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Welcome to the side by side, under the belief podcast network.

It's a podcast about black science fiction and fantasy and staying on the same page of

our marriage.

Today for episode 64 we'll be discussing Book 2 of the Trilogy Liliths Brood.

Book 2 is called Adult Hood Rights, it sure is, we grown and sexy over here, but before

we get started talking about this incredible mastermind masterpiece of a book, so the

mastermind is Octavia Butler, the masterpiece is the book, before we get started into that.

Maybe the book could be the mastermind as well, like the book has taken on its own entity

and so therefore the book becomes its own self because there's this whole conversation

that like once a book is written, whether the author intended for it to be a certain

kind of way, is really up to the reader.

So it's almost like the book becomes its own mastermind, so your slip-up actually was

pretty deep, but you probably didn't mean it like that.

Before we get started with that, Ben, how are you doing today?

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