In this episode we discuss the second half of Double Solitaire (Wild Cards Book 10). The authors that contributed to this book are:

• Melinda Snodgrass
• George R.R. Martin (editor)

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Odds and Ends

CONTEST TIME! Oh yeah, I forgot about that. First person to read this and email us to say they want the book wins the book. AHA!

Other stuff:

• Arthur C Clarke book about a space elevator was The Fountains of Paradise, but there are a lot of them:

  • Did We ALL Write a Book About Space Elevators? Why Unfortunate Coincidences Happen in Science Fiction

• Ken MacLeod’s book about religious robots is The Night Sessions.

• If you are reading these books you have read a lot about rape, and we talked briefly in this episode about the "rape is solely about power" trope and how dismissing the sexual aspect of rape can be harmful to people seeking a normal sex life after rape. If you have the stomach for further discussion around these ideas, please read this incredibly interesting paper by academic Beverly McPhail that "knits together five feminist theories into a comprehensive model that better explains the depth and breadth of the etiology of rape."