Life Death Sci-fi

World War Z by Max Brooks Review

Hosts Eric Bueschlen and Chris Herzberg talk about World War Z by Max Brooks. Is the movie better than the book or just different and just as good? This is a hard read during the time of the pandemic, especially the early chapters. Dog lovers will enjoy the dog heroes of this story. Survival: what tools would you bring to the zombie apocalypse?

 

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Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Review

Lifedeathscifi hosts Eric Bueschlen and Chris Herzberg discuss Ray Bradbury's sci-fi classic, Fahrenheit 451. Did the war in this story blow up the city at the end of the book? Our hosts consider war, education, the 1%, chaos, villains, and heroes. There is a "Wake up Moment" and Halloween costumes. Pondering about: Are we too reliant on devices? Can we ever find the truth? Online?

 

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Earth Abides by George R Stewart Review

Hosts Eric Bueschlen and Chris Herzberg relate to The Earth Abides by George R. Stewart. A 70-year-old story with relevance today. What was the earliest "last person on earth" story? Ish drives across the country looking for survivors and finds more than one kind of survivor. This review was recorded during the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic, and our hosts talk about fear, death, and survival.

 

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The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster Review

Hosts Eric Bueschlen and Chris Herzberg wonder about The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster. Our hosts get right into it with all of the sci-fi connections this story has and it was written in 1909! The Starship Enterprise has visited more than one planet that has problems because they forgot who built the machine that protects them; the same is true in The Machine Stops. E.M. Forster creates a frightening world where people are hooked into a machine afraid to go into the polluted outside world; like in The Matrix, the main character Neo wakes up in an amniotic pod to a very different life he was living, like Logan's Run where society is so afraid of leaving the domes they live in that they allow a culling at the age of 30 to curb population. These stories strongly connect to Vishti's pod and her son, Kuno's journey to escape the machine. How could E.M. Forster have known so much about 100 years into his future? Respect. 

Ringworld by Larry Niven Review

Hosts Eric Bueschlen and Chris Herzberg talk about the sci-fi classic, Ringworld by Larry Niven. We are awed by the scope of this setting and the diversity of the cast of characters. Luck, free will, and destiny are surprise guests in this space opera. Think big, solar system big, it’s a galaxy-sized story.  This episode includes a surprise discussion around the lessons of eugenics connects to The Underground Railroad by Colsen Whitehead.

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Annihilation by Jeff Vanderveer Review

In this episode, we explore the first book of Jeff Vanderveer's Southern Reach Trilogy. Is it a story of first contact? Horror? A love story? Perhaps a fairy tale? What mysteries does the lighthouse represent? What are "Hyperobjects? And why doesn't anyone have a name? 

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne Review

A lot of podcast production talk; music, scripts, and editing. Then some pandemic catch-up time it just felt like it had to happen. Finally, we get to Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, some of the best bits were about "Who IS Captain Nemo? A villain or a hero? Can you be both? Catch all of this and more in episode 4. The Nautilus submarine is the best tech ever!

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein Review

Hosts Eric Bueschlen and Chris Herzberg argue about this "first contact" satire on religion and politics. We try to answer the questions:
Is this story a classic?
Does the misogyny of the era disqualify a story from becoming a classic?