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Mentioned in 6 episodes
Mountain and the Sea
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Mentioned in 6 episodes
Recommended by 

after reading 'Reader, Come Home', as a starting point for reading fiction.


Mike Schmitz

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189: Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett & Dave Evans
Recommended by Jason Snell and mentioned by ![undefined]()

as a book he recently started reading.

Mike Schmitz

64 snips
196: Focus & The Reading Life, with Maryanne Wolf
Recommended by Jason Snell and mentioned by ![undefined]()

as a book he is currently reading.

Mike Schmitz

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197: Feel Good Productivity
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as a captivating near-future fiction book exploring the implications of consciousness through animal sentience and AI.

Katie Cantrell

Katie Cantrell on shifting millions of meals to plant-based
Mentioned by 

as the book for the Hugonauts Book Club.


Brent Gaysford

Interview with Peter Watts - Author of Blindsight!
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as a favorite sci-fi book, highlighting its topicality and exploration of difference.

Sarah Schwarzschild

Operational Alpha: How to Build a High-Performance Real Estate Firm - Sarah Schwarzschild - COO @ Mavik
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as a speculative novel about interspecies communication, drawing on philosophy, neuroscience, and the author's experiences in Asia.

Vas Christodoulou

Ray Nayler - What Octopuses and AI Teach Us About Consciousness
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about an encounter with octopuses and human beings trying to communicate.

Rebecca Giggs

The Ethics of Listening to Whales – A Conversation with James Bridle, Rebecca Giggs, César Rodríguez-Garavito, and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
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, highlighting his success in the Asimov's reader choice awards and recommending his debut novel.

Seth Fishman

Behind the scenes with Seth Fishman - agent for Cixin Liu, Ann Leckie & more!
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, about sentient octopuses, and found fabulous.

Joanna Sawatsky

Episode 289: Why Fiction Makes You a Better Person (Why We Don't Hate ALL Books!)