Episode 1: Non-Confrontational Fisticuffs
Rian and Kris introduce the podcast and themselves, and have a very non-confrontational debate about sci-fi vs fantasy because the first episode is way too early for the friends to enemies narrative trope.
Books and authors mentioned:
Jeff Vandermeer - Area X (series)
Stephen King
Adrian Tchaikovsky - Elder Race (novella)
Christopher Ruocchio - The Sun Eater (series)
Patrick Rothfuss - The Name of the Wind
Steven Erikson - Malazan Book of the Fallen (series)
Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Terry Pratchett
Haruki Murakami - Kafka on the Shore
Susanna Clarke - Piranesi
James S.A. Corey - The Expanse (series)
Peter Watts - Firefall (duology)
Guy Gavriel Kay
Tom Dumbrell - A Killer and a King
Robert A. Heinlein
Arthur C. Clarke - Rendezvous with Rama
Robert Jordan - The Wheel of Time (series)