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podcast (kim stanley robinson, sf, utopia now!opinions), friends (same). rare posters, rarely posters, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/marooned-on-mars-with-matt-and-hilary/id1372460930
Long-awaited new episode on poor poor Elizabeth and her servant who got hung on trumped-up charges because her brother-cousin-fiancé-boyfriend just had to go chasing Nature to her secret hiding places instead of like starting a band or something less cringe.

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Frankenstein 1.4-7: The Consolation of Elizabeth by Marooned! on Mars with Matt and Hilary
In which the Frankensteins summon the courage and wherewithal to not lift a finger to save an innocent girl from being executed by the state and the very fair people who run it (themselves).Sorry this...
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July 29, 2025 at 11:51 AM
another episode? two hours? of talk? about 20 pages of FRANKENSTEIN?
Frankenstein Episode 2: Walton's Letters
Podcast Episode · Marooned! on Mars with Matt and Hilary · 06/20/2025 · 2h 11m
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July 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM
What's THIS? A new season, a new episode, discussing a new book, a new AUTHOR??? That's right, for the long-awaited new season we are diving into the world of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN (1818 edition ONLY)! Please to enjoy & thanks for listening! creators.spotify.com/pod/show/mar...
Frankenstein 2025 by Marooned! on Mars with Matt and Hilary
Hello!We're back with an exciting new concept for a podcast: reading a book not written by Kim Stanley Robinson and talking about it!Not that the above is not a superb and innovative and worthy concep...
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June 6, 2025 at 4:32 PM
got to have a great convo about aurora with the excellent @casella.bsky.social of @ancillaryreview.bsky.social, check it out! matt and i will be back soon 🖤
"Go to space," they said. "See the wonders of the galaxy," they said. "Perish from the hundreds of unsolvable problems that don't exist on our beautiful planet," they said. We're talking about KSR's AURORA with Hilary Strang of
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January 27, 2025 at 5:33 PM
New episode! We're in Part Five of NY2140 where we get the sense of an ending but, turns out, not an ending at all! Also check us out soon on the Wetwired Podcast @wetwired.bsky.social where we have a great conversation with Sean and Jules!

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New York 2140 Part Five: "Escalation of Commitment," Hinge Points, Monocausotaxophilia, and GOLD! by Marooned! on Mars with Matt and Hilary
There's gold in them thar podcasts, I tell ya, GOLD! Talking this time about Part Five of New York 2140, "Escalation of Commitment." We get what could be an ending--finding gold, rescuing Mutt & Jeff,...
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August 15, 2024 at 7:03 PM
New late episode! NY 2140 Part 4: Expensive or Priceless? Another characteristically late, long, and freewheeling episode from your favorite Kim Stanley Robinson podcasters.
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New York 2140, Episode 4: Expensive or Priceless? Sticky or Epiphenomenal? Law or Dispossession? The Good or Ideology? by Marooned! on Mars with Matt and Hilary
In this episode (recorded a few days after the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, hence the opening discussion), we talk about Part Four of New York 2140, "Expensive or Priceless?" Our (long) wi...
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August 4, 2024 at 7:19 PM
We've got a new episode of Marooned on Mars, discussing Kim Stanley Robinson's NEW YORK 2140. Here we're talking about part two, "Expert Overconfidence." Please enjoy!
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New York 2140 Part Two: "Expert Overconfidence," Epigrams, Property Regimes, and Outlaw Polar Bears by Marooned! on Mars with Matt and Hilary
Hello! This week we continue our conversation of New York 2140, talking about Part Two, "Expert Overconfidence," in which our various experts get in over their heads (some more literally than others--...
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July 9, 2024 at 3:30 PM
New Season, New Episode: We're talking about New York 2140 this time around on Marooned on Mars, part-by-part. This week, "The Tyranny of Sunk Costs," setting the table for the novel and having a good ol' time.
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New York 2140 Part One: "The Tyranny of Sunk Costs," Mistaking the Past for the Future, and Street Anemones by Marooned! on Mars with Matt and Hilary
In this episode we declare there's not much to say, this is just a table-setting section of the novel, we won't discuss each and every subchapter, but then we talk for nearly two hours, starting with ...
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June 24, 2024 at 2:36 PM
Our review of NAPOLEON is live! In case you've been waiting to see what we think before you throw your money down. Don't forget to check out the Q&A and poll (may only be available on Spotify...)!
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December 19, 2023 at 12:26 AM
Improbably, we have a new episode.
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November 28, 2023 at 2:23 PM
What the heck? A new episode of MoM? Which is a backdoor pilot? For a new podcast? Called Obstructed Viewing? About MOVIES?! Hosted by our friends Bill and Josh?!! This episode is about sabotage?? This has never been done before!

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‎Marooned! on Mars with Matt and Hilary: Obstructed Viewing (A Backdoor Pilot): SABOTAGE! on Apple...
‎Show Marooned! on Mars with Matt and Hilary, Ep Obstructed Viewing (A Backdoor Pilot): SABOTAGE! - Sep 2, 2023
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September 3, 2023 at 7:36 PM
Brutal heat and college students report no a/c in their dorms. "It's hotter inside than outside." How are they supposed to learn if they can't sleep for the heat?
August 24, 2023 at 1:44 AM
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Finally public. After an incredible campaign by NIH fellows (many of whom are only there for a year) and the UAW, NIH has dropped opposition to their union election. It will be the largest new federal union in a decade and (i think) the largest new union this year.
Science | AAAS
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August 12, 2023 at 10:41 PM
You can't even search "pomodoro" on YouTube these days for a sauce recipe. Instead you just get 50 minutes of nature sounds to increase your productivity. What a nightmare.
August 11, 2023 at 10:46 PM
"Today's customers--I mean students--are open to the kind of instruction they can afford and that the market will offer them."
WVU is posting through it.
August 11, 2023 at 9:49 PM
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Buried in the investigation documents released today by Texas A&M are these text messages from two Board of Regents members griping about the hire of Kathleen McElroy as journalism director. Apparently they were promised Fox News U by the president.
August 3, 2023 at 10:08 PM