Dystopian Novel Series Part III – It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis | Episode 044

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It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis made a sudden and dramatic climb on bestseller lists in late fall 2016. Parts of the novel bear some uncanny similarities to the 2016 election –– Donald Trump in...

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Dystopian Novel Series Part II – Paris in the Twentieth Century by Jules Verne | Episode 035

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Special guest Matt Bird joins the panel as Infinite Gestation continues its Dystopian Novel Series with Paris in the Twentieth Century – the “lost novel” by Jules Verne. Though completed in 1863, the work remained unpublished...

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Dystopian Novel Series Part I – We by Yevgeny Zamyatin | Episode 034

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Beginning with praise, transitioning to criticism and ultimately reaching a state of forgiveness, the panel embarks upon its ongoing Dystopian Novel Series with the granddaddy of the dystopian novel, We by Yevgeny Zamyatin. (Coincidentally recorded on the podcast’s one year anniversary)....

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Atwood’s Dystopia – The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood | Episode 017

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The Handmaid’s Tale is some serious business. Margret Atwood’s classic dystopian novel remains notably fresh and relevant since its publication in 1985, and has become essential to the genre, among the company of George Orwell’s 1984 and...

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