Revolutions: 11.0 - Welcome to the Martian Revolution

October 28, 2024 5:45 PM

Mike Duncan is back! And his next project is future historical fiction! Chapter 11 will cover the centuries-hence revolution on Mars. When he first wrapped up the Revolutions podcast after his 103 part epic on the Russian Revolution, Mike recorded his takeaways from the podcast's run in a series of 12 appendices. Now he's using these takeaways to create a future history of Mars using a premise familiar to readers of Kim Stanley Robinson and The Expanse: People don't stop being people just because they've gone into space. Same sh*t, different century.
posted by whuppy (5 comments total)

I'd be a lot less apprehensive about this if he had a sci-fi (or even just fiction) author as a collaborator. I mean, he has to know how high the bar is the shadow of KSR.
posted by whuppy at 5:48 PM on October 28

I'm definitely curious how this shakes out. I'm excited this is back, but it's funny how knowing this is fiction really throws his choices into a very different light than non-fiction. Fingers crossed it works out, interesting that it seems to be original.
posted by Carillon at 12:24 PM on October 29 [1 favorite]

Listening to this introductory episode, I believe I’ll like this quite a lot. Mike’s deadpan sense of humor seems to be in full effect, which tells me this will be a unique bit of grand storytelling. Cool!
posted by Thorzdad at 3:26 AM on October 30 [1 favorite]

I like it so far. I feel like he's drawing heavily on the Haitian Revolution for his inspiration, which is entirely sensible. I'm looking forward to where he will take it.
posted by GenjiandProust at 3:44 PM on December 4

I spent all morning listening through the six episodes available so far and enjoyed them a lot. Like The Expanse TV show, Duncan's series has a convincing take on how the politics play out between Earth and its off-planet settlers. For belter-wallas, read the D class Mars-born colonists. I'm impatient for the next episode already and almost certainly going to stick with it for the duration.
posted by Paul Slade at 6:25 AM on December 8 [1 favorite]