In this episode, the Baker sisters covers the Hugo award winner They’d Rather Be Right by Mark Clifton and Frank Riley. It was serialized in the magazine Astounding and then won the Hugo, yes - we’ve returned to the regular Hugos again, for best novel in 1955.  It was a low point for the sisters who struggled with the whole thing in general, but they did laugh a lot.  

 

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01:15 History Lesson

03:36 General Discussion 

10:20 Alice creates a Book Blurb 

11:26 Alice discusses the lessons learned 

15:47 We end up discussing the writing and structure of the book 

21:47 Alice brings up the problems with the character Joe 

25:05 We tackle the ‘science’ in the book 

29:43 Ann tries to figure out how the authors choose the title 

32:24 Alice does a quick character review 

40:03 Five Questions 

 

Music by Carl Miles