Androids and Assets

Androids and Assets is a podcast where we talk about the political economy of speculative fiction. We delve into decision making, modes of production, and power in fictional worlds. You can find books we've talked about here.

Finna
Attack Surface
Beneath the Rising
A Memory Called Empire
The Ultimate Micro-RPG Book: 40 Fast, Easy, and Fun Tabletop Games
Radicalized: Four Tales of Our Present Moment
The Future of Another Timeline
Network Effect: A Murderbot Novel
Gideon the Ninth
Middlegame
Foundation
The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy (Harvest/HBJ)
Tales of the Dying Earth: The Dying Earth, the Eyes of the Overworld, Cugel's Saga, Rhialto the Marvellous
The Left Hand of Darkness
Never Let Me Go
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Kindred (Anniversary)
Lilith's Brood
China Mountain Zhang
Roadside Picnic: Volume 16
The Fifth Season
Snow Crash
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence
Re-Enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons
Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
The Broken Earth Trilogy: The Fifth Season, the Obelisk Gate, the Stone Sky
The Energy of Slaves
American War
New York 2140
Shadowplay
Being and Time
The Escapement
Animal Liberation: The Definitive Classic of the Animal Movement (Updated)
Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
Roadside Picnic: Volume 16
Mortal Engines
Consider Phlebas
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
Shards of Earth
Seven of Infinities