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We start A Canticle for Leibowitz with two curiosity provoking chapters and follow Brother Francis into the desert for his Lenten vigil. We also talk about  how a nuclear past becomes myth and ask what it means when “fallout” turns from a warning label into a demon story. 

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We finish Neuromancer, breaking down the final chapters and the coda, from the Villa Straylight confrontation to the last, mysterious images in cyberspace. 

We talk about some of the book’s biggest unanswered questions: AIs, identity, and what “successfully" completing the run even meant for Wintermute.

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Our characters get caught up in the clash between two artificial intelligences as we get surreal this episode.

The run continues as Molly goes deeper into the physical structure while Case manages things on the virtual side. Things get philosophical as Case comes "face to face" with Neuromancer and we learn a bit more about what this whole job is about.

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The action ratchets up from tense to chaotic as Corto breaks through as the run is going down. We follow Molly’s Straylight approach through SimStim, and encounter Riviera’s bizarre mind games as the plan inevitably goes off the rails.

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Neuromancer shifts into high gear as Case gets nabbed by the Turing Police and the Straylight run has to start up before the situation collapses any further. We also get some thoughts about memory and models of the self and get some more Sim-Stim action as the operation proceeds.

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We pick up our Neuromancer read-through right as the AI Wintermute starts speaking through familiar faces, laying out its limits and its leverage.

From there we step into Freeside, the glossy space resort that feels like a tourist paradise until you notice the decadent underbelly. 

Case goes chasing a buzz, the dinner goes sideways, and Riviera puts on an unsettling holographic cabaret that leads us to learning more about Molly's backstory. 

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We continue with chapters six through eight in Neuromancer.

In this episode:

• we collect the last member of the team, Peter Riviera
• Learn more about who, or what, "Armitage" actually is
• we start making our way to the corrupt and decadent Freeside, a cyberpunk Babylon

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We continue William Gibson’s Neuromancer with chapters 3 through 5 where we learn that we are in a heist story. Assemble the crew, buy the gear, test the tools, then do the heist before the heist. 

We learn about The Sprawl and BAMA and what Armitage has done that ties Case to the completion of this job.

We also talk about the SimStim feature and the interesting narrative perspectives it introduces into the story. 

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William Gibson’s cyberpunk classic, Neuromancer, drops us right into the action in the neon grime of Chiba City. 

Read along with us to find out why the book still feels like the blueprint for hackers, body modification, and the idea of cyberspace itself. 

Along the way we talk about the noir tone, and the genre’s core promise: high tech wrapped around low society.

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We wrap up our current run through of Robert E. Howard by reading two more tales: “The Vale of Lost Women,” regarded as one of the most controversial Conan stories, and “The Devil in Iron,” a more traditional Conan sword and sorcery story with those elements of supernatural horror we've come to love.

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