THE ROBOT BRAINS (Sydney J Bounds)

About this episode

Malcom Craig discusses his academic work and roleplaying games, focusing on his reading recommendation of 'THE ROBOT BRAINS' by Sydney J Bounds.

Malcom Craig drops by Derry & Toms to talk about his work in academia, roleplaying games, his authorship of the first ever academic article on Twilight 2000, the "macho men with Uzis" sub-genre of RPGs, the upcoming reboots of his Cold City and Hot War games, and panicking as children about how high priority your neighbourhood was in terms of Soviet megatonnage. Mostly, though, we're talking about Malcom's reading recommendation - THE ROBOT BRAINS by incredibly prolific but largely unheralded British author Sydney J Bounds. JOIN US!

People in this episode

Guest: Malcom Craig

Topics covered

• roleplaying games
• academic articles
• RPG sub-genres
• game reboots
• literature recommendations

Keywords

• Malcom Craig
• roleplaying games
• Twilight 2000
• THE ROBOT BRAINS
• Sydney J Bounds
• Cold City
• Hot War

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: THE ROBOT BRAINS, Twilight 2000, Cold City, Hot War

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