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Let's Prattle #5 - Attacks on Utopia

August 28, 2026

Itinerary: 00:00:00 - 00:46:34 Intro+Anti-AI+Questionaire 00:46:34 - 01:29:00 Anti-Utopianism 01:29:00 - END The Left Page Book Club™ Join us next Lets Prattle where we will continue the book club with the Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe, where we will discuss chapter 1 to 13!   Frank's sources: BLAIM, Artur. Anti-utopia. In: MARKS, Peter; WAGNER-LAWLOR, Jennifer A.; VIEIRA, Fátima (ed.) The Palgrave Handbook of Utopian and Dystopian Literatures. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. p. 39-5...

The Zone

August 14, 2026

We talk about The Zone in fiction. Inspired by our Patreon Series on Pacific Drive we expand our understanding of Zones by also bringing in: The novel Roadside Picnic by the Strugatsky brothers The film Stalker by Andrei Tarkovsky The Metro series of books by Dmitry Glukhovsky and its games And a touch of the S. T. A. L. K. E. R. games. There's a lot to the idea of Zones, so we establish a concept of what Zones are and how they can be successful ways of navigating and inventing fict...

Mean Green Hermeneutic Machine w/ Jay

July 20, 2026

We take a dive into Arthuriana, adaptation, and more, as we talk about The Green Knight wit our good friend Jay! Considering how not only the poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight connects with the Dev Patel film, but also exploring the themes involved and how they can be treated by a contemporary framing. And, of course, as we talk about adapting things, we go beyond just this pair, briefly going into Scorcese's The Last Temptation of Christ, but also interpretations of broader Arthuriana, an...