Description
The long-awaited final episode on Thief of Time (2001),
discussing Aristotle's conception(s) of humanity, religious and
scientific conceptions of time, identity theory, the history of
time-keeping, notions of historical and technological progress, their
implications for science fiction and utopian literature, human
sense-making, the "End of History", 9/11, The Book of Revelation,
Susan’s character development and existential despair.
The second episode examining Terry Pratchett's 1992's Discworld novel, Small Gods, examining the role of books and memory in fantasy fiction, comparisons to Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun sequence, contemplations of genre and what it means to be a "comedy", and seriously considering whether I...
Published 09/17/24
The first episode on Terry Pratchett's thirteenth (and best) Discworld novel Small Gods (1992), looking at religious and folkloric depictions of tortoises, the idea that gods need belief to survive as a trope of fantasy literature through influential works like those of Fritz Leiber and the Epic...
Published 05/26/24