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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Vampire scholar, science fiction studies editor, and ARB co-founder Sean Guynes joins to discuss Kostova’s 2005 historical vampire thriller. We both have fairly negative opinions of the book, but it did lead us to talk about what historical thrillers are (or are not) theorizing, vampire novels we like more, and much else besides.

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• Guest: Sean Guynes
• Title: The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
• Host: Jake Casella Brookins
• Music by Giselle Gabrielle Garcia
• Artwork by Rob Patterson
• Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough
• Transcribers: Kate Dollarhyde and John WM Thompson

References:

• David Linday’s Voyage to Arcturus
• Sean's series on the Ballantine Adult Fantasy books
• Thomas Burnett Swann
• E.R. Eddison
• Gibson's Bridge trilogy
• Stephen Norrington’s film Blade
• Bram Stoker's Dracula
• Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code
• R.F. Kuang’s Katabasis
• Sarah Perry's Melmoth and our episode with Jon Greenaway about it
• Ilana Masad’s “Holocaust Beach Reads”
• Machiavelli's The Prince
• Radu Florescu & Raymond McNally's In Search of Dracula
• The Turkey City Lexicon
• Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles, including Memnoch the Devil
• Fred Saberhagen’s The Dracula Tape
• Chelsea Quinn Yarbro’s St. Germaine cycle
• E. Elias Merhige’s film Shadow of the Vampire
• Claire Kohda's Woman, Eating
• Indrapramit Das's The Devourers
• Stephen Graham Jones' The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
• Peter S. Beagle's A Fine and Private Place
• Eddison's the The Mezentian Gate

And be sure to check out Sean’s essay on The Historian!

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• Guest: Eleanor McAdam
• Title: Under The Eye Of The Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami, translated by Asa Yoneda
• Host: Jake Casella Brookins
• Music by Giselle Gabrielle Garcia
• Artwork by Rob Patterson
• Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough
• Transcribers: Kate Dollarhyde and John WM Thompson

References:

• Current Research in Science Fiction
• Vanishing World by Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori
• Annie Bot by Sierra Greer
• Emily Tesh’s The Incandescent and Some Desperate Glory
• Niall Harrison’s Locus review of Under The Eye Of The Big Bird
• Adrian Tchaikovsky's Service Model
• J.G. Ballard
• Stephen Baxter's Evolution
• William Hope Hogdson's The Night Land
• X-Men
• Isaac Asimov's Foundation
• Margaret Atwood MaddAddam Trilogy
• Kurt Vonnegut Jr.’s Cat's Cradle
• Erika Swyler's We Lived On The Horizon
• Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun & Never Let Me Go
• Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time

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• Guest: Timothy Moore
• Title: 60 Stories by Donald Barthelme
• Host: Jake Casella Brookins
• Music by Giselle Gabrielle Garcia
• Artwork by Rob Patterson
• Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough
• Transcribers: Kate Dollarhyde and John WM Thompson

References:

• Timothy Moore’s I Will Teach You Retribution
• Joan Lindsay’s Picnic at Hanging Rock & Peter Weir’s film adaptation
• Molly Templeton’s Bluesky request for Australian Gothic
• “Intermittent Anhedonia”
• Ethan Rutherford's North Sun
• Evening House Books
• "The School"
• Close Reading for the 21st Century edited by Dan Sinykin & Johanna Winant
• Alduous Huxley’s Brave New World
• "The Lottery"
• "Me and Miss Mandible"
• "A Shower of Gold"
• "Eugénie Grandet"
• Sidney Lumet’s Network
• "The Balloon"
• "The Great Hug"
• We somehow completely failed to reference E.E. Cumming’s “In Just – spring” for balloon-man reasons
• Keita Takahashi's Katamari Damacy
• Ub Iwerk’s Balloon Land
• Will McMahon
• “A Manual for Sons”
• Barthelme’s The Dead Father
• Wes Anderson’s The Life Aquatic
• "The Policeman's Ball"
• Vercingetorix
• "The King of Jazz"
• Julio Cortázar
• Ishmael Reed
• Kelly Link
• Ed Park
• Elwin Cotman
• Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
• Aimee Bender's Girl in the Flammable Skirt
• George Saunders
• Garielle Lutz
• Dalkey Archives
• Small Beer Press
• Zachary Gillan &  our Authority episode
• “Reading Weird Fiction in a Time of Fascism”
• Mircea Cărtărescu's Solenoid, translated by Sean Cotter
• Liliana Costanzi’s You Glow in the Dark
• Thomas Ha's Uncertain Sons
• Ed Park's An Oral History of Atlantis
• Brian Evenson
• “Lonely Rolling Star” by Saki Kabata and Yoshihito Yano off the first Katamari game
• Billy Bletcher as the Pincushion Man in Ub Iwerks’ Balloon Land, music by Carl Staling
• “You’re the Cream in My Coffee” recorded by Miff Mole and His Little Molers
• “Perdido Street Blues” by Louis Armstrong and Sydney Bechet
• Charlie Parker’s “Billie’s Bounce”

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• Guest: Ursula Whitcher
• Title: Burning Bright by Melissa Scott
• Host: Jake Casella Brookins
• Music by Giselle Gabrielle Garcia
• Artwork by Rob Patterson
• Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough
• Transcribers: Kate Dollarhyde and John WM Thompson

References:

• North Continent Ribbon
• Indra Das’s The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar
• Fonda Lee's Green Bone books & game thereof w/ James Mendez Hodes
• Bruce Coville's Aliens Ate My Homework & Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher
• Thomas Ha's Uncertain Sons
• Scott’s Trouble And Her Friends & Astreiant series, most recently Point of Hearts
• C.S. Lewis's Perelandra
• Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman’s Dragonlance novels
• Don Daglow’s Neverwinter Nights
• Commedia dell'arte
• The Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise
• LAN parties
• C.J. Cherryh's Foreigner books
• Arkardy Martine's Teixcalaan books
• Iain M. Banks' Player of Games
• Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash
• Cameron Reed's Fortunate Fall
• Iain Softley’s Hackers
• William Gibson's Blue Ant trilogy
• Charlie Jane Anders
• Bruce Sterling
• Michael Swanwick's Stations of the Tide
• Ursula's website & Bluesky

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• Guest: Joy Sanchez-Taylor
• Title: The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
• Host: Jake Casella Brookins
• Music by Giselle Gabrielle Garcia
• Artwork by Rob Patterson
• Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough
• Transcribers: Kate Dollarhyde and John WM Thompson

References:

• Diverse Futures: Science Fiction and Author of Color
• Routledge Handbook of Co-Futurisms
• Dispelling Fantasies: Author of Color Re-Imagine a Genre
• Ibi Zoboi's Skin
• Examples of YA novels in verse from the Boston Public Library
• Liliana Colanzi You Glow in the Dark, translated by Chris Andrews
• Center for Fiction Brooklyn
• Puppygate
• Jemisin’s 2018 Hugo Acceptance Speech
• Sylvia Moreno Garcia, Nnedi Okorafor, Nghi Vo
• Jemisin's Inheritance Trilogy, The City We Became
• Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Blood and Bone
• Moses Ose Utomi’s The Lies of the Ajungo
• Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas”
• Octavia E. Butler’s Parable series
• The Elder Scrolls games Morrowind & Skyrim
• Jemisin on race in Skyrim
• Marlon James’ Black Leopard, Red Wolf
• Latinx Visions Conference, Nov 3-7
• Marianna Enriquez
• Ananda Lima's Craft
• Colson Whitehead, Amal El-Mohtar
• Nghi Vo's Singing Hills & The City In Glass
• Joy’s Bluesky
• Suzan Palumbo, Zig Zag Claybourne
• VICFA
• World Fantasy Convention

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• Guest: Zachary Gillan
• Title: Authority by Jeff VanderMeer
• Host: Jake Casella Brookins
• Music by Giselle Gabrielle Garcia
• Artwork by Rob Patterson
• Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough
• Transcribers: Kate Dollarhyde and John WM Thompson

References:

• Zach’s Profane Illuminations column at ARB
• Robert Aickman
• Bothayna Al-Essa’s The Book-Censor's Library, translated by Ranya Abdelrahman & Sawad Hussain
• Bohumil Hrabal’s Too Loud A Solitude, translated by Michael Henry Heim
• Annihilation, Acceptance, and Absolution
• VanderMeer’s blog
• VanderMeer’s Ambergris: City of Saints and Madmen; Shriek: An Afterword; Finch
• Ann & Jeff VanderMeer’s The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories
• MKUltra
• Stanislaw Lem’s Solaris, translated by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox (from Jean-Michel Jasiensko’s French translation) and Bill Johnston (from the Polish)
• Boris & Arkady Strugatsky’s Roadside Picnic, translated by Olena Bormashenko
• Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris and Stalker
• Alex Garland's Annihilation
• Cormac McCarthy's The Road
• Kay Chronister's Desert Creatures
• Roland Emmerich’s The Day After Tomorrow
• Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta’s The Leftovers
• Bruce Timm and Eric Radomski’s Batman: the Animated Series
• Timothy Morton’s Dark Ecology and other work
• VanderMeer’s Hummingbird Salamander
• Thomas Ha's Uncertain Sons
• Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain

• Host: Jake Casella Brookins
• Music by Giselle Gabrielle Garcia
• Artwork by Rob Patterson
• Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough
• Transcribers: Kate Dollarhyde and John WM Thompson

References:

• World Science Fiction Convention in Seattle
• The Hugo Awards
• Norwescon
• Kevin Black - Publications Division Head
• Catherine Hardwicke's Twilight, based on the novel by Stephenie Meyer
• "Full Moon" by the Black Ghosts
• Article about John Anderson’s Beachcomber Museum, with link to the short documentary
• Dr. Kaitlyn Casimo
• The Allen Institute
• Brandon O'Brien - Poet Laureate for the Seattle Worldcon
• The Speculative Poetry Initiative
• Interstellar Flight Press
• The Translated Hugo Initiative
• “Summit Sound” by the Jack Straw Cultural Center
• “Mole” by Elizabeth McQueen
• “What You have become” by Kate Clark
• Olympia Coffee Roasting
• The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
• Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky
• 99% Invisible readalong of Robert Caro’s The Power Broker
• Hugos There
• Hugo Girl!
• Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right by Jordan S. Carroll
• Abigail Nussbaum
• SFPoetry.org
• Strange Horizons, Uncanny, Asimov’s, Analog

Calypso by Oliver K. Langmead

• Guest: Karlo Yeager Rodríguez
• Title: Stone of Farewell by Tad Williams
• Host: Jake Casella Brookins
• Music by Giselle Gabrielle Garcia
• Artwork by Rob Patterson
• Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough
• Transcribers: Kate Dollarhyde and John WM Thompson

References:

• Kim Stanley Robinson’s Aurora, and our episode on it
• K.J. Parker's Making History
• Jared Diamonds’ Guns, Germs, and Steel
• David Eddings’ Belgeriad & Mallorian
• Michael Whelan & Darrell K. Sweet
• George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice & Fire
• Peter Beagle forward to The Lord of the Rings
• The Clone Wars meme "The what?"
• ElfQuest by Wendy & Richard Pini et al.
• Katherine Kurtz’s Deryni novels
• Hidetaka Miyazaki & Yui Tanimura’s Elden Ring
• T.H. White
• Brandon Sanderson
• Robert Jordan’s Wheel Of Time
• H.P. Lovecraft’s The Mountains of Madness & The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
• "A Line of Ink, Stretching Back Like A Shadow"

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• Featuring interviews with:
• Rae Borman @ Readercon
• Riley @ Lovestruck Books
• Host: Jake Casella Brookins
• Music by Giselle Gabrielle Garcia
• Artwork by Rob Patterson
• Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough
• Transcribers: Kate Dollarhyde and John WM Thompson

References:

• Rae Borman
• New England Finger Dancers
• Naomi Novik’s Scholomance
• Brandon Mull’s Fablehaven
• Katherine Rundell’s Impossible Creatures
• James Blish
• Joanna Russ’s The Female Man
• Benjamin Rosenbaum & our episode on Fire Logic
• Sunny Moraine & our episode on Pattern Recognition
• Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons
• Will McMahon
• NEA grant cuts and translated SF: 3% Podcast, Adam Morgan’s LARB article, and Strange Horizon’s reviews & podcast on the subject.
• Eden Kupermintz & our episode on The Silmarillion
• The Translated Hugo Initiative: translatedhugo.org
• Renay's "That's a Nice Review You've Got There"
• Michael Cisco
• Jon Stone’s The Monster At The End of This Book
• George Howell & Broadsheet coffee
• Chip Pons's Winging it With You
• Sarah McLean
• Omegaverse (do be careful where you look that up)
• The Ripped Bodice
• Grump & Sunshine
• Read My Lips Boston
• Harvard Coop Bookstore, Trident, Purple Couch
• Candlewick Press
• Ingram distributors
• Cat Sebastian's We Could Be So Good & Star Shipped
• Rachel Reid's The Shots You Take
• Adam Silvera 
• Sarah J. Maas
• Rebecca Yarros’s Fourth Wing
• S.T. Gibson’s Evocation & Ascencion
• Rina Kent, Navessa Allen
• Heather Bartos’s Quickies
• Emily Henry, Tessa Bailey, Sarah McLean, Kim Swizz

Everina Maxwell’s Winter Orbit