Pluto is a Planet! : Science Fiction/Fantasy Book reviews.

About Pluto is a Planet! : Science Fiction/Fantasy Book reviews.

A podcast where I review new and vintage scifi/fantasy novels and short stories. My great love of Science fiction/Fantasy novels started in jr high when I read the entire scifi/fantasy book section in the school library.... (Yes, I was that kid) ....I am hoping there are others like me out there in the universe who want some time to put on the headphones and escape reality for a while. The picture I have up is the poster of Pluto we had to take off the wall at my school workplace. I had to save it. Somebody's got to stand up for downgraded planetoids, and I guess thats me.

Publisher

K. Harrison

Category

fiction

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

9 Feb 2021

Latest episode

13 Jun 2021

Latest episodes

9 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   13 Jun 2021

   Episode 8: "The Black Destroyer" by A. E. Van Vogt

   "The Black Destroyer" by A. E. Van Vogt. First published 1939 in Amazing Science Fiction magazine.

2. 

   24 May 2021

   Episode 7: "Mortal Gods" by Orson Scott Card

   In this review of "Mortal Gods", I try and figure out how to reconcile myself to the fact that Orson Scott Card is a great writer of science fiction, who also has voiced opinions that make it difficult to rationalise reading his stories without going against my principles. How does one separate the art from the artist, and should that be done at all?

3. 

   26 Apr 2021

   Episode 6: "Shambleau" by C. L. Moore

   "Shambleau" by C. L. Moore. First published in 1933.

4. 

   3 Apr 2021

   Review of Anne Mccaffrey's The Ship Who Sang"

   In this episode I am reviewing one of my favorite science fiction short stories, "The Ship Who Sang", written by Anne Mccaffrey and first published in 1961

5. 

   19 Mar 2021

   The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster

   E. M. Forster wrote The Machine Stops in 1909, and in a crazy bit of synchronic prescience, he created a world that is scarily like what our lives are like in Lockdown over 100 years later. This story is a must-read for all of us this year.

6. 

   4 Mar 2021

   Ep. 3: Reviewing "Contagion" by Katherine Maclean and "The First Man In The World" by Misha Burnett

   This episode reviews two science fiction short stories that were published sixty six years apart, yet both delve into the idea of how places, or planets, you travel to can change you just as much or more than you can change them.

7. 

   19 Feb 2021

   Reviews "The Sentimentalists" by Murray Leinster and "A Dead Djinn in Cairo" by P. Djeli Clark

   In this episode my reviews of the Classic scifi "The Sentimentalists" and modern scifi "A Dead Djinn in Cairo" shed a light on how depictions of women in Science fiction/ fantasy stories has changed a great deal from the 1950s to modern times.

8. 

   11 Feb 2021

   Episode1: Reviews of "Only a Mother" by Judith Merrill and "Dogs of War" by Adrian Tchaikovsky

   My review of two science fiction stories from 1948 and 2017 that strangely focus on the same subject: The consequences of war.

9. 

   9 Feb 2021

   Pluto is a Planet Introduction

   Just me explaining what books I will be reviewing and why.

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