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Episode 92: “It’s So Dark,” or Cixin Liu’s The Dark Forest, Part II
The boys carve through the second half of Cixin Liu’s sprawling, imaginative, and haunting The Dark Forest. Bagg has questions about how much we can...
Episode 91: “All Chess Pieces, No Chess,” or Cixin Liu’s The Dark Forest, Part I
The premise of the Dark Forest, that Humanity must make a secret plan stored in our hidden thoughts to defeat an enemy that can spy on our every move,...
Episode 90: “An Egg Slicer Through a Supertanker,” or Cixin Liu’s The Three Body Problem, Part II
The lads host their first UMB Official Sports Update as Jesse manages to survive a weekend of ultimate frisbee before getting into the second half of...
Review: John Scalzi’s “When the Moon Hits Your Eye”
Jesse Dukes offers a quick review of popular science fiction writer John Scalzi's newest novel, "When the Moon Hits Your Eye". While he initially put...
Episode 89: “A Creeping Awareness” or Cixin Liu’s The Three Body Problem, Part I
The Three Body Problem begins with an inexplicable series of tragic mysteries, most notably, that physics as we know it has stopped working. Slowly,...
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