This time around, it’s my distinct pleasure to welcome a fellow podcaster, Annalee Newitz (@annaleen), to talk about their forthcoming novel, The Terraformers, out January 31st, 2023, from wherever fine books are sold! We get to hear an excerpt from the book that leads us into a great discussion about transit gays, flying moose romance, and robot trans culture, among other things.

Things we mention on this episode:

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Mastodon

I-5 cattle ranches

Dune, by Frank Herbert

Friends at the Table

Jeffrey Tumlin

Plate tectonics

Chuck Tingle

Michael Hobbes

Maintenance Phase

If Books Could Kill

Freakonomics, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, by Yuval Noah Harari

Charlie Jane Anders

Our Opinions are Correct

The myth of progress episode

Brad DeLong 

Four Lost Cities, by Annalee Newitz

Annalee’s website and tiktok