Host Jacob Shymanski and guest Red Széll talk about "high-concept" novels. Stories whose premises are distinctly creative and take big risks. Together they examine the practical limits of creativity.

Titles mentioned in this episode include:

• “Project Hail Mary” by Andy Weir
• “Jaws” by Peter Benchley
• “Jurassic Park” by Michael Crichton
• “Nineteen Eighty-Four” by George Orwell
• “Animal Farm” by George Orwell
• “The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins
• “Station Eleven” by Emily St. John Mandel
• “The Day of the Triffids” and “The Midwich Cuckoos” by John Wyndham
• “The Lord of the Flies” by William Golding
• “The Last Murder at the End of the World” by Stuart Turton
• “The Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka
• “The Power” by Naomi Alderman
• “Falling Animals” by Sheila Armstrong
• “Perdido Street Station” and “The City & the City” by China Miéville
• "The Library of Babel" by Jorge Luis Borges

This episode was produced by Andrika De Lanerolle.

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