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- Background
- Dan is a more casual reader but very into a few series.
- Podcast recommendations
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- Pod Save America
- Politics with a bunch of yelling
- FiveThirtyEight Politics
- Analytical politics discussion
- The Storm: A Lost Re-watch Podcast
- Episode-by-Episode Re-watch of Lost
- Game of Thrones Podcast w/Preston Jacobs
- In depth conversations about Game of Thrones and other series
- Talkin' Baseball
- Baseball Talkin'
- Book recommendations
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- A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin
- aka Game of Thrones series
- The Stand by Stephen King
- Stephen King's epic about a post-plague world
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- Background
- Jim has read the Three-Body Problem, but not the rest of the Remembrance of Earth's Past series. His sci-fi faves include Philip K. Dick, Jorge Luis Borges, Ted Chiang, and admittedly, he also remembers a few Michael Crichton books fondly.
- Podcast recommendations
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- The Adam Buxton Podcast
- It's Adam from Adam and Joe! He isn't shooting for uproarious good times now, but he does run a good interview. And is still funny.
- The Heavy Hole Podcast
- Good death metal interviews and recommedations. Thick Long Island accents as a bonus!
- Longform
- Long interviews with journalists that write long things.
- Radio Browser
- Discussion about interesting articles on the web.
- Reply All
- In-depth stories about the internet, often very strange.
- Thought Eater
- Rambling, but information-packed overviews of interesting things going on in role-playng games.
- The Daily
- Basic daily news, done really well.
- Talking Politics
- Politics without yelling; discussion of politics around the world with a long view.
- Ear Hustle
- A podcast about prison life made by prisoner. The rare genuinely unique perspective.
- Idle Thumbs
- A video game podcast. It's over but still amazing.
- Small Findings
- Jim's podcast about small bits of factual information he's come across.
- Book recommendations
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- Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick
- A story about possible realities.
- The Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
- Great short stories about language and systems.
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- Background
- Thalia, cohost of the Spoilercast, and familiar with the RoEP series, is far from a purist when it comes to the written word, and has voiced her belief on the podcast that all 3 books would benefit from a rigorous re-edit. A fan of maximalist fiction, it is no surprise that Death’s End joins her favorites list along with Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon, and David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. As a data scientist, she shares an innate curiosity about humankind’s future, and how it will interact with technology and society.
- Podcast recommendations
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- SAYER
- Sayer is a short narrative podcast that bring a full and crafted experience of a self aware AI with notes of Hal and Madeline L’Engels IT. It explores philosophical questions made practical by the advent of technology, and all episodes are game for reruns, dark room and good headphones recommended
- The MATH MVMT podcast
- In less than half an hour the math mvmt touches on prospects for future, and the role humanity has to play in it. Non violence and outward orientation, could they save us from the path we’re on?
- TANIS
- Super weird, but intriguing because of it. Horror-psuedo fiction with excellent sound-mixing. Mystery solving akin to 3Body book 1, in which a thriller unfolds in the internet age, with possibly a payoff bigger than you dare imagine.
- Book recommendations
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- Background
- Tim is new to the Remembrance of Earth's Past series and has only read up the current episodes chapters. He is an avid fantasy and sci-fi reader.
- Podcast recommendations
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- Citations Needed
- Left-wing politics podcast focused on narrative framing of political issues.
- Watch Out for Fireballs
- Video games club podcast doing deep dives on games both modern and retro.
- Comedy Bang-Bang
- Long-running L.A. comedy scene-based podcast.
- Waypoint Radio
- Weekly games discussion podcast from VICE media.
- Book recommendations
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- The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson
- Young woman joins an evil empire in order to destroy it from within.
- The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
- Heist caper in a fantasy Renaissance setting.
- Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds
- Sci-fi series about dead alien races and space just being very scary in general.