Episode 103 - The Loop
This month is Episode 3 - The Loop. The panel discusses which time travel books have them coming back to them time and time again. Hear about Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone's This is How You Lose the Time War, Connie Willis' The Doomsday Book, Chuck Palahniuk's Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey, and Elan Mastai's All Our Wrong Todays.
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Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey by Chuck Palahniuk
A (fictional) oral history of Rant, including car crashes, rabies, grandfather paradoxes, and serial killers. Classic time travel!
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This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
Time-travelling rivals write letters to each other and fall in love across time and space.
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Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
A scientist travels back in time to study the plague - eerily timely for today and an excellent look at some of the best time travel tropes.
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All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai
A memoir by an unreliable narrator who travels from a utopian future to our current reality which is something more akin to a dystopia in contrast. Seems disastrous on paper, but maybe there are lessons to be learned as the seconds tick by…
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