A Meal of Thorns
A Meal of Thorns 22 – THE TERRA IS A FORMER MISTRESS with Christian P. Haines
21 Apr 2025
Podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at the Ancillary Review of Books.Please consider supporting ARB’s Patreon!Credits:Guest: Christian P. HainesTitles: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein, and The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz Host: Jake Casella BrookinsMusic by Giselle Gabrielle GarciaArtwork by Rob PattersonOpening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John BroughTranscriber: Kate DollarhydeReferences:Stephen King's The Shining and CarrieRafael Bernal’s His Name Was DeathMichel Nieva’s Dengue BoyDaryl Gregory’s When We Were RealAdrian Tchaikovsky’s Service Model, Christian’s review for ARBIo9Our Opinions Are CorrectHeinlein’s Starship TroopersChristian’s The Terraformers review for LARBNewitz’s AutonomousHeinlein’s Farmer in the Sky, The Rolling StonesArcherMilton FriedmanOrwell’s 1984Rand’s Atlas ShruggedJames S.A. Corey’s The ExpanseKim Stanley Robinson’s Mars TrilogyUrsula K. Le Guin’s The DispossessedIan McDonald’s New Moon trilogyFrank Herbert’s DuneSamuel R. Delany’s Babel-17Le Guin’s The Left Hand of DarknessJo Walton's Among Others and our episode on itHolly Jean Buck’s After Geoengineering"Engineering Swallows Up Politics"Neal Stephenson’s Termination ShockKSR’s AuroraMcKenzie Wark’s Molecular RedUlrich Haarbürste’s Roy Orbison Wrapped in ClingfilmStar Trek's “Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations”Spinoza’s idea of conatusWalter Kaufman's introduction to Martin Buber's I and ThouKant's Categorical ImperativeAbbot ElementaryDelany’s Trouble On TritonOctavia E. Butler’s Parable of the TalentsMarx’s CapitalJohn Brunner’s Stand on ZanzibarKohei Sato’s Slow Down: The Degrowth ManifestoKSR’s The Ministry for the Future, New York 2140Le Guin’s The Word for World is ForestGamers with GlassesFive Theses on Antifascist Game Criticism
No persons identified in this episode.
This episode hasn't been transcribed yet
Help us prioritize this episode for transcription by upvoting it.
Popular episodes get transcribed faster
Other recent transcribed episodes
Transcribed and ready to explore now
#2425 - Ethan Hawke
11 Dec 2025
The Joe Rogan Experience
SpaceX Said to Pursue 2026 IPO
10 Dec 2025
Bloomberg Tech
Don’t Call It a Comeback
10 Dec 2025
Motley Fool Money
Japan Claims AGI, Pentagon Adopts Gemini, and MIT Designs New Medicines
10 Dec 2025
The Daily AI Show
Eric Larsen on the emergence and potential of AI in healthcare
10 Dec 2025
McKinsey on Healthcare
What it will take for AI to scale (energy, compute, talent)
10 Dec 2025
Azeem Azhar's Exponential View