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Credits:

• Guest: Christian P. Haines
• Titles: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein, and The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz
• Host: Jake Casella Brookins
• Music by Giselle Gabrielle Garcia
• Artwork by Rob Patterson
• Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough
• Transcriber: Kate Dollarhyde

References:

• Stephen King's The Shining and Carrie
• Rafael Bernal’s His Name Was Death
• Michel Nieva’s Dengue Boy
• Daryl Gregory’s When We Were Real
• Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Service Model, Christian’s review for ARB
• Io9
• Our Opinions Are Correct
• Heinlein’s Starship Troopers
• Christian’s The Terraformers review for LARB
• Newitz’s Autonomous
• Heinlein’s Farmer in the Sky, The Rolling Stones
• Archer
• Milton Friedman
• Orwell’s 1984
• Rand’s Atlas Shrugged
• James S.A. Corey’s The Expanse
• Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars Trilogy
• Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed
• Ian McDonald’s New Moon trilogy
• Frank Herbert’s Dune
• Samuel R. Delany’s Babel-17
• Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness
• Jo Walton's Among Others and our episode on it
• Holly Jean Buck’s After Geoengineering
• "Engineering Swallows Up Politics"
• Neal Stephenson’s Termination Shock
• KSR’s Aurora
• McKenzie Wark’s Molecular Red
• Ulrich Haarbürste’s Roy Orbison Wrapped in Clingfilm
• Star Trek's “Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations”
• Spinoza’s idea of conatus
• Walter Kaufman's introduction to Martin Buber's I and Thou
• Kant's Categorical Imperative
• Abbot Elementary
• Delany’s Trouble On Triton
• Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Talents
• Marx’s Capital
• John Brunner’s Stand on Zanzibar
• Kohei Sato’s Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto
• KSR’s The Ministry for the Future, New York 2140
• Le Guin’s The Word for World is Forest
• Gamers with Glasses
• Five Theses on Antifascist Game Criticism