Episode 1: False Utopias and... Robot Sex??

On this episode of Be the Serpent, we're talking about the short story "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" by Ursula K Le Guin and the fanfiction "Victory Condition" by astolat. 

Other things mentioned during this episode: 

Hopepunk, Grimdark, and Noblebright
Amal El-Mohtar
Zen koans
Rev. Martin Luther King
The Trolley Problem
Doctor Who: “The Beast Below”
Strongtime: when stories happen
Siegfried Sassoon and Regeneration
Omar Khayyam

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Transcript available here.