Author Jeff VanderMeer is literally the reason CNET Book Club exists. When co-hosts Dan and Scott were both reading his 2017 novel Borne, a Twitter joke about starting a CNET Book Club turned into a podcast of the same name within weeks, with VanderMeer as an inaugural call-in guest.
Now we're excited to have him join us on set for an extended chat about Dead Astronauts, the third book in the loosely knit Borne-verse. It's a deeply strange exploration of resistance against a cryptic future corporation across multiple realities, wrapped in the author's signature eco-dystopia.
We also discuss great holiday book gift ideas, how his wife has to change the Wi-Fi password when it's time to start a new book, and why Watchmen is the greatest show currently on TV.
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About CNET Book Club
The Book Club is hosted by a pair of self-proclaimed book experts: Dan Ackerman (author of the nonfiction video game history book The Tetris Effect), and Scott Stein, a playwright and screenwriter. We'll be announcing our next Book Club selection soon, so send us your suggestions and keep an eye out for updates on Twitter at @danackerman and @jetscott.
Previous episodes
- Borne by Jeff VanderMeer
- Walkaway by Cory Doctorow
- Artemis by Andy Weir
- Down the River Unto the Sea by Walter Mosley
- Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier
- Holiday 2018 gift guide special
- Team Human by Douglas Rushkoff
- Josh Frank on bringing the Marx Brothers and Salvador Dalí together
- Tim Maughan asks, what if the internet dies?
- Blake Crouch messes with your memories in Recursion
- Neal Stephenson explores the long, weird future in Fall, or Dodge in Hell
- Brad Thor on Backlash and why he'll never trust Alexa
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