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Sep 1, 2026 1 hr 53 min

Firefight - Episode 25

from A Grain of Sanderson

Today we read all of The Reckoners Book 2: Firefight, one of the best books we've read from Sanderson and our favorite episode we've recorded this year. Next time we're reading Shadows of Self, which will release either the 15th or the 22nd. Content warnings for this episode: aliens, apathy, assisted suicide, beheadings, being unhoused, betrayal, bleeding, bombs, bullying, cancer, Christianity, conspiracies, corpses, corruption, crushing violence, death, devils/Lucifer, drowning, faith, fire, force fields, gang violence, god, guns and gun violence, hospitalization, housefires, illusion magic, imprisonment, insanity, Jonestown Massacre, lying, many worlds theory, mental illness, mind control, misogyny, model minorities, murder, neglect, nuclear weapons, oligarchy, palliative care, paralell universes, prisons, racism, religion, royalty, self harm, sexualization, sin, spousal violence, stabbing, stereotypes, submarines, suicide, supervillains, telekinesis, torture, undeath, wounds References: Judge Judy Fullmetal Alchemist - Hiromu Arakawa Daemons of the Shadow Realm - Hiromu Arakawa Bioshock - 2K Bioshock Infinite - 2K Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow - Alan Moore The Autobiography of Mark Twain This show is created by Graham Gillman, Taylor Lane, and Jack McLaughlan. Patreon Discord Instagram Bookshop Our theme music is "goodnight kiss" by 2mello off the album midnight broadcasts. (https://2mello.net/)

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Today we read all of The Reckoners Book 2: Firefight, one of the best books we've read from Sanderson and our favorite episode we've recorded this year. Next time we're reading Shadows of Self, which will release either the 15th or the 22nd. Content warnings for this episode: aliens, apathy, assisted suicide, beheadings, being unhoused, betrayal, bleeding, bombs, bullying, cancer, Christianity, conspiracies, corpses, corruption, crushing violence, death, devils/Lucifer, drowning, ...

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