Episode · Timcast IRL · 2021-07-20
Books mentioned on Timcast IRL #333 - Australia DEPORTS Katie Hopkins As COVID Lockdowns Make Comeback w/Travis Corcoran
Tim, Ian, and Lydia join homesteader and award-winning author Travis Corcoran to break down the new lockdowns in Australia, and the deportation of a right-wing firebrand for her stated intent to disob
Travis Corcoran discussed 1984 by George Orwell, The moon is a harsh mistress by Robert A. Heinlein, The Machinery of Freedom by David Friedman, and Legal Systems Very Different from Ours by Peter Leeson and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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1984
1984 by George Orwell is a classic dystopian novel that explores totalitarianism, surveillance, state control, and the manipulation of truth.
Discussed“i started flipping back through 1984 recently and everyone's read 1984.”
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The moon is a harsh mistress
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A.
Discussed“the seminal one is the machinery of freedom which was one of the books that along with robert heinlein's the moon is a harsh mistress really sort of created my worldview”
Where to get it
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The Machinery of Freedom
Discussed“the seminal one is the machinery of freedom which was one of the books that along with robert heinlein's the moon is a harsh mistress really sort of created my worldview”
Where to get it
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Legal Systems Very Different from Ours
Legal Systems Very Different from Ours by Peter Leeson, David Skarbek, and David Friedman is an academic examination of the vast diversity of legal frameworks and governance structures that have existed across human history.
Discussed“law's order and uh one i read a few months ago was legal systems very different from our own”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (6) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“i'm here to some degree to talk about some books that i've written escape the city volumes one and two”
“and i've got some sort of anti-prepping thought and that's an escape from the city right escape from the city and uh this is a recent homesteading uh book that i wrote i've been on the homestead for eight years and there's two volumes volume one and volume two”
“so the first one is the powers of the earth which won the prometheus award for best novel in 2018 and the sequel is causes of separation which won the prometheus award in 2019.”
“so the first one is the powers of the earth which won the prometheus award for best novel in 2018 and the sequel is causes of separation which won the prometheus award in 2019.”
“so my first science fiction novel was the powers of the earth and it won the prometheus award in 2018 for best libertarian science fiction novel”
“my second novel was causes of separation the sequel to the first one and it also won the prometheus award the next year”