A Meal of Thorns

A Meal of Thorns 38- VENOMOUS LUMPSUCKER with Cameron Kunzelman


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Academic, critic, and prolific podcaster Cameron Kunzelman joins for a far-ranging discussion about how climate fiction, science fiction, and personal and political connections to the environment intersect. Bonus hog sighting.

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  • Guest: Cameron Kunzelman
  • Title: Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman
  • Host:Jake Casella Brookins
  • Music byGiselle Gabrielle Garcia
  • Artwork byRob Patterson
  • Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough
  • Transcribers: Kate Dollarhyde and John WM Thompson
  • References:

    • Ranged Touch podcasts
    • The World is Born From Zero & Everything is Permitted
    • Sean McTiernan’s SFUltra (Sean was the guest for our Dreams of Amputation episode)
    • From Hell by Alan Moore & Eddie Campbell
    • Steve Moore's Somnium
    • Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism
    • Christopher Brown's A Natural History of Empty Lots
    • Bill Bryson
    • Abigail Nussbaum
    • Vajra Chandrasekera's Rakesfall
    • Michael Crichton
    • Donna J. Haraway’s Staying With The Trouble
    • Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future & Aurora (episode on the latter with Hilary Strang)
    • Neal Stephenson's Termination Shock, Seveneves, & Anathem
    • Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven
    • Nicholas Meyer’s film The Day After
    • Nevil Shute's On the Beach
    • Adam McKay’s film Don't Look Up
    • Timothy Morton’s Hyperobjects
    • Trinitite
    • Edward Abbey’s The Monkey Wrench Gang
    • Bruce Sterling, William Gibson, Pat Cadigan
    • “30-50 Feral Hogs”
    • Clock of the Long Now
    • Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass
    • John Christopher’s The Death of Grass / No Blade of Grass
    • Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa
    • Describe World
    • Flannery O'Connor
    • Deep ecology
    • Arne Næss
    • Ted Kaczynski
    • #NoDAPL (Dakota Access Pipeline)
    • Bruce Sterling's Islands in the Net
    • Patrick Wright’s The Village That Died For England
    • Centralia coal-seam fire in Pennsylvania
    • Keiichiro Toyama’s Silent Hill & Christophe Gans’ film adaptation
    • Cameron's Bluesky
    • The Assassin's Creed franchise
    • Immanuel Velikovsky
    • Erich von Däniken’s Chariots of the Gods
    • ...more
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