Once upon a time two years ago, we started a podcast series tackling Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr's "The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction," a work of actually readable literary theory which attempts to find new ways at describing and understanding what even this science fiction thing IS, anyway.

The fifth beauty has everything to do with the science fictional sublime. What IS the sublime? Can it be ... playful? Or is it always grotesque? What is the DEAL with inverted expectations? CAN WE EVEN SURVIVE THIS EPISODE OH MY GOD.

Ahem. It got a little rough in there for a while. More ramshackle gallivanting to follow!

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