As the bleak winter pummels us with ice and illness, John E. O. Stevens, Fred Kiesche and Jeff Patterson muster the strength and lucidity to write February off as a loss and trudge forward in search of the mythical Springtime.

First, they discuss the death of Leonard Nimoy, and his impact on SF and Fandom.

Then they turn to the subject of Thomas M. Disch, whose works broke genre conventions on an almost industrial scale. The gentlemen recall their introductions to the author’s work (including fiction, non-fiction, and poetry), and his legacy in SF.

There follows a litany of culture consumed, and some talk about whooshing doors, online shrieking, and myopic definitions of “fan.”

Fred Kiesche, John E.O. Stevens and Jeff Patterson

Main Show Notes:

334, by Thomas M. Disch

The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of, by Thomas M. Disch

Camp Concentration, by Thomas M. Disch

The Three-Body Problem, by Cixin Liu

Finding My Elegy, by Ursula K. Le Guin

There & Back Again, by Pat Murphy

The Inheritence and Other Stories, by Robin Hobb & Megan Lindholm

Conversations With William Gibson, edited by Patrick A. Smith

Omega Exile, by Stephen Arseneault

Additional Show Notes:

2015: The Year in Books

2015: The Year in Shorts

John’s SF Signal Column on Disch’s ON WINGS OF SONG

Scott Edelman’s 1984 Interview with Thomas M. Disch

Samuel R. Delany: The American Shore—Mediations on a Tale of Science Fiction by Thomas M. Disch (“Angouleme”)

Black Mirror

Red Sonja Volume 1: Queen of Plagues, by Gail Simone & Walter Geovani

Ivar, Timewalked, by Fred Van Lente & Clayton Henry

The Ghost Fleet, by Donny Cates & Daniel Warren Johnson

Fables: The Wolf Among Us

Schlock Mercenary, by Howard Tayler