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Premee Mohamed joins us to discuss her debut novel, Beneath the Rising. We discuss how the world works differently for wealthy people and those that make dark covenants with creatures from other dimensions. We learn that science undergrads are wretched creatures and that you should not ever under any circumstances try to create a Chambers Reactor.

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A Broken Darkness, the sequel to Beneath the Rising is out in March 2021.

The Raven Tower by Anne Leckie

Embers of War by Gareth Powell

Winter Tide and Deep Roots by Ruthanna Emrys

Gold, Gil, Cred Stick... I sit down with two long time observers of of videogame history to talk money in games. We explore how what started as the bothersome fife of enterprising teens has become a big business.

The Alternate

Dr. Mora shows up on Deep Space Nine and tells Odo he may have found the planet Odo comes from. They visit the planet and Odo is poisoned with Freudian gas putting the station and Dr. Mora at great risk.

Armageddon Game

O'Brien and Bashir are working together to help an alien civilization destroy their stock of biogenic weapons of mass destruction. When things go wrong, the two Starfleet officers come together and learn a lot about each other.

It's the third anniversary of starting this podcast so we're doing our third Luc Besson film. (You're right, we started on a Luc Besson film and if we did one every anniversary this would be our fourth. You got us. We missed one.)

Lucy is a terrible movie; starting from a flawed premise and ending in a flawed conclusion. It's also racist and misogynist. It gets all of the science wrong. It misunderstands human history. The bar doesn't get much lower than this.

Veteran Androids and Assets guest Candace returns. The team weighs in on critical controversies in the Star Trek Universe as we discus Deep Space 9 Season 2 Episode 11 Rivals. Listen to the end for critical breaking news about a startling source of disinformation that may be lurking in your own home.

Gautam Bhatia, author of The Wall, joins us to talk about his debut novel. The Wall is chock full of ideas and questions the role of law, the effects of strictly constrained resources, and how hierarchy interacts with democracy.

We mentioned our Bookshop; unfortunately, The Wall is not included in that database so you will have to ask your local bookseller to find it.

Other Works Mentioned

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers

The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson

Chosen Spirits by Samit Basu

Analog/Virtual: and Other Simulations of Your Future by Lavanya Lakshminarayan

Mending Wall by Robert Frost

"Something of Freedom is Yet to Come": The Entangled Histories of Science Fiction and Capitalism by Olav Rokne in Strange Horizons

And Now His Lordship is Laughing by Shiv Ramdas in Strange Horizons

Laura samples Deep Space Nine for the first time to join us to discuss "Second Sight" and "Sanctuary".

Second Sight

For the first time since the death of his wife, Sisko falls in love. However, his new interest is the psychic projection of a woman in trauma.

Sanctuary

A group of refugees from the Gamma Quadrant request permission to settle on Bajor as their long-prophesied land of destiny.

Links

Laura can be found on twitter @_saturnreturn and in a monthly series at The Progress Report.

ALAB Series An infrequent podcast series about the American legal system.

Marshall and Stephen discuss the age old question, "Autobots or Decepticons? ," and think maybe the answer is "why not neither?"

Don of You Can't Win Podcast joins us t o discuss collaborators, the nature of crime, and Rom's wailing. Don also reminds us of important real world 1993 baseball context.

A Universal Basic Income is relatively common in science fiction, thanks in large part to the ubiquity of Star Trek. The idea that people don't need to compete for basic needs might feel futuristic but there are ways we can, and should, make that happen today.