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S17E4 Frankenstein 3: Frames Collapse!
Sorry, sorry, sorry! I'm a lazy loser, what can I say. We recorded this probably at least a month ago and I just sat on it. Well, here it is in time for Turkey Day.We intended to get it out before or…
S17E4 Frankenstein 2: Bildungsromonster!
Special mystery guest "Daniel" joins us to discuss the incomparable Volume 2.Some of the greats in Western thought pop their heads in, including Wollstonecraft, Rousseau, Milton, and Brooks…
Frankenstein 1.4-7: The Consolation of Elizabeth
In which the Frankensteins summon the courage and wherewithal to not lift a finger to save an innocent girl from being executed by the state and the very fair people who run it (themselves).Sorry…
S17E2 Frankenstein 1.1-3: Portrait of the Mad Scientist as a Young Man
In this episode we cover Frankenstein Volume 1, Chapters 1-3, Victor's family, his childhood, and his college years--right up to the creation of the creature!Thanks for listening!Email us at…
S17E1 Frankenstein Episode 2: Walton's Letters
In our inimitable fashion we spend two and a half hours talking about 20 pages. Yeah, we'll get through this whole thing in no time.The next episode should be out on July 4 (fingers crossed)! I'm…
S17 Frankenstein 2025
Hello!We're back with an exciting new concept for a podcast: reading a book not written by Kim Stanley Robinson and talking about it!Not that the above is not a superb and innovative and worthy…
S16E5 New York 2140 Part Five: "Escalation of Commitment," Hinge Points, Monocausotaxophilia, and GOLD!
There's gold in them thar podcasts, I tell ya, GOLD! Talking this time about Part Five of New York 2140, "Escalation of Commitment." We get what could be an ending--finding gold, rescuing Mutt &…
S16E4 New York 2140, Episode 4: Expensive or Priceless? Sticky or Epiphenomenal? Law or Dispossession? The Good or Ideology?
In this episode (recorded a few days after the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, hence the opening discussion), we talk about Part Four of New York 2140, "Expensive or Priceless?" Our (long)…
S16E3 New York 2140 Part Three: "Liquidity Trap,"
In this episode we discuss "Liquidity Trap," Part Three of Kim Stanley Robinson's New York 2140. We talk about the citizen chapters and think about where to locate an authorial consciousness in this…
S16E2 New York 2140 Part Two: "Expert Overconfidence," Epigrams, Property Regimes, and Outlaw Polar Bears
Hello! This week we continue our conversation of New York 2140, talking about Part Two, "Expert Overconfidence," in which our various experts get in over their heads (some more literally than…
New York 2140 Part One: "The Tyranny of Sunk Costs," Mistaking the Past for the Future, and Street Anemones
In this episode we declare there's not much to say, this is just a table-setting section of the novel, we won't discuss each and every subchapter, but then we talk for nearly two hours, starting with…
S16E1 New York 2140 Intro: Hello! (Again)
We're back from a long work- and life-related absence to fart around for a couple minutes trying to log in to our old accounts, and then we're off and running with the kind of meandering, half-baked…
S15E3 The World Soul Visits His Mummy: Napoleon
Our review of Ridley Scott's Napoleon. Email us at [email protected] Follow us on Twitter @podcastonmars Leave us a voicemail on the Anchor.fm app Rate and review us on iTunes or…
Proof of Life, or, Hoping in One Hand
We're still here! Grumpier than ever, complaining about things we probably shouldn't be, reading books, talking. And you're still listening! Thank you. We've been away for a long time for...reasons.…
S15E1 Obstructed Viewing (A Backdoor Pilot): SABOTAGE!
A very special episode of Marooned on Mars, a backdoor pilot, as they say in the biz, of Obstructed Viewing with friends of the pod returning-guest champion Bill and Dauphin Josh debuting their new…
S14E4 Galileo's Dream, Episode 4: Dumb Verbal Tics, Foregone Conclusions, and the Undramatic Inevitability of Grief
In our final reckoning with GALILEO'S DREAM, we talk about our horrible voices and their dumb verbal tics, the trickiness of time travel narratives, anticlimactic moments, conspiratorial webs, the…
S14E3 Galileo's Dream, Episode 3: No Lent on Callisto
This episode we discuss the Jovian society, the way the novel posits the relationship between science and religion, the entwined logics of extraction and redemption, the astrological epistemology,…
S14E2 Galileo's Dream, Episode 2: Sneezing, Shitting, and Fucking in Space-Time, plus the Redemption of Human Folly
In probably our greatest episode ever, Matt and Ms. Partial Sentence talk about all the stuff we normally talk about, like Shark Tank, redemption, helmets, jazz, the Divine Comedy, and…
S14E1 Galileo's Dream, Episode 1: Quantum Historical Fiction and the Messiness of the Future
Buongiorno! We're back with another thrilling series of discussions, and back to our author of choice, Kim Stanley Robinson. This time around we're discussing his weird and wonderful 2009 novel…
S13E3 Nothing for Nobody: STEALTH and the Nu Militarism
This week, we apologize for discussing STEALTH, an extended Incubus music video/ American military propaganda directed by Rob Cohen. Join us as we discuss the exploits of Ben "Big" Gannon (Talon 1,…
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