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I have a podcast, with Ada Palmer, it’s called Ex Urbe Ad Astra (from the city to the stars) and on it we discuss books and history and writing and all kinds of things.

Novelist and political scientist Malka Older, author of Infomocracy, shares Ada’s interest in the political systems. With Jo Walton providing examples from the history of F&SF, they discuss speculative politics, historical disaster response, and how populations can respond to their needs.

Malka Older’s website and visit her on Twitter: @m_older

Read the first five chapters of Infomocracy

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Books Discussed in This Episode, compiled by Moti of The Argo Bookshop, Montreal.

• The Centenal Cycle by Malka Older:
  • Infomocracy: https://argobookshop.ca/item/M3YHMwEj9x5Sw-TkNBxTlg
  • Null States:https://argobookshop.ca/item/M3YHMwEj9x4nNl6sQb0ApA
  • State Tectonics: https://argobookshop.ca/item/pAG4rDFNcoyJuLvuB9Ca6g
• … and Other Disasters by Malka Older: https://argobookshop.ca/item/tyUMM5Ufkv6zPm2kZF_E7w
• Thessaly: the Complete Trilogy by Jo Walton: https://argobookshop.ca/item/M3YHMwEj9x6vnvHwc_uV2Q
• Terra Ignota by Ada Palmer:
  • Too Like the Lightning: https://argobookshop.ca/item/M3YHMwEj9x51JMYcNRbaxg
  • Seven Surrenders: https://argobookshop.ca/item/M3YHMwEj9x6EY5QtEPzM-A
  • The Will to Battle: https://argobookshop.ca/item/M3YHMwEj9x5EnAFaOXkVDg
  • Perhaps the Stars: https://argobookshop.ca/item/M3YHMwEj9x4xbHoaFh6ROA
• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson: https://argobookshop.ca/item/OFG34itBLfCrun-zkzTVtw
• Fall Revolution by Ken Macleod:
  • Fractions: https://argobookshop.ca/item/M3YHMwEj9x6EDkwuXXEtsw
  • Divisions: https://argobookshop.ca/item/M3YHMwEj9x4GVLoAd_wsNQ
• Friday by Robert A. Heinlein: https://argobookshop.ca/item/-3LJc4kA0y59sxj1WFTskQ
• Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand by Samuel R. Delany: https://argobookshop.ca/item/Ax7DZdJI-O7M8y3a-BgT-w
• Have Mercy on Us All by Fred Vargas: https://argobookshop.ca/item/Jd6JHrA6K4bRCBdL5IIISA
• Lucy on the Line – song by Tim Griffin: https://griffined.org/song/lucy-on-the-line
• ET: The Extra-Terrestrial
• The Rift by Walter Jon Williams: https://argobookshop.ca/item/SO2SUfpl0KMzTXncjxs3ZA
• Mission Improbable by Lee Clarke: https://argobookshop.ca/item/1TXKFZJ3NEdzDq3cBqpihg
• Cyteen by C.J. Cherryh: https://argobookshop.ca/item/UPIo6TXaL3VFt-A9Y-W_Bg

Books we’re excited about:

• Jo: A House in the Mountains by Caroline Moorehead: https://argobookshop.ca/item/rC8Hn_GwKfQ5Wgz2_JiEyg
• Malka: Four Lost Cities by Annalee Newitz: https://argobookshop.ca/item/L0V8Hcd1Mxbfb4-qMhzsRQ
  • (Also the Will Darling books by KJ Charles, starting with Slippery Creatures: https://argobookshop.ca/item/6n4bD-xstIj3VE4uwBbVNw)
• Ada: Superman: Red Son by Mark Millar & Dave Johnson: https://argobookshop.ca/item/bEeMEJpkzXqZhWOIgXXnaw