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🗓️ 4 February 2019
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Octavia Butler's Dawn imagines a future where humans are a rung lower on the food chain than usual. And after nearly extinguishing itself in nuclear fire, humanity's only hope is a mysterious alien species that has rescued them for specious reasons. It's a story about oppression and identity, bolstered by Butler's excellent world-building.
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0:00.0 | This is a headgun podcast. |
0:06.0 | While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told |
0:10.3 | tale, they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary. |
0:16.5 | Plus these are books you should have read by now. |
0:30.0 | Hey everybody, welcome to the podcast called Overdo. |
0:45.7 | It's a podcast about the books you've been meaning to read. |
0:48.1 | My name is Craig. |
0:49.1 | My name is Andrew. |
0:50.1 | Craig, have you been taken over by an alien because the way you read that introduction makes |
0:55.5 | me think that maybe you're an alien pretending to be my friend Craig? |
0:58.8 | Usually I can just spit out the intro in response to whatever dumb opening we came up |
1:04.8 | with. |
1:05.8 | But this time we couldn't do it. |
1:06.8 | It's a lot of bad dumb things. |
1:09.2 | So I got a little turned around. |
1:11.3 | It's like when you're in the grocery store and you have a list, you're going through and |
1:16.1 | then you forget ingredient and you double back and then you don't know where barbecue |
1:19.2 | sauce is anymore and they like changed the signs. |
1:22.4 | So you see Susanna writes her grocery list in order so she can snake through the store |
1:27.4 | and grab everything. |
1:28.4 | I am like, it's playing supermarkets sweep. |
1:33.0 | Not even supermarkets sweep, just like super market, Calvin Ball where I just write things |
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