Science Fiction Book Review Podcast

SFBRP #159 - Brandon Sanderson - The Way of Kings [ 1:32:20 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This book is huge, so Luke ends up doing the longest normal episode ever! The Way of Kings, Stormlight Archive book 1, by Brandon Sanderson.

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SFBRP #157 - Lauren Beukes - Zoo City [ 43:45 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Luke reviews Zoo City by Lauren Beukes.

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SFBRP #155 - Alastair Reynolds - Blue Remembered Earth [ 47:55 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Luke reviews Blue Remembered Earth by Alastair Reynolds.

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SFBRP #153 - Tobias S Buckell - Arctic Rising [ 1:26:10 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Luke spends 40 minutes reviewing Tobias S Buckell’s Arctic Rising with one half of his brain, and then spends another 40 minutes ranting Tobias S Buckell’s Arctic Rising as read by the other side of his brain. Sorry about the length!

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SFBRP #151 - Mark Twain - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court [ 53:20 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Time Travel Special part 1: Luke and Jesse discuss A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain as a jumping off point for the topic of “A being out of time.”

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Jesse’s notes:

Discussed on the show:
The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells, Smoke by Donald E. Westlake, romance and time travel, science fiction’s hold on time travel, the process of time travel vs. the man out of time, Army Of Darkness, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court is totally political, retellings and abridgements of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, framing stories, “a dispute with crowbars”, the LibriVox audiobook edition, 1889 illustrations on Gutenberg.org, the Blackstone Audio audiobook, Stuart Langton, Yankee vs. English accents, the Arthurian characters, Idiocracy, taking the piss out of the British, a very thin satire, The Marching Morons by C.M. Kornbluth, The Ugly Little Boy by Isaac Asimov, The Door Into Summer by Robert A. Heinlein, The Accidental Time Machine by Joe Haldeman, the effect on electricity on progress, Thomas Edison, dynamite, SFBRP #100, Then End Of Eternity by Isaac Asimov, comparing the 19th century man with the 21st century man, smartness man and the most moral man, democracy, “what we really need are newspapers”, the tyrannies of monarchy and religion, pick your own oppression, the man from the past comes to the present, adventures, “the Vulcan project”, great insults, Sandy’s reproach, “Mark Twain is fucking hilarious”, the characters bamboozle each other (and the reader too), attributed to Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, Will Rogers, Groucho Marx, “he is his own target”, occupy Wall Street, Ray Nelson’s Eight O’Clock In The Morning, John Carpenter’s They Live, the 1%, the Robber Barons, Carnegie and Nobel, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court is an essential adult read!, “you think you might know this book, but really you don’t know this book”, Luke gives it 4 out of 5 stars, sfbrp.com/episode-lists, feedback from #150 (ebooks, audiobooks and paperbooks)