MIHSW: The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. LeGuin

MIHSW: Season 1 Holiday Special

The Podcasters of the Apocalypse, on the My Internet Has Stopped Working podcast, take on A Season of Wonder, a holiday collection that swaps cozy nostalgia for time travel as confrontation—using the past not as escape, but as a proving ground for faith, grief, and identity. These stories ask why holidays pull us backward in time and what it costs when technology makes that pull literal. In Harlan Ellison’s “Go Toward the Light,” a future scientist intervenes during the desecration of the Temple in Jerusalem, reframing the Hanukkah miracle as an act of choice rather than myth. Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s “Loop” turns the lens inward, using a holiday marked by loss to show that even infinite do-overs can’t erase grief—only clarify it. It’s science fiction that challenges tradition, unsettles comfort, and gives the season of wonder real teeth.

MIHSW: The Breathing Method by Stephen King

In Stephen King's “The Breathing Method” — A woman takes her Lamaze lessons very seriously, a doctor joins a secret storytelling club where reality occasionally forgets its boundaries, and somewhere between birth and death, the universe takes a deep, unsettling breath. In this chilly corner of Stephen King’s multiverse, manners matter, stories have rules, and persistence—especially maternal persistence—might just bend the laws of physics. It’s not It or The Shining; it’s quieter, stranger, and somehow colder. A tale for the long, gray November evenings when even your technology seems to stop breathing. Join the Podcasters of the Apocalypse as they dive into this under-appreciated 4th novella from King's Different Seasons. The same book that gave us The Shawshank Redemption and Stand by Me.

MIHSW: Theological Implications of LeGuin's The Lathe of Heaven

Using Google Notebook I created a short supplemental episode exploring my thoughts on George Orr as God and contrasting his theology with that of Frank Herbert's Leto II and Robert Browning's Setabos. Three starkly different ideas of what an embodied God might look like.

MIHSW: The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. LeGuin

In this episode, we dive into Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Lathe of Heaven — a haunting exploration of dreams that shape reality itself. What happens when one man’s subconscious can rewrite the world? Join us as we unravel the novel’s mind-bending layers of power, ethics, and existence. From surreal dreamscapes to philosophical paradoxes, this episode takes you through the blurred boundaries between imagination and control, waking life and illusion. Reality is shifting — are you awake enough to notice?

MIHSW: All Systems Red by Martha Wells

In All Systems Red, the first novella in Martha Wells’ award-winning Murderbot Diaries, we meet a Security Unit who’s hacked its own governor module—and would very much prefer to be left alone to watch its favorite soap operas. It’s a brilliant twist: a rogue AI with a deadly skillset, a sarcastic personality, and absolutely no desire to make eye contact with humans, much less protect them. Unfortunately for Murderbot, that’s exactly what it has to do when a routine planetary survey mission goes sideways. As sabotage, danger, and corporate malfeasance rear their heads, Murderbot must juggle combat, cover-ups, and the sheer agony of human small talk—all while trying to keep its awkward affection for its human clients under wraps. In this episode, the podcasters gleefully crown Murderbot as the ultimate reluctant hero—equal parts Terminator, tech support, and introvert icon. They discuss how Martha Wells flips the script on AI narratives by giving us an android that doesn’t want to destroy humanity—it just wants boundaries and quiet time. And maybe some downloaded rom-coms.