Blazing Reader,

In less than five hours, I'll join James Corbett for a livestream of the newly resurrected Film, Literature and the New World Order podcast (to discuss Harry Turtledove's Powerless).

This is the first time The Corbett Report has aired a live event. James has made this technological plunge so that you can participate in the discussion about a novel set in a world where livestreaming would probably land you in a labour camp. In fact, even typewriters are hard to come by in this alternative history where America is run by a Soviet-inspired government that stifles free and open communication.

Fortunately, open communication is still legal in our timeline, and we hope you'll join us — even if the hour may be an odd time for many people. With James streaming out of Japan, and me in the Netherlands, today's intercontinental livestream starts at:

• 10pm Sydney
• 9pm Tokyo / Seoul
• 8pm Beijing / Singapore
• 7pm Bangkok
• 4pm Dubai
• 2pm Paris / Amsterdam
• 1pm London
• 8am New York City / Toronto
• 5am Los Angeles / Vancouver

To watch us live and join in the chat with your questions and comments and literary heresies, head over to Join The First-Ever Corbett Report Livestream! for instructions.

John C.A. Manley

P.S. If you missed it, check out my three-part review of Harry Turtledove's Powerless: The Day Charlie Simpkins "Tired of Giving Lies a Helping Hand".

P.P.S. You can also read (as one long post) the same review on Goodreads.

John C. A. Manley is the author of Much Ado About Corona, All The Humans Are Sleeping and other works of philosophical fiction that are "so completely engaging that you find yourself alternately laughing, gasping, hanging on for dear life." Get free samples of his stories by becoming a Blazing Pine Cone email subscriber.