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Every book Adam Frank recommended on podcasts
Key facts
- Adam Frank has recommended or discussed 5 books on podcasts, as of December 22, 2024.
- Adam Frank has talked about books on 2 podcasts, as of December 22, 2024.
- Those books came up in 2 episodes, as of December 22, 2024.
- The 3 books Adam Frank has mentioned in the most episodes, as of December 22, 2024: Aurora, Altered Carbon and Eon.
- The latest episode with a book mention from Adam Frank aired on December 22, 2024.
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Across 2 podcasts. Every show Adam Frank appears on, in one place — not just one.
Adam Frank presents himself across podcast appearances as a deeply curious science fiction reader and intellectual who connects speculative literature with scientific and philosophical concepts. Discussing topics like alien civilizations, consciousness, and non-logical problems, Frank frequently draws on foundational and contemporary sci-fi works to illuminate real-world discussions. Among the books he has highlighted is Kim Stanley Robinson's novel Aurora, which he recommended on both the Lex Fridman Podcast and The Joe Rogan Experience to explore the complexities of generation ships and the deep biological ties between life and its home planet. In addition to Aurora, Frank has referenced several other influential works during his conversations. He noted Richard Morgan's Altered Carbon to discuss the concept of human consciousness inhabiting different sleeves, and brought up Douglas R. Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach to explain the non-logical nature of Buddhist koans. Frank also referenced Greg Bear's Eon to illustrate scenarios of deceptive alien contact, Bernard Beckett's Genesis to reflect on his early inspirations in science fiction, and Isaac Asimov's classic Foundation trilogy while talking about large-scale societal and urban structures.
Books Adam Frank recommended or discussed
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Aurora
Recommended“You know, there's an alternative view though, which is, there's this great book by Kim Stanley Robinson called "Aurora."”
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Altered Carbon
Discussed“"Altered Carbon" is a great series on this concept. I think it’s on Netflix; it's a really good series where that’s exactly the idea of sleeves.”
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Eon
Discussed“This is the plot, actually, of a great science fiction book called "Eon" by Greg Bear.”
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Foundation
Discussed“because that's it gives me the turtle because it's from like Shakespeare like from Caesar or something I was thought it wasn't good but it's the idea that like you know in the foundation trilogy the Isaac gazzman off you know classic science fiction thing there's the city of the Planet of Trant”
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Gödel, Escher, Bach
Discussed“And every koan, you know, if you've ever read 'Godel, Escher, Bach', he's got a whole chapter on koans. They're kind of non-logical problems that you have to work on.”
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Books Adam Frank wrote
Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
|---|---|---|---|
| #455 – Adam Frank: Alien Civilizations and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life | Lex Fridman Podcast | 2024-12-22 | 5 |
| #1130 - Adam Frank | The Joe Rogan Experience | 2018-06-12 | 2 |
Other mentions (7: passing, ad reads, own books)
“This is the frontier we are in, and that was the topic of my last book, "Light of the Stars." You've got to do the astrobiology of the Anthropocene.”
“This is the frontier we are, and that was the topic of my last book, "Light of the Stars." It's like you've got, you have to do the astrobiology of the Anthropocene.”
“climate change you know this is the thesis of the book everybody gets climate change if you build a world girdling civilization as I like to say”
“um you know my whole thesis in my book is that we've been looking at climate change all wrong we think of climate change is some kind of weird political issue”
“so the whole point of my doing this book was to start looking at ourselves as just one of you know we're not alone”
“like because you know one of the things that I'm talking about my book is like how long does any civilization last”
“cuz you talked to climate denialists, and it's the same freaking set of things that like you know man dude we've been here before we've questioned is that answered”