This week, John and Ben are joined by Ben's friend Sam to discuss one of the great works of scifi-horror: Peter Watts' "Blindsight"! Topics of discussion include "metal science fiction", AI, the nature of intelligence, and (of course) the Gothic.
We hope you enjoy the conversation.
Texts Mentioned this Episode
- Jane Austen - Persuasion
- Adorno & Horkheimer - Dialectic of Enlightenment
- Ian Banks - Culture series
- Peter Watts - Rifters
- Peter Watts - Echopraxia
- Arthur C Clarke - Rama series
- James Gunn - The Listeners
- Roger Zelazny - Creatures of Light and Darkness
- Roger Zelazny - Lord of Light
- M. John Harrison - Light
- Aase Berg - Dark Matter
- “Spar” - Kij Johnson
- Blake Butler - Aannex
- Alfred Bester - The Stars My Destination
- AA Atanasio - Radix novels
- Gene Wolf - Book of the New Sun series
