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Marooned! on Mars with Matt and Hilary

Matt Hauske & Hilary Strang

a kim stanley robinson read-along podcast with regular forays into utopia. hosted by some friends who are into communism, science fiction and other stuff

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01:43:51

Frankenstein 3: Frames Collapse!

Marooned! on Mars with Matt and Hilary ·

2025/11/25

Sorry, sorry, sorry! I'm a lazy loser, what can I say. We recorded this probably at least a month ago and I just sat on it. Well, here it is in time for Turkey Day.We intended to get it out before or at least at the same time as the release of Guillermo del Toro's (execrable) Frankenstein, but oh well. We had fully intended to do an episode on the film, but we found it so plodding, dull, ponderous, and in general bad that we may not. Honestly it just made us angry. "Why?" is the

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02:18:13

Frankenstein 2: Bildungsromonster!

Marooned! on Mars with Matt and Hilary ·

2025/09/01

Special mystery guest "Daniel" joins us to discuss the incomparable Volume 2.Some of the greats in Western thought pop their heads in, including Wollstonecraft, Rousseau, Milton, and Brooks (Mel).Thanks for listening, sorry for the delay!Email us at maroonedonmarspodcast@gmail.comFollow us on Twitter @podcastonmars Follow us on Blusky @podcastonmars.bsky.socialRate and review us on iTunes, Spotify, or wherever youlisten to your podcasts! Music by Spirit of Space

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02:10:42

Frankenstein 1.4-7: The Consolation of Elizabeth

Marooned! on Mars with Matt and Hilary ·

2025/07/29

In which the Frankensteins summon the courage and wherewithal to not lift a finger to save an innocent girl from being executed by the state and the very fair people who run it (themselves).Sorry this episode is a little (a lot) late, but so it goes. The next episode will be a bit delayed as well because of vacations, school starting, etc., but stay tuned. And for goodness sake, if you are somehow donating money to the show, please stop!Thanks for listening! Email us at

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01:50:02

Frankenstein 1.1-3: Portrait of the Mad Scientist as...

Marooned! on Mars with Matt and Hilary ·

2025/07/06

In this episode we cover Frankenstein Volume 1, Chapters 1-3, Victor's family, his childhood, and his college years--right up to the creation of the creature!Thanks for listening!Email us at maroonedonmarspodcast@gmail.comFollow us on Twitter @podcastonmars Follow us on Blusky @podcastonmars.bsky.socialRate and review us on iTunes, Spotify, or wherever youlisten to your podcasts! Music by Spirit of Space

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02:10:30

Frankenstein Episode 2: Walton's Letters

Marooned! on Mars with Matt and Hilary ·

2025/06/20

In our inimitable fashion we spend two and a half hours talking about 20 pages. Yeah, we'll get through this whole thing in no time.The next episode should be out on July 4 (fingers crossed)! I'm sure everything will be back to normal by then.Thanks for listening!Email us at maroonedonmarspodcast@gmail.comFollow us on Twitter @podcastonmars Follow us on Blusky @podcastonmars.bsky.socialRate and review us on iTunes, Spotify, or wherever you listen to your podcasts! Music by Spirit of

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00:58:15

Frankenstein 2025

Marooned! on Mars with Matt and Hilary ·

2025/06/06

Hello!We're back with an exciting new concept for a podcast: reading a book not written by Kim Stanley Robinson and talking about it!Not that the above is not a superb and innovative and worthy concept for a podcast...Anyway, we have decided to get back to our roots so to speak and talk about another book that's dear to our hearts, namely Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. This first episode is just to reacquaint ourselves with our loyal listeners, to catch up a bit, and to set up the coming

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01:21:59

New York 2140 Part Five: "Escalation of Commitment,"...

Marooned! on Mars with Matt and Hilary ·

2024/08/15

There's gold in them thar podcasts, I tell ya, GOLD!Talking this time about Part Five of New York 2140, "Escalation of Commitment." We get what could be an ending--finding gold, rescuing Mutt & Jeff, confronting Henry Vinson--but isn't! Our characters are getting together and scheming how they might save the building by ignoring the law, even if that means bringing down the entire global financial system. Thank you for listening, and thanks for your patience. It'll

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01:55:37

New York 2140, Episode 4: Expensive or Priceless?...

Marooned! on Mars with Matt and Hilary ·

2024/08/04

In this episode (recorded a few days after the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, hence the opening discussion), we talk about Part Four of New York 2140, "Expensive or Priceless?" Our (long) wide-ranging conversation takes a rather critical view of the novel, or at least this part of it. We're trying to suss out what the rest of the world outside New York looks like, and what the status of the "police state" is. To do this we start to talk about the book's concept

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01:22:15

New York 2140 Part Three: "Liquidity Trap,"

Marooned! on Mars with Matt and Hilary ·

2024/07/19

In this episode we discuss "Liquidity Trap," Part Three of Kim Stanley Robinson's New York 2140. We talk about the citizen chapters and think about where to locate an authorial consciousness in this book, meditate on the difficulty of locating ourselves in a possibly ungraspable present between the "past" and "future," speculate on the explanatory power of numbers, ask about the status of the police state in the novel, and wonder whether this is a book about finance

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01:12:25

New York 2140 Part Two: "Expert Overconfidence,"...

Marooned! on Mars with Matt and Hilary ·

2024/07/09

Hello! This week we continue our conversation of New York 2140, talking about Part Two, "Expert Overconfidence," in which our various experts get in over their heads (some more literally than others--actually, all of them do it literally, since this is literature...anyway, we don't have time to sort this out right now). We talk about the nature of the future being envisioned here around food production, property, borders, and various overlapping layers of non-state governmentality,

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01:41:51

New York 2140 Part One: "The Tyranny of Sunk Costs,"...

Marooned! on Mars with Matt and Hilary ·

2024/06/24

In this episode we declare there's not much to say, this is just a table-setting section of the novel, we won't discuss each and every subchapter, but then we talk for nearly two hours, starting with Matt and Hilary's Garden Round-Up. Then it's a shallow dive into Part One of NY2140, "The Tyranny of Sunk Costs." Hope you enjoy and we'll be back soon with Part Two!Email us at maroonedonmarspodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter @podcastonmars Follow us on Blusky

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01:02:27

New York 2140 Intro: Hello! (Again)

Marooned! on Mars with Matt and Hilary ·

2024/06/14

We're back from a long work- and life-related absence to fart around for a couple minutes trying to log in to our old accounts, and then we're off and running with the kind of meandering, half-baked musings you've all been missing lo these many months.That's right, New York 2140 is the topic of our next season (series?) and we spend this episode recalling where and when we were when the book was published and pondering what it might mean today. Here's a novel that takes both

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01:15:19

The World Soul Visits His Mummy: Napoleon

Marooned! on Mars with Matt and Hilary ·

2023/12/19

Our review of Ridley Scott's Napoleon.Email us at maroonedonmarspodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter @podcastonmars Leave us a voicemail on the Anchor.fm app Rate and review us on iTunes or wherever you listen to your podcasts! Music by Spirit of Space --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/marooned-on-mars/message

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01:00:26

Proof of Life, or, Hoping in One Hand

Marooned! on Mars with Matt and Hilary ·

2023/11/28

We're still here! Grumpier than ever, complaining about things we probably shouldn't be, reading books, talking. And you're still listening! Thank you. We've been away for a long time for...reasons. But we are momentarily back, and maybe we'll be back again soon to talk about Napoleon and Ridley Scott. But this time we chat about the impossibilities and injustices of the working day under capitalism, capitalist education (indoctrination) and entertainment (propaganda), and let

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02:09:44

Obstructed Viewing (A Backdoor Pilot): SABOTAGE!

Marooned! on Mars with Matt and Hilary ·

2023/09/03

A very special episode of Marooned on Mars, a backdoor pilot, as they say in the biz, of Obstructed Viewing with friends of the pod returning-guest champion Bill and Dauphin Josh debuting their new movie podcast (has anyone ever done a podcast about movies before?). The theme of the show today is sabotage and movies that feature it: The Train (John Frankenheimer, 1964) and Sorcerer (William Friedkin, 1977). If possible, you should watch these movies before listening, just so you know what the heck

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01:19:05

Galileo's Dream, Episode 4: Dumb Verbal Tics,...

Marooned! on Mars with Matt and Hilary ·

2023/03/31

In our final reckoning with GALILEO'S DREAM, we talk about our horrible voices and their dumb verbal tics, the trickiness of time travel narratives, anticlimactic moments, conspiratorial webs, the decentering of Event, crabbing sideways toward the good, rocking, the universal unity of grief, and Milton doing TikTok dances. Thanks for listening! We'll be back later, probably with a movie episode or several. You can let us know what you'd like us to read next by emailing or tweeting. Stop

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01:23:29

Galileo's Dream, Episode 3: No Lent on Callisto

Marooned! on Mars with Matt and Hilary ·

2023/03/04

This episode we discuss the Jovian society, the way the novel posits the relationship between science and religion, the entwined logics of extraction and redemption, the astrological epistemology, ecstasy, the our own Thirty+ Years War, and whales. Thanks for listening! Email us at maroonedonmarspodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter @podcastonmars Leave us a voicemail on the Anchor.fm app Rate and review us on iTunes or wherever you listen to your podcasts! Music by Spirit of Space --- Send in a

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01:27:08

Galileo's Dream, Episode 2: Sneezing, Shitting, and...

Marooned! on Mars with Matt and Hilary ·

2023/02/11

In probably our greatest episode ever, Matt and Ms. Partial Sentence talk about all the stuff we normally talk about, like Shark Tank, redemption, helmets, jazz, the Divine Comedy, and Constructivism. Plus Matt does drugs. Stay tuned to the very end to hear our next-level casting idea for who should play Galileo in the movie adaptation. The answer may shock and surprise you! Thanks for listening! Email us at maroonedonmarspodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter @podcastonmars Leave us a voicemail on

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01:06:00

Galileo's Dream, Episode 1: Quantum Historical...

Marooned! on Mars with Matt and Hilary ·

2023/01/26

Buongiorno!We're back with another thrilling series of discussions, and back to our author of choice, Kim Stanley Robinson. This time around we're discussing his weird and wonderful 2009 novel Galileo's Dream! Lots to talk about here, like history and who it's for, narrational voice, genre, science's relationship to religion, politics, money, power, and labor, and, of course, cats. For this book our conversations will focus more on big themes rather than a narrative blow-by-blow. So: spoilers ahead

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01:34:44

Nothing for Nobody: STEALTH and the Nu Militarism

Marooned! on Mars with Matt and Hilary ·

2022/12/28

This week, we apologize for discussing STEALTH, an extended Incubus music video/ American military propaganda directed by Rob Cohen. Join us as we discuss the exploits of Ben "Big" Gannon (Talon 1, Josh "George" Lucas), Kara "Caraway" Wade (Talon 2, Jessica Biel), and Oscar-winner Jamie Foxx (Talon 3, "Henry"), as they face the threat of global terrorism and technological job precarity at the hands of EDI (Extreme Deep Invader), a VLO (Very Low Observable) UCAV (Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle), call

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