Ten-HUT! Listen up, maggots: That pinko Joe Dante FINALLY made a movie about the REAL American heroes - Small Soldiers! You WILL listen to the new Podside episode, and you WILL like it! That's an ORDER
We talk about Get Lamp (2010), along with its bonus materials, a documentary about the history of "IF" or Interactive Fiction which has its charms, but is ultimately a little unfocusedVisit the Get Lamp site: http://www.getlamp.com/Also, th
Today, we talk about The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule by Lucius Shepard, and follow the life of artist, and possible con-man, Meric Cattanay, in his quest to have his name as remembered as the dragon he's proposed to slay
Today we discuss Eric Schwitzgebel's The Dauphin's Metaphysics, first printed in Unlikely Story's The Journal of Unlikely Academia, a story about a limited and quite disturbing form of immortality Read the story:http://www.unlikely-story.com/
Today we discuss Eric Schwitzgebel's The Dauphin's Metaphysics, first printed in Unlikely Story's The Journal of Unlikely Academia, a story about a limited and quite disturbing form of immortality Read the story:http://www.unlikely-story.com/
This time, we talk about Bruce Sterling's Mozart in Mirrorshades (collected in the much-hyped cyberpunk anthology, Mirrorshades) - a story about corporate extraction with extra steps (mainly, time travel)Oh, Galactus wished he had it this goo
Today, we talk about the proto-cyberpunk film, Brainstorm. Directed by a SFF cinema luminary, Douglas Trumbull, and with Christopher Walken and Natalie Wood in lead roles, this is a movie that asks what if Online was your feelings made fact?
This time, we discuss Cronenberg's 1983 The Dead Zone, which asks the question: if you had the power to change the future in your clammy hands, would you?
Jeff Martin returns to rock out to the Chaindevils playlist, a real grimphony in the key of chainsaw!Check out Jeff's comics:https://hell.rentathugcomics.com/And his games (Space Jerks, BURGERPunk, more):https://rentathug.itch.io/
We talk about another De Palma, this time it's The Fury (1978). Two teenagers with psychic powers pitted against one another. . . it's a real enemies-to-enemies trope
Mattie joins us again to close out our read-alongs of Susanna Clarke's works with the charming and funny story of John Uskglass and the Cumbrian Charcoal Burner (collected in The Ladies of Grace Adieu)
Today we talk family, bears, and discovering fire as we talk about Terry Bisson's Bears Discover FireOriginal story:https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/bears-discover-fire/Short film adaptation:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu594
As the year turns, so does our taste in reading. Join us in our read-along of Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, and remember: This land is all too shallow/It is painted on the sky/And trembles like wind-shook rain/When the Raven K
Jeff Martin returns to help Podside pull the starter cord and cut through Matthew Mitchell's Chaindevils, part WH40K homage, part splatterpunk "there and back again" narrative, all gnarlCheck out Jeff's work: https://rentathugcomics.com/
Today we talk about one of the recently-deceased Howard Waldrop's better-known stories, The Ugly Chickens. Part shaggy-dog (chicken?) story, part alternate history, and all good eatin!