Science fiction readers love a mechanism, they love a bit of world-building and mystery-solving. Premee Mohamed joins us to discuss Gene Wolfe's The Fifth Head of Cerberus, a book that asks: what if a science fiction book intentionally avoided all of that? 

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• Guest: Premee Mohamed
• Title: The Fifth Head of Cerberus by Gene Wolfe
• Host:Jake Casella Brookins
• Music byGiselle Gabrielle Garcia
• Artwork byRob Patterson
• Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough

References:

• Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake
• Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
• Mercutio by Kate Heartfield
• Pretenders to the Throne of God by Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Orbit 10 anthology edited by Damon Knight
• William Carlos Williams’ “This Is Just To Say” and its many responses
• Premee’s And What Can We Offer You Tonight
• Meander, Spiral, Explode by Jane Alison
• Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
• Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon
• Heart of Darkness by Josef Conrad
• The Vorrh by B. Catling
• The face dancers from Frank Herbert’s Dune series
• Mystique and the Kree from the Marvel/X-Men comics
• Michael Swanwick's Stations of the Tide
• Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire
• Premee’s The Butcher of the Forest & Wickhills
• "sentients" & "sapients"
• “The Great Chain of Being”
• Star Wars series The Bad Batch and The Clone Wars
• Orson Scott Card's Speaker for the Dead
• Octavia Butler's Dawn
• Tolkien's On Fairy Stories
• Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? & Ridley Scott's Bladerunner
• Premee’s The Siege of Burning Grass
• Hilary Putnam's “Twin Earth”
• Premee's Patreon, Website, Bluesky
• Wickhills & From the Library of Jurgen Leitner
• The Carl Brandon Society