Feedback: The British Invasions
Subscribe Here! Robert has feedback and a correction for Episode 602
Subscribe Here! Robert has feedback and a correction for Episode 602
Subscribe Here! Today we introduce a series of questions from high school student Jason doing on a project on expertise, who asks: “I’m writing a story in which one can steal powers from those they kill. What fictional or real-world sources can I draw from?”
Subscribe Here! Jeanne asks: “What about a medical apocalypse? Either as the cause or effect of the collapse of civilization?” Resources Mentioned 1491 by Charles C. Mann Earth Abides by George Stewart The Stand by Stephen King The Walking Dead (TV and comic series) Resident Evil film series I Am Legend by Richard …
Subscribe Here! Robert asks: As a follow up to ep 499 – How would being a slave shape a character’s personality? Resources mentioned Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass The Gulag Archipeligo by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn How the Scots Invented the Modern World David Hume: The Essential Philosophical Works Two …
Subscribe Here! Simons asks: Are there any incorrect or inaccurate tropes that you just can’t stand?
Subscribe Here! Robert asks: How do you get into the mindset of an invader culture? Resources Mentioned The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams Paths of Glory
Subscribe Here! Kristine asks: “How do you research time periods recent enough that your readers might remember it?”
Subscribe Here! Tarquin asks: “Everyone is talking about cultural appropriation. What’s the deal?” Resources Mentioned: The Mikado Soviet War Crimes Pol Pot Great Leap Forward Nazi extermination camps Rape of Nanking Unit 731 Native Americans in the United States
Subscribe Here! Simon says: “I want to learn more about history and science. Where should I go?” Resources Mentioned: Hardcore History EconTalk Planet Money Naked Scientists Commonwealth Club of California Today I Found Out VisualPolitik James Burke’s The Day The Universe Changed, and Connections Richard Feynman Lectures OpenCulture Long Now …
Subscribe Here! Charles asks: “What’s the big deal about pulp? What did the pulp writers do right? What did they do wrong? What can we learn?” This episode sponsored by BundleRabbit Resources: The Rocketeer The Knife Slipped by Earl Stanley Gardner The Case of the Backward Mule by Earl Stanley …