Gender wars, pandemics, and, of course, workaday clones: is it the daily news, or our shared future? In the latest GrottoPod Gabfest, co-producers Susan Gerhard, Daniel Pearce and Beth Winegarner plus special guest Andrew Braithwaite take on dark visions, with four of our favorite dystopian novels under discussion: Meg Elison’s The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, Naomi Alderman’s The Power, and Ling Ma’s Severance.