Brothers Reading Books: A Sci-Fi and Fantasy Book Club
Join Will and Michael in our online book club as we go chapter by chapter through classics of the science fiction and fantasy genres.
Episodes
The action ratchets up from tense to chaotic as Corto breaks through as the run is going down. We follow Molly’s Straylight approach through SimStim, and encounter Riviera’s bizarre mind games as the plan inevitably goes off the rails.
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Neuromancer shifts into high gear as Case gets nabbed by the Turing Police and the Straylight run has to start up before the situation collapses any further. We also get some thoughts about memory and models of the self and get some more Sim-Stim action as the operation proceeds.
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We pick up our Neuromancer read-through right as the AI Wintermute starts speaking through familiar faces, laying out its limits and its leverage.
From there we step into Freeside, the glossy space resort that feels like a tourist paradise until you notice the decadent underbelly.
Case goes chasing a buzz, the dinner goes sideways, and Riviera puts on an unsettling holographic cabaret that leads us to ...
We continue with chapters six through eight in Neuromancer.
In this episode:
- we collect the last member of the team, Peter Riviera
- Learn more about who, or what, "Armitage" actually is
- we start making our way to the corrupt and decadent Freeside, a cyberpunk Babylon
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We continue William Gibson’s Neuromancer with chapters 3 through 5 where we learn that we are in a heist story. Assemble the crew, buy the gear, test the tools, then do the heist before the heist.
We learn about The Sprawl and BAMA and what Armitage has done that ties Case to the completion of this job.
We also talk about the SimStim feature and the interesting narrative perspectives it introduce...
William Gibson’s cyberpunk classic, Neuromancer, drops us right into the action in the neon grime of Chiba City.
Read along with us to find out why the book still feels like the blueprint for hackers, body modification, and the idea of cyberspace itself.
Along the way we talk about the noir tone, and the genre’s core promise: high tech wrapped around low society.
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We wrap up our current run through of Robert E. Howard by reading two more tales: “The Vale of Lost Women,” regarded as one of the most controversial Conan stories, and “The Devil in Iron,” a more traditional Conan sword and sorcery story with those elements of supernatural horror we've come to love.
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We follow Conan through “Rogues in the House” a plan for an assassination job turns into a trap filled nightmare. We talk pacing, pulp, horror, and why we enjoy Conan so much when he leans into his skills for improvised violence.
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Conan arrives on the ship dripping wet from Crom knows where.
Conflicts with captain and crew lead to typical Conan solutions. Punch it or stab it if possible. As the ship goes in search of ancient treasure a new and frightening enemy appears that will test Conan's limits.
Read The Pool of the Black One with us in this episode.
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A mysterious city rises out of a waterless desert, and for a second it looks like salvation. But there is more than first meets the eye in this supposed oasis.
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We read Robert E. Howard’s “Iron Shadows in the Moon” and follow Conan from a marshland showdown into cursed ruins, pirate politics, and a moonlit escape.
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We read and react to Robert E. Howard’s “Black Colossus." Grave-robbing and treasure hunting goes wrong and unleashes an ancient evil to sweep across the nations. We get to see Conan as a military commander when he is chosen by prophecy to assume a position of leadership in one nation's military defense against the hordes that have been assembled from the south.
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We follow Conan from a run-in with “civilized” law to his escape to the sea. From there it's on to piracy, pillaging, passion, and exploration of haunting ancient ruins.
We also get some insights into Conan’s bleak theology, the visions of the black lotus, and a show down with Lovecraftian horrors.
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Today we cover Robert E. Howard’s “The Scarlet Citadel” and look once again at Conan as King which goes well with our previous episode on the "Phoenix in the Sword."
This story hits our classic Conan tropes: betrayal, unsettling sorcerers, daring escapes, and last minute rescues.
Overall a rollicking good time!
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We dive into a pair of classic Conan heist tales. Join us as we follow a young Conan as he multi-classes as a rogue in the classic stories "The God in the Bowl" and "The Tower of the Elephant."
We have the usual Conan tropes of murder, monsters, and unsettling sorcery that reminds us of Howard's pen-pal Lovecraft.
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We leave sci-fi behind and jump into sword and orcery with Robert E. Howard’s Conan the Barbarian.
We talk pulp context, the Hyborian Age’s “historical shorthand,” and why Conan on the page feels smarter, stranger, and more human than the pop culture version we were more familiar with.
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We finish our read through of Dune by looking the appendixes, where Herbert lays out some of the hard details behind Arrakis's ecology, religion, politics, and the history of the empire.
We also give some of our final thoughts on this foundational work of science fiction.
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We've done it!
We are making our way through the final chapters of Dune together, well done!
While the title does not appear in the books, it does match our episode's theme quite well today as we march into the confrontation between Paul's Fremen and the Emperor's Sardaukar forces.
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Paul rides the worm, turning a rite of passage into another future legend. Old friends return and trust must be reestablished. What happens when one drinks the Water of Life who was never meant to?
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Paul and Jessica learn more about Fremen life in the sietch. We experience the mysterious Water of Life and the strange effects it has on both our characters and the Fremen at large. We revisit the Baron and his plans for the future once again.
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