Episode · Timcast IRL · 2020-04-11
Books mentioned on TimcastIRL #45 - You May Have To "Show Your Papers" After The Pandemic With New "Immunity Cards"
Today's show focuses on the loss of freedoms Americans are struggling to contend with, starting with a video of a man being arrested for the heinous crime of jogging alone on the beach.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Altered Carbon
Richard Morgan's Altered Carbon is a seminal cyberpunk science fiction novel that envisions a futuristic society where human consciousness can be digitally stored on cortical stacks and downloaded into entirely new physical bodies, or sleeves.
Discussed“because we're talking about was it altered carbon yeah that'd be so cool you got like a thing on your brain you can download yourself and then like put it somewhere else yeah it would be cool I mean there's some drawbacks as far as like well they call them meths in the in the show that's that's that's the”
Where to get it
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World War Z
World War Z by Max Brooks is a post-apocalyptic horror novel told as a collection of individual accounts of the zombie war.
Recommended“if you want an idea of how the early reaction to a zombie apocalypse would be like read World War Z better yet listen to it it's probably the best audio book out there”
Where to get it
