Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Mercurio D. Rivera joins us to discuss Vernor Vinge’s classic novella “True Names” as well as the first nine stories in the book The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge.

0:00 - Intro
4:12 - Bookworm, Run!
14:55 - The Accomplice
20:17 - True Names
38:00 - The Peddler's Apprentice
50:04 - The Ungoverned
1:00:52 - Apartness
1:07:04 - Conquest by Default
1:16:08 - Long Shot
1:24:09 - The Whirligig of Time
1:35:04 - Bomb Scare
1:39:39 - Wrapup