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		<title>Windup Girl by Poalo Bacigalupi</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2025 19:04:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In this episode, Chris and Eric dive into Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl, a vividly imagined biopunk dystopia set in a future Bangkok teetering on the edge of collapse. With rising seas, deadly plagues, and a world economy ruled by genetically modified seeds, survival depends on biotechnology—and brutal power. The hosts unpack the novel’s haunting [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Can a cheese fort save the world? A review of &#8220;The Ministry for the future&#8221; (S01E12)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Sep 2023 17:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Your apartment door clicks, locking itself behind you as you enter the shared stairwell. You make your way down, cement step after cement step, descending past the dusty, yellowing walls, walls plastered with license-plate-sized stencils in black or red spray paint advertising things like household repairs. You might have been whistling a happy tune to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Desolation Road by Ian McDonald</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2022 16:32:53 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Dystopia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[episodes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steam Punk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Time Travel]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Okay. This is part of the chronological journey of Martian stories. We began in 1912 and now seven stories later, We&#8217;re in 1988. So far, most of, if not, all these stories use Mars in name only; like a stage backdrop, meaning it could have just as well happened on Mother Earth. This story is [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Aelita by Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Nov 2021 15:13:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Space Opera]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Season 2 episode 2]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Chris and Eric talk about Aelita by Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy. Mysterious and wonderful in its fantasy sprinkled with some surprising sci-fi tidbits. Think about how long Russia has been enthralled with space and Aelita may have been the twinkle in the Russian space program&#8217;s eye. Image:https://www.hellofriki.com/resena-aelita-reina-marte/Music:(Alien 1963) Music No Copyright Download Mp3Trovi Alien 1963 Mp3 [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Feed by M.T. Anderson</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2020 18:40:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Season 1 Episode 11]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Lifedeathscifi with hosts Eric Bueschlen and Chris Herzberg talk about how they perceive life on the Feed. Feed by M.T. Anderson is a story written for young adults set in a near future where corporations know everything. Where water, air, and education are privatized and trademarked. Where you can take a vacation on the moon like a teenager can have spring break in Cancun. Water is heavy and coke has too much sugar. Flying over fields of GMO meat.  Information that feeds into your brain is like buying a car; like a car, you can't leave once inside.  They found a plot hole. Slam suits in Smash, Beijing mentioned.
Music: No Copyright Music
Artist: Ramzoid
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Artist: Ramzoid
Title: Alien1963
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Image: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8305243-feed]]></description>
		
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		<title>World War Z by Max Brooks</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2020 18:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hosts Eric Bueschlen and Chris Herzberg debate this epic series of environmental changes through "first contact". We include Jeff Vanderveer's whole Southern Reach Trilogy because we couldn't stop reading with just Annihilation, the first book.
Doppelgangers, copies and clones oh my!
What are "Hyperobjects?
What does the lighthouse represent?]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2020 17:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Season 1 Episode 8]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hosts Eric Bueschlen and Chris Herzberg hail The Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler. This is the third try for this episode. First, try Eric Didn&#8217;t press record, second Chris didn&#8217;t save, and this is the third try. This podcast starts out with how will this podcast start. We might be caught in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2020 17:28:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Lifedeathscifi hosts Eric and Chris talk about Ray Bradbury&#8217;s sci-fi classic, Fahrenhiet 451. Did the war in this story blow up the city at the end of the book? Our hosts talk about war, education, the 1%, chaos, villains, heroes. There is a &#8220;Wake up Moment&#8221; and Halloween costumes. Pondering about: Are we too reliant [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Earth Abides by George R. Stewart</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2020 17:24:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Season 1 Episode 6]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hosts Eric Bueschlen and Chris Herzberg relate to The Earth Abides by George R. Stewart. A 70-year-old story with relevance today. What was the earliest &#8220;last person on earth&#8221; story? Ish drives across the country looking for survivors and finds that there is more than one kind of survivor. This review was recorded during the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster s1e5</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2020 17:13:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Season 1 Episode 5]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Is the essence of humanity the birth of ideas—creation? In this episode, we dig into all the sci-fi connections in E.M. Forster&#8217;s The Machine Stops. We cannot believe how prescient Forster was back in 1909! Is he a time traveler? As with so many of the planets the Starship Enterprise encounters on its voyages, Forster&#8217;s [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer s1e2</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2020 17:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Season 1 Episode 2]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s an alien without a purpose? In this episode, we explore the first book of Jeff Vanderveer&#8217;s Southern Reach Trilogy. Is it a story of first contact? Horror? A love story? Perhaps a fairy tale? What mysteries does the lighthouse represent? What are &#8220;Hyperobjects? And why doesn&#8217;t anyone have a name? Image:behemothrarebooks.comMusic:(Alien 1963) Music No [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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