SFBRP #471 – Dune 2021 – Dune #1

Luke and Juliane watched Dune, and decided to record their immediate reactions.

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Luke has two years to catch up with the Stormlight Archive before Brandon Sanderson releases the next book, so he tackled the third novel: Oathbringer.

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Luke and Juliane talk about a book VERY full of science fiction goodness: Absolution Gap by Alastair Reynolds.

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Luke checks out an early Hugo Award winning novel The Big Time by Fritz Leiber.

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Luke talks to Juliane about The Postman by David Brin.

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Luke tells Juliane about a book with no conflict and no drama: Quarter Share by Nathan Lowell.

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Was Luke correct that Juliane should skip Piranesi by Susanna Clarke? Juliane read it to find out! And does a rational reading of a book about pre-rational minds work?

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Luke and Juliane discuss a novel by one of Luke’s favourite web comic authors, Grand Theft Astro by Scott Meyer.

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Sidd and Luke talk about why they picked the novella “The Lifecycle of Software Objects” as their first example of fictional artificial intelligence development, and propose some questions to keep in mind while reading the story.

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This story can be found in the collection “Exhalation” by Ted Chiang:
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AI Sci-Fi Nexus is a collaboration between:

Siddharth Krishnan, Assistant Professor at the Computer Science Department of University of North Carolina in Charlotte:
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Luke Burrage, Science Fiction Book Review Podcast:
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More about “The Lifecycle of Software Objects” by Ted Chiang:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lifecycle_of_Software_Objects

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While camping on their honeymoon, Luke tells Juliane about his reading experience of Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear.

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