Summary: Authors try using time travel to fix the world’s problems, and accidentally make them worse.
Genre/Tag: Sci-fi, fantasy
If you’ve ever wanted to be in a room full of your favorite dead writers, then this podcast is for you. Fictional George Orwell and H. G. Wells (and I have to stress that they are fictional because the real versions had only somewhat better morals than the average cishet white dude for the time) provide quality banter as they debate their own writing, the proper way to prepare tea, and whether or not time travel is possible.
Orwell’s granddaughter gets involved, as well as Ursula Le Guin, and all in all, it’s a clown show of epic proportions, and across various time zones. I suppose it fits the theme that I want to show the script to real writers. I always love when new media clearly takes its inspiration from classics, it’s great to see how something written decades ago could still have so much influence that there are people who still have unique ways to look at it. No matter how much we quibble over boomers vs millennials vs gen z, if someone right now can get inspired to create such a humor-filled podcast starring writers who died old, then clearly there’s something that allows us to relate to each other and form connections, pre-smartphones or not.
The podcast itself is short and sweet, filled with pedantic banter by some of the greatest writers in history. If you’re a big reader looking for a laugh, you should give it a shot.
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