In which, Andrew and Tracy revisit the topic of literary influences. We discover that most of Andrew’s are sci-fi books that have since been turned into movies, and that Tracy is a little too passionate about C. S. Lewis. Also we get sidetracked on Hunter S. Thompson, the libertarian views of Robert Heinlein, and the bizarre scientific theory that led six men to take a balsa wood raft from Peru to the Polynesian islands (a trip that took 101 days) in 1947.
Show Notes:
Cinematic Influences (Andrew | Tracy)
Literary Influences–original (Andrew | Tracy)
Starship Troopers (book | movie)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
C. S. Lewis’s Space Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength
Therefore I Geek 