Reader's Room: Hidden Structures

Reader's Room pulls the most fascinating writing from speculative fiction, science, and technology. In this edition we look at how two stories can simultaneously be strikingly similar and completely different. We also have a roundup of interesting science and technology, N.K. Jemisin's Broken Earth books, and Rosemary Kirstein The Steerswoman series.

Show links:

• N.K. Jemisin's Broken Earth series.
• Rosemary Kirstein The Steerswoman series.
• This year's Ig Nobel Winners and a roundup of the weird science.
• Implanted organs printed from a patent's own cells.
• Why we say 'Hello' when we answer the phone. and why we say 'automobile' instead of oleo locomotive.

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