Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 16: Colony
What happens when your toaster is plotting against you? Find out in the episode of the Philip K. Dick Book Club as we look at "Colony."
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June 28, 2017
Episode 38: Thomas Paine: The Crisis, Part One
In this episode, Thomas Paine goes to the front and provides reportage, and trolls the British. Learn what is wrote in The American Crisis.
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June 28, 2017
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 15: Paycheck
In this episode of the Philip K. Dick Book Club, we examine "Paycheck," a story of corporate games that remind us of later cyberpunk works.
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June 22, 2017
Episode 37: Thomas Paine: Common Sense
In this episode, we begin a new series on Thomas Paine with his 1776 pamphlet "Common Sense".
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June 22, 2017
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 14: The Preserving Machine
In this episode we see how cultures could be preserved in DNA, and corrupted. We also witness another example of how Dick misunderstood evolution.
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June 17, 2017
Episode 36: Arna Bontemps: Black Thunder (2)
In this final episode on the Harlem Renaissance, I explore the impact of Gabriel's Revolt of 1800 as told by Arna Bontemps in his historical fiction novel Black Thunder. (See Episode 35 for my introduction to this book)
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June 17, 2017
Episode 13: Philip K. Dick Book Club: Second Variety
In "Second Variety", Philip K. Dick explores the future of war at its most brutal.
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June 11, 2017
Episode 35: Arna Bontemps: Black Thunder (1)
In this episode, I examine the first half of Arna Bontemp's novel on Gabriel's Revolt, Black Thunder.
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June 11, 2017
Episode 12: Philip K. Dick Book Club: The Infinities
Energy beings, hamsters, evolution, and unexplored asteroids...it's Philip K. Dick's story "The Infinites".
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June 8, 2017
Episode 34: Rudolph Fisher: The Conjure Man Dies (2)
Part 2 of 2 on Rudolph Fisher's The Conjure Man Dies, a wonderful Harlem Renaissance novel exploring magic and society in Harlem.
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June 8, 2017
Episode 11: Philip K. Dick Book Club: The World She Wanted
In this episode of the Philip K. Dick Book Club we find out how to make the world--and the people in it--our plaything.
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June 4, 2017
Episode 33: Rudolph Fisher: The Conjure Man Dies (1)
Rudolph Fisher's wonderful mystery novel of the Harlem Renaissance, The Conjure Man Dies, examines the people and culture of black Harlem.
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June 4, 2017