A Tale of 2² Cities

10/07/12 • 55 min

Your intrepid hosts have spent their summers in two unfamiliar cities apiece. To kick off the new season, we'll be discussing fiction which deals with the unique characters of different cities and societies. Expect plenty of free marketing for China Miéville. (Also, Andy has been working on a new survival technique in case of the breakdown of society...)

Neverwhere
London Underground mosquito
Divergent American Sign Language
(Just like of Montreal are not from Montréal, Architecture in Helsinki are not from Helsinki, as this Venn diagram about Scandinavia illustrates.)
Maple syrup heist
Andy recommends Tactical Nuclear Penguin
A review of Penrose’s Cycles of Time.
Angry Minnesotans Take 3D Printer Away From Gunmaker
Tesla museum campaign
Garuda (Will and two past Science of Fiction guest presenters’ band) on Facebook and SoundCloud

Tracklist

The Clash – London Calling
Kaki King – Montreal
They Might Be Giants – Electric Car
Buke and Gase – Naked Cities

City Uptown View Perspective by ballchaser1 Mosquito by Gravitywave

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Neverwhere
London Underground mosquito
Divergent American Sign Language
(Just like of Montreal are not from Montréal, Architecture in Helsinki are not from Helsinki, as this Venn diagram about Scandinavia illustrates.)
Maple syrup heist
Andy recommends Tactical Nuclear Penguin
A review of Penrose’s Cycles of Time.
Angry Minnesotans Take 3D Printer Away From Gunmaker
Tesla museum campaign
Garuda (Will and two past Science of Fiction guest presenters’ band) on Facebook and SoundCloud

Tracklist

The Clash – London Calling
Kaki King – Montreal
They Might Be Giants – Electric Car
Buke and Gase – Naked Cities

City Uptown View Perspective by ballchaser1 Mosquito by Gravitywave

Send feedback and comments to [email protected].

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Games in Fiction, Fiction in Games (with Leonard Richardson)

Leonard Richardson joins the show from across the Atlantic to talk about games as plot devices, generative content, storytelling, games which exploit the player, and dadaism. You may know Leonard as the creator of Robot Finds Kitten, the maintainer of Beautiful Soup and the author of Constellation Games, among his many other works.

Candlemark & Gleam.
The Constellation Games Semi-Official Home Page (A production of The Great Hall Of The People And Also Science).
Holly's blog post with statistics garnered from her research.
The incredible spreadsheet.
Wikipedia on Lucky Wander Boy.
The generative artworks of Adam Parrish.
Spurious, for all your sonnet needs. Since the recording of this episode, Leonard fixed the bug mentioned, so the sonnets are true Queneau Assemblies.
Dada Da Dada Da Dum, Leonard's all-new limerick Queneau assembler inspired by Andy's remark.
Not mentioned on the show, but Dinosaur Comics fans should take a look at Dadasaurus Rex.
Jonathan Whiting on Nethack on Games We Have Known And Loved.
@MarkovGuybrush.
Speaking of Twitter, @leonardr.
We noticed after the recording that Amazon UK lists Constellation Games without any punitive shipping costs.

Tracklist

Psapp – About Fun
Adam Parrish’s Frotzophone
Darren Korb – Twisted Streets (from the Bastion soundtrack)
Alex Smoke – Anima

Jenny's Twitter avatar by Beth Lerman

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Dead Mammals (with Nick Crumpton)

Nick Crumpton—zoologist, co-editor of BlueSci Films, freelance journalist, occasional beard-haver and ukulelist—joins the show to talk primarily about long-dead mammals.