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.
Tim Pool recommended World War Z by Max Brooks, and discussed Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Altered Carbon
Altered Carbon is a science fiction novel by Richard Morgan that explores a futuristic world where human consciousness can be digitized and transferred between different 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 structured as a collection of individual accounts following a devastating global zombie conflict.
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
