LGBTQ Sci-Fi Book Club

The Librarian Is In

The New York Public Library

Arts, Tv & Film, Books

4.7 • 595 Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2017

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

How gay is Sci-Fi anyway? Gwen and Frank welcome Casey Maher, leader of the LGBTQ Sci-Fi Book Crew meetup (held at the Jefferson Market Library)! They discuss everything from technology and gaming to science fiction (of course) right on up to Hemingway.

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0:00.0	Okay, hey, welcome to The Librarian is in.
0:09.1	The New York Public Libraries podcast about books, culture, and what to read next.
0:13.5	I'm Frank.
0:15.0	I'm Beyonce.
0:17.2	Okay.
0:17.9	I took your thing.
0:18.7	What are you doing out of bed?
0:20.0	You just gave birth. That is because I'm an amazing superstar. I took your thing. What are you doing out of bed? You just gave birth.
0:21.2	That is because I'm an amazing superstar.
0:23.9	I just gave birth.
0:24.7	And I'm already here taping this podcast with you.
0:27.2	You're welcome.
0:29.7	That's very Beyonce.
0:31.7	And today we have a very, very, very, very special guest, Casey Marr.
0:36.8	Hello?
0:38.7	Happy to be here.
0:45.3	And he's, well, we're going to talk because basically I know Casey, but I don't know him that well.
1:11.3	By he does, he runs a book discussion group at Jefferson Market. And I, on the schedule, it just says gay sci-fi, but he probably has a more formal title for that and what that's about but that's exactly what we're gonna find out of it so I just like booked the room with Casey and they do their thing in there and when we were talking Gwen and I about like who should we have on I was like you know this is sort of cool because it's like sci-fi, which I know very little about. And the gay sci-fi aspect.
1:13.7	So like what's going on there?
1:15.3	So we're going to talk about that right now.
1:18.2	Do you have anything to add, Gwen, before we launch?
1:19.5	No, I can't wait to hear about the subgenre of gay sci-fi.
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