About this episode

Luke talks to Juliane about Slow Gods by Claire North, highlighting its connections to The Culture series.

Luke talks to Juliane about Slow Gods by Claire North, a book with so many nods to The Culture series that Luke’s head almost fell off nodding in recognition. See every book/episode of the SFBRP here: https://www.sfbrp.com/episode-lists-3 See the SFBRP Must-Read List here: https://www.sfbrp.com/must-read Support Luke and Juliane financially via Patreon.com/lukeburrage Luke on Bluesky: @lukeburrage.bsky.social Discuss this book at Goodreads.com Luke writes his own novels, like “Minding Tomorrow”, “Combat”, “Get that rat off my face!” and “The Monster Story Conference”, so download them for free at: https://www.lukeburrage.com/fiction.html

People in this episode

Host: Luke Burrage

Guest: Juliane

Topics covered

• science fiction
• book review
• literature
• author discussion
• The Culture series
• Claire North

Keywords

• Claire North
• Slow Gods
• The Culture series
• science fiction
• book discussion

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Slow Gods, The Culture series

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