Today we read all of The Reckoners Book 2: Firefight, one of the best books we've read from Sanderson and our favorite episode we've recorded this year.

Next time we're reading Shadows of Self, which will release either the 15th or the 22nd.

Content warnings for this episode: aliens, apathy, assisted suicide, beheadings, being unhoused, betrayal, bleeding, bombs, bullying, cancer, Christianity, conspiracies, corpses, corruption, crushing violence, death, devils/Lucifer, drowning, faith, fire, force fields, gang violence, god, guns and gun violence, hospitalization, housefires, illusion magic, imprisonment, insanity, Jonestown Massacre, lying, many worlds theory, mental illness, mind control, misogyny, model minorities, murder, neglect, nuclear weapons, oligarchy, palliative care, paralell universes, prisons, racism, religion, royalty, self harm, sexualization, sin, spousal violence, stabbing, stereotypes, submarines, suicide, supervillains, telekinesis, torture, undeath, wounds

References:
Judge Judy
Fullmetal Alchemist - Hiromu Arakawa
Daemons of the Shadow Realm - Hiromu Arakawa
Bioshock - 2K
Bioshock Infinite - 2K
Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow - Alan Moore
The Autobiography of Mark Twain

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We're back with two more Sanderson short stories, Allomancer Jak & Legion: Skin Deep!

Next episode we're reading all of Firefight! Episode airs: September 1 2026

Content warnings for this episode: ableism, assassination, atheism, betrayal, bleeding, body modification, cancer, Catholicism, Christianity, classism, death, DID, discussion of mental health, discussion of sexuality, existentialism, firearms, genetic mutation, germaphobia, germs, Greek Orthodoxy, guns, hallucinations, haunting, hostile corporate takeovers, imprisonment, imprisonment, infinity, insanity, kidnapping, military, mind control, minstrel shows, misogyny, Mormonism, murder, mutation, navy seals, Osama Bin Laden, passing, racism, race melodrama, religious conversion, religious extremism, schizophrenia, self harm, settler colonialism, staph bacteria, therapy, threat of torture, tokenism, viruses, wounds and infection

References

Coraline

Batman - DC Comics

Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle

The Octoroon - Dion Boucicault

Crash Course Video expanding on this play and it's position in the history of US Theater

V.E. Schwab

Lampshading - OSP

Bathos - OSP

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This time around we read all of Sixth of the Dusk, Dreamer, and Way of Kings Prime!

Next episode we're reading Legion: Skin Deep & Allomancer Jak and the Pits of Eltania! Episode airs: August 18 2026

Huge thanks to Eamonn Tee for joining us this episode for a discussion on Sixth of the Dusk!
Eamonn’s Linktree

Eamonn’s Short Story Innsmouth

Eamonn’s Avatar Article

Content warnings for this episode: ableism, alien invasion, animal abuse/death, betrayal, bleeding, body horror, body modification, broken bones, caste systems, child abuse, child death, christian imagery, classism, colonization, corpses, death, death of a parent, decay, demonic possession, genocide, insanity, insects, knives, maiming, mind control, misogyny, mormonism, murder, mutation, mutilation, police violence, racism, religious conversion, religious extremism, self harm, settler colonialism, slavery, stabbing, undeath, violent crime, war, wounds and infection

Graham's audio has some issues until maybe 20 minutes in but gets resolved, apologies.

References Eamonn Section
Turncoat - Tihema Baker
The Traitor Baru Cormorant - Seth Dickinson
Full Fathom Five: A Novel of the Craft Sequence - Max Gladstone
Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter

Kurangaituku - Whiti Hereaka
Kawai - Monty Soutar

References
Dredge - Black Salt Games
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle - Bethesda
Star Trek - Gene Roddenberry
Avatar dir by James Cameron
Avatar: The Way of Water
Avatar: Fire and Ash
The game Jack mentions but couldn’t name is called The Shapeshifting Detective
Watch Dogs Series - Ubisoft
Austin Walker’s article about Watch Dogs and Shadow of Mordor

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