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Speaker: Hello listeners and welcome to the book club podcast. I'm Carly. I'm Caroline. Solarpunk for our season two continues. For our next three episodes, we have our indie book,
Speaker: our classic book, and our short story selection for this season. Read with us. Be sure to subscribe to our email newsletter at bookclubpod .stubstack .com, where you can join the conversation with other listeners about each episode by leaving comments. Also, leave a review in your podcast app so that new listeners can find the show. Our indie book for the season is Suncatcher, Seven Days in the Sky by Aaliyah G.
Speaker: It's an action -filled story that takes place on floating airships and in the virtual world called the ether. In this story, we give many examples of personhood from genetically engineered people to a self -aware AI program. Our classic for this season is Ursula K. Le Guin's book, The Dispossessed. It has been grandfathered into the solar -punk genre, and it's about a physicist from a utopian civilization on the moon that has decayed into bureaucracy.
Speaker: Shevik, the main character, visits the home planet in an attempt to rejuvenate the revolution that created his egalitarian society. Emergency Skin by N. K. Jimison is our short story for this season. Hundreds of years after the Earth was dying from man -made pollution, a traveler from a refugee planet is sent back to visit. He discovers that the Earth has healed and humanity is thriving. He rejects his advanced composite suit in favor of real human skin.
Speaker: With these books, we see what happens several generations after new society has been formed and how the utopian ideals hold up, not always for the best. We continue discussing what it means to be human and how societal structure can help humans reach our full potential. Read Suncatcher, Seven Days in the Sky for our next book discussion to be released next week. You can get your copy of all the books using our affiliate links in the show.
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