In this, the second podcast, the Baker sister discuss Slan by A.E. Van Vogt, first published in 1940 and never been out of print since. It won a retro Hugo in 2016. This madly paced science fiction dystopia won admiration and but did we truly love it? Listen and find out.

Want to skip a bit or jump to your favorite part? Here are the time markers for this episode:

00:51 History Lesson

03:40 Astounding Magazine

06:19 Open discussion

12:28 We go over the the characters

29:51 Tackling some of the big ideas in the book

46:39 The Five Questions

Music by Carl Miles