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Episode 211: Nemesis Mar 07, 2023

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For this episode, we return to one of Albert Pyun's films, the 1992 cyberpunk actioner, Nemesis. Explosions, gun battles and the LAPD getting blown to hell - what's not to like?

UNLOCKED: Claw of the Conciliator XXVI - XXXI Mar 05, 2023

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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 re-read it, so we hope it goes with podcasts. Music by Loot the Body

Culture War: Player of Games - Part 2 Preview Mar 02, 2023

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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't hate the player, hate the game. Music is "A Guilty System Recognizes No Innocents" by Terminal Khaos Builders terminalkhaosbuilders.bandcamp.com/track/a…nocents

Episode 210: This One Dog Walks Into a Bar. . . Feb 28, 2023

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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 do if your dog asked you to eat what you eat, sleep where you sleep? This story first appeared in the World Fantasy Award nominated The Coyote Road (edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling), but you can read or listen to the story, reprinted in Drabblecast (https://www.drabblecast.org/2019/06/04/drabblecast-evolution-of-trickster-stories-pt-1/)or Podcastle (https://podcastle.org/2009/07/09/pc060-the-evolution-of-trickster-stories-among-the-dogs-of-north-park-after-the-change/).

Upgrade Preview Feb 23, 2023

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We talk Upgrade (2018), which asks the pressing question: what EXACTLY did you agree to in the TOS?

Episode 209: Fragments Of A Hologram Rose Feb 21, 2023

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Aaron Thorpe of The Trillbillies and Everybody Loves Communism joins us to chat about William Gibson's first published story, Fragments of a Hologram Rose. Find out with us if a simulation would smell as sweet

UNLOCKED: Claw of the Conciliator XXI - XXV Feb 19, 2023

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Culture War: Player of Games - Part 1 Preview Feb 17, 2023

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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't hate the player, hate the game. Music is "A Guilty System Recognizes No Innocents" by Terminal Khaos Builders https://terminalkhaosbuilders.bandcamp.com/track/a-guilty-system-recognizes-no-innocents

Episode 208: Bloody Valentines Feb 14, 2023

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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

N-Space: The Shadow People Preview Feb 09, 2023

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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 squeezes FIVE such twists into her slim novel

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