Hope for the best.

the worst.

Expect the worst.

Some drink champagne, some die of furs.

No way of knowing which way it's going.

Hope for the best Magazine Daily Podcast.

This is one of our special podcasts that we are doing as we are on break, pre-recording and we are stepping back from the news to offer you some recommendations on matters that will give you pleasure and soccer and some sense of wonderment over the course of

this long hot summer in which our politics is going to get incredibly

discouraging and America is going to fall into a vast pit of despair.

So in order to stave off that despair,

my fellow panelists and I are going to talk to you today

about the works of science fiction that mean the most to us.

Again, we are not talking about what we're not we're not making a list of the best

works of science fiction ever, rather the ones that speak the most to us, obviously science fiction, the genre

that on the one hand can offer visionary clues to where civilization is going and the ones that really do seem to have almost prophetic

qualities to them from Jules Verne onward really maybe the first science fiction writer of serious vintage, Jules Verne, but going on from him, the novels that also managed to cast an interesting reflection on today by casting what we are going through

into either a distant future or sometimes though this is really more fantasy a mythical a mythical past.

So I'm going to be discussing this with my fellow

commentarians here, executive editor A Greenwald.

Hi, Abe.

Hi, John.

Media commentary columnist Christine, Hi, Matt as a man who has read every Stephen King novel who does not qualify as a science

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