173 - The Employees
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Perhaps our most referential episode, ever. The book: The Employees by Olga Ravn The art it was created to accompany: Consumed Future Spewed Up as Present by Lea Guldditte Hestlund Books (many are also Movies/TV shows) Mentioned: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Phillip K. Dick (movie is titled Bladerunner) Neuromancer by William Gibson The Expanse by James S.A. Corey 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke Dune by Frank Herbert Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer The Membranes by Chi Ta-Wei Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman Other Art Mentioned: Mr. Weekend by Mike Simi Meow Wolf Severance (Apple TV) Arrival (movie) Our next read is The Quick and the Dead by Joy Williams. Find it at your local bookstore or library and read along with us. If you want to read along with The Bookstore Challenge 2024, you can join us on The StoryGraph to see what others are reading for each month and get ideas for your TBR: The Bookstore Challenge 2024. Get two audiobook credits for the price of one at Libro.fm when you sign up using the code BOOKSTOREPOD. Website | Patreon
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