CZM Book Club: Because Change Was the Ocean and We Lived by Her Mercy, by Charlie Jane Anders, Part One
It Could Happen Here
Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
4.0 • 6.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Margaret reads you a story about the far-post-apocalypse and the joy we find in one another.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.0 | Cool Zone Media. |
| 0:10.9 | Book club, book club, book club, book club. |
| 0:14.6 | Hello, and welcome to Cool Zone Media Book Club. |
| 0:17.1 | The only book club where you don't have to do the reading because I do it for you. |
| 0:20.9 | I'm your host, Margaret Kiljoy. And this week, I have the first of another two-parter |
| 0:25.6 | called Because Change Was the Ocean and We lived by her mercy, by the one, the only |
| 0:33.4 | Charlie Jane Anders. There's probably not someone else named Charlie Jane Anders. |
| 0:38.4 | That's a very specific name. |
| 0:41.5 | And also, she's amazing. |
| 0:44.6 | And I'm really excited to be reading a story by her to you all. |
| 0:48.7 | I'm really excited to read this story in particular to you. |
| 0:52.2 | You'll probably figure it out as I read it, why I feel that |
| 0:55.1 | way. This story was originally published in Drown Worlds, a 2016 short story anthology |
| 1:01.5 | themed around the futures will inherit when the oceans rise, which, hooray. Anyway, it's edited |
| 1:07.7 | by Jonathan Stehan. This story, it's a love letter to San Francisco, which is not the part I'm excited about. |
| 1:14.9 | I'm going to be honest about that. |
| 1:17.2 | And in a lot of ways, it's also a story about falling in and out of love with the community |
| 1:21.9 | and about aging and subculture. |
| 1:24.0 | And that's why I'm interested in it. |
| 1:26.4 | I have no opinions about that, no experience with |
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