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Episode 551: Sarah Pinsker and We Are Satellites
Episode 551: Sarah Pinsker and We Are Satellites
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56 minutes
Released:
May 8, 2021
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Welcome to episode 9 of Season 12 of The Coode Street Podcast. This week Jonathan and Gary are joined by Nebula and Philip K. Dick award-winning author and musician Sarah Pinsker, whose new novel We Are Satellites is out this week. We touch upon the actual science of brain implants which served as background research for the novel, her reasons for narrating the story from the points of view of four different family members, the issues of corporate responsibility for new technology, and the surprisingly lax government oversight of medical devices such as those featured in the novel. We also discuss the reception of her much-heralded and prescient novel from last year, Song for a New Day, the challenges of writing near-future SF, her own influences and early reading in the field, balancing a career in music with one in fiction, and some of the stories in her collection Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea.
As always, we'd like to thank Sarah for joining us and hope you enjoy the episode!
As always, we'd like to thank Sarah for joining us and hope you enjoy the episode!
Released:
May 8, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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