Ranting about Mediocrity: Murderbots v. Replicants
from The Wordy Pair Podcast Hosted by Rudolph Kohn and Justin Fraser
This week we're talking about the pervasive mediocrity in modern sci-fi. All Systems Red is a multi-award winning piece of reasonably good--although uncreative--science fiction from 2017 which inspired Rudy to read a book he thought it was cribbing off of: Philip K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" What Rudy discovered terrified him. Mentioned this episode: "Will Save the Galaxy for Food" by Yahtzee Croshaw https://a.co/d/bqW8Fek "Crabs on the Island" by Anatoly Dneprov https://archive.org/details/AnatolyDneprovCrabsOnTheIsland/mode/2up "What the Soul Still Fears" by Rudolph Kohn https://a.co/d/iE0DCMX "The Good Guy" by Justin Fraser https://a.co/d/6rKYpuG Check out our fiction at: (Justin) https://muppy.substack.com (Rudy) https://rnkfiction.blogspot.com https://www.youtube.com/@RudolphKohn And follow us on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/NinjaMouseChu and https://twitter.com/Rudolph_Kohn
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