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Episode 123 – Fritz Leiber's "The Knight and Knave of Swords" with special guest Ahimsa Kerp
Ahimsa Kerp joins us to discuss Fritz Leiber's "The Knight and Knave of Swords", Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser in Riverside, ooh naughty sexy times, sex…
4 years, 2 months ago
Episode 122 – E.R. Eddison's "The Worm Ouroboros” with special guest Caroline Stevermer
Caroline Stevermer joins us to discuss E.R. Eddison's "The Worm Ouroboros”, depictions of Elizabethan masculinity, characters that don't have parents…
4 years, 2 months ago
Patron Book Club 121 – N.K. Jemisin's "The Fifth Season” with our Patron Book Club
Our Patron Book Club joins us to discuss N.K. Jemisin's "The Fifth Season”, AD&D's obsession with gem names, the tonal resonances between this book a…
4 years, 3 months ago
Episode 121 – N.K. Jemisin's "The Fifth Season” with special guest Tanya DePass
Tanya DePass joins us to discuss N.K. Jemisin's "The Fifth Season”, Black people cosplaying as White characters, the formation of mountain ranges, ef…
4 years, 3 months ago
Episode 120 – Peter S. Beagle's "The Last Unicorn” with special guest Brian Cortijo
Brian Cortijo joins us to discuss Peter S. Beagle's "The Last Unicorn”, how wars affect settings, irredeemably evil Drow and Orcs, splitting a wizard…
4 years, 4 months ago
Episode 119 – Octavia E. Butler’s “Fledgling” with special guest Tim Hutchings
Tim Hutchings joins us to discuss Octavia E. Butler's "Fledgling", modern D&D-insired art, the effect of slavery on language, the book's use of child…
4 years, 4 months ago
Episode 118 – Peter Bebergal's "Appendix N” with special guest Ian McGarty
Ian McGarty joins us to discuss Peter Bebergal's "Appendix N: The Eldritch Roots of Dungeons & Dragons”, games publishing, lifting magic items from f…
4 years, 5 months ago
Episode 117 – Clark Ashton Smith's "The End of the Story" with special guest Matt King
Matt King joins us to discuss Clark Ashton Smith's "The End of the Story: The Collected Fantasies, Vol. 1", Italian horror films, Nightshade Press, t…
4 years, 5 months ago
Episode 116 – Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Tombs of Atuan" with special guest Noora Rose
Noora Rose joins us to discuss Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Tombs of Atuan", game masters as game designers, non-white people writing fantasy and sci-fi,…
4 years, 5 months ago
Episode 115 – Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein” with special guest Karlo Yeager Rodríguez
Karlo Yeager Rodríguez joins us to discuss Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein”, Vampire LARPing, the 1818 vs 1831 texts, Victor Frankenstein as a narrator,…
4 years, 6 months ago