The podcast says Happy New Year!! Whiskey Jenny and I are back once again to talk about fictional workplaces (we have a small taxonomy of how to do these) and The Singer’s Gun, a book from Emily St. John Mandel’s backlist. We also play a game with Randon that deals with modes of transportation. You can listen to the podcast in the embedded player below or download the file directly to take with you on the go. Episode 33 Or if you wish, you can find us on iTunes (and if you enjoy the podcast, give us a good rating!…
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Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel
Published 1 Dec 2014
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Gin Jenny
Here’s a thing I cannot abide with in stories about the apocalypse: People frantically shopping for groceries. I don’t know why. I am an excellent pre-disaster grocery shopper myself. When I lived in New York, I had to stop myself from charging about the store removing imprudent disaster groceries from other people’s baskets. (Attention New Yorkers: Get flashlights, not candles. Stop buying up all the milk.) I am fine with this. But when I read about it in books, my throat closes up. This was the scariest detail to me in Life As We Knew It, and it almost made…
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