Hardcover Hooligans
Driven insane by genre fiction.
Displaying 10 items of Hardcover Hooligans with the tag "scifi".
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The Man in the High Castle
Episode | March 30th, 2026 | 1 hr 27 mins
book, book podcast, books, booktok, comedy, criticism, discussion, geek, review, scifi
An alternate history where everyone makes decisions using an ancient Chinese fortune telling book instead of ChatGPT.
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A Canticle for Leibowitz - Part 3
Episode | December 15th, 2025 | 1 hr 5 mins
book, book podcast, books, bookstagram, booktok, comedy, criticism, discussion, fantasy, geek, horror, review, scifi
After 400 years, humanity has finally recovered all their technology…including nuclear bombs! Uh oh!
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A Canticle for Leibowitz - Part 2
Episode | December 1st, 2025 | 1 hr 16 secs
book, book podcast, books, bookstagram, booktok, comedy, criticism, discussion, fantasy, geek, horror, review, scifi
We finally arrive at the first piece of true advanced technology in this novel: a lightbulb.
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A Canticle for Leibowitz - Part 1
Episode | November 17th, 2025 | 1 hr 24 mins
book, book podcast, books, bookstagram, booktok, comedy, criticism, discussion, fantasy, geek, horror, review, scifi
No lasers, no spaceships, just a sci-fi novel about a monk who finds a grocery list. Featuring our first ever guest on the podcast!
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Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
Episode | September 19th, 2025 | 41 mins 16 secs
book, book podcast, books, bookstagram, booktok, comedy, criticism, discussion, fantasy, geek, horror, review, scifi
After an unintentional summer hiatus, we’re back with the third and final installment of our short series on Borges short stories. And oh no! It turns out a billionaire creating a fantasy planet with his friends can destroy the world.
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Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote
Episode | June 2nd, 2025 | 51 mins 43 secs
book, book podcast, books, bookstagram, booktok, comedy, criticism, discussion, fantasy, geek, horror, review, scifi
If we claimed we wrote a Borges story and read it in its entirety at the end of our podcast, that would make the story infinitely richer.
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The Library of Babel
Episode | April 30th, 2025 | 48 mins 30 secs
book, book podcast, books, bookstagram, booktok, comedy, criticism, discussion, fantasy, geek, horror, review, scifi
An infinite library implies the existence of infinite Mr. Beast video transcripts.
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Carrie
Episode | April 14th, 2025 | 1 hr 13 mins
book, book podcast, books, bookstagram, booktok, comedy, criticism, discussion, fantasy, geek, horror, review, scifi
The moral of this story is to not bully the girl with latent psychic abilities.
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Dungeon Crawler Carl
Episode | April 1st, 2025 | 59 mins 24 secs
book, book podcast, books, bookstagram, booktok, comedy, criticism, discussion, fantasy, geek, review, scifi
I guess books are just video games now.
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Watchmen
Episode | March 17th, 2025 | 1 hr 14 mins
book, book podcast, books, bookstagram, booktok, comedy, criticism, discussion, fantasy, geek, review, scifi
That’s right, we read comic books now! Just kidding, it’s called a "graphic novel". And this one’s about a bunch of superheroes who aren’t really that super and one blue guy who is TOO super. Get ready for morally grey characters, questionable motives, and a weird spooky pirate story.