Podcast: Cold Equations and Moral Hazard

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Recorded03 Mar 2014

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Here’s a reading (MP3) of my latest Locus column, Cold Equations and Moral Hazard which considers the way that science fiction can manipulate our ideas about the technical necessity for human misery, and how that narrative can be hijacked for self-serving ends. Apparently, editor John W. Campbell sent back three rewrites in which the pilot... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2014/03/03/podcast-cold-equations-and-moral-hazard/" class="more-link" title="Read Podcast: Cold Equations and Moral Hazard">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

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