Today's episode has us discussing Greg Egan's "Permutation City", which is a cyberpunk novel set in the near future where humanity can upload their brains into a computer. The book explores themes of mortality and consciousness, following an insurance salesman with a grand vision, and a software...

After a long break, we are back with our next episode! Today we are discussing Andy Weir's "Project Hail Mary", a spiritual sequel to his first novel, "The Martian". This book talks about humanity grappling with a dimming Sun, and follows a single protagonist as he engineers and sciences his way...

Today we have all of our usual hosts back on the podcast, discussing The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers. This books falls in the category of "slice of life in the future". We follow the crew of a subspace tunnelling ship called the "Wayfarer" as they set about punching a...