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The hosts discuss their thoughts and themes from the first book of the Red Rising series by Pierce Brown.

Send us Fan Mail Sci-Fi Summer is here in full force, boyo! Are you prime? 🤘🐺 Earlier this week we brought you a full-length episode introducing our summer bonus series covering Red Rising by Pierce Brown! A long anticipated request from you, our listeners, to join a passionate science fiction fandom… of a book series written by a man. And we had to be honest with you - we were more than a little bit apprehensive. Do we even like sci-fi? Would we understand it or get too caught up in the jarg...

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Host: Besties and the Books

Topics covered

• Red Rising
• science fiction
• book series
• deep themes
• recap

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