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Fly on the Wallin with Amber and Ben

Fighting with a Riot Baby | Episode 17

Fly on the Wallin with Amber and Ben

The Sci-Fi Sigh Podcast

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51.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

This cocktail of X-Men superpowers, the prison industrial complex, hyper-militarization of police, and hundred of years of racism spotlighted with viral videos of today is an ambitious novella. The alternate history, just a little bit, to the left of our world takes on a lot, maybe too much. We discuss trauma porn, actual prison rodeos, god-like powers, and the future of incarceration in Tochi Onyebuchi's novella Riot Baby.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Sci-Fi Sci, a podcast about black science fiction, fantasy and

0:07.8

staying on the same page and this wonderful pleasurable marriage! I'm one of

0:13.2

your incredible hosts Amber Wallen. I'm Ben. Ben, welcome to the show. Do you know

0:17.6

what episode this has been? Episode 17. So this is episode 17 and we sat down and

0:24.2

read the book Riot Baby by Tochi on Yebuchi. Ben, I'm laughing because we have

0:34.3

some feelings about this book but I want us to be you know having honest

0:38.4

conversation about this book because I think we wrote a little bit

0:41.1

surprised. Why don't you kick it off? Yeah well this book is very short and it's

0:47.2

recommended by a lot of authors that I love like Marlon James and Cory

0:52.0

Dr. O. So I had very high expectations going into this book and it could not

0:58.2

have ended soon enough. It was only 173 pages and it was just a drag. It was so it

1:06.8

was so frustrating because the author, Tochi, shows up on Trevor Noah and gave

1:13.6

a talk on Trevor Noah. I also heard him interview Nutty Okura for and they had a

1:18.7

really great interview talking about being Nigerian Americans and using that

1:24.7

inside their literature. You shouldn't even tell me that because that also was

1:30.0

missing from the book. Well he's also written young adult novels as well. He's

1:34.1

also young so he's 33 years old so this is his third or fourth book. So hopefully

1:41.5

he will come into his own but the book had had some problems. So just for the

1:47.7

background. We're gonna tell you what the book is about but we would we you are

1:52.8

going to hear us drag this book and it's gonna be entertaining and I love it. I'm

1:56.9

not gonna drag the book. I'm gonna drag it. Because I bet someday this author is

2:02.0

gonna write a really good book. This book wasn't it? That is a drag then. That's

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