I bask in the afterglow of the KSR episode and indulge in a special treat; a reading from Robinson's 2015 novel Aurora. I follow that up with some thoughts on the utopia - dystopia divide and introduce the ideas of some notable utopians I've run into lately. Active Transcript (read and/or listen) David Grinspoon: Earth in Human Hands: Long Now Foundation (YouTube) Johanna Hoffman: Speculative Futures: Long Now Foundation (YouTube)Johanna Hoffman: Speculative Futures of Cities: (Sean Carroll's Mindscape podcast) Rebecca Solnit: Why Climate Despair is a Luxury (New Statesman) Matt Oja: Let's Imagine the Coastside Skyway (Half Moon Bay Review) Want to help me make these shows? Please consider becoming a patron!