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Larry Niven's RIngworld is a masterpiece of classic SciFi. WInner of teh Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards, this is a favortie of both Tom and Tony. Join us as we revisit Louis Wu, Teela Brown, Speaker-to-animals, and Nessus the mad Puppetteer. Ho
Camouflage by Joe Haldeman is Tony's pick this time around. A completely new experience for Tom, this book explores the life of an alien shapshifter who has been on Earth since before mankind evolved, long enough to forget it's an alien. Can it
Starship Troopers is iconic Robert Heinlein. One of his best sellers, and arguably his most recognized novel, Starship Troopers explores life under the Terran Federation through the eyes of Johnny Rico as, after high school, he joins the milita
John Scalzi's first novel, Agent to the Stars, is a fun story about Tom Stein, a moderately-successful talent agent, who finds himself with a race of aliens as clients. His job? Find a way to reveal their presence to humanity without causing a
Heavy Time by CJ Cherryh is one part her Company Wars series. Filled with political intrigue and hard sci-fi, we follow a small cast of asteroid miners who get caught up in sweeping events. A favorite of Tom's, Tony found it lacking in sympathe
Masters of Doom by David Kishner is our first non-fiction choice, and one of Tony's favorites. This tale focuses on John Carmack and John Romero, two programmers who shaped both video games and pop culture for a generation.
Before it became an iconic film, Logans Run was a novel by William F. Nolan. Tony didn't realize that the novel existed, while Tom read this many times in grade school and high school. Does it hold up after all this time? Let's find out!
A Wrinkle In Time by Madeline L'Engle is a young adult scifi that both Tony and Tom read in their youth. It's a very accessible story about a conflict between dark and light, evil and good. It turns out that Tom scarcely remembered anything abo
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is one of Tom's favorite dystopian novels, although it's arguable whether the world is a dystopia or a utopia. Tom finds this book delightfully quirky and profoundly vague. Tony questions whether Huxley was a ge
The Great Brain by John Dennis Fitzgerald is the first of a series of childrens books that Tony fell in love with during his youth. The stories center around Tom, the middle of three boys, and the shenanigans that ensue as he applies his great
This epsiode marks the first time we've had a guest on the show! Dr. Eva Rose Washburn-Repollo joins us in discussing one of her favorite books, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, sometimes called "The Great American Novel." Join
Winnie the Pooh, along with The House at Pooh Corner, document the stories that author A.A. Milne told to his son, Christopher Robin. Two delightful collections of amazing stories and delightful language, well-suited for adults to share with ch
Frank Herbert's Dune has been called the most important novel in science fiction. A winner of both the Hugo and Nebula awards, and a favorite of both Tom and Tony's, join us to see if it lives up to the hype.TTYpodcast.comThumbingthroughyesterd
H.P. Lovecraft is both the father of cosmic horror and the creator of the Cthulhu mythos. Since he didn't write novels, join us as we explore a collection of his short stories, culminating in the iconic Call of Cthulhu.TTYpodcast.comThumbingthr
In Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman set out to write a book that would do for adults what the books he had loved when he was younger had done for him as a kid. A favorite of Tony's, and a first-read for Tom, Neverwhere threads the line between dark fant
Animal Farm by George Orwell is a classic dystopian allegory, paralleling 1984 in showing Orwell's disdain for communism. Why does this book appeal so to Tom? Join us and find out!TTYpodcast.comThumbingthroughyesterday.com
You probably know Dave Barry as a Pulitzer prize winning humorour columnist. Did you know he is also a novelist? Tony's pick this time is Big Trouble, a fun-filled crime story that shows Barry at his comedic best.TTYpodcast.comThumbingthroughye
Tom's return to yesterday is Dragon's Egg by Robert L. Forward. Tony characterizes this book as the epitome of hard sci-fi, and loved getting to revisit it. Join us as we explore life on a neutron star!TTYpodcast.comThumbingthroughyesterday.com
Robert B. Parker is a favorite author of Tony's, and he's chosen Appaloosa, the first Western of a series featuring Virgil COle and Everett HItch. There's plenty of drama, action, terse conversations, and a surprising amount of humor in these p
A Fine and Pleasant Misery by Patrick McManus is a favorite from Tom's youth. Together with his best friends at the time, Tom lived many of the adventures that McManus so comedically recounts. Meet such memorable characters as old man and profe
Glory Road is one of Tony's all-time favorite books, and his Robert Heinlein selection for our 2nd year. This is an atypical Heinlein in that, in Tony's words, it is "a deconstruction of a fantasy adventure."TTYpodcast.comThumbingthroughyesterd
This Day All Gods Die is the conclusion to Stephen R. Donaldson's Gap Cycle, and what a conclusion it is! This is a novel-length climax that's an edge-of-your-seat experience from the first to the last page!TTYpodcast.comThumbingthroughyesterda
We continue our journey through Stephen R. Donaldson's Gap Cycle with Chaos and Order, book 4 of the series. Events continue to accelerate and the scope continues to expand, with Trumpet facing the worst threats to her survival so far. As we're
A Dark and Hungry God Arises is the 3rd book in Stephen R. Donaldson's Gap Cycle. Tony isn't enjoying the read, but acknowledges the mastery of the world building. Tom is in awe of how well Donaldson is setting up events for the climax yet to c
Forbidden Knowledge by Stephen R. Donaldson is the 2nd book in his Gap Cycle. We read the first for episode 9; now, we're undertaking the rest of the series. What happens to Morn now that she's escaped the clutches of Angus Thermopylae? How did
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