Michael and Ethan and special guest Nick begin their discussion of Stuart Turton’s third novel, The Last Murder at the End of the World.

In this episode:

Thanks to Jared

The ten commandments of detective fiction

Murder plots versus murder mysteries

But like, what even is human, anyway, right?

And what is supernatural, even?

Clarke’s Third Law: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”

We must imagine Prometheus happy

Some bad news about ambiguity in novels

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