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Ep 105 - The Sparrow, by Mary Doria Russell

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The Effect of Star Wars on Sci Fi in the 80s

"If your aim is to change whatever the system is, you have to acknowledge that that system's there before you can affect any change. And if you're not even there to affect change, you're just there to like see what's up," he says. "She was drawing inspiration from neuromancer and was kind of citing back to the 60s and 70s,. which is kind of going back to our tradition of Bradbury and Asimov even before him."

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