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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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Credits:

• 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

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Credits:

• Guest: Abigail Nussbaum
• Title: Excession by Iain M. Banks
• 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:

• Vector
• Los Angeles Review of Books
• The Guardian
• Strange Horizons
• Lawyers, Guns & Money
• Warren Zevon
• Asking the Wrong Questions
• Abigail’s Track Changes
• Colourfields by Paul Kincaid
• Nina Allan’s Granite Silence and The Art of Space Travel
• Ed Park’s An Oral History of Atlantis
• Banks’ Consider Phlebas, Use of Weapons, & The Player of Games
• Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism
• Star Trek
• John le Carré
• Andor
• Transmentation Transience by Darkly Lem
• Outside Context Problems & Aggressive Hegemonizing Swarms
• Stanislaw Lem
• Kubrick/Clarke's 2001
• Paul Kincaid's biography of Banks
• Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are
• C.J. Cherryh
• Yudhanjaya Wijeratne's Salvager books
• Greg Egan
• Ann Leckie's Imperial Radch
• Yoon Ha Lee's Machineries of Empire
• Banks’ Look to Windward
• Abigail's Bluesky
• Kim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry for the Future
• Ned Beauman's Venomous Lumpsucker
• Neal Stephenson's Termination Shock

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Credits:

• Guest: Arkady Martine
• Title: 40,000 in Gehenna by C.J. Cherryh
• 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:

• Vote in the Ignytes!
• Our episode with Archita Mittra
• A Memory Called Empire, A Desolation Called Peace, Rose/House, "Three Faces of a Beheading"
• Mick Herron’s Slow Horses
• Pip Adams' Audition
• André Alexis’s Other Worlds
• Thomas Ha’s Uncertain Sons
• Stephen Sondheim's Assassins
• Cherryh’s Cyteen, Downbelow Station, Foreigner
• Watsonian vs. Doylist readings
• The Faded Sun, Hunter of Worlds
• Leonard Cohen's "The Future"
• Theodore Sturgeon's "The Golden Helix"
• Internet Science Fiction Database (ISFDB)
• Ursula Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness, Rocannon's World
• Joanna Russ's The Female Man
• Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern
• Serpent's Reach
• Amal El-Mohtar
• Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown
• Emmanuel Levinas & Martin Buber
• Octavia E. Butler
• "Third Person Intense Internal"
• Jane Alison's Meander, Spiral, Explode
• Elizabeth Bear
• Ann Leckie, Tamsyn Muir, Jeff VanderMeer
• Ancillary Justice
• Lois McMaster Bujold
• Seth Dickinson's The Traitor Baru Cormorant & our episode on it
• Max Gladstone's Craft Sequence
• A Pattern Language
• David Brin, Vernor Vinge
• Arkady's Bluesky
• Louis Kahn
• 4th Street Fantasy
• Viable Paradise
• Wiscon
• Wesley Andrews
• The Briar
• SK Coffee
• Bogart's Doughnut
• Northeast Tea House
• DreamHaven
• Uncle Hugo’s
• Delany's The Jewel-Hinged Jaw and The Motion of Light in Water
• Cherryh's Wave Without A Shore
• Greg Egan's Phoresis
• Kathy Mar's "Forty Thousand in Gehenna" from the album "Finity's End and other Songs of the Station Trade"

Wizards vs. Lesbians episode with Ann Leckie on C.J. Cherryh's Foreigner