Episode 70 - Big Weird Sci Fi - ConSequential

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Back, back again to the stranger edges of sci fi. We ponder whether sci fi has preemptively shifted to reflect our garbage fire times, or whether our reading habits have just taken a turn for the cynical. Because of the garbage fires.

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