It’s our 150th episode! Very fittingly, it’s a book club episode, which is the entire reason this podcast exists. In this episode, we’re talking about Jette’s pick, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and we loved reading more of Moreno-Garcia’s work. Show Notes We can’t believe we’ve recorded …
In Episode 95, Gen and Jette finally take on the science fiction genre! We’ve put it off until now because neither of us thought we read much sci-fi, but it turns out we’ve read more than we thought and we actually love it! A lot of the books we talk …
In Episode 91, Gen and Jette dive into another book to film adaptation with a discussion of The Martian. We love a well done adaptation and Ridley Scott’s film does Andy Weir’s book full justice. Plus, we got to indulge our inner space nerd. Show Notes The cast is stacked …
In Episdoe 34 Gen and Jette talk about The Institute by Stephen King, our 2019 November/December book club selection. King’s latest novel follows a group of children with special powers who are prisoners of a mysterious Institute that runs experiments on them. We chat about fate and chance, shady governments, …
Science fiction is such a massive genre that it’s difficult to know where to start. So why not start at the beginning? With the grandmother of it all, Mary Shelley. Most people who know anything about Mary Shelley know the mythology of how Frankenstein came to be. Lord Byron invited …
In Episode 21 Gen and Jette talk about Shade, The Changing Girl, their 2019 May/June book club selection. This collection of comics on DC’s Young Animal imprint is about an alien, Loma, who embodies a teenage girl. The story follows Loma as she travels across the universe to earth in …
In Episode 17 Gen and Jette talk about The Refrigerator Monologues by Catherynne M. Valente, their 2019 March/April book club selection. Valente takes on the trope of the “fridged” woman in superhero stories. The term was coined by author Gail Simone and was named after the Green Lantern comic in …
In Episode 2 Gen and Jette discuss their very first book club selection–Artemis by Andy Weir. Weir sets his second novel in the nearish future of the late 2080’s in the first human moon colony, Artemis. The story follows Jazz Bashara, a porter with a talent for engineering and a …
