Episode 93: Yesterday’s Tomorrows

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David and Perry take the Hugo Time Machine back to 1970, the year that The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin won the Best Novel Hugo. David has a bone to pick, and Perry discusses the latest Indiana Jones movie.

  • Introduction (03:46)
  • General News (10:01)
  • Hugo Time Machine 1970 (01:13:46)
    • Heicon ’70 Convention (04:11)
    • Short Stories (12:28)
      • Deeper Than the Darkness by Gregory Benford (00:46)
      • Winter’s King by Ursula K. Le Guin (00:40)
      • Not Long Before the End by Larry Niven (01:46)
      • Passengers by Robert Silverberg (01:17)
      • Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones by Samuel R. Delany (05:19)
      • Other possible nominees (02:12)
    • Novellas (10:18)
      • We All Die Naked by James Blish (00:10)
      • A Boy and His Dog by Harlan Ellison (01:26)
      • Dramatic Mission by Anne McCaffrey (01:01)
      • To Jorslem by Robert Silverberg (01:22)
      • Ship of Shadows by Fritz Leiber (03:41)
      • Other possible nominees (02:11)
    • Novels (46:38)
      • Macroscope by Piers Anthony (05:07)
      • Up the Line by Robert Silverberg (03:23)
      • Bug Jack Barron by Norman Spinrad (06:11)
      • Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (10:44)
      • The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (18:30)
      • Other possible nominees (02:34)
  • What we’ve been watching (06:15)
  • Windup (00:21)

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