Hugo's There podcast
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Once again we're joined by Seth Heasley of the Hugo's There podcast (https://hugospodcast.com) to talk about science fiction films! This time, we're talking about our favorite SF movies we think are underrated in some way. Maybe they bombed at the box office, maybe critics hated them, or maybe they have just been forgotten and deserve another viewi…
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26.1: The True Queen pre-read w/ Reading the End: Historical Fantasy, Trash Birds, and Chaotic Quarantine Brain
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Adrian + Matt are joined once again by our favorite podcast duo, Gin Jenny & Whiskey Jenny from the Reading the End blog & podcast. They've selected Zen Cho's Malaysian-inspired novel of magical Regency England, The True Queen. This episode is extreme Chaotic Good energy. We barely talk about the book, and do our best to talk about historical fanta…
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Digital Book Tour: Laura Lam on Goldilocks, a scifi thriller where a group of women steal a spaceship to save humanity
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Welcome to our inaugural Digital Book Tour, featuring Laura Lam, author of Goldilocks. Five women steal a space ship to save a human race beset upon by climate change, even while society doesn't believe they should be able to work due to their gender. Our host Bee interviews Laura about genre conventions, found family, what to do when your novel be…
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Hi everyone! We're excited to announce a project we've been working on to help tide everyone through the lockdown. Friend of the podcast & former guest Bee is joining us to interview SF authors with new books out. They will be bonus episodes happening on the main feed, but in addition to the regular book club & conversational bonus episodes that we…
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25.2: The Tea Master & The Detective post-read w/ Julia Rios: Cozy Murder Mysteries in Space!
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Julia Rios of the This is Why We're Like This podcast is back for our post-read discussion of Aliette de Bodard's wonderful space murder mystery novella, The Tea Master & the Detective (https://amzn.to/3aD8cOU). In this episode we discuss power structures within & outside of large organizations like unions or monasteries, the friendship between the…
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In Conversation: Our Favorite Aliens in Science Fiction
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A quick bonus episode this week, with Matt & Adrian discussing their favorite Aliens in science fiction and beyond. We revisit some books we've read for the pod, talk about some classics, and hit on a few under-represented gems. We hope you like it! A bit late, sorry about that! Quarantine time is weird. I'll try to get around to listing everything…
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25.1: The Tea Master & the Detective pre-read w/ Julia Rios: Domestic Cozy Detective Fiction, in Space!
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This month we're joined by special guest Julia Rios! Julia is a Hugo-award winning Editor & Podcaster, host of the This Is Why We're Like This podcast (which Matt has been a guest on!), and can be found at @OMGJulia on twitter. She edited the Machina Serial Box series, and her fiction has been featured in the Mexicanx anthology A Larger Reality. We…
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24.2: Wittgenstein's Mistress post-read: In February reading this seemed like a good idea.
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This is a somewhat personal & sometimes somber episode, recorded while the world was changing rapidly around us due to the global COVID-19 outbreak. We do our best to discuss the novel, Wittgenstein's Mistress by David Markson, although neither of us were able to finish it due to external world circumstances. It is by far our shortest post-read eve…
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Things We Like: Quarantine Edition! What to do, watch, and play while you're stuck inside.
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Last week, anticipating this week's shutdown of major US cities, Matt & Adrian sat down to talk about the ways we're working through our own social distancing boredom for a special edition of "things we like". What are some of the best movies, games, and other activities to spend doing when going outside has become difficult or even dangerous? Chec…
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24.1: Wittgenstein's Mistress pre-read: Philosophical Science Fiction & being lonely at the end of the world
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This March, Spectology brings you a discussion on the little-known but largely influential novel by David Markson, Wittgenstein's Mistress (https://bookshop.org/a/1159/9781564782113). Written from the perspective of the last woman on Earth, it's a sad and clever novel about loss, the Western cannon, the meaning of art, and the importance of other p…
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23.2: The Ghost Network post-read w/ Ben Roswell: Celebrity, Internet Culture, Architecture, and Secret Utopias
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We've finally done it! Sorry for the late episode, a few real life considerations got in the way of editing. We're joined again by Ben Roswell (@roswellwrites on twitter & roswellian.itch.io) to discuss Catie Disabato's postmodern novel of celebrity & architectural cults, The Ghost Network (https://amzn.to/2VtAhVc). We all had a lot of thoughts on …
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In Conversation: 2019 Recap, Book Stats, & Reader Questions
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Matt & Adrian sit down for a chat looking back at 2019—which books ended up being our favorites, which episodes did we like, and how did we do in terms of diversity of authors, genres, and guests? A big thanks to everyone who has stuck with us for two years now! Or who have just begun listening—we hope you'll stick around. In addition, we were aske…
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23.1: The Ghost Network pre-read w/ Ben Roswell: Experimental Narratives, Storytelling Games, and Postmodern Literature
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New month, new book, new guest! This week we welcome Ben Roswell (@roswellwrites on Twitter) to discuss The Ghost Network by Catie Disabato (https://amzn.to/2uXSeA2). The novel takes the form of a fictitious non-fiction book about the disappearance of a young pop star & her entourage who tries to find her amongst hidden underground spaces in Chicag…
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22.2: A Memory Called Empire post-read: Matters of Taste, Culture Shock, and Historical Worldbuilding
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Well, we've finally found a book we disagree on! While Matt loved A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine (https://amzn.to/2GrJJzC), Adrian was more cool on it. In this episode we discuss our disagreements, which largely come down to matters of taste in the aesthetics of stories we enjoy. We also get at some of the tough questions about empire & c…
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In Conversation: How & Why to Vote for the Hugo Awards
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Really short bonus/emergency episode today. Adrian is on his own and off-script, giving you the insider scoop on how to nominate & vote in the Hugo Awards, as well as why you might want to. Short answer: go to https://members.conzealand.nz/memberships and sign up for the "Supporting Membership". This will allow you to vote on the 2020 Hugo Awards, …
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22.1: A Memory Called Empire pre-read: Martine's academic work, historical ambassadors, and what it means to be a member of an empire
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It's the future baby! 2020 arrives with a bang as we discuss Arkady Martine's Byzantine-flavored space opera political thriller, A Memory Called Empire (https://amzn.to/2RdH5Ct). The story follows a young woman from an independent mining station who must travel to the central world of the Empire which surrounds it and act as ambassador. This comes …
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Episode 16 - British Superbikes 2019 Season Review
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Complete Review of British Superbikes 2019 with abit of news thrown in at the end. please give the pod a like a subscribe it's available on all podcasting platforms think you for listening and your support
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18.3: Stanley Chan discusses Chinese Science Fiction, the process of translating his novel Waste Tide, and trends in technology.
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Happy New Year, Spectologists! Late in 2019, Matt sat down with Chen Qiufan / Stanley Chan, the author of Waste Tide, to discuss the book, the process of translating & editing it for an American audience, the importance of prose in genre fiction, how science fiction & startup culture interact in China, some of his favorite upcoming authors, and muc…
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Review of the 2019 Motogp season with a race and rider breakdown please follow me on Instagram and Twitter #lastofthelatebrakers @Lbrakers on Twitter thank you for listening I enjoy waffling on about bikes and racing so hope you enjoy and Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all my listeners
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21.4: Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand w/ Bee: Radical visions of Identity, Class, and Gender
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For our final book in our "classics" series, we read Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand, a novel by Samuel R. Delany (https://amzn.to/2tTUHL5). This episode we're joined by Bee Gabriel (@benladen on twitter & patreon.com/benladen), an old friend of the podcast & one of Adrian's favorite cultural critics. This novel was an absolute joy to read &…
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A doozy of a book, and one where we start off the episode not agreeing on how we liked it! Charlotte Geater (@tambourine on twitter and creator of wonderful bot-based poetry) joins us again after her Rupetta episodes last December to discuss the 1960s underground classic, Ice by Anna Kavan (https://amzn.to/2PRGTth). We discuss death, addiction, pat…
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.ZeroStar Dread Special "Wake at the Magicians Manor"
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Do not attempt to adjust your audio device, this may not be our usual program, but we promise you a tale that will bring you to the edge of your seat... This is a broadcast from the "PayneHorne" Recorded back in 2017 9 Canadians play "Dread" by the fireside during the cold Ontarian winter. 4 of those Canadians play stage magicians in the late 1800'…
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Seth Heasley of the Hugos There podcast (https://hugospodcast.com) joins us to discuss Arthur C. Clarke's 1950s classic, Childhood's End (https://amzn.to/2srqLWa). This is a short book about big ideas, asking what would happen if aliens came to Earth and instituted a generations-long paternalistic program to get us ready for our next stage of evolu…
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21.1: Classic SF pre-read: On creating cannons, and how to read problematic fiction & authors.
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Welcome to a very special pre-read episode. This December, Matt, Adrian, and a series of guests are reading 3 separate works of "classic" SF and talking about them & what makes them a "classic". The works will be: * Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke (https://amzn.to/35WGICa) * Ice by Anna Kavan (https://amzn.to/33CEfes) * Stars in My Pocket Like …
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20.2: An Unkindness of Ghosts post-read: Slave States, Trauma, and Theocracy
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[A note: the content warnings at the beginning also apply to the episode as a whole. We talk about a lot of it in depth in a way that might be uncomfortable for some listeners. This episode is probably even less appropriate for younger children than normal due to that.] We're back having read An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon (https://amzn.…
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Review of the fly away rounds of Motogp, sorry again about the delay and that it's not how I usually do the pod! hope you enjoy it sorry about the poor audio quality it's something I need to address hope you enjoy the show and keep her pinned always
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In this one, Mark and Tracy discuss AI learning how to be a best friend and Mark's Facebook Dating exploration. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bestfrenzy/support
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In Conversation: Fancasting Binti, Black Tom, the Culture, and Ninefox Gambit
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Join us as we reflect on a few of the novels we've read for the podcast so far, and imagine what they might look like as on-screen adaptations. Matt & Adrian play executive producers, coming up with concepts for the adaptations & directors, writers, and actors who might work on them. Time stamps for each: Binti by Nnedi Okorafor (Matt): 2m33s The B…
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Your best friends Mark and Tracy review a few new alcoholic beverages in this one! Topics of conversation covered are the new Bird of Prey trailer and the Amazon Four Star Store. October 4, 2019 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bestfrenzy/support
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20.1: An Unkindness of Ghosts pre-read: Reading with privilege, using genre conventions, and truth in fiction
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In what ends up being a surprisingly introspective episode of Spectology, we introduce our new book: An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon (https://amzn.to/2O0rXHa). It is a very good book about life amongst the lower classes on board a generation ship. You and should buy it and read it. Much of this episode is spent questioning whether reading…
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.ZeroStar is an Actual Play podcast during which we play "Uncharted Worlds" by Sean Gomes. Vinyl Flyaway is played by Matty Mcmanee Nyx Nedra is played by Samantha Odber Kaze is played by Thomas Degroot Cpt, Rust Duckers is played by Jake Degroot & your host is Paul Courvoisier Our story is set almost 2000 years after Earth's sun meets a catastroph…
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