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Culture War: Player of Games - Part 2 Preview
The Culture War is underway. Join Jernau Gurgeh - professional gamer and amateur asshole - on his journey to play a game with an Empire at stake. Don…
3 years, 1 month ago
Episode 210: This One Dog Walks Into a Bar. . .
Ashely Adams returns to talk about Kij Johnson's "The Evolution of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs of North Park After the Change". What would YOU d…
3 years, 1 month ago
Upgrade Preview
We talk Upgrade (2018), which asks the pressing question: what EXACTLY did you agree to in the TOS?
3 years, 1 month ago
Episode 209: Fragments Of A Hologram Rose
Aaron Thorpe of The Trillbillies and Everybody Loves Communism joins us to chat about William Gibson's first published story, Fragments of a Hologram…
3 years, 1 month ago
UNLOCKED: Claw of the Conciliator XXI - XXV
It's that time again - time to unlock the next step in our journey through the Year of the New Sun. Just as you can't read a Gene Wolfe story, only r…
3 years, 1 month ago
Culture War: Player of Games - Part 1 Preview
The Culture War is underway. Join Jernau Gurgeh - professional gamer and amateur asshole - on his journey to play a game with an Empire at stake. Don…
3 years, 1 month ago
Episode 208: Bloody Valentines
Tai returns to talk about the original My Bloody Valentine (1981) and the flawed remake (2009). One thing's certain in this mining town - they
3 years, 1 month ago
N-Space: The Shadow People Preview
Some books aspire to greatness with merely one or two world-shaking twists. Margaret St. Clair's The Shadow People scoffs at such limitations and squ…
3 years, 1 month ago
Episode 207: Frogtown Mpreg Kinks (Ft. Jeff Martin & Caitlin Fortier)
We're joined by the creators of indie RPG games Fail Marines, Hell, Inc. and the forthcoming BURGERPunk to talk about Hell Comes to Frogtown (1988) -…
3 years, 2 months ago
Bonus Episode: Speech Sounds
We discuss Octavia Butler's Speech Sounds, a harrowing pandemic scenario so plausible it speaks to Butler's writing skills.
3 years, 2 months ago