
Episode 133: Silicon Valley vs. Science Fiction: Ayn Rand
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Emergency Skin by N.K. Gemison
The most compelling kind of response to Ayn Rand in science fiction is the story Emergency Skin by N.K. Gemison, which came out in 2019 as part of a series on Amazon. It emergency skin, the kind of genius, super rich innovators who flee to Galt's Gulch in Atlas Shrugged have left Earth and gone,. I think, a thousand light years away to a new planet that's tightly locked. And they're basically, they've created their ideal society on this other planet. But they need to send someone back to Earth to collect Hila cells, which are basically like cells from Henrietta Lacks.
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