Wednesday Oct 14, 2020

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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