Jenny sits down in the Reading Envy pub with two guests, Seth Wilson and Barret Newman.  Books discussed range from media to space, Naples to the Hebrides. (Listen to the end for a surprise uninvited guest.) Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy Episode 24 Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via iTunes by clicking: Subscribe Books discussed: How to Watch TV News by Neil Postman and Steve Powers Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances by Neil Gaiman The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan Neuromancer by William Gibson My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante Contact by Carl Sagan Other books and authors mentioned: Kurt Vonnegut Ernest Hemingway Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner Toni Morrison Stephen King Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr The Glass Cage by Nicholas Carr The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains by Neil Gaiman (audiobook) American Gods by Neil Gaiman Sandman (series) by Neil Gaiman Marvel 1602 by Neil Gaiman The Pluto Files  Neil deGrasse Tyson Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson Count Zero by William Gibson Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Spook Country by William Gibson Other items mentioned in passing: Reading Envy Episode 007 - Top Secret Dance Off The 50 Year Argument (documentary on The New York Review of Books) Page One (documentary on the New York Times) Cosmos with Carl Sagan Cosmos with Neil deGrasse Tyson StarTalk Radio Show with Neil deGrasse Tyson Cyberpunk subgenre Posthuman subgenre (Worlds Without End calls it "human development") Tron The Matrix Stalk us online: Jenny at GoodReads Jenny on Twitter Barret on Twitter