A Meal of Thorns 22 – THE TERRA IS A FORMER MISTRESS with Christian P. Haines
Update: 2025-04-21
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Credits:
- Guest: Christian P. Haines
- Titles: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein, and The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz
- Host: Jake Casella Brookins
- Music by Giselle Gabrielle Garcia
- Artwork by Rob Patterson
- Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough
- Transcriber: Kate Dollarhyde
References:
- Stephen King's The Shining and Carrie
- Rafael Bernal’s His Name Was Death
- Michel Nieva’s Dengue Boy
- Daryl Gregory’s When We Were Real
- Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Service Model, Christian’s review for ARB
- Io9
- Our Opinions Are Correct
- Heinlein’s Starship Troopers
- Christian’s The Terraformers review for LARB
- Newitz’s Autonomous
- Heinlein’s Farmer in the Sky, The Rolling Stones
- Archer
- Milton Friedman
- Orwell’s 1984
- Rand’s Atlas Shrugged
- James S.A. Corey’s The Expanse
- Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars Trilogy
- Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed
- Ian McDonald’s New Moon trilogy
- Frank Herbert’s Dune
- Samuel R. Delany’s Babel-17
- Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness
- Jo Walton's Among Others and our episode on it
- Holly Jean Buck’s After Geoengineering
- "Engineering Swallows Up Politics"
- Neal Stephenson’s Termination Shock
- KSR’s Aurora
- McKenzie Wark’s Molecular Red
- Ulrich Haarbürste’s Roy Orbison Wrapped in Clingfilm
- Star Trek's “Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations”
- Spinoza’s idea of <a href="https://plato.stanford.
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