The year’s end looms, so John E. O. Stevens, Fred Kiesche and Jeff Patterson elect to be merciful and convene to put it out of its misery. They’ve invited Andrea Phillips and Jonah Sutton-Morse along to list their favorite books, comics, TV shows, movies, and games of 2015.

The discussion, of course, goes completely off-topic, veering into such subjects as nihilistic narratives, revisiting old favorites, the pitfalls of being a new release junkie, “Batgirling,” and the storytelling idiosyncrasies of various media.

Get comfy. This one’s over two hours.

Fred Kiesche, John E.O. Stevens and Jeff Patterson with Andrea Phillips and Jonah Sutton-Morse

Show Notes

Black Wolves, by Kate Elliot

Envy of Angels, by Matt Wallace

Collected Fiction, by Leena Krohn

The Apollo Quartet, by Ian Sales

Universe Beholds Itself

Great Ocean Above

Outer Space Allows

Numbers Don’t Life, by Terry Bisson

Bellweather, by Connie Willis

The Song of Synth, by Sue Dubinski

The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps, by Kai Ashante Wilson

Perchance to Dream—Selected Stories, by Charles Beaumont

Additional Show Notes

2015: The Year in Books

2015: The Year in Shorts

Supergirl

Heroes Reborn

The Ogres of East Africa, by Sofia Samatar

Gunnerkriff Court, by Tom Siddell

Homestruck

Her Story

Philip K. Dick: The Last Interiew

Stephen Rudnicki reads Dhalgren

Christopher Frayling: The 2001 File (Harry Lange and the Design of the Landmark Science Fiction Film)

Eye I dare Not Meet In Dreams, by Sunny Moraine

The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance by Henry Petroski

The VanderMeer Winter Mix Tape Bundle 9 with Lenne Krohn