Podcast appearances and mentions of Jo Walton

PRESENTACIÓN LIBROS 00:02:05 Cuando ya no sea yo (Carme Elías) 00:03:35 Hey! Julio Iglesias y la conquista de América (Hans Laguna) 00:04:55 Monstruos ¿Se puede separar el autor de la obra? (Claire Federer) 00:08:10 Claire se queda sola (Marian Keyes) 00:10:10 Ni me gusta mi cuello ni me acuerdo de nada (Nora Ephron) 00:12:20 Shirley (Charlotte Brontë) 00:15:50 Fantasmas (Dolly Alderton) 00:17:45 Todo final es un comienzo (Dolly Alderton) 00:19:30 Taylor Swift: in her own words (Helena Hunt) 00:20:30 Soror (Patricia Gómez) 00:22:20 Mañana será otro día (Keum Suk Gendry-Kim) 00:23:55 Juegos Secretos (Jennifer Lynn Barnes) 00:25:05 Los secretos de la papelería Shihodo (Kenji Ukeda) 00:26:55 Troy Chimneys (Margaret Kennedy) 00:28:10 Dramones y mazmorras (Kristy Boyce) 00:30:00 Necesidad. Tesalia #3 (Jo Walton) 00:32:35 Tres deseos y una maldición (Laura Wood) 00:34:30 Asistente del villano (Hannah Nicole Maehrer) 00:36:50 Deberes: El descontento (Beatriz Serrano) PELÍCULAS 00:39:45 Julie & Julia 00:42:05 Vidas perfectas 00:43:05 Anora 00:45:00 Soy Nevenka 00:48:10 Queer 00:49:55 La dolce villa 00:51:35 La infiltrada 00:53:00 ¿Quién es Luigi Magione? 00:55:00 Back to black 00:56:55 Un completo desconocido 01:00:05 Nickel boys 01:02:10 Bridget Jones: mad about the boy 01:04:15 The Brutalist 01:06:55 El aprendiz SERIES 01:08:55 Vinagre de manzana 01:10:20: El minuto heroico 01:13:25 Aitana: Metamorfosis 01:15:25 The fall of Diddy 01:17:20 Cormoran Strike: Un corazón tan negro 01:20:25 Pombo (T4) 01:22:10 Valeria (T4) 01:23:25 Call the midwife (T14) 01:25:00 Deberes: An update on our family / Querer 01:27:45 DESPEDIDA En este programa suenan: Radical Opinion (Archers) / Siesta (Jahzzar) / Place on Fire (Creo) / I saw you on TV (Jahzzar) // Bouleward St Germain (Jahzzar) / Bicycle Waltz (Goobye Kumiko)

En este sextoprograma de la segunda temporada hablamos de utopías y su representación en ficción. También para hablar de recomendaciones. Tripulantes: Presenta Claudia, con Lunnely y Darkor. Minireseñas: Adviento fantástico, de autoría múltiple. Recomendaciones: Utopía no es una isla, de Layla Martínez. Monje y robot, de Becky Chambers. Los desposeídos y El día antes de la revolución, de Ursula K. Le Guind. La ciudad justa, de Jo Walton. Menciones especiales: saga Vorkosigan de Lois McMaster Bujold. La saga del Radch, de Ann Leckie. Antologías de Actos de F.E. Abrazar la revolución, Sentir la revolución y Visiones 2022

L'effet Tiffany est un phénomène fascinant qui illustre à quel point notre perception du passé peut être biaisée. Il se manifeste lorsqu'on croit, à tort, qu'un élément ou un concept appartient à une époque bien plus récente que celle où il a réellement émergé. Mais d'où vient ce nom de « Tiffany Effect » ? Eh bien, de Jo Walton, écrivain de science-fiction. C'est elle qui a inventé le terme, inspiré du prénom Tiffany. La plupart des gens pensent que Tiffany est un nom moderne alors qu'en réalité il vient de l'ancien nom Théophanie, dont les origines remontent au XIIe siècle. Prenons un autre exemple courant : les mammouths et les pyramides d'Égypte. Beaucoup de gens ont du mal à concevoir que des mammouths laineux, animaux emblématiques de la préhistoire, existaient encore lorsque les pyramides ont été construites. Pourtant, des mammouths vivaient sur l'île Wrangel, dans l'Arctique, jusqu'en 2000 av. J.-C., soit plusieurs siècles après la construction de la Grande Pyramide de Gizeh. Notre surprise face à cette coïncidence découle de l'effet Tiffany : nous avons tendance à compartimenter l'histoire en périodes distinctes, oubliant que certaines évolutions se chevauchent.Ce biais est en grande partie alimenté par nos systèmes éducatifs, nos récits culturels et nos représentations médiatiques, qui simplifient l'histoire pour mieux la rendre compréhensible. Nous imaginons souvent le passé comme une succession linéaire d'événements et d'époques bien délimitées. Mais la réalité historique est beaucoup plus complexe : des cultures et des phénomènes apparemment éloignés dans le temps ou dans l'espace peuvent avoir coexisté.L'effet Tiffany souligne l'importance de questionner nos intuitions historiques. Il nous invite à adopter une approche plus nuancée du passé, où les catégories rigides cèdent la place à une vision plus fluide. Ce biais ne se limite pas à l'histoire ancienne : il peut s'appliquer à des concepts modernes, comme l'apparition des technologies ou des modes de pensée. Par exemple, les premiers brevets pour des voitures électriques datent du XIXᵉ siècle, bien avant l'ère des voitures à essence.En somme, l'effet Tiffany est une leçon d'humilité face à l'histoire. Il nous rappelle que nos certitudes peuvent être trompeuses et que le passé, loin d'être figé, est un enchevêtrement complexe où l'ancien et le moderne se croisent souvent de manière inattendue. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

L'effet Tiffany est un phénomène fascinant qui illustre à quel point notre perception du passé peut être biaisée. Il se manifeste lorsqu'on croit, à tort, qu'un élément ou un concept appartient à une époque bien plus récente que celle où il a réellement émergé. Mais d'où vient ce nom de « Tiffany Effect » ? Eh bien, de Jo Walton, écrivain de science-fiction. C'est elle qui a inventé le terme, inspiré du prénom Tiffany. La plupart des gens pensent que Tiffany est un nom moderne alors qu'en réalité il vient de l'ancien nom Théophanie, dont les origines remontent au XIIe siècle. Prenons un autre exemple courant : les mammouths et les pyramides d'Égypte. Beaucoup de gens ont du mal à concevoir que des mammouths laineux, animaux emblématiques de la préhistoire, existaient encore lorsque les pyramides ont été construites. Pourtant, des mammouths vivaient sur l'île Wrangel, dans l'Arctique, jusqu'en 2000 av. J.-C., soit plusieurs siècles après la construction de la Grande Pyramide de Gizeh. Notre surprise face à cette coïncidence découle de l'effet Tiffany : nous avons tendance à compartimenter l'histoire en périodes distinctes, oubliant que certaines évolutions se chevauchent.Ce biais est en grande partie alimenté par nos systèmes éducatifs, nos récits culturels et nos représentations médiatiques, qui simplifient l'histoire pour mieux la rendre compréhensible. Nous imaginons souvent le passé comme une succession linéaire d'événements et d'époques bien délimitées. Mais la réalité historique est beaucoup plus complexe : des cultures et des phénomènes apparemment éloignés dans le temps ou dans l'espace peuvent avoir coexisté.L'effet Tiffany souligne l'importance de questionner nos intuitions historiques. Il nous invite à adopter une approche plus nuancée du passé, où les catégories rigides cèdent la place à une vision plus fluide. Ce biais ne se limite pas à l'histoire ancienne : il peut s'appliquer à des concepts modernes, comme l'apparition des technologies ou des modes de pensée. Par exemple, les premiers brevets pour des voitures électriques datent du XIXᵉ siècle, bien avant l'ère des voitures à essence.En somme, l'effet Tiffany est une leçon d'humilité face à l'histoire. Il nous rappelle que nos certitudes peuvent être trompeuses et que le passé, loin d'être figé, est un enchevêtrement complexe où l'ancien et le moderne se croisent souvent de manière inattendue. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

At the end of October Reactor published their list of The Most Iconic Speculative Fiction Books of the 21st Century, which attempted to list the best/top/favourite science fiction and fantasy books of the past 25 years. Two weeks later Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy award-winning writer Jo Walton published a follow-on piece on Reactor, On Selecting the Top Ten Genre Books of the First Quarter of the Century, where she discussed how she went about picking her contribution, while finding a classic reader's workaround that allowed her to name a lot more than ten books. That caught Locus reviewer Niall Harrison's attention and lead directly to us inviting Jo to join us for a delightful and really interesting conversation on the subject. While we hope you enjoy the podcast, we have to mention their were some audio difficulties. We've done the very best we can to make everything work, but we do apologise for any audio issues you experience while listening to the episode.

This week, we return from our lengthy and unplanned hiatus with the world's! nichest! episode! That's right, we're talking about Among Others by Jo Walton, Ballad by Maggie Stiefvater, and Tam Lin by Pamela Dean, three fantasy novels set on school campuses that blend faerie folklore and coming-of-age stories.  Topics of discussion include how each book puts their own spin on the supernatural and the folkloric, tragically canceled book series, reproductive rights, and where on a college campus you're most likely to run into a faerie. (And yes, this episode was meant to be released several months ago, as our discussion at the beginning indicates. Oops.) Other media mentioned Greta and Valdin by Rebecca K Reilly La Chimera dir. Alica Rohrwacher Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le Carre Challengers dir. Luca Guadagnino Dead Boy Detectives (Netflix show) You Let Me In by Camilla Bruce (creepy faerie book Lulu couldn't remember the name of) The Wicker King by K. Ancrum Aye and Gomorrah by Samuel R. Delany Catwings by Ursula K. Le Guin The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater Chime by franny billingsley The Hounds of Ulster by Maggie Stiefvater Apotheosis (concept, not katabasis) A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin StarCrossed by elizabeth bunce The Oracles of Delphi Keep by Victoria Laurie How to Train Your Dragon  Lord of the Rings (film & books) Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson Content warnings: discussions of sibling death, parental abuse, a car crash, pregnancy and abortion, suicide, and dubious sexual consent

Alan Blackwell spoke with us about the lurking dangers of large language models, the magical nature of artificial intelligence, and the future of interacting with computers.  Alan is the author of Moral Codes: Designing Alternatives to AI  which you can read in its pre-book form here: https://moralcodes.pubpub.org/ Alan's day job is as a Professor of Interdisciplinary Design in the Cambridge University department of Computer Science and Technology. See his research interests on his Cambridge University page. (Also, given as homework in the newsletter, we didn't directly discuss Jo Walton's 'A Brief Backward History of Automated Eloquence', a playful history of automated text generation, written from a perspective in the year 2070.) Transcript

Vous en rêviez, nous l'avons fait ! Ada Palmer est notre invitée aujourd'hui ! La nouvelle reine de la science-fiction américaine vient présenter Trop Semblable à l'éclair qui vient de sortir au Livre de Poche. Trop Semblable à l'éclair - déjà un classique Historienne et écrivaine américaine, lauréate du prestigieux Hugo Award, elle vient nous parler de Trop Semblable à l'Éclair et de son ambitieuse saga Terra Ignota, une épopée de science-fiction en cinq tomes qui a conquis les lectrices du monde entier. Rejoignez-nous pour une plongée fascinante dans l'univers complexe et riche de Terra Ignota, et découvrez les inspirations et les défis derrière cette saga acclamée. Petit bonus, il se pourrait que la non moins célèbre Jo Walton, autrice elle aussi couronnée du Hugo award, mais aussi du Nebula, du prix World Fantasy, et tant d'autres, soit elle aussi présente derrière le micro... On dit ça, on dit rien ! Merci à Audrey Allaire pour sa traduction en direct ! 4ème de couverture : « En 2454, trois siècles après des événements dévastateurs ayant transformé la société, les concepts d'État-nation et de religion organisée ont disparu. Dans un monde où dix milliards d'êtres humains se regroupent en sept Ruches aux ambitions distinctes, la paix et l'abondance définissent cette utopie futuriste. Mais cet équilibre fragile est menacé lorsque Mycroft Canner, condamné à une servitude perpétuelle mais confident des puissants, doit enquêter sur le vol d'un document crucial : la liste des dix principaux influenceurs mondiaux. Un secret encore plus grand repose sur ses épaules : un enfant aux pouvoirs quasi-divins, dans un monde où l'idée de Dieu a été bannie. Comment accepter un miracle dans une société qui a renoncé à la foi ? » Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Jo Walton joins Meg and Alex to discuss Mirror Dance. Come for the clones, stay for the amnesia.

Once again with no guest to give us focus, Jonathan and Gary return to rambling mode, spurred on by the observation that voting for the 2024 Hugo Awards is now open. This leads to our ongoing discussion of what the Hugo Awards do and do not represent, why voting for your favorite works is important even if you haven't read all the nominees, what makes a genuine SFF classic, and how the Hugo procedures and categories differ from those of the World Fantasy Awards—which are also accepting nominations from members of the 2022, 2023, and 2024 conventions. We suggest you take a look at Jo Walton's An Informal History of the Hugos if you're interested in a history of the Hugos, and point out that nominations for the 2024 World Fantasy Awards are now open too.

Welcome to Sci-Fi Talk Weekly. In this episode  honoring the late Carl Weathers to the Saturn Awards winners, casting news for Outlander spinoff and new series, Dark Matter. Plus updates on upcoming series and films like Mayfair Witches, Interview with the Vampire, and the Batman casting delay. You'll also hear Jo Walton's January Reading List , l including a potential Battlestar Galactica reboot and DCU casting news.  Limited Offer: Subscribe To Sci-Fi Talk Plus Free For A lifetime 

Language lets us talk about things that aren't, strictly speaking, entirely real. Sometimes that's an imaginative object (is a toy sword a real sword? how about Excalibur?). Other times, it's a hypothetical situation (such as "if it rains, we'll cancel the picnic" - but neither the picnic nor the rain have happened yet. And they might never happen. But also they might!). Languages have lots of different ways of talking about different kinds of speculative events, and together they're called the irrealis. In this episode, your hosts Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne get enthusiastic about some of our favourite examples under the irrealis umbrella. We talk about various things that we can mean by "reality", such as how existing fictional concepts, like goblins playing Macbeth, differ from newly-constructed fictions, like our new creature the Frenumblinger. We also talk about hypothetical statements using "if" (including the delightfully-named "biscuit conditionals), and using the "if I were a rich man" (Fiddler on the Roof) to "if I was a rich girl" (Gwen Stefani) continuum to track the evolution of the English subjunctive. Finally, a few of our favourite additional types of irrealis categories: the hortative, used to urge or exhort (let's go!), the optative, to express wishes and hopes (if only...), the dubitative, for when you doubt something, and the desiderative (I wish...). Read the transcript here: https://lingthusiasm.com/post/737362573359464448/transcript-episode-87-irrealis Announcements: Thank you to everyone who shared Lingthusiasm with a friend or on social media for our seventh anniversary! It was great to see what you love about Lingthusiasm and which episodes you chose to share. We hope you enjoyed the warm fuzzies! In this month's bonus episode, Gretchen gets enthusiastic about swearing (including rude gestures) in fiction with science fiction and fantasy authors Jo Walton and Ada Palmer, authors of the Thessaly books and Terra Ignota series, both super interesting series we've ling-nerded out about before on the show. We talk about invented swear words like "frak" and "frell", sweary lexical gaps (why don't we swear with "toe jam!"), and interpreting the nuances of regional swear words like "bloody" in fiction. Join us on Patreon now to get access to this and 80+ other bonus episodes! You'll also get access to the Lingthusiasm Discord server where you can chat with other language nerds. Find us here: https://patreon.com/lingthusiasm For links to things mentioned in this episode: https://lingthusiasm.com/post/737362321491591169/lingthusiasm-episode-87-if-i-were-an-irrealis

Los Reyes Filósofos, de Jo Walton, es la segunda parte de La Ciudad Justa, novela que también podéis encontrar reseñada en el podcast. Tanto en aquél episodio como en éste no encontraréis spoilers pero sí podréis escuchar cómo os intento animar a leerlas, ya que son dos novelas que valen la pena. Gracias por estar […] The post #169 LOS REYES FILÓSOFOS (TESALIA II), JO WALTON first appeared on Sons Podcasts.

PRESENTACIÓN LIBROS 00:01:40 Las edades de Lulú (Almudena Grandes) 00:03:45 La caída de la casa Usher (Edgar Allan Poe) 00:05:50 Papá y Diosa (Aude Picault) 00:07:55 De conjuros y otras penas (Angela Slatter) 00:09:50 Dominga habla sola (Elisabeth Justicia) 00:11:00 Acércate (Sara Gran) 00:13:40 Hecha a sí misma (Alicia Martín Santos) 00:15:10 Los dones. Anales de la costa occidental #1 (Ursula K Le Guin) 00:17:45 Me das ansiedad y El duelo (Paula Cheshire) 00:19:30 After school Dice Club (Hiro Nakamichi) 00:21:15 Irene, a porteira (Xulia Pisón) 00:23:00 Los niños de la ermita (Angela Porras) 00:24:30 Los reyes filósofos. Tesalia #2 (Jo Walton) 00:28:00 Doña Concha: la rosa y la espina (Carla Berrocal) 00:30:05 El hombre iluminado. Novela Secreta #4 (Brandon Sanderson) 00:33:25 Madialeva (Ana Moreiras) 00:35:05 Los hermanos Hawthorne. Una herencia en juego #4 (Jennifer Lynn Barnes) 00:36:50 La sabiduría de las multitudes. La Primera Ley #9 (Joe Abercrombie) 00:39:50 Alguien ha vuelto (Karen M. McManus) DEL PAPEL A LA PANTALLA 00:41:20 Percy Jackson PELÍCULAS 00:50:20 La voz humana 00:52:55 Extraña forma de vida 00:54:10 The dark and the wicked 00:55:25 Los mercenarios 4 00:57:00 Los cortometrajes de Wes Anderson para Neflix 00:58:20 40 años sin ABBA 01:00:00 La Conferencia 01:01:40 Bisbal 01:04:20 Hermana Muerte 01:06:20 Taylor Swift: The Eras tour SERIES 01:11:10 Sólo asesinatos en el edificio (T3) 01:13:50 Love is blind (T5) 01:15:00 La rueda del tiempo (T2) 01:17:20 Prime time: la tele que marcó nuestras vidas 01:19:00 La caída de la casa Usher 01:20:30 Beckham 01:23:20 Who killed Jill Dando? 01:25:10 Ed Sheeran: la suma de todo 01:27:15 The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon (T1) 01:29:50 El vecino (T1-T2) 01:31:25 El curioso caso de Natalia Grace 01:32:25 La salvadora blanca 01:34:15 Bosé y Bosé renacido 01:36:25 Los pecados de Hillsong 01:38:20 Poquita Fe (T1) 01:40:20 Deberes: Colegio Abbott (T1) / Fundación (T2) 01:43:10 DESPEDIDA En este programa suenan: Radical Opinion (Archers) / Siesta (Jahzzar) / From the Back (Pat Lok & Party Pupils) / I saw you on TV (Jahzzar) / Place on Fire (Creo) / Parisian (Kevin MacLeod) / Bicycle Waltz (Goobye Kumiko)

David and Perry talk about their recent reading, ranging from a confronting story of racism and murder in America, through a pleasant coming-of-age novel, a comedy TV series and an engaging piece of historical non-fiction. Introduction (02:35) Conflux: National Science Fiction Convention (05:40) General News (16:13) U.S. National Book Awards (03:05) Ditmar Awards (02:15) Nobel Prize for Literature 2023 (01:58) A.I. Translation of books (08:42) What we've been reading and watching (55:01) All the Sinners Bleed by S. A. Cosby (07:42) The Will of the Many by James Islington (08:51) The Odd Angry Shot by William Nagle (09:36) Among Others by Jo Walton (10:50) Only Murders in the Building Season 3 (08:26) The Wager by David Grann (08:52) Travelling with books (01:19) Windup (00:35) Image generated by Wombo.ai.

David and Perry talk about their recent reading, ranging from a confronting story of racism and murder in America, through a pleasant coming-of-age novel, a comedy TV series and an engaging piece of historical non-fiction. Introduction (02:35) Conflux: National Science Fiction Convention (05:40) General News (16:13) U.S. National Book Awards (03:05) Ditmar Awards (02:15) Nobel Prize for Literature 2023 (01:58) A.I. Translation of books (08:42) What we've been reading and watching (55:01) All the Sinners Bleed by S. A. Cosby (07:42) The Will of the Many by James Islington (08:51) The Odd Angry Shot by William Nagle (09:36) Among Others by Jo Walton (10:50) Only Murders in the Building Season 3 (08:26) The Wager by David Grann (08:52) Travelling with books (01:19) Windup (00:35) Click here for more info and indexes. Image generated by Wombo.ai.

Dragons and alternate history; the research process; writing with particularity, and courage; character work; and more on this Deep Dive with author Jo Walton about her work across multiple genres. This interview is a part of the Portolan Project, an initiative to provide a wealth of exceptional creative writing courses and resources. Episode show notes: speclit.org/ep-53-show-notes Find out more about the Portolan Project here: www.speclit.org/portolan-project Content warning: discussion of rape in Greek mythos in relation to Walton's The Just City trilogy

Bienvenidos y bienvenidas a otra reseña sin spoilers en Librorum Podcast. Vuelvo con un episodio convencional en el que os cuento qué me ha parecido la novela La Ciudad Justa, de Jo Walton, un experimento que consiste en mezclar fantasía con mitología grecorromana y con filosofía. Un experimento que, a mi juicio, sale bien. Espero […] The post #145 LA CIUDAD JUSTA, JO WALTON first appeared on Sons Podcasts.

A huge THANK YOU to our Patrons: Console peasant, Edwoon, ("last word" tier) Sinemac, Mohammed Albshaiti (“your message here” tier) Daniel Simonson, Shawn Farrell, Aaron Maule, Michael DeVries, Brandon C, irvin ruiz, Eddydoo, Hoshi 127 ("Credited Supporter" tier), Chris Wolff, Scarlet Dani, Awesomegamer 241, Pavu RS, Gavin Mallott, & Isfar E ("Gratitude" tier, www.patreon.com/bdckr). our previous book reviews: Martha Wells' All Systems Red (https://youtu.be/IfIqIybTpGs?t=4m44s) Sarah Gailey's River of Teeth (same video as All Systems Red) Mara Wilson's Where Am I Now (https://youtu.be/n_MO1-XjL40?t=6m6s) Neil Gaiman's The View from the Cheap Seats (https://youtu.be/wI2LmT4pO7g?t=6m5s) Richard K. Morgan's Takeshi Kovacs series (https://youtu.be/7nEtnjPr41o?t=8m44s) Ursula K. LeGuin's The Found and the Lost and The Unreal and the Real (https://youtu.be/wdRNUscZtNM?t=5m23s) Seanan McGuire's Every Heart a Doorway (https://youtu.be/7UKCg0lLtbE?t=3m42s) Tim Powers' Medusa's Web (https://youtu.be/wk2jXiO786U?t=5m4s) Felicia Day's You're Never Weird on the Internet (https://youtu.be/RyCD83ql66g?t=4m46s) Randall Munroe's What If and Thing Explainer (https://youtu.be/PkfYkPnAFVM?t=3m51s and https://youtu.be/PkfYkPnAFVM?t=5m8s) Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files (https://youtu.be/pV_r0v-uedM?t=6m) Joseph Fink's and Jeffrey Cranor's Welcome to Night Vale (https://youtu.be/JgnNU9kBa0E?t=5m35s) older book reviews from our original channel bdckr: Mira Grant's Newsflesh Series (https://youtu.be/UNORbgIzAac?t=7m9s) Jo Walton's What Makes This Book So Great (https://youtu.be/B2rvP8uT01Y?t=6m35s) Caanan Grall's Max Overacts (https://youtu.be/vqAmRIwK-BE?t=7m35s) Harry Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat Series (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypq7FAZn_gw&feature=youtu.be&t=7m54s) Alan Moore's Miracle Man (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tJd2iBjpqQ&feature=youtu.be&t=9m57s) Robin Hobb's Farseer Trilogy and Robert McCammon's Boy's Life (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uqe2Ag_5Fc&feature=youtu.be&t=7m58s) Pat Rothfuss' Kingkiller Chronicles (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PxrKQyVU94&feature=youtu.be&t=7m20s) Ursula K. LeGuin everything (https://youtu.be/Y8u4Ib_gMMg?t=9m11s) Thanks to the following for providing fodder for our Q&A: @Kamran 107 (MP Matchmaking Unlocked by mg425 AKA u/mtgy425) mg425 AKA u/mtgy425: Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@mg425 Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/InjusticeMobile/comments/z3sbis/how_online_battles_matchmaker_works_a_study_of/ Article explaining MP Matchmaking: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1t3wREVKqhiITaOGOh5ZCp6AdTKc-J4WmTp5kNaQHFzs/edit --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bdckr/support

Four people head up into the Hollow Hills for an evening of storytelling. Only three return. The trio is unwittingly drawn into a game with the Tiglath, an ancient race of shape-shifters who were driven inside the hills long ago. At stake is the land itself.  An eerie, poetic fantasy from acclaimed novelist and poet, Jo Walton, about the heartfelt, complicated meanings of home. The play was inspired by The Tale of Manawydan, son of Llyr from the Welsh legend cycle: The Third Branch of the Mabinogion.  Creative Team for Heart's Home:  Writer: Jo Walton Director and Co-Dramaturge: Laurie Steven Co-dramaturge: Janet Irwin Music Supervisor and Editor: Venessa Lachance Supervising Sound Designer: Damian Kearns Cast:                                                     William Beddoe (Anoon) Anurag Choudhury (Paul) Erin Eldershaw (Kigva) Alix Sideris (Rhiannon) Bruce Spinney (Mannie and Series Host) Advisory: This episode contains course language, potentially disturbing magic, and themes that may raise painful memories for those harmed by the impacts of colonialism. Listener discretion is advised. You can find out more about Heart's Home and the series on our website www.theotherpath.ca.   Please consider supporting our work and help us create new episodes by becoming a member at Buy Me A Coffee. Members gain access to special features, such as writer interviews, a chance to meet the artists and more.  Recommend us to your friends and family on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.  Thank you for listening and we hope you enjoy Heart's Home! About the seriesWhat do witches, ogres and shape-shifters have in common with dive bars, fashion shows and neighborhood parks? They are all on The Other Path!  Classic folk tales meet modern life in this fantasy audio drama series filled with magic, mystery, and danger.  Follow people so desperate to fulfill their dreams, they choose a path that leads them to wrangle with magical forces and creatures straight out of folklore. They will lure you with promises of good fortune but be warned, they'll lead you into danger. Whatever fate has in store, the other path reveals the unexpected. Our five dramas by award-winning Canadian writers are inspired by fantastical tales from the past, but set in today's modern world.  From haunting dramas to macabre comedies, these original tales come alive with the voices of professional actors and artfully crafted music and sound.  To find out more about The Other Path, the artists and upcoming special events, visit our website www.theotherpath.ca.   About Odyssey TheaterThe Other Path was created and directed by Laurie Steven, Artistic Director of Odyssey Theatre, a professional non-profit theatre in Ottawa, Canada.  Our imaginative award-winning productions range from satires to epic dramas, to enchanted myths re-envisioned for adult audiences.  Odyssey Theatre operates on the traditional, unceded Territory of the Algonquin, Anishnaabe peoples.  Odyssey Theatre is grateful to the Canada Council, Ontario Arts Council, City of Ottawa, Ontario Trillium Foundation, Ottawa Community Foundation and our wonderful donors for their support. 

This love-letter to sci-fi, libraries, and friends forged through literature is also a fairy tale of sorts about a young girl saving her world. Is the magic real? Probably!  Our theme music was composed by Nick Lerangis. Advertise on OverdueSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This month we discussed Jo Walton's debatably fantastical novel Among Others, winner of the Hugo for best novel in 2012.  Your DM for this episode is Amy! CW/TW: CSA, child death Episode transcripts are available within a few days after the audio. Music by Eon Links: Jo Walton's Gizmodo Interview

Whether you think about it or not, many stories we know are chock full of governance. This is the second part of my chat with writer and programmer Shauna Gordon-McKeon. I enjoyed learning about governance in last week's episode, but the conversation we had in this episode is my favorite. We get into what inspires us to (or to not) take action, the laziness of dictatorship-topple stories, and the ethics and logistics of writing major and minor characters. I also go off on a tangent about Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut because of course I do. If you have a governance story you love or just want to talk about, feel free to email me! researchholepodcast@gmail.com! Justice for rhubarb! Read Shauna's story, Sunlight, for the After the Storm anthology here: https://medium.com/after-the-storm/sunlight-cdb9bb0be8bc This note is from Shauna: There's a good article by Ada Palmer and Jo Walton on how over-reliance on heroic narratives leads to conspiracy thinking: https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-protagonist-problem/. I don't think I referenced it explicitly but it's very relevant. If you want to read two very articulate views on the politics of Black Panther written by actual Black people, as an antidote to Shauna and I—two white people—just riffing, check out “There Is Much to Celebrate–and Much to Question–About Marvel's Black Panther” by Steven Thrasher and “The Passionate Politics of ‘Black Panther'” by Richard Brody. If you want to not be like Shauna and I and actually read the books we reference, you can check out Workshops of Empire: Stegner, Engle, and American Creative Writing During the Cold War by Eric Bennett. The book I couldn't remember the name of in the podcast was called Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping by Mathew Salesses. Before you plant nerds come at me, yes, I misspoke. Technically, rhubarb is a vegetable, though it is legally a fruit! So I was kind of right! The Huffpost article “So What Exactly IS Rhubarb, Anyway?” explains this distinction further. The article Leah referenced in her Something I Learned This Week email is “Listen to the Sick Beats of Rhubarb Growing in the Dark” on Atlas Obscura. You can learn more about Shauna by following her on twitter at @shauna_gm or visiting her website: http://www.shaunagm.net/. You can find bonus material, including a brief preview paragraph from Shauna's governance story-in-progress by supporting me, Val Howlett, on Patreon.

In a grimdark world, filled with truth, lies, and politics many of us have been longing for a literary escape that can give us some hope. For this generation, Hopepunk is our solution. At WorldCon 77 Dublin, Jo Walton, Lettie Prell, and the creator of the term, herself, Alexandra Rowland, on a panel moderated by the marvelous Sam Hawke discussed the true meaning of Hopepunk. =============================== Thanks for listening! I'll be back next Monday with more rambling ideas about writing. If you enjoyed this episode, share it with your friends and subscribe! You can find most of these posts over on my Blog (https://morganhazelwood.com) / Vlog/Youtube (https://youtube.com/MorganHazelwood) If you want to connect? Check out my Linktree (https://linktr.ee/morganHazelwood)

This is the second half of a conversation between Ada Palmer and Jo Walton, about writing chapters. This was a two-hour conversation, so our previous episode had the first hour, and this episode has the second hour.

The name Tiffany has been around for some 800 years. But you can't name a character in a historical novel 'Tiffany', because people don't believe the name is old. Science fiction and fantasy author Jo Walton coined the term "The Tiffany Problem" to express the disparity between historical facts and the common perception of the past. Find out more information about the topics in this episode at theallusionist.org/tiffany, plus a transcript and the full dictionary entry for the randomly selected word. Sign up to be a patron at patreon.com/allusionist and not only are you supporting an independent podcast, you get patron-exclusive video livestreams and a Discord community full of language chat, craft pics and word game camaraderie. The Allusionist's online home is theallusionist.org. Stay in touch at twitter.com/allusionistshow, facebook.com/allusionistshow and instagram.com/allusionistshow.  The Allusionist is produced by me, Helen Zaltzman. The music is composed and sung by Martin Austwick. Hear Martin's own songs via palebirdmusic.com. Our ad partner is Multitude. To sponsor the show, contact them at multitude.productions/ads. This episode is sponsored by: • Bombas, whose mission is to make the comfiest clothes ever, and match every item sold with an equal item donated. Go to bombas.com/allusionist to get 20% off your first purchase. • BetterHelp, online therapy with licensed professional counsellors. Allusionist listeners get 10% off your first month at betterhelp.com/allusionist.  • Squarespace, your one-stop shop for building and running a sleek website. Go to squarespace.com/allusionist for a free 2-week trial, and get 10 percent off your first purchase of a website or domain with the code allusionist.  Support the show: http://patreon.com/allusionist See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is the first half of a conversation between Ada Palmer and Jo Walton, about writing chapters. This was a two-hour conversation, so this episode has the first hour, and the next episode will have the second hour.  

Cedric dies and Voldemort comes back. Email us at restrictedsectionpod@gmail.com to tell us what you thought of Flesh, Blood, and Bones or even what you think of us! We'd love to read your email on the show. Be sure to subscribe to know right away about new episodes, and rate and review! SUPPORT US ON OUR PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/therestrictedsection THANK YOU LOVE YOU BUY OUR MERCH: https://www.bonfire.com/store/restrictedsectionpod/ THANK YOU LOVE YOU IG: https://www.instagram.com/restrictedsectionpod/ TW: https://twitter.com/restrictedpod FB: https://www.facebook.com/groups/rspoddetentioncrew/   Check out our other amazing Movie Night Crew Network podcasts! www.movienightcrewnetwork.com/   This episode featured: Special guest Tyler Carlin!  TW @tycarlin11 https://twitter.com/tycarlin11 IG @tycarlin11 https://www.instagram.com/tycarlin11/ TikTok @tycarlin11 https://www.tiktok.com/@tycarlin11 Tyler plugged the Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson https://bookshop.org/a/65495/9781250318541 Christina Kann https://linktr.ee/christinakann Christina plugged Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala https://bookshop.org/a/65495/9780593201671 Mary-Peyton Crook IG @richmondreads https://www.instagram.com/richmondreads/ TW @crookmp https://twitter.com/crookmp Mary-Peyton plugged Among Others by Jo Walton https://bookshop.org/a/65495/9781250237767

John is dancing, Alison is listening, and Liz is Batman. Please email your letters of comment to octothorpecast@gmail.com and tag @OctothorpeCast when you post about the show on social media. Content warnings this episode: COVID (chapter 1), war and human rights (chapter 2) Letters of comment: Chris Garcia Everyone liked Sue's art and everyone wants John to get better soon Liz saw a cat Jonny Baddeley is giving John his old Netrunner stuff Jonny Baddeley has questions about discos in COVID times Lori really liked Six Wakes and is going to try to convince her cohosts to add it to her schedule eventually Chengdu 2022 Human rights GoH Sergei Lukyanenko signed a letter on Ukraine Netflix distance from Cixin Liu Open letter to try and revoke the 2023 site selection Liz's links to different indices for measuring this Democracy Index Freedom in the World Membership rates Cheap and cheaper But they are selling one without WSFS voting rights To the WSFS constitution, Bat-Liz! If you simply define a single programme item that the non-WSFS members can't attend you don't break the rules – win! FAAn awards The Incompleat Register has the results Congratulations to the winners! Thanks to the people who voted for us anyway even after we told you not to Picks: John bought a house Alison is listening to My Real Children by Jo Walton (paperback, epub, Kindle, Audible) Liz has read The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik (hardback, paperback, epub, Kindle, audiobook) Credits Cover art: Alison Scott Theme music: Fanfare for Space by Kevin MacLeod (CC BY 4.0)

Barty Crouch Sr. is not having a good day. Email us at restrictedsectionpod@gmail.com to tell us what you thought of The Madness of Mr. Crouch or even what you think of us! We'd love to read your email on the show. Be sure to subscribe to know right away about new episodes, and rate and review! SUPPORT US ON OUR PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/therestrictedsection THANK YOU LOVE YOU BUY OUR MERCH: https://www.bonfire.com/store/restrictedsectionpod/ THANK YOU LOVE YOU IG: https://www.instagram.com/restrictedsectionpod/ TW: https://twitter.com/restrictedpod FB: https://www.facebook.com/groups/rspoddetentioncrew/   Check out our other amazing Movie Night Crew Network podcasts! www.movienightcrewnetwork.com/   This episode featured: Steph Anderson from Tonks and the Aurors! www.tonksandtheaurors.com/ Check out their Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TonksandtheAurors Steph plugged The Great https://www.hulu.com/series/the-great-238db0d4-c476-47ed-9bee-d326fd302f7d Steph also plugged The Righteous Gemstones https://www.hbo.com/the-righteous-gemstones Christina Kann https://linktr.ee/christinakann Christina plugged The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware https://bookshop.org/a/65495/9781501132957 The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert O. Paxton https://bookshop.org/a/65495/9781400033911 Among Others by Jo Walton https://bookshop.org/a/65495/9781250237767 Haley Simpkiss TW @TheWrit_toWit twitter.com/TheWrit_toWit Haley plugged Chernobyl https://www.hbo.com/chernobyl 

This is the final half of a conversation between Ada Palmer and Jo Walton, about how an author can craft the early part of a novel to set up the reader's expectations about what kind of a book to expect. This was a two-hour conversation, so our previous episode had the first hour, and this episode has the second hour.

This is part one of a conversation between Ada Palmer and Jo Walton, about how an author can craft the early part of a novel to set up the reader's expectations about what kind of a book to expect. This was a two-hour conversation, so this episode has the first hour, and the next episode will be part two.

This chapter gives us some classic back to school tedium and then we get to meet our frenemies from other schools! Email us at restrictedsectionpod@gmail.com to tell us what you thought of Beauxbatons and Durmstrang or even what you think of us! We'd love to read your email on the show. Be sure to subscribe to know right away about new episodes, and rate and review! SUPPORT US ON OUR PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/therestrictedsection THANK YOU LOVE YOU BUY OUR MERCH: https://www.bonfire.com/store/restrictedsectionpod/ THANK YOU LOVE YOU IG: https://www.instagram.com/restrictedsectionpod/ TW: https://twitter.com/restrictedpod FB: https://www.facebook.com/groups/rspoddetentioncrew/ Check out our other amazing Movie Night Crew Network podcasts! This episode featured: Special guest Charlie from Fandoms Gone Wrong (Spotify & Apple Podcasts) & Of the Eldest Gods: Follow Charlie on TW @greenpixie123 IG @greenpixie12 or YT @ Charlie Mack Charlie plugged Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Christina Kann: IG @christinathekann TW @christina_kann TikTok @sproutsprivatestash Christina plugged her new business, Wildling Press, and its new publishing contest! Mary-Peyton: IG @richmondreads TW @crookmp Mary-Peyton plugged Among Others by Jo Walton.

Julie tries to high-five a flippered Delfein. Scott reads St. Zenobius' instructions to the atheist doctor on the spaceship.Episode 271: "The Star" by Arthur C. Clarke and "Joyful and Triumphant: St. Zenobius and the Aliens" by Jo Walton.Download or listen via this link: |Episode #271| Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via iTunes by clicking: |HERE| LINKS!"Joyful and Triumphant: St. Zenobius and the Aliens" by Jo Walton"The Star" by Arthur C. ClarkeArthur C. Clarke reads his story "The Star"Jo Walton's LTUE Guest of Honor Address (2018)Good Story 100: Among Others by Jo Walton (with guest Br. Guy Consolmagno)Good Story 212: Lent by Jo WaltonGood Story 224: Genesis 1 and Seven Glorious Days by Karl W. Giberson

PRESENTACIÓN LIBROS 00:02:00 El ojo del mundo. La rueda del tiempo #1 (Robert Jordan) 00:06:40 La reina del Tearling #1 (Erika Johansen) 00:10:30 Piso para dos (Beth O'Leary) 00:13:50 Los Buddenbrook (Thomas Mann) 00:17:35 Piranesi (Susana Clarke) 00:20:20 La ciudad justa (Jo Walton) 00:24:35 La librería del señor Livingstone (Mónica Gutiérrez) 00:28:50 Nada del otro mundo & Por siempre jamás (Laurielle) PELÍCULAS 00:33:20 La colina de las amapolas 00:36:20 El viento se levanta 00:40:50 Malignant (2021) 00:42:35 Candyman (2021) 00:45:30 Sang-Chi y la leyenda de los diez anillos 00:49:50 Las brujas de Roahl Dhal 00:52:00 Dune (2021) 00:58:20 Little Monsters SERIES 01:00:35 Edelweiss 01:06:00 Nine perfect strangers 01:12:20 Sex education (T3) 01:17:20 Rick & Morty (T5) 01:19:05 La casa de papel (T5 parte 1) 01:23:45 Legends of Tomorrow (T6) 01:26:00 Brooklyn 99 (T8) 01:29:05 Deberes: Cómo se convirtieron en villanos En este programa suenan: Radical Opinion (Archers) / Siesta (Jahzzar) / Place on Fire (Creo) / I saw you on TV (Jahzzar) / Bicycle Waltz (Goodbye Kumiko)

International Banned Books Week: Books unite us, censorship divides us. Join Alison and Ineka as they highlight the value of free and open access to information. They review some current challenged titles and some from 40 years ago. Celebrate the freedom to read! All the books discussed in this episode can be found in the Auckland Libraries catalogue, most in a range of formats. Click the links below to request or borrow a selection of featured titles: George by Alex Gino: https://bit.ly/George_Alex_Gino Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You by Jason Reynolds: https://bit.ly/Stamped_Jason_Reynolds Widowland by C. J. Carey: https://bit.ly/Widowland_C_J_Carey The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick https://bit.ly/Man_in_the_High_Castle Fatherland by Robert Harris: https://bit.ly/Fatherland_Robert_Harris Farthing by Jo Walton: https://bit.ly/Farthing_Jo_Walton Lace by Shirley Conran: https://bit.ly/Lace_Shirley_Conran Detransition Baby by Torrey Peters: https://bit.ly/Detransition_Baby The Pigman by Paul Zindel: https://bit.ly/Pigman_Paul_Zindel

This will probably become a series of occasional bonus episodes in which Ada Palmer and Jo Walton discuss manga and anime with an eye to its innovations, cultural norms, and wider implications for the media landscape.   - Gender and age marketing categories in manga. - Translation of Japanese onomatopoeia (sound-effect words). - The influence of organized communities of fandom on a medium. - A story-formula and set of character archetypes called "moe" (MO-ay). - Moe's reliable merchandising profit, resulting in more moe. - Availability of manga on devices both broadening and narrowing market categories.   And more!

In this bonus episode, Ada Palmer and Jo Walton have a craft of writing discussion of complicity, i.e. when and how the author gets the reader or audience on the side of characters they would not expect to root for, and how that can be used in fiction.

The Ada Palmer Interview Ada Palmer wrote the introductions to the latest edition of "Shadow & Claw" from Tor, "The Path of the New Sun" as well as to the upcoming "Sword & Citadel." And now she talks to us. Yay! She is a professor of History at the University of Chicago and a scholar of the Renaissance. Her novel "Too Like the Lightning" was a Hugo Award nominee in 2017, and that year she won the John W Campbell award for Best New Writer.  Links: * Ada's Website and Terra Ignota series  * Writing the Distant Future of Global Politics by Ada Palmer  * Ada and Jo Walton's podcast  Things we talked about: * Jacques the Fatalist and his Master by Denis Diderot * Phoenix manga series by Osamu Tezuka * Cesare Beccaria, 18th century Italian criminologist * Neon Genesis Evangelion anime  - This episode is sponsored by Glorious Introductions. - You can become a patron and hear additional episodes at https://www.patreon.com/rereadingwolfe - You can also get episodes on your podcast app or on our Youtube channel. If you have problems accessing the podcast on your favorite platform, let us know. - Questions, comments, corrections, additions, alternate theories? Connect with us on on Facebook ...or on Twitter @rereadingwolfe ...or on Instagram: rereadingwolfepodcast ...or on Reddit: rereadingwolfepodcast  Intro from "The Alligator", Annihilation soundtrack by Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow Sponsor ad background music from "My Name Is" by Eminem Outro from "Mr. Unreliable" by The Inmates Logo art by SonOfWitz Outros and alternate outros are cued on the Rereading Wolfe Podcast Spotify playlist IF the songs are available on Spotify.

All of the characters in Tooth and Claw are dragons. Yes - big, scaly, fire-breathing Dragons who hoard treasure. But don't let that scare you away! You'll relate to these endearing dragons as they navigate strict societal rules in search of career success, family stability, and true love.Get Tooth and Claw  by Jo Walton here (affiliate link):https://bookshop.org/a/54551/9781250242723Subscribe to the podcast for more books!https://bookwormpod.com/subscribe

For our first novel, we are going to be having a look at the world and dragons of Tiamath, from Jo Walton's book "Tooth and Claw".  Every character is a dragon in this victorian english setting, and we follow the children of the Agornin family following their father's death.  We start with a review, touching on the general pacing, language used, and lightly touching on the themes and plot to help you decide if you would like to read and experience for yourselves.  Then, after a quick break to give you time to stop the episode if you decide to pick this book up for yourself, you may join us as we discuss the plot in depth, the characters themselves, and how Jo handles a world of dragons.opening theme by Rimentusinterlude and closing theme are from pixabay.comTwitter: @OfficialWODPODEmail: wodpodcastmail@gmail.comPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/worldofdragonspodcast Discord - https://discord.gg/Kfjh74aqn2-------opening theme Now you Don't by Rimentus https://youtu.be/Z5ANWkdB5XUclosing theme and intermission are from pixabay.com

Amanda and Jenn discuss dark Shakespeare retellings, where to start with cyberpunk, books on life transitions, and more in this week's episode of Get Booked. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Feedback Lavinia by Ursula Le Guin, Margaret Atwood's Penelopiad, books by Hannah Kent or Sarah Perry (rec'd by Laura)  Among Others by Jo Walton (rec'd by Lottie) Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender (rec'd by Gina) Questions 1. My husband announced recently that he wants a divorce. We've been married 10 years and I don't want a divorce, but we are going that direction anyway. Do you have any nonfiction recommendations with useful advice on how to emotionally manage the transition and after? Or any fiction suggestions where the female character ends up leading a satisfying single life post divorce with no romantic happy endings? Preferably without any characters that are happily single because they lead privileged lives with lots of money. I'm soon 40 years old and we have no children if that helps you target your recommendations.  Thanks. -Katie 2. Hi! I'm a white, cis-gender, lesbian. Over the past year I have started to discover just how bad the public school system failed me. I know next to nothing about black history or culture. I want to do better and would love some books on anti-racism, black history, or black culture. I normally read fiction and often struggle with non-fiction feeling like a textbook. Some non-fiction authors I've really liked have been Trevor Noah, Michelle Obama, Ali Wong, and Tara Westover.  Thank you so much! I'm attaching my goodreads list.  -Jessica  3. I've just started reading Hogarth's Macbeth retelling by Jo Nesbo. I'm loving the dark and gritty feeling of the story. I was wondering if you had any more recommendations for dark, gritty retellings of Shakespeare's tragedies. I'm not looking for retellings of his comedies or other lighter plays, but more Macbeth, Hamlet, maybe The Tempest retellings would work. I'm also not looking for YA recommendations or any type of romance books (although this probably wouldn't be what you would recommend anyway)! If you can't think of any of these, any retellings of dark or gothic classics like Jane Eyre, etc. would also work! Thanks a bunch! -Kari 4. Hi, ladies! I love this show, I've been a listener since this podcast's very first episode, but I've never sent in a question before.  Recently I've become interested in reading some cyberpunk, but I'm not quite sure where to start. Most of what I know of the genre is from video games, and I'm very drawn to the aesthetic, and attitude, and its anticapitalism politics. I did read Necromancer and I remember enjoying it, but that was when I was maybe fourteen. I'm in my mid-twenties now, and I don't remember all that much of it, or if I would even still like it. I keep hearing about Snow Crash, but from what I have gathered it's better read if you have some familiarity with the genre already. I would love any recommendations you could give. Bonus points if the books are not straight, white, and male.  Thank you so much for your show, and all the book recommendations you have given me over the years.  For reference if you would like to know my reading tastes, here is some sci-fi I have recently read and loved (though is not cyberpunk) (and yes, I think I may have at least discovered half of these books through your show):   The Broken Earth Trilogy (which I guess is also fantasy, it's hard to pin one genre onto this series, but it is maybe my favorite series of all time so I thought it was important to include)  Gideon the Ninth  A Memory Called Empire  This Is How You Lose the Time War The Machineries of Empire Series Ancillary Justice -Marisol 5. In a few weeks, I will be moving to a new state where I don't know anyone and I have no connections, to attend medical school. It will be my first time not living with my parents/family (and beloved kitties), and I'm scared that I won't be able to cope with the transition into this completely new environment and this new phase in my life. I'm looking for recommendations for fictional characters in a similar situation (YA or adult), or non-fiction books that may have tips on how to go through a huge life transition and maintain good mental health. Thanks in advance. -Anonymous 6. I'm looking for romance/erotica with adorable characters and delightfully emotional relationships. I'm new to the “romance” genre: I've read and loved Olivia Waite's the feminine persuits series and The Queer Principles of Kit Webb. I've read most of the Sebastian St Cyr series and enjoyed it. I LOVE the romances in the Graceling series and I did enjoy ACOTAR despite feeling ick about some of the weirdly agressive heteronormativity and creepy possessiveness etc. SO basically, I want steamy like ACOTAR but with nuanced and cute relationships where characters can heal and work out their issues together and find love and support. I prefer historical or fantasy, no mystery/thriller please and no really cliched writing. One Last Stop is on my radar as is The Rakess by Scarlett Peckham and The Duke who Didn't by Courtney Milan. If you can rec books in series or by really prolific authors that would be amazing!  -Margot 7. Always loving your recommendations!  I was wondering if you know of any books that are written from a perspective of an object or from a different unique perspective. I've loved how The Book Thief is written in the perfective of death and would love to read more from uncommon views. Thank you so much as always!

Amanda and Jenn discuss cuddly YA books, friendships in fiction, nonfiction for LGBTQ+ allies, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Feedback Nervermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow (rec’d by Summer) The Emporium trilogy: Furyborn by Claire Legrand Rurouni Kenshi (manga) by Nobuhiro Watsuki; Moribito by Nahoko Uehashi; Keigo Higashino, Malice; Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen; Hiromi Kawakami, Nakano Thrift Shop (rec’d by Kelly) Questions 1. Thank you for putting together such a great podcast! I listen to it every week. I am writing because my boyfriend and I are both avid readers and we want to read something together. The problem is we read very different genres.  He likes historical books and books about leadership. Some of his favorite books are Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell, Atomic Habits by James Clear, and Think Again by Adam Grant. I like romance, fantasy, and literary fiction. I am open to reading nonfiction but it’s kind of hit and miss for me. I got an ARC of Miseducated by Brandon P. Fleming and I really liked that. I’d be open to reading a self-improvement book with him because I think that might fit the bill.  Some of my absolute favorite books are The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin, Beach Read by Emily Henry, and The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab. Thank you! -Jessica 2. I am in desperate need of some book recommendations. I’m usually a really big reader, but I’ve been in a bit of a slump lately and am hoping that you can help me. Problem is, I don’t really know what I’m looking for. I’m a teenager, so YA, and I really enjoy cuddly romance (I don’t like pining so the sooner the couple gets together the better) but I don’t like books that have romance as the whole plot (also, the romance doesn’t have to be male/female). I also like 1920s detective stories, sci-fi with ensemble casts, Good Omens-type books, and epic questing stories. I only ask that: it’s not SUPER heavy/dark, there is minimal pining, it isn’t a comic or graphic novel, and it is something that will hold an average teen’s attention past the first few chapters. And has a snarky side character that isn’t a human. Thanks a million! -Quinn 3. Thanks for a great podcast! I graduated college six years ago and find that the friendships I formed then remain my most intense to this day. I’m in close touch with these friends, but, as an international student who moved back to Europe after finishing my degree, have seen some of them in person only once or twice after graduation and others not at all. The nostalgia for the days when I could just knock on their dorm room doors is real!  Can you recommend books that capture the tight-knit nature of friendships formed during a formative period in one’s life in close quarters? Please nothing about friendships buckling under the stresses of adult life; as I say, we’re still close. I’m just looking for a comforting, intelligent read for moments when I particularly miss my friends.  -Luisa 4. Hey y’all, I want to get my Dad a book for Father’s Day that we can both read and discuss. He can be a bit of an *old white man,* and I’m looking for something that casually centers a non-white, non-Western culture and preferably has some strong female characters. He primarily reads Jack Reacher-style thrillers and the occasional high/epic fantasy when it falls in his lap (generally of the LOTR variety, basically still just about problematic white male Europeans). The Poppy War by RF Kuang is closest thing I know of to what I’m looking for but I’m hoping to find something I haven’t read before. I hope that the book can generate some conversation/thought about social justice issues today, but please don’t make me talk about explicit sex stuff with my Dad… -Caroline 5. Hey Book Riot! I wonder if you have any recommendations for a non-fiction (or fiction?) book for LGBTQ+ community allies? As in… I want to be able to explain things better if I get into an argument with a conservatively thinking person. Thank you!

Key Insights:Cory Doctorow is AWESOME!It is depressing. We once, with the creation of the market economy, got interoperability right. But now the political economy blocks us from there being any obvious path to an equivalent lucky historical accident in our future.The problems in our society are not diametrically opposed: Addressing the problems of one thing doesn't necessarily create equal and opposite problems on the other side—but it does change the trade-offs, and so things become very complex and very difficult to solve. Always keep a trash bag in your car.Hexapodia!References:Books:Cory Doctorow: How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism Cory Doctorow: Attack Surface Cory Doctorow: Walkaway Cory Doctorow: Down & Out in the Magic Kingdom Cory Doctorow: Little Brother William Flesch:Comeuppance: Costly Signaling, Altruistic Punishment, and Other Biological Components of Fiction Daniel L. Rubinfeld: A Retrospective on U.S. v. Microsoft: Why Does It Resonate Today? Louis Galambos & Peter Temin: The Fall of the Bell System: A Study in Prices & Politics Websites:Electronic Frontier Foundation: Adversarial Interop Case Studies: Privacy without Monopoly: Cory Doctorow: Craphound Cory Doctorow: Pluralistic &, of course:Vernor Vinge: A Fire Upon the Deep (Remember: You can subscribe to this… weblog-like newsletter… here: There’s a free email list. There’s a paid-subscription list with (at the moment, only a few) extras too.)Grammatized Transcript:Brad: Noah! What is the key insight? Noah: Hexapodia is the key insight! Six feet!Brad: And what is that supposed to mean? Noah: That there is some nugget of fact that, if you grasp it correctly and place it in the proper context, will transform your view of the situation and allow you to grok it completely.Brad: And in the context of Vernor Vinge’s amazing and mind-Bending science-fiction space-opera novel A Fire Upon the Deep?Noah: The importance of “hexapodia” is that those sapient bushes…Brad: …riding around on six wheeled scooters have been genetically…Noah: …programmed to be a fifth column of spies and agents for the Great Evil.Brad: However, here we seek different key insights than “hexapodia”. Today we seek them from the genius science-fiction author and social commentator Cory Doctorow. I think of him as—it was Patrick Nielsen Hayden, I think, who said around 2004: that he felt like he was living in the future of Scottish science fiction author, Ken MacLeod. And he wished Ken would just stop. At times I feel that way about Cory. But we are very happy to have him here. His latest book is How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism IIRC, his latest fiction is Attack Surface. My favorite two books of his are Walkaway and—I think it was your first—Down & Out in the Magic Kingdom.Cory: That's right. Yes. Thank you. Thank you for that very effusive introduction. I decry all claims of genius, though.Brad: Well, we know this is a problem. When one is dealing with an author whose work one has read a lot of—by reading your books.by now I've spent forty hours of my life looking at squiggles on a page or on a screen and, through a complicated mental process, downloaded to my wetware and then run on it a program that is my image of a sub-Turing instantiation of your mind, who has then told me many very entertaining and excellent stories. So I feel like I know you very well…Cory: There’s this infamous and very funny old auto reply that Neal Stephenson used to send to people who emailed him. It basically went: “Ah, I get it. You feel like you were next to me when we were with Hero Protagonist in Alaska fighting off the right-wing militias. But while you were there with me, I wasn't there with you. And so I understand why you want to, like, sit around and talk about our old military campaigns. But I wasn't on that campaign with you.Brad: Yes. It was only my own imago, my created sub-Turing instantiation of your mind that was there…Cory: Indeed. We are getting off of interoperability, which is what I think we're mostly going to talk about. But this is my cogpsy theory of why fiction works, and where the fanfic dispute comes from. Writers have this very precious thing they say. It is: “I'm writing and I'm writing and all of a sudden the characters start telling me what they want to do.” I think that what they actually mean by that is that we all have this completely automatic process by which we try and create models of the people we encounter. Sometimes we never encounter those people. We just encounter second-hand evidence of them. Sometimes those people don't live at all. Think about the people who feel great empathy for imaginary people that cruel catfishers have invented on the internet to document their imaginary battles with cancer. They then feel deeply hurt and betrayed and confused, when this person they've come to empathize with turns out to be a figment of someone else's imagination. I think what happens when you write is that you generate this optical link between two parts of your brain that don't normally talk to each other. There are these words that you are explicitly thinking up that show up on your screen. And then those words are being processed by your eyeballs and being turned into fodder for a model in this very naive way. And then the model gets enough flesh on the bones—so it starts telling you what it wants to do. At this point you are basically breathing your own exhaust fumes here. But it really does take what is at first a somewhat embarrassing process of putting on a puppet show for yourself: “Like, everybody, let’s go on a quest!” “That sounds great!” “Here we go!” It just becomes something where you don't feel like you're explicitly telling yourself a story. Now the corollary of this is that it sort of explains the mystery of why we like stories, right? Why we have these completely involuntary, emotional responses to the imaginary experiences of people who never lived and died and have no consequence. The most tragic death in literature of Romeo and Juliet is as nothing next to the death of the yogurt I digested with breakfast this morning, because that yogurt was alive and now it's dead and Romeo and Juliet never lived, never died, nothing that happened to them happened. Yet you hear about the Romeo and Juliet…Noah: …except that a human reads about Romeo and Juliet and cares…Cory: That is where it matters, yes indeed. But the mechanism by which we care is our build this model which is then subjected to the author's torments, and then we feel empathy for the model. What that means is that the readers, when they're done, if the book hit its aesthetic marks, if it did the thing that literature does to make it aesthetically pleasing—then the reader still has a persistent model in the same way that if your granny dies, you still have a model of your granny, right? You are still there. That is why fanfic exists. The characters continue to have imagined lives. If the characters don't go on having imagined lives, then the book never landed for you. And that’s why authors get so pissy about fanfic. They too have this model that they didn't set out to explicitly create, but it's there. And it's important to their writing process. And if someone is putting data in about that modeled person that is not consistent with the author's own perception of them, that creates enormous dissonance. I think that if we understood this, we would stop arguing about fanfic.Noah: We argue about fanfic?Brad: Oh yes, there are people who do. I remember—in some sense, the most precious thing I ever read was Jo Walton saying that she believed that Ursula K. LeGuin did not understand her own dragons at all…Noah: …Yep, correct…Cory: Poppy Bright—back when Poppy Bright was using that name and had that gender identity—was kicked out of a fan group for Poppy Bright fans on LiveJournal for not understanding Poppy Bright’s literature. I think that's completely true. Ray Bradbury to his dying day insisted that Fahrenheit 451 had nothing to do with censorship but was about the dangers of television…Brad: Fanfic is an old and wonderful tradition. It goes back to Virgil, right? What is the Aeneid but Iliad fanfic?Cory: And what is Genesis but Babylonian fanfic? It goes a lot further back than that…Brad: Today, however, we are here to talk not about humans as narrative-loving animals, not about the sheer weirdness of all the things that we run on our wetware, but about “mandated interoperability”, and similar things—how we are actually going to try to get a handle on the information and attention network economy that we are building out in a more bizarre and irrational way than I would have ever thought possible.Cory: Yes. I don't know if the audience will see this, but the title that you've chosen is: “Mandated Interoperability Is Not Going to Work”. I am more interested in how we make mandated interoperability work. I don't think it's a dead letter. I think that to understand what's what's happened you have to understand that the main efficiency that large firms bring to the market is regulatory capture. In an industry with only four or five major companies, all of the executives almost by definition must have worked at one or two of the other ones. Think of Sheryl Sandberg, moving from Google to Facebook. They form an emerging consensus. Sometimes they all sit around the same a boardroom table. Remember that photo of the tech leaders around the table at the top of Trump Tower? They converge on a set of overlapping lobbying priorities. They have a lot of excess rents that they can extract to mobilize lobbying in favor of that. One of the things that these firms have done in the forty years of the tech industry is to move from a posture where they were all upstarts and were foursquare for interoperability with the existing platforms—because they understood that things like network advantages were mostly important in as much as they conferred a penalty for switching, and that if you could switch easily then the network advantage disappeared. If you could read Microsoft Office documents on a Mac, then the fact that there's a huge network effect of Microsoft Office documents out there is irrelevant. Why? Because you can just run switch ads, and say every document ever created with Microsoft Office is now a reason to own a Mac. But as they became dominant, and as their industries have become super-concentrated, they have swung against interoperability. I think that we need a couple of remedies for that. I think that we need some orderly structured remedies in the forms of standards. We need to check whether or not those standards are mandated. And we’ve seen how those standards can be subverted. And so I think we need something that stops dominant firms from subverting standards—a penalty that they pay that is market-based, that impacts their bottom line, and that doesn't rely on a slow-moving or possibly captured regulator but that, instead, can actually just emerge in real time. That is what I call “adversarial interoperability”: reverse engineering and scraping and bots. Steve Jobs paying some engineers to reverse engineer Microsoft Office file formats and make iWork suite, instead of begging Bill Gates to rescue the Mac…Brad: …But he did beg Bill Gates to rescue the Mac…Cory: He did that as well. But that wasn't the whole story. He had a carrot and a stick. He had: let's have a managed, structured market. Right. And then he had: what happens if you don't come up to my standards is that we have alternatives, because we can just reverse-engineer your stuff. Look at, for example, the way that we standardized the formatting of personal finance information. There were standards that no one adopted. Then Mint came along, and they wrote bots, and you would give the bots your login credentials for your bank, and they would go and scrape your account data and put it into a single unified interface. This was adversarial interoperability. This spurred the banks to actually come into compliance with the standard. Rather than having this guerrilla warfare, they wanted a quantifiable business process that they could understand from year to year that wouldn't throw a lot of surprises that would disrupt their other other plans.Brad: Let me back up: In the beginning, the spirit of Charles Babbage moved upon the face of the waters, and Babbage said: “Let there be electromechanical calculating devices”. And there was IBM. And IBM then bred with DARPA in the form of the Sage Air Defense, and begat generation upon generation of programmers. And from them was born FORTRAN and System 360. And FORTRAN and IBM System 360 bestrode the world like the giants of the Nephilim, and Babbage saw it, and it was good. And there was nibbling around the edges from Digital Equipment and Data General. Yea, until one day out of Silicon Valley, there emerged crystallized sand doped with germanium atoms, and everything was upset as out of CERN and there emerged the http protocol. All the companies that had been construct their own walled information gardens, and requiring you to sign up with AOL and CompuServe and Genie and four or five others in order to access databases through gopher and whatever—they found themselves overwhelmed by the interoperability tide of the internet. And for fifteen years there was interoperability and openness and http and rss, and everyone frantically trying to make their things as interoperable as possible so that they could get their share of this absolutely exploding network of human creativity and ideas. And then it all stopped. People turned on a dime. They began building their own walled gardens again. Noah: I feel like we did just get Neal Stephenson on this podcast…Brad: Sub-Turing! It's a sub-Turing instantiation of a Neal Stephenson imago!Cory: I think that your point of view or generational outlook or whatever creates a different lens than mine. I think about it like this: In 1979 we got an Apple II+. In 1980, we got a modem card for it. Right. By 1982, there were a lot of BBS’s and that was great. Even though we were in Canada, the BBS software was coming up from the American market. We had local dial-up BBS's running software that was being mailed around on floppies…Brad: Whish whish whine… Beep beep… Whish… I am trying to make modem noises…Cory: that sounded like V.42bis. And then by 1984 there were the PC clones. Everyone had a computer. This company that no one had ever heard of—Microsoft—suddenly grew very big. They created this dynamism in the industry. You could have a big old giant, like IBM. You could have two guys in a garage, like Microsoft. The one could eclipse the other. IBM couldn't even keep control of its PCs. They were being cloned left and right. And then Microsoft became the thing that had slain. It became a giant. And the DOJ intervened. Even though Microsoft won the suit ultimately—they weren't broken up…Brad: They did back off from destroying Google…Cory: What’s missing from that account is the specific mechanisms. We got modems because we got cheap, long distance. We got that because 1982 we had the ATT breakup. Leading up to the breakup shifted the microeconomics. People ATT were all: don’t do that. It's going to piss off the enforcers. We've got this breakup to deal withBrad: Yes. The enforcers, the enforcers are important. Both the Modification of Final Judgment. And ATT’s anticipatory reaction to it. Plus the periodic attempted antitrust kneecappings of IBM. They meant that when people in IBM turned around and said: “Wait a minute. When we started the PC project, John F. Akers told us we needed to find something for Mary Gates’s boy Bill to do, because he sat next to her at United Way board meetings. But this is turning into a monster. We need to squelch them.” And from the C-suite came down: “No, our antitrust position is sufficiently fraught that we can't move to squash Microsoft.”Cory: Yes. IBM spent 12 years in antitrust litigation. Hell, they called it. Antitrust as Vietnam. They essentially had been tied by the ankles to the back of DOJ’s bumper and dragged up and down a gravel road for 12 years. They were outspending the entire DOJ legal department every single year for that one case. And one of the things that DOJ really didn't like about IBM was tying software to hardware. And so when Phoenix makes the IBM ROM clone, IBM is like: Yeah, whatever. Any costs we pay because of the clone ROM are going to be lower than the costs we will incur if we get back into antitrust hell—and the same goes for Microsoft. They got scared off. What we were seeing, what it felt like, the optimism that I think we felt and of which we were aware was—it looked like we'd have protocols and not products, and we'd have a pluralistic internet, not five giant websites filled with screenshots of text from the other. But our misapprehension was not due to technological factors. It was our failing to understand that like Bork and Reagan had shivved antitrust in the guts in 1980, and it was bleeding out. So by the time Google was big enough to do to everyone else what Microsoft had not been able to do to them, there was no one there to stop Google.Noah: Cory, let me ask a question here. I'm the designated grump of the podcast. Brad is the designated history expounder. I want to know: Why do we care right right now? I've written about interoperability with regards to electric cars and other emerging technologies. What things in the software world are people hurt by not having interoperability for? What are the big harms in software to consumers or to other stakeholders from lack of interoperability?Cory: Let me frame the question before I answer it. We have market concentration in lots of different sectors for similar reasons, mergers. We should have different remedies for them. We heard about Babbage. I would talk about Turing and the universality of the computer. Interoperability represents a pro-competitive remedy to anti-competitive practices that is distinct and specific to computers. I don't know if you folks know about the middle-gauge muddle in Australia. Independent states and would-be rail barons laid their own gauge rail across the country. You can't get a piece of rolling stock from one edge of the country to the other. For 150 years they have been trying to build designs that can drop one set of wheels where the track needs it. And none of them have worked. And now their solution is to tear up rails and put down new rails. If that was a software object, we just write a compatibility layer. Where we have these durable anti-competitive effects in the physical world, that sometimes necessitate these very difficult remedies, we can actually facilitate decentralized remedies where people can seize the means of computation to create digital remedies: self-determination, the right to decide how to talk to their friends and under what circumstances, as opposed to being forced to choose between being a social person and being private…Brad: For me, at least there are lots and lots of frictions that keep me from seeing things that I would like to see, and keep me from cross-referencing things that I would like to cross-references. There are bunches of things I've seen on Twitter and Facebook in the past that, because they are inside the walled gardens. I definitely am not able to get them out quickly and easily and cheaply enough to put them into the wider ideas flow. And I feel stupider as a result. And then there are all the people who have been trapped by their own kind of cognitive functioning, so that they are now a bunch of zombies with eyeballs glued to the screen being fed terror so that they can be sold fake diabetes cures and overpriced gold funds…Noah: That’s a good angle right here. If we look at the real harms that are coming through the internet right now—I worry about Kill Zones, and of course I worry about the next cool thing getting swallowed up by predatory acquisitions. That's our legitimate worry for sure. When I look at the internet and what bad the internet is causing, I do not see the lack of alternative information sources as the biggest problem. I see the people who are the biggest problem as coming precisely from alternative information sources. This is not to say we should get rid of those sources. This is not to say we should have mass censorship and ban all the anti-vax sites. I'm not saying that. But if we look at the issues—there was a mass banning of Trump and many of the Q-Anons from the main social media websites, and yet a vast underground network of alternative right wing media has sprung up.Cory: It seems like they were able to. Let me redirect from the harms that Brad raised. I think those are perfectly good harms. But I want to go to some broader harms. In the purely digital online world, we had some people we advised at EFF who were part of a medical cancer previvor group—people who have a gene that indicates a very high likelihood of cancer, women. They had been aggressively courted by Facebook at a time when they were trying to grow up their medical communities. And one of the members of this group who wasn't a security researcher or anything was just noodling around on Facebook, and found that you could enumerate the membership of every group on Facebook, including hers. She reported that to Facebook. That's obviously a really significant potential harm to people in the medical communities. She reported it to Facebook. Facebook characterized her report as a feature request and won't fix it. She made more of a stink. They said: fine, we're going to do a partial fix because it would have interfered with their ad-tech stack to do a full fix. So you have to be a member of a group to enumerate the group. This was still insufficient. But they had this big problem with inertia—with the collective action problem of getting everyone who's now on Facebook to leave Facebook and go somewhere else. They were all holding each other mutually hostage. Now you could imagine that they could have set up a Diaspora instance, and they could have either had a mandated- or standards-defined interface that allowed those people to talk to their friends on Facebook. And they could have a little footer at the bottom of each message: today 22% of the traffic in this group originated on our diaspora, once that tips to 60% were all leaving, and quitting Facebook. They might do this with a bot, without Facebook's cooperation, in the absence of Facebook's legal right to prevent those bots. Facebook has weaponized the computer fraud and abuse act and other laws to prevent people from making these bots to allow them to inter-operate with Facebook—even though, when Facebook started, the way that it dealt with its issues with MySpace was creating MySpace spots, where you could input your login and password, and it would get your waiting MySpace messages and put them in your Facebook inbox and let you reply to them. Facebook has since sued Power Ventures for doing the same thing. They’re engaged in legal activity against other bot producers that are doing beneficial pro-user things. That's one harm. Another harm that I think is really important here is repair. Independent repairs are about 5% of US GDP. The lack of access to repair is of particular harm to people who are already harmed the most: it raises the cost of being poor. The ability to control repair is a source of windfall profits. Tim Cook advised his investors in 2019, the year after he killed twenty right-to-repair bills at these state level, that the biggest threat to Apple's profits was that people were fixing their devices instead of throwing them away. It’s an environmental problem, and so on. The biggest problem with right-to-repair is not that the companies don't provide their data or the diagnostic codes or encrypt diagnostic codes. The problem is that you face felony prosecution under the CFAA and DMCA, as well as ancillary stuff like non-compete and non-disclosure, and so on through federal trade secrecy law, if you create tools to repairs without the cooperation of the vendors. This is a real harm that arises out of the rules that have been exploited to block interoperability.Brad: This goes deep, right? This affects not just tech but the world, or, rather, because tech has eaten the world, hard-right unsympathetic state representatives from rural Missouri are incredibly exercised about right-to-repair, and the fact that John Deere does not have enough internal capacity to repair all the tractors that need to be repaired in the three weeks before the most critical-need part of the year.Cory: This is an important fracture line. There are people who have a purely instrumental view: me my constituents need tractor repair, so I will do whatever it takes to get them tractor repair. In California we got a terrible compromise on this brokered with John Deere—it was basically a conduct remedy instead of a structural change. Right. Something I questioned a lot about Klobuchar’s antitrust story is that she keeps saying: I believe that we need to jettison the 40-year consumer-welfare standard and return to a more muscular antitrust that is predicated on social harms that include other stakeholders besides consumers paying higher prices, and I have a bipartisan consensus on this because Josh Hawley agrees with me, but Josh Hawley does not agree with her. Josh Hawley just wants to get Alex Jones back on Twitter, right. And that's like, it begins and ends there.She might be able to get the inertia going where Josh Hawley is put in the bind where he either has to brief for a more broad antitrust cause of action that includes social harms, or he has to abandon Alex Jones to not being on Twitter. And maybe he'll take Alex Jones if that's the price. But I do think that that's a huge fracture line, that there are honest brokers who don't care about the underlying principle and the long run effects of bad policy. And there are people who just want to fix something for a political point or immediate benefit.Brad: Fixing it to the extent that fixing something scores a political point—that does mean actually doing good things for your constituents, who include not just Alex Jones, but the guys in rural Missouri who want their John Deere tractors repaired cheaply.Cory: This is how I feel about de platforming. I was angry about deplatforming for 10 years, when it was pipeline activists and sex workers and drag queens who were being forced to use their real name, and trans people were forced to use their dead names, and political dissidents in countries where they could be rounded up and tortured and murdered if they adhere to Facebook’s real names policy, and all of that stuff. First they came for the drag queens, and I said nothing because I wasn't a drag queen. Then they came for the far right conspiratorialists. But they're fair-weather friends. It's like the split between open source and free software where, you know, the benefits of technological self-determination were subsumed into the instrumental benefits of having access to the source so you could improve it. What we have is free software for the tech monopolists,  for they can see the source and modify the source of everything on their backend. And we have open source for the rest of us. We can inspect the source, we can improve their software for them, but we don't get to choose how their backends run. And since everything loops through their backends, we no longer have software freedom. That's the risk if you decouple instrumental from ethical propositions. You can end up with a purely instrumental fix that leaves the ethical things that worry you untouched, and in fact in a declining spiral.Noah: I want to argue. I don’t think we don't get enough argument on this podcast. I want to inject a little here. A turning point for my generation in terms of our use of the internet was Gamergate. That happened in 2014. Gamergate largely morphed after that into the the Trump movement and the alt-right. Gamergate destroyed what I knew as online nerd culture. It was an extinction-level event for the idea that nerd culture existed apart from the rest of society. It was a terrible thing. Maybe nerd culture couldn't have lasted, but a giant subculture that I enjoyed and partially defined myself by as a young person was gone. And not only that, not only me—I’m centering myself and making all about me here, but a lot of people got harassed. Some good friends of mine got harassed. It was really terrible as an event in and of itself, irrespective of the long-term effects. Even Moot, a big, huge defender of anonymity and free speech, eventually banned Gamergate topics from 4chan. That was the moment when I realized that the idea of free speech as free speech guarded by individual forums or platforms separately from the government—that that idea was dead. When Moot banned banned Gamergate from 4chan, I said: okay, we're in a different era. That was the Edward R Murrow moment. That was the moment we started going back toward Dan Rather and Edward R Murrow and the big three television companies in the 1950s—when Moot banned Gamergate. Maybe this just has to happen. Maybe bad actors are able to always co-opt a fragmented internet. There’s no amount of individual Nazi punching that can get the Nazis out. If you have people whose speech is entirely focused on destroying other people's right to speak, as Gamergate was, then then free speech means nothing because no one feels free to speak. I wonder whether fragmentation of platforms makes it harder to police things like Gamergate and thus causes Nazis to fractally permeate each little space on the internet and every little pool of the internet. Wherever we have one big pool, we have economies of scale in guarding that pool. Brad: That is: what you are saying is that an information world of just four monopolistic, highly oligopolistic, walled gardens is bad, but an internet in which you cannot build any wall around your garden is bad as well. Then what we really need is a hundred walled gardens blooming, perhaps. But I want to hear what Cory has to say about this and interoperability.Cory: I found that so interesting. I had to get out some, no paper and take notes. First of all, I would trace back before the Gamergate issue. Before it was the Sad Puppies, the disruption of the Hugo awards by far-right authors was before Gamergate. It was the same ringleaders. Gamergate was the second act of sad puppies. So I'm there with you. I was raised by Trotskyists. I want to say that, listening to you describe how you feel about nerd culture after you discovered that half of your colleagues and friends were violent misogynists—it sounds a lot like how Trotskyists talk about Stalinists, right. You have just recounted the the internet nerd version of Homage to Catalonia. Orwell goes to Spain to fight the fascist and a Stalinist shoots him through the throat.We in outsider or insurgent or subcultural movements often have within our conception of a group people who share some characteristics and diverge on others. We paper over those divergences until they fracture. Think about the punk Nazi-punk split.  This anti-authoritarian movement is united around a common aesthetic and music and a shared cultural identity. And there's this political authoritarian anti-authoritarian things sitting in the middle. And they just don't talk about it until they start talking about it—Dead Kennedys record: Nazi punks f-—- off. And here we are, still in the midst of that reckoning. That's where Stormfront comes from and all the rest of it. This is not distinct to the internet. It is probably unrealistic, it's definitely unrealistic for there to be a regime in which conduct that is lawful can find no home. Not that not that it won't happen in your home, but that it won't happen in anyone's home. The normative remedy where we just make some conduct that is lawful so far beyond the pale that everyone ceases to engage in it—that has never really existed. Right. You can see that with conduct that we might welcome today, as you know, socially fine and conduct that we dislike—whether that's, you know, polyamory. You go back to the future house, where Judy Merrill and, and Fred Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth lived in the thirties, and they had this big, weird polyamorous household of leftist science fiction writers write at a time when it was unmentionably weird to do it. And today it's pretty mainstream—at least in some parts of California. In the absence of an actual law against it, it's probably going to happen. The first question is: is our response to people who have odious ideas that we want there to be nowhere where they can talk about it? If that's the case, we'll probably have to make a law against them. Noah: Right. But hold on. Is it ideas, or is it actions? If you harass someone you're not expressing an idea, you're stopping them from expressing theirs. Cory: Absolutely. So, so the issue is: that there are Nazis talking to other Nazis is okay. It's just that when Nazis talked to other Nazis and figured out how to go harass someone. Let me give you an example of someone I know who is in the midst of one of these harassment campaigns. Now there's a brilliant writer, a librettist, novelist, and comics author named Cecile Castellucci. She also used to be like a pioneering Riot Girl and toured with Sloan. So she's just this great polymath person. And because she's a woman who writes comics, men on the internet hate her. And there's a small and dedicated cadre of these men who figured out a way to mess with women on Twitter. They send you a DM that is really violent and disgusting. They wait until they see the read receipt, and then they delete it. Twitter, to its credit, will not accept screenshotted DMs as evidence of harassment, because it would be very easy for those same men to forge DMs from their targets and get those people kicked off Twitter. Then what they do is they revictimize their targets by making public timeline mentions that comport with Twitter's rules unless you've seen the private message. And they make references to the private message that trigger the emotions from the private message over and over again. It is a really effective harassment technique. The women they use it against are stuck on Twitter, because their professional lives require them to be on Twitter, right. Their careers would end to some important degree if they weren't part of this conversation on Twitter. Now, imagine if you had Gotham Clock Tower, Barbara Gordon's secret home, which was a Mastodon instance that was federated with Twitter, either through a standard or through a mandate or through adversarial interoperability. There could be a dozen women there who could agree that among themselves that they're willing to treat screenshotted DMs as evidence of harassment, so that they could block and silence and erase the all presence of these horrible men. We'd still want Twitter to do something about them, but if some of those men slipped through Twitter’s defenses as they will, not just because they can't catch everyone when they're at the scale, but because the range of normal activities at scale is so broad: a hundred million people have a hundred and one million use cases every day. Then those people are that, that those people could still be on Twitter, but not subject to the harassment of Twitter. It's a way for them. Maybe, in the way that we talk about states being democracy's laboratories, maybe these satellite communities could pioneer moderation techniques that range beyond takedowns or account terminations or warning labels. There are so many different ways we could deal with this. You could render some comments automatically in Comic Sans. They could try them and see if they work. And they could be adopted back into main Twitter. That's what self-determination gets you: it gets you the right to set the rules of your discourse, and it gets you the right to decide who you trust to be within the group of people who make those rules.Brad: So if we had the real interoperable world, we would have lots that would screen things according to someone's preferences. And you could sign up to have that bot included in your particular bot list to pre-process and filter, so that you don't have to wade through the garbage.Cory: Sure. And there might be some conduct that we consider so far beyond the pale that we actually criminalize it. Then we can take the platforms where that conduct routinely takes place and things like reforms to 230 would cease to be nearly so important. We would be saying that if you are abetting unlawful conduct, when we see a remedy for preventing this unlawful conduct, and you refusing to implement that remedy, we might defenestrate you. We might do something worse. Think of how the phone network works.It is standardized. There are these standard interchanges. There's lots of ways it can be abused. Every now and and then, from some Caribbean Island, we get a call that fakes a number from a Caribbean Island, and if you call it back, you're billed at $20 a minute for a long distance to have someone go: no, it was a wrong number. When that happens, the telco either cleans up its act or all the other telcos break their connection to it. There's certain conduct that's unlawful on the phone network, not unlawful because it cheats the phone company—not toll fraud—but unlawful because it's bad for the rest of the world, like calling bomb threats in. Either the customer gets terminated or the operator is disciplined by law. All of those things can work without having to be in this in this regime where you have paternalistic control, where you vest all of your hope in a God-King who faces no penalty if he makes a bad call. They say: we’ll defend your privacy when the FBI wants to break the iPhone. But when they threaten to shut down our manufacturing, we'll let them spy on you even as they're opening up concentration camps and putting a million people in them.Brad: Was that the real serpent in all of these walled gardens? Was the advertising-supported model the thing that turns your eyeballs into the commodity to be enserfed. If we had the heaven of micropayments, would we manage to avoid all of this?Cory: We've had advertising for a long time. The toxicity of advertising is pretty new. Mostly what's toxic about advertising is surveillance, and not because I think the surveillance allows them to do feats of mind control. I think everyone who's ever claimed to have mind control turned out to be lying to themselves or everyone else. Certainly there is not a lot of evidence for it. You have these Facebook large-scale experiments: 60 million people subjected to a nonconsensual, psychological intervention to see if they can be convinced to vote. And you get 0.38% effect size. Facebook should be disqualified from running a lemonade stand if we catch them performing nonconsensual experiments on 60 million people. But, at the same time, 0.38% effect sizes are not mind control. They do engage in a lot of surveillance. It’s super-harmful because it leaks, because it allows them to do digital redlining, because it allows them to reliably target fascists with messages that if they were uttered in public, where everyone could see them, might cause the advertiser to be in bad odor. They can take these dog whistles and they can whisper them to the people who won’t spread them around. Those are real harms. You have to ask yourself: why don't we have a privacy law that prohibits the nonconsensual gathering of data and imposes meaningful penalties on people who breach data? I was working in the EU. GDPR was passed. The commissioners I spoke to there said: no one has ever lobbied me as hard as I've been lobbied now. Right now we have more concentration in ad tech than in any other industry, I think, except for maybe eyeglasses, glass bottles, and professional wrestling.Brad: Are we then reduced to: “Help us, Tim Cook! You are our only hope!”?Cory: I think that that's wrong, because Tim Cook doesn't want to give you self-determination. Tim wants you to be subject to his determinations. Among those determinations are some good ones. He doesn't want Facebook to own your eyeballs. You go, Tim. But he also wants you to drop your iPhone in a shredder every 18 months, rather than getting it fixed.Brad: Although I must say, looking at the M1 chip, I'm very tempted to take my laptop and throw it in the shredder today to force me to buy a new one.Noah: It's interesting how iPhone conquered. And yet very few people still use Macs. Steve Jobs’s dream was never actualized.Cory: Firms that are highly concentrated distort policy outcomes, and ad tech is highly concentrated. And we have some obviously distorted policy outcomes. We don't have a federal privacy law with a private right of action. There are no meaningful penalties for breaches. We understand that breaches have compounding effects. A breach that doesn't contain any data that is harmful to the user can be merged with another breach and together they can be harmful—and that's cumulative. And data has a long half-life. Just this week, Ed Felton's old lab published a paper on how old phone numbers can be used to defeat two-factor authentication. You go through a breach, find all the phone numbers that are associated with the two-factor authentication. Then you can go to Verizon and ask: which of these phone numbers is available? Which of these people has changed their phone number? Then you can request that phone number on a new signup—and then you can break into their bank account and steal all their money. Old breaches are cumulative. Yet we still have this actual-damages regime for breaches instead of statutory damages that take account of the downstream effects and these unquantifiable risks that are imposed on the general public through the nonconsensual collection and retention of data under conditions that inevitably lead to breaches.Brad: Okay. Well, I'm very down. So are we ready to end? I think we should end on this downer note.Noah: My favorite Cory Doctorow books also end on a downer note.Brad: Yes. Basically that the political economy does not allow us to move out of this particular fresh semi-hell in which we're embedded. But you had something to say?Cory: Everybody hates monopolies now. So we'll just team up with the people angry about professional wrestling monopolies and eyeglass monopolies and beer monopolies, and we'll form a Prairie Fire United Front of people who will break the monopoly because we're all on the same side—even though we're fighting our different corners of it—the same way that ecology took people who cared about owls and put them on the side of people who care about ozone layers, even though charismatic, nocturnal birds are not the gaseous composition of the upper atmosphere.Brad: Hey, if you have the charismatic megafauna on your side, you’re golden.Noah: How did the original Prairie Fire work out? Let's let's wrap it up there. This is really great episode. Cory, you're awesome. Thanks so much for coming on and feel free to come back in time. Cory: I’d love to. I've just turned in a book about money laundering and cryptocurrency—a noir cyberthreat thriller. Maybe when that comes out, I can come on and we can talk about that. That feels like it's up your guys' alley.Brad: That would be great. Okay. So, as we end this: Noah, what is the key insight?Noah: Hexapodia is the key insight. And what are the other key insights that we got from this day?Brad: DeLong: I'm just depressed. I had a riff about how we got interoperability right with the creation of the market economy and the end of feudalism—and how that was a very lucky historical accident. But I don't see possibilities for an equivalent lucky historical accident in our future.Noah: I have a key insight. It is a little vague, but hopefully it will be good fodder for future episodes. The problems in our society are not diametrically opposed. We have to find optimal interior-solution trade-offs between things that have a non-zero dot product. Sometimes solving the problem with one thing doesn't necessarily create exactly equal and opposite problems on the other side. Instead, it changes the trade-offs that you face with regard to other problems. These things become very complex. You have things like the antitrust problem and things like the Nazi problem. In your society addressing one doesn't necessarily worsen the other. More action against Nazis doesn't necessarily mean less action in antitrust. It's simply means you have to think about antitrust in a slightly different way, and vice versa. That does make these institutional problems very difficult to solve.Brad: Cory, do you wish to add a key insight,Cory: A key insight is: always keep a trash bag in your car.Brad: This has been Brad DeLong and Noah Smith's podcast this week with the amazing Cory Doctorow. Thank you all very much for listening. Get full access to Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality at braddelong.substack.com/subscribe

"What if the Axis Powers won World War II?" is one of the most-asked questions in all of speculative fiction, but Jo Walton's Farthing asks "what if Britain didn't exactly LOSE World War II, but ended up sliding into fascism anyway?"Our theme music was composed by Nick Lerangis.

"What if the Axis Powers won World War II?" is one of the most-asked questions in all of speculative fiction, but Jo Walton's Farthing asks "what if Britain didn't exactly LOSE World War II, but ended up sliding into fascism anyway?"Our theme music was composed by Nick Lerangis.

Perry and David are joined by Dr. Lucy Sussex to talk about alternate history novels. In particular, they discuss those alternate timelines in which the Axis powers won the Second World War. COVID-19 Restrictions (00:26) How libraries are dealing with the pandemic (03:08) Restrictions at aged care facilities (00:52) Great time to catch up on books and TV (00:21) Alternate History fiction (02:33) Bring the Jubilee by Ward Moore (00:07) Lord Darcy series by Randall Garrett (00:28) The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon (00:11) The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinson Kowal (00:20) What if Hitler had won? (01:02:35) Swastika Night by Katharine Burdekin (06:43) Small Change trilogy by Jo Walton (06:39) Among Others by Jo Walton (01:22) Dominion by C. J. Sansom (05:13) The Iron Dream by Norman Spinrad (01:30) SS-GB by Len Deighton (06:48) Fatherland by Robert Harris (07:33) Bosch series by Michael Connelly (01:28) The Plot Against America by Philip Roth (07:10) The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick (17:08) Image from Pexels.com

Rhi, Josh and Ralph talk about books they're reading, and other things. (I know, it’s not January, it’s May) Show Notes Rhi has been reading What Makes This Book So Great? by Jo Walton and Heriot by Margaret Mahy, and has just started Imaginary Cities by Darran Anderson. She's looking forward to reading The Refrigerator…Read more Episode 4.01: what we’re reading, new year 2018

In our last episode of the season Ralph, Liz and Josh struggle to communicate over Samuel R. Delany's Babel-17. Show Notes Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany Elizabeth Lovegrove, Josh Fox and Ralph Lovegrove Synopsis 00:45 // Jo Walton's review 04:30 // Themes 05:10 // The Dead on tape 08:00 // Translation and Memory 12:40 //…Read more Episode 217: Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany

Our hosts square off in an arena and argue about the quality of "The Just City," a novel about Platonism and menstruation by Jo Walton. Then they talk about Take That! mechanics in board games, because this is a board game podcast by board game designers about board games, you clowns. Yeesh. Intro gag: Comin' to ya' live from low earth orbit in the late 1950's, I'm Johannes Stauffer and with me as always is a whole bunch of frozen space dogs, and this is the Mildly Alarming Podcast. Episode Ninety-Twelve: Unpasteurized Beef Albumin ##Segment 1: Wrong About Books Episode Sponsor: Pork Snapplins ##Segment 2: "Take That!" Mechanics Outro Gag: Toebots Music in this episode: "Quirky Dog" by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons By Attribution 3.0