As always, no spoilers until the end when we clearly call it out before getting into the full plot explanation and discussion.

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This episode is sponsored by The Song of Immaru: Earth's Door by PJ Dudek, which you can get on print, audiobook, or kindle here.

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• Fallout: New Vegas (game)
• Horizon Zero Dawn (game)
• The Thirteenth Floor (movie)
• Severance (TV show)

This episode is sponsored by The Dawn series by Ray N. Kuili, which you can get on print, audiobook, or kindle here.

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All the books in the episode (with YT links to those we've got full episodes on, or search for them in your podcast app):

• The Hunger Games
• Red Rising
• Ready Player One
• The Giver
• Never Let Me Go
• The Children of Men
• The Machine Stops
• Clockwork Orange
• A Scanner Darkly
• Kallocain
• Fahrenheit 451
• The Handmaid's Tale
• Brave New World
• 1984
• We

The Mercy of Gods follows a team of research scientists trying to survive an alien invasion. The Carryx are ruthless - killing 1/8 of the population immediately as they arrive to encourage the survivors to cooperate. Our team, along with many others, are then abducted and brought to a Carryx planet, where they are set loose in an open-air prison populated by hundreds of other alien races. They’re told that if they want to survive they must be useful to the Carryx. Will they resist, or decide to serve the alien overlords? And what does service even mean to aliens who think totally differently?

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Similar books we recommend:

• Shards of Earth - Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Startide Rising - David Brin
• A Fire Upon the Deep - Vernor Vinge