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On this week's episode, we're talking about postapocalyptic fiction, specifically stories set in the wake of a climate apocalypse. The tentpoles are Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse, the fanfic "Moebius" by AuroraNova and Mad Max: Fury Road. What We’re Into Lately The House of Niccolò series by Dorothy Dunnett Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert Parks and Recreation The World Figure Skating Championship A Face Like Glass by Frances Hardinge love, in fire and blood by cicer Practical Creativity by Raph Koster Other Stuff We Mentioned Be the Serpent, Episode 3: Apocalypse Sometime, Maybe Next Tuesday Cuckoo Song by Frances Hardinge The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge Be the Serpent, Episode 38: A Hugo Award Special — The Novels of 2018 “Small Changes Over Long Periods of Time” by K.M. Szpara The Old Guard Atomic Blonde Studio Ghibli movies James Bond movies “Peer Gynt” by Grieg The first Mad Max movie Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman Mass Effect games The ending of Mass Effect 3 Deal with the Devil by Kit Rocha Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison The Day After Tomorrow Who Should Live In Flooded Old New York? by Brooke Bolander Embers by Vathara The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal The Fifth Season by NK Jemisin Lotus Blue by Cat Sparks Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve The Sea and Summer (aka Drowning Towers) by George Turner ‘The Fall of Civilizations’ podcast How We Get to Carbon Zero by Bianca Nogrady The Expanse Space Sweepers Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson Macey’s Fun Facts Bronze Age Mediterranean Corner 1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed by Eric H. Cline The most famous and meme-able trader to ever live, Ea-nasir For Next Time Crimson Peak film Content Warnings Gore and implied sexual assault in Mad Max: Fury Road Gore and (urban fantasy standard) violence in Trail of Lightning Transcription The transcript for this episode is available here. Thank you as always to our brilliant team of scribes!!