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Credits:

• Guest: Abigail Nussbaum
• Title: Excession by Iain M. Banks
• Host: Jake Casella Brookins
• Music by Giselle Gabrielle Garcia
• Artwork by Rob Patterson
• Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough
• Transcribers: Kate Dollarhyde and John WM Thompson

References:

• Vector
• Los Angeles Review of Books
• The Guardian
• Strange Horizons
• Lawyers, Guns & Money
• Warren Zevon
• Asking the Wrong Questions
• Abigail’s Track Changes
• Colourfields by Paul Kincaid
• Nina Allan’s Granite Silence and The Art of Space Travel
• Ed Park’s An Oral History of Atlantis
• Banks’ Consider Phlebas, Use of Weapons, & The Player of Games
• Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism
• Star Trek
• John le Carré
• Andor
• Transmentation Transience by Darkly Lem
• Outside Context Problems & Aggressive Hegemonizing Swarms
• Stanislaw Lem
• Kubrick/Clarke's 2001
• Paul Kincaid's biography of Banks
• Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are
• C.J. Cherryh
• Yudhanjaya Wijeratne's Salvager books
• Greg Egan
• Ann Leckie's Imperial Radch
• Yoon Ha Lee's Machineries of Empire
• Banks’ Look to Windward
• Abigail's Bluesky
• Kim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry for the Future
• Ned Beauman's Venomous Lumpsucker
• Neal Stephenson's Termination Shock