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Carrie, by Stephen King

October 13, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min

It’s officially spooky season at Pagenerd, so we’re kicking off the creepiness with Stephen King’s first weird book about teenage girls: Carrie! This episode has everything: lots of different kinds of blood, your high school bully…
An interview with Emily St. John Mandel

October 6, 2026 · 44 min

She’s really here. Our Queen Emily St John Mandel joins Sarah and Tommy for a chat about her brilliant new novel Exit Party, writing, America, and the low thrum of existential dread we live with day to day. ESJM is also the author of ‘nerd…
Exit Party, by Emily St. John Mandel

September 29, 2026 · 1 hr 9 min

We are back with Our Queen Emily St. John Mandel, and her incredible new American dystopian novel, Exit Party, that asks: What happens if gestures around we keep this shit up? This novel has everything. Surveillance-state-flavoured…
The Three Body Problem, by Liu Cixin (Part 2 of 2)

September 15, 2026 · 1 hr 8 min

Don’t listen to this podcast or we will conquer you. The Pagenerds are back with part two of The Three Body Problem, and things are about to get chaotic, and not just mathematically. The nerds dive into alien nanotech, real, uh, slicey…
The Three Body Problem, by Liu Cixin (Part 1 of 2)

September 1, 2026 · 1 hr 2 min

This week the dream team reads The Three-Body Problem, a book that asks the important question: What happens when you combine trauma and nihilism with intergalactic phone tag? Sarah, Tommy, Rick, and Andrew nerd out over solar…

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Introducing: CBC Bookends, with Sci-Fi Legend Robert J. Sawyer

August 25, 2026 · 29 min

Just like we love public libraries, we pagenerds also love public broadcasting. So we want to introduce you to a show by some podcast friends of ours over at the CBC: Bookends, with Mattea Roach. If you like Pagenerd we think you'll enjoy…
Yesteryear, by Caro Claire Burke (Part 2 of 2)

August 18, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min

In this spoilerful second part of Pagenerd reading Yesteryear we find our way to the conclusion of the book, and finally figure out what’s going on at Yesteryear Ranch. Most of us do, anyway. Andrew figured it out in the first chapter…
Yesteryear, by Caro Claire Burke (Part 1 of 2)

August 4, 2026 · 1 hr 11 min

This week on the pod Sarah has the unenviable task of explaining what a “tradwife influencer” is to the guys. We've got a cultural history of the people and ideas that inspired Yesteryear: Ballerina Farm, “The Hogfather”, ASMR sourdough…
The War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells

July 21, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min

This week, the gang tackles H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds. We figured a century and a quarter was a fair amount of time to respect NO SPOILERS. Sarah, Tommy, Rick, and Andrew dig into the novel that helped invent the alien invasion…
Space Opera, by Catherynne M. Valente

July 7, 2026 · 1 hr 0 min

This week, the gang dives into Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente, a novel that asks one important question: what if Eurovision decided the fate of entire civilizations? The answer involves flamingo anglerfish, intergalactic threesomes…
Aurora Rising/The Prefect, by Alastair Reynolds

June 23, 2026 · 1 hr 13 min

This week, the Pagenerd crew tackles hyper pigs, consensual cannibalism, corpse-eating architecture, a freaky little child AI, planetary genocide, and a supervillain called “The Clockmaker.” Alastair Reynolds Aurora Rising (originally…
Klara and the Sun, by Kazuo Ishiguro

June 9, 2026 · 1 hr 8 min

Somehow, Ishiguro has written a book that Sarah found both boring and emotionally devastating at the same time. The banality of the language is part of the darkness of this semi-dystopian trip inside the mind of Klara, a solar-powered…

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About the show

Pagenerd is a sci-fi book club for people who suck at book clubs. You can read along if you want, but we’ll tell you what happens and have some fun figuring out the science, plot and characters along the way. In each episode we pick a sci-fi novel — current or classic — and explore its world and characters, discussing what it would be like to exist in that novel and how well it's realised on the page. If you do want to read along then you'll find a full list of what we're reading for upcoming episodes at pagenerd.com. Pagenerd is Sarah Stockdale, Tommy Guy, Richard Vieweg and Andrew Corway. Jay Cockburn is the producer.