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Bloodchild
Books Without Pictures - September 24, 2015 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsWendee and Dan end Dan's minor freakout at having confused different portions of the DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince catalog by remembering to thank Patreon subscriber Rick with a discussion of Octavia E. Butler's remarkable novelette Bloodchild. Visit www.patreon.com/bookswp to learn more about...
Hyperion, Part B: Hard-Boiled Time-Displaced Baby Thing
Books Without Pictures - August 27, 2015 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsWendee and Dan finish their discussion of Hyperion, squeezing this in, naturally, between mentions of award slates, convention experiences, and possible new horizons for the podcast itself. Please consider subscribing to the BWP Patreon campaign at patreon.com/bookswp.
Armageddon 2015 AD - The Hugo Awards
Books Without Pictures - August 20, 2015 13:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn this special episode of Books Without Pictures, while taking a look at the 2015 nominees for Best Short Story, Wendee and Dan have strong words about slate organizers, some of the works they were successful in forcing onto this year's ballot, sandwiches, and their cat. This particular episode ...
Hyperion, Part A: Clergy, Soldiers, Poets, and Semirobotic Harbingers of Murderdeath
Books Without Pictures - August 14, 2015 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsBooks Without Pictures returns with the first half of Dan Simmons' Hyperion, and also the story of that time Dan saw boobs with his mom sitting next to him. Attaboy, Luther! Please consider subscribing to the BWP Patreon campaign at patreon.com/bookswp.
A Princess of Mars
Books Without Pictures - April 10, 2015 17:20 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsThe cosmos did everything in its power to delay the return of Books Without Pictures, but nothing could hold Wendee back from venting her rage against John Carter of Mars, the hero of Edgar Rice Burroughs' hugely influential 1912 science fantasy classic A Princess of Mars. How long does it take f...
The Time Machine
Books Without Pictures - July 03, 2014 16:35 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsHG Wells' The Time Machine holds the distinction of meriting the briefest synopsis in the podcast's history. While deciding if historical importance always equals artistic merit, Wendee and Dan wander off topic towards Dan's hatred of Dickens and all his dark works, Eric Cartman's adventures in s...
Brave New World, Part B: What We Thought
Books Without Pictures - June 05, 2014 17:20 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsWhen he was 14, Brave New World opened Dan's horizons to include philosophical arguments about the cruelty of dehumanization. Also, the book had boobs in it. With that in mind, he and Wendee discuss the themes behind this book, occasionally lapsing into Foghorn Leghorn impressions. (It was late. ...
Brave New World, Part A: What It's About
Books Without Pictures - March 12, 2014 14:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsWendee's groove thing, and the shaking of same, ties directly into a con report and her involvement in the NOH8 campaign. From there, she and Dan break down the plot of Aldous Huxley's groundbreaking 1932 dystopic vision of dehumanization, Brave New World. They also wonder what accessories would ...
A Study in Emerald
Books Without Pictures - January 12, 2014 15:30 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsThey discuss Alan Moore, they discuss the Mickey Mouse copyright shenanigans, they even discuss whether this story's author's wife is a firestorm of two-fisted awesome or perhaps not, but will Wendee and Dan ever discuss "A Study in Emerald" by Neil Gaiman? Tune in to find out!
Childhood's End
Books Without Pictures - December 29, 2013 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsDan's new job selling cheap crap to terrible people and Wendee's success in not dying horribly on Boston's terrifyingly antiquated public transit system are some of the excuses given for the epic lateness of this episode. Eventually they get around to actually discussing Arthur C. Clarke's avowed...
The War of the Worlds, Part B: The Novel
Books Without Pictures - October 06, 2013 17:50 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsLuxurious Victorian mustaches! Wandering Raisinets! And does Dan know the difference between Tanzania and Tasmania? All this and more as the hosts discuss HG Wells' The War of the Worlds, arguably the most influential novel in the genre's history!
The War of the Worlds, Part A: The Panic Broadcast
Books Without Pictures - September 08, 2013 16:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsSometimes life conspires to keep us from sitting at a computer to talk about HG Wells' The War of the Worlds. To hold you over, here is the famous 1938 radio drama that sent a not-zero number of people screaming into the night. Think of it as homework.
The Little Black Bag
Books Without Pictures - August 27, 2013 16:45 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsOne host loves CM Kornbluth's story "The Little Black Bag." The other most decidedly does not. Words are exchanged. Also, remember Night Gallery? That show was awesome.
The Forever War
Books Without Pictures - August 15, 2013 15:50 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsAfter welcoming new sponsor Audible to the podcast, Dan and Wendee manage to stop speculating about an alternate reality where Hulk Hogan endorsed the George Foreman Grill long enough to discuss Joe Haldeman's Vietnam War allegory The Forever War. But seriously, Burgermania? Steakamania? How woul...
The Handmaid's Tale, Part B: What We Thought
Books Without Pictures - July 28, 2013 14:40 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsIs The Handmaid's Tale inherently anti-Christian? Is it an easy read? Is it actually science fiction? These are just some of the many questions Wendee and Dan tackle in this episode. (Warning: Politics ahead.)
The Handmaid's Tale, Part A: What It's About
Books Without Pictures - July 25, 2013 14:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsUnappetizing European chocolate, terrifying Victorian pornography, and the wholesale destruction of Western civilization brought about by New Coke are some of the ways Wendee and Dan veer off topic while summarizing Margaret Atwood's bleak, 1985 dystopia The Handmaid's Tale in this very, very lat...
The Whisperer in Darkness
Books Without Pictures - June 30, 2013 16:30 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn between talk of how inherently terrible the state of Rhode Island really is and whether or not Tim Curry is an adequately scary clown, the hosts find time to discuss (and argue over) HP Lovecraft's novella The Whisperer in Darkness. Want to find out if Dan had to sleep on the couch that night?...
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Books Without Pictures - June 16, 2013 17:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsAfter battling through 50 pages that neither Dan nor Wendee thought they would survive, they bat around Robert A. Heinlein's 1966 Hugo winner The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. In this book, things get political; a computer decides not to enslave and destroy; the hosts see how enjoyable a book can be ...
The Martian Chronicles, Part B: What We Thought
Books Without Pictures - June 02, 2013 18:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsCan a short story collection be a novel? Will eReaders destroy us all? Are 1970s TV miniseries adaptations by their very nature inherently terrible? And what exactly did Dan and Wendee think about The Martian Chronicles? The answer to these questions, and many, many more, await!
The Martian Chronicles, Part A: What It's About
Books Without Pictures - May 23, 2013 12:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsBooks Without Pictures is here at last, and Dan and Wendee introduce themselves with Ray Bradbury's classic 1950 novel... story collection... thing: The Martian Chronicles.
Books Without Pictures: Trailer
Books Without Pictures - May 10, 2013 17:30 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsBooks Without Pictures, coming soon to Earth-2.net.
Earth-2.net: The Show - Episode 612
Books Without Pictures - March 23, 2013 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsDan and Wendee return once more to talk you through some more Books Without Pictures! This month, the topic of discussion is Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five; either this is the most incredible book you've ever read, or there's something intrinsically wrong with you -- a deep pit of emptiness ...
Earth-2.net: The Show - Episode 608
Books Without Pictures - February 19, 2013 15:15 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn the latest Books Without Pictures, cyberpunk, ancient Sumerian mythology, pirates versus ninjas, the National Cryptologic Museum, and They Might Be Giants all become part of the attempt by Dan and Wendee to make some sort of sense out of Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash.
Earth-2.net: The Show - Episode 602
Books Without Pictures - January 22, 2013 12:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsThe first full edition of Books Without Pictures is here, and with it Dan and Wendee debate the merits of Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's classic first-contact novel: The Mote in God's Eye! Blast Hardcheese and the He-Man Woman Haters' Club bring extreme diplomacy to the outer reaches of the ga...
Earth-2.net: The Show - Episode 576
Books Without Pictures - December 01, 2012 15:40 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsNew to Earth-2.net: The Show, Dan and Wendee discuss the 1959 short story "Flowers for Algernon" in this, the first episode of Books Without Pictures! Also, Mike make a major announcement about Earth-2.net: The Show, and begins paying back those who donated to the Shameless Pledge Drive.
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