Season 4 Episode 59 :: Nerdy Show Book Club – Nothing is Free in Riverworld
Nerdy Show Book Club returns with a vengeance! We’re hairless, naked, hopped up on dreamgum, and lookin’ to go all Lord of the Flies on ya. This month we read Philip Jose Farmer’s legendary existential historical fiction sci-fi, To Your Scattered Bodies Go, the fist book in the Riverworld series. It’s like if Allan Quatermain took bath salts and played Myst!
Join Cap, Hex, Brandon, and Colin on uncanny journey into this and other nerdy literary adventures – including an excerpt from a novelization of another watery world. A “Waterworld” you might say… Read on!
Next Month’s Read-Along Book: More Stories About Spaceships and Cancer by Casper Kelly
- Nerdy Show Book Club Theme :: Luke McDuffee and Nick Brooks
- Tetris Plays You :: Block Party
- Hunting :: Knife City
- This Song :: Adam Warrock
Books We Read:
- To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip Jose Farmer
- Feed by M.T. Anderson
- WIZZYWIG: Portrait of a Serial Hacker by Ed Piskor
- More Stories About Spaceships and Cancer by Casper Kelly
- Buy an autographed copy of More Stories About Spaceships and Cancer
Links:
- Discuss To Your Scattered Bodies Go on the forums
- Richard Francis Burton
- “The Scooby Doo Project”
- Casper Kelly’s website
- “This Song” music video
- Adam Warrock’s “WYSIWYG” track/video
- Our RPG $upport drive
- Audrey the TTS Bot
Other Books Discussed:
- Read the next book in the Riverworld series
- Ready Player One by Earnest Cline
- Ready Player One audiobook read by Wil Wheaton
- The Black Company by Glen Cook
- The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
- Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings
- Wit’ch Fire by James Clemens
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