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157. The Spiders From Mars – Jason Heller (Hugo Award-winning writer)
157. The Spiders From Mars – Jason Heller (Hugo Award-winning writer)
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58 minutes
Released:
Jul 21, 2018
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Podcast episode
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The other day I was at a kid’s birthday party and a fellow dad was joking that “When we were kids, it was all ‘bang-bang-bang!’ and now it’s all ‘pew-pew-pew!’”He was talking about video games and lasers as opposed to, I’m guessing, cowboys? Actually, as I remember childhood, it was all “wowm…wowm!” The sound of lightsabers. I was 5 years old when Star Wars: A New Hope came out, and like everyone who grew up back then, I had sci-fi seeping into my very pores. Alien civilizations. Cyborg killers. The dark, unfeeling menace of advanced technology…Because there can never be too many Jasons, my guest today is the Hugo-award winning writer Jason Heller. He’s here to tell the eerie and fascinating tale of how sci-fi seeped into the pores of popular music in the 1970s, and how, along with psychedelic drugs and electronic instruments, it produced and was transformed by David Bowie and others into something rich and strange. Something that changed the face of music and pop culture forever. His new book is Strange Stars: David Bowie, Pop Music, and the Decade Sci Fi Exploded.Surprise conversation-starter clips in this episode: Reza Aslan on how religious believers describe godDambisa Moyo on 3 ways to make American politicians betterLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Released:
Jul 21, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
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