Hugonauts: The Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time — The Myths that Inspired Fantasy and Sci-Fi

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The Myths that Inspired Fantasy and Sci-Fi

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From Sumeria, to Greece, to India, to the depths of the dark ages we explore the stories that have inspired everything that came later with a professor of mythology and medieval literature. This particular professor also happens to be Cody's mom, so this is also a great episode to explore Cody's psyche, for those…

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