CZM Book Club: All Cats Are Grey, by Andre Alice Norton

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

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Society & Culture, History

4.7 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Margaret reads you some golden-age pulp sci-fi about a hypercompetant space captain and her trusty cat

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:02.5	Guaranteed Human.
0:06.0	Cool Zone Media.
0:10.4	Hello, and welcome to Cool Zone Media Book Club.
0:13.0	The only book club you don't have to do the reading for is I do it for you.
0:17.8	And what's that you're thinking?
0:19.6	You're thinking that I forgot to chant book club,
0:21.7	book club, book club, book club. Today, uncles on media book club, we're going to go back to the
0:32.6	golden age of science fiction with some good pulp fiction. This story is by a Grand Master.
0:41.7	But it's a little complicated who it's by, actually.
0:44.1	It was published under the name Andrew North,
0:46.7	and you're thinking to yourself,
0:47.7	I don't know that name.
0:50.0	Yeah, I didn't either.
0:51.1	And it was published by Andrew North
0:52.7	in the August, September,
0:54.4	1953 issue of Fantastic Universe Science Fiction, which is the kind of stuff I grew up with.
1:01.1	I got really lucky. My dad always had Asimovs and F and S.F and all those things sitting around.
1:07.0	The cover of this particular issue is incredible. It's a statue of liberty buried up to her chest and sand being visited by aliens and UFO.
1:15.6	And that's all like some good Aussie Mandias shit right there.
1:18.6	But the story was published under the name Andrew North.
1:22.6	But later in life, this same author published under the name Alan Weston and then Andre Norton.
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