In this episode, the two sisters tackle the nebula award winner from 1972 - A Time of Changes by Robert Silverberg. Our man, a regular World con attendee, and prolific writer created a science fiction piece, and to us  - almost a fantasy, while undertaking a personal writing challenge - to create a story without using the word “I”. So did this idea work?  We definitely had our own opinions.

Here are some time markers to help guide you:

01:42 Book Jacket read (We say the names)

03:57 History Lesson

08:22 Tackling the Big Themes: Struggle bus time

11:31 The concept of writing without using “I”

12:13 Segway into Mindsharing

15:46 The New Wave style of writing

17:42 World Building, but it somehow fades to the background

20:54 Discussion of Bond Brothers/Sisters

24:30 Chosen one vs. the sidekick

25:40 We Segway again - this time into sex and character development 

31:25 Earthman = Drug Dealer

33:26 Four questions