Reader's Room ponders the week's most thought-provoking speculative fiction and nonfiction. This week we talk about the transformative power of stories, Neil Gaiman's ability to use stories to evoke gods, and how great it is to pass a book forward.

Show links:

• Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology (and American Gods)
• Linkdump:
  • Tang Fei's The Person Who Saw Cestus (text and podcast at link.)
  • Radical Ocean Futures
  • The X-Prize Foundation's advisory council of science fiction authors

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