Two Month Review #7.3: Radiant Terminus (Chapters 4-8)
This week, former TMR guest Rachel Cardasco returns to talk about speculative fiction in translation, various allegories forÌýRadiant TerminusÌý(current political climate,ÌýThe Tempest,ÌýThe Bible), who dreams the dreamer, the patriarchy and Maria Kwoll’s feminist post-exotic texts, steampunk technology, spider dreams, and much more. This is the college course you wish you’d taken–fun and smart and funny all at once,Ìý²¹²Ô»åÌýfeaturing a genuinely interesting book. With a series of detailed recaps and call backs to earlier chapters, you can enjoy this without having read a page of Volodine. And should.
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This season’s music is all fromÌýMother Earth’s PlantasiaÌýby Mort Garson, which is Moog music for plants. This week you can hear “Baby’s Tears Blues.”

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