Greg Egan’s work exemplifies a certain kind of “hard” science fiction: not that it’s obsessed with big manly space battles, but rather that it’s using science to really dig into some complicated subjects. Eden Kupermintz, of Death // Sentence and many other cool projects, joins to discuss the scope and the scale, philosophy and physics in Diaspora.
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Guest: Eden KupermintzTitle: Diaspora by Greg EganHost: Jake Casella BrookinsMusic by Giselle Gabrielle GarciaAdditional music:"Equatorial Complex" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License"Fluidscape" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 LicenseArtwork by Rob PattersonOpening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John BroughThe Translated Hugo InitiativeBrian Catling's EarwigJeffrey Ford's The PhysiognomyJeff VanderMeer's The Strange BirdJeremy P. Bushnell's Relentless MeltSeverian (from Wolfe’s Book of the New Sun)Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves"Every text is ergodic if you want it to be."Pink Floyd's Stairway to HeavenHeavy Blog is HeavyCentroeuropa by Vicente Luis Mora, translated by Rahul BeryDengue Boy by Michel Nieve, translated by Rahul BeryYou Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue, translated by Natasha WimmerEnrigue in discussion with Maia Gil’Adí (friend of the pod) on Novel DialogueJeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation & Authority (and the Meal of Thorns episode)Dan Simmons’ HyperionUrsula Le Guin's Ekumen (in the Hainish books)Ben Berman Ghan’s The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits & Eden's reviewOlaf Stapledon's Last and First Men and StarmakerGreg Egan's ScaleBacklisted episode on Last and First MenDavid Humeleptons & femtosecondsGilles Deleuze & Jacques DerridaImmanuel Kant & correlationismEgan's Perihelion SummerSocrates & Plato & the polissolipsismEdwin A. Abbot's FlatlandZelazny, Le Guin, Dick, AsimovPeter Watts' BlindsightBecky Chambers' To Be Taught If FortunateEgan's MorphotropicLarry Niven (e.g., Ringworld)"I know kung fu" scene in The MatrixPragmatism, coherence, William JamesThe Best of Greg EganPermutation CityGreg Daniel’s Upload seriesThe Orthogonal Rocket trilogyZendegiKaren Burnham's Modern Masters of SF book on EganMMSF on Ballard, BesterFrederick Pohl's GatewayPoul Anderson’s Tau ZeroWells, Camille Flammarion, Flash Gordon, Star Trek & Star WarsM. John Harrison’s The Centauri DeviceGareth Watkin's essay on AI & fascismJohn M. Ford's Web of Angels on Death // SentenceGregEgan.net