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Ex Urbe Ad Astra Ep. 4: Bright and Dark Ages with historian and journalist David Perry

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Is There a Dark Age in Science Fiction?

A dark age is a thing that happens normally and naturally in history, he says. It's the structure of believing in dark ages at all, as well as golden ages. "If the spacewhale eats the sun, we very well might be plunged into darkness, right? Because then it's just a thing that happening"

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