It's the unluckiest numbered episode of your favorite podcast about beer, geekery, and everything in-between! In this installment, buff your sci-fi reading list with Matt and Marcel's low-brow-pretending-to-be-high-brow novel selections.
Things will get interesting as Frank Herbert is worshipped and then discarded, IPAs are reviewed (warning: faux-PAs might come up), and Ian M Banks novels are stolen.
Tune in for more beer, more geekery, and the answer to the question: Why is the world a dystopian hellscape?
Warning: Spoilers ahead!
The Sci-Fi Novel Draft:
Matt's draft picks:
- Use of Weapons, Ian M Banks
- Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
- Neuromancer, William Gibson
- The Forever War, Joe Haldeman
- Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
- Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card
- Transmetropolitan, Warren Ellis
Matt’s Remainders:
- A Deepness in the Sky, Vernon Vinge
- The Difference Engine, William Gibson & Bruce Sterling
- The Mars Trilogy, Kim Stanley Robinson
- The Otherland Saga, Tad Williams
- The works of Peter F. Hamilton
- The works of Brandon Sanderson
- Do Androids Dream of electric sheep, Philip K. Dick
- The Mote in God’s Eye. Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
- Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama
Marcel's draft picks:
- Anvil of Stars, Greg Bear
- The Gunslinger, Stephen King
- Look to Windward, Ian M Banks
- A Fire Upon the Deep, Vernon Vinge
- Ivory: A Legend of Past and Future, Mike Resnick
- Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
- Ancillary Justice, Ann Leckie
Marcel’s Remainders:
- A Scanner Darkly, Philip K. Dick
- The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick
- The Bone Clocks, David Mitchell
- Station Eleven, Emily St John Mandell
- Take Back Plenty, Colin Greenland
- To your Scattered Bodies go, Philip Jose Farmer
- Leviathan Wakes, James S.A. Corey
- World War Z, Max Brooks
- A Philosophical Investigation, Philip Kerr
- Chaga , Ian McDonald
- Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton
Beers tasted:
Firebird IPA, The Redrock Brewing Co.
Fresh Hop IPA (2020), Jack Black Brewing Co.
Karma Citra IPA, Frontier Brewing Co.
Show Notes:
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