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Mining the Genre Asteroid: The Coming of the Quantum Cats

Cover of The Coming of the Quantum Cats, by Frederik Pohl, featuring a businessman, a soldier, a scientist, and others ascending a staircase set against the stars.

“… Pohl’s thesis, in this book, is that people are a mixture of nature AND nurture. The relatively retiring Nicky DeSota IS the same person as the hardbitten general, or the philandering Senator, and when push comes to shove, they can transcend their natures, or their upbringing, as the case may be. …”

791. Love After the End edited by Joshua Whitehead — Reading Rangers

https://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/archive.org/download/sand-f-791-love/SandF_791_Love.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSMother ships, bending time, and bioengineered rats, oh my! Daniel Haeusser and Trish Matson join forces to discuss Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction edited by Joshua Whitehead. Together, they explore the book’s themes of resistance and survival, the threads of utopianism throughout the stories, and much more! Thanks for listening. We hope you enjoy the episode!