Episode 39: Completely zoned out

David and Perry visit the Eastern Block and discuss novels by Stanisław Lem and the Strugatsky brothers, and the films based on two of their books.
Ebooks or paper books? (05:02)
Going East (00:30)
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem (20:00)
Solaris (movie) directed by Andrei Tarkovsky (12:20)
Solaris (movie) directed by Steven Soderberg (14:15)
Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (11:48)
Stalker (movie) directed by Andrei Tarkovsky (26:11)
Windup (00:43)
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Episode 38: Big, bigger, biggest, bigly!

Perry and David have fun talking about BIG objects in science fiction, from flying cities to spheres totally enclosing stars.
Megastructures (06:36)
Cities in Flight by James Blish (06:05)
Feersum Endjinn by Ian M. Banks (04:32)
Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke (00:39)
Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson (00:23)
The Web Between the Worlds by Charles Sheffield (03:28)
Eon by Greg Bear (06:14)
Marrow by Robert Reed (09:17)
Pellucidar Series by Edgar Rice Burroughs (07:10)
Dyson Spheres (01:50)
Tabby Boyajian's Star (01:14)
Star Classifications (01:36)
Orbitsville by Bob Shaw (05:47)
Other big objects in SF (10:19)
Riverworld Series by Phillip Jose Farmer (02:15)
Bowl of Heaven by Larry Niven & Greg Benford (01:32)
Fleet of Worlds by Larry Niven & Edward M. Lerner (02:11)
Culture Series by Ian M. Banks (04:10)
Windup (01:21)
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