ÜBER DIESE EPISODE
We're back with season two! Let's kick it off with a book by one of Engineer Mike's favorites. Do they have enough bandwidth to get through the first few chapters? TW: SA, animal abuse, and a spot on JP impression.
Digressions: Female protagonists being gross, Engineer Mike's primary source, the free art movement, 70's rock singalongs, everything coming back to "Neuromancer," Neoliberal economics dovetailing into pronatalism, and moving on from past works.
Engineer Mike is reading: The Network Effect by Martha Wells
Nina is reading: Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh (note, it's pronounced mosh-FEG)
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WEITERE EPISODEN IN DIESEM PODCAST
Engineer Mike complained enough and Nina finally picked up one of the most decorated books in SF history. TW: SA as a metaphor.
Digressions: turgidity, pronouncing titles correctly, being an asshole in high school, Tenet feelings, Florida pronouns, Ursula K. Leguin guilt, Octavia Butler love, …
A very special episode! As part of self-promotion and a demonstration of why she and Engineer Mike are doing this podcast in the first place, Nina discusses her latest book, This is What You Wanted. Does she accomplish this, or is this just pretentious nonsense?
Nina struggles through the prologue of a dense but beloved recommendation from Engineer Mike. Will she walk through the Gate or turn around and head north?
Digressions: Theoretical George R.R. Martin essays, a rant about The Idol, the problematic Arthurian book we don't talk about, the usefulne…
Nina and Engineer Mike put on their raincoats and invade a city somewhere in the former Soviet Block (they think) to solve a murder mystery. Can they get through the first chapter, or is this notorious author's prose too purple?
Digressions: The Idol (again), the steampunk lifestyle, compariso…
Engineer Mike told Nina to read the wrong book! Can they roll with it, or will it blow up in their faces like a volcano?
Digressions: Engineer Mike's hatred of democracy, making (podcast) relationships work when one party likes trash, the problem with trilogies, including TL;DRs in your books, …
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