Thumbing Through Yesterday

Roger Zelazny's Roadmarks is a bizarre book about time travel. And magic. And dragons. And sentient AI. And cars. And dinosaurs. A favorite of Tony's, this is a first-read for Tom. What an adventure!

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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep is one of Phillip K. Dick's best-known novels, and the basis for the Bladerunner film franchise. Tom loves this book, but what's Tony's take? And how do the big ideas from 1968 hold up in the 21st century?

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Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut is probably his best-known novel, a quasi-autobiographical account of the fire-bombing of Dresden mixed with a typically bizarre tale of alien abductions and time travel. What's not to like?

Watchmen by writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons and colorist John Higgins, is one of the finest graphics novels ever made. Perhaps the best? A favorite to both Tony & Tom, revisiting this was an absolute joy!

The Legacy of Heorot by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Steven Barnes, is Tony's pick this time around, a book that is also on Tom's list. We had very different experiences, revisiting this old friend!
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Who Goes Here? by Bob Shaw is a quirky Sci-Fi adventure. Our protagonist, Warren Peace (yes, Warren Peace!) awakens in a doctor's office with literally no memory of who he is, why he's there, or anything about himself. The memory erasure is a "perk" of having enlisted in the Space Legion. Warren quickly realizes that the only way to survive is to regain his lost memory and flee the Legion. It's a fun tale, with a number of surprises and an unexpectedly complex plot. A favorite of Tom's, Tony had never heard of it before.
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Hyperion by Dan Simmons is a Hugo Award-wining novel that Tony loves and Tom hasn't read before. It's structured like Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, but in space! Full of big ideas and complex characters, this book is a deep dive into an astoundingly well-built future.

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne is often regarded as a classic of early science fiction, but is it any good? Tom has fond memories of reading this as a child, but what happens when we revisit this book so many decades later?

Robert Heinlein's Tunnel in the Sky kicks off our 4th year of continuous podcasting. One of Heinlein's juvenille series, this is a fast-paced page-turner about a group of high school students accidentally marooned on an alien world, left to survive on their own. One of Tony's favorites, this was a first-read for Tom.
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This episode, we talk a bit about making Thumbing Through Yesterday. No novel to discuss, just an exploration of the podcast itself. Why did we start it? How successful is it? What have we learned? What are its secrets?
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