Swords, Sorcery, and Socialism

An exploration of the politics and themes hiding inside our genre fiction.

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City of Brass

Episode Date: November 13, 2024

If you like djinn, magic, and the whole world teaming up to make one woman's life worse, then you'll enjoy Aurora and Trevor talking about C...

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The Left Hand of Darkness

Episode Date: October 19, 2024

It's time for a classic. We are joined by returning champion Trevor to discuss Ursula K. Le Guin's seminal work, The Left Hand of Darkness....

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Feed

Episode Date: August 26, 2024

It's time for a little sci-fi horror! This episode we are joined by Bry and Fry from the Pontifacts pod to talk about Feed by Mira Grant. A near...

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Creation: Part 2

Episode Date: August 4, 2024

A crossover episode with Trevor from The History of Persia from a couple years ago. We discuss historicity, Zoroastrianism, and well, creation!patreon...

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Creation: Part 1

Episode Date: July 25, 2024

A crossover episode with Trevor from The History of Persia from a couple years ago. We discuss historicity, Zoroastrianism, and well, creation!patreon...

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Cyberpunk 2077: Part 2

Episode Date: April 22, 2024

In the 2nd part of our conversation about Cyberpunk 2077 we are rejoined by Roberto to talk The Soul of Theseus, morality, and sexism in the player co...

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Cyberpunk 2077 - Part 1

Episode Date: April 12, 2024

We have brain worms we need to exorcise, and so we've invited our friend Roberto on to talk about the video game Cyberpunk 2077. Made by CD PROJE...

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The Transall Saga

Episode Date: January 27, 2024

What if the kid from Hatchet went to the post apocalypse future instead of Canada? That's what we're here to discuss in Gary Paulsen's...

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The Poppy War

Episode Date: December 6, 2023

*CONTENT WARNING* What happens when you take a YA novel and throw in a healthy dose or horrendous war crimes? The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang! We talk wi...

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The Three Body Problem

Episode Date: October 15, 2023

 Aliens, math, and the utter failure of the Cultural Revolution are the main points of discussion in this episode about The Three Body Problem by Liu...

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2 Year Review

Episode Date: September 25, 2023

It's been 2 years since we started the pod, so we wanted to take a quick look back at what we've learned, and talk about what's coming...

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The First 1984: We

Episode Date: May 4, 2023

It's a crossover spectacular! A little while back Asha and Ketho went on the Tsar Power Podcast to discuss the first dystopian novel about a tota...

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The Lord of the Rings: Hope

Episode Date: April 16, 2023

It's the Asha episode. She goes into detail about what hope is in the works of Tolkien, reads some selected quotes, then gives a talk about how t...