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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

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Credits:

• Guest: andré m. carrington
• Title: Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
• 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:

• andré’s Speculative Blackness, The Black Fantastic, and Audiofuturism (forthcoming)
• The Eaton Conference
• Malik Gaines & Alexandro Segade's cosmic opera Star Choir, based on the work of Octavia E. Butler
• Hanna Yanagahira's To Paradise
• Tochi Onyebuchi’s Harmattan Season
• George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire
• N.K. Jemisin
• Michael Zapata’s The Lost Book of Adana Moreau
• Tom Hanks’ That Thing You Do
• Andew Stanton’s Wall-E
• Becky Chambers' Monk & Robot
• Olaf Stapledon
• Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future
• andré's Bluesky
• Audio.futurism Instagram

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Credits:

• Guest: Roseanna Pendlebury
• Titles: The 2025 Hugo Novel & Novella List
• 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:

• Hugo Novella Finalists:
• The Brides of High Hill by Nghi Vo
• The Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed
• Navigational Entanglements by Aliette de Bodard
• The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia Samatar
• The Tusks of Extinction by Ray Nayler
• What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher
• Hugo Novel Finalists:
• Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky
• The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
• Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell
• A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher
• The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett
• The Clarke Award list
• Paul Kincaid’s Coulorfields
• Roseanna’s “A Path Through the Landscape” for A Reader of Else, plus Paul Kincaid’s “The Books That Made Me” for Through the dark labyrinth
• Nnedi Okorafor’s Binti
• Casella’s idea of a Hugo for Best Translated Work
• Renay's Hugo Spreadsheet of Doom
• Alex Jeffers’s A Mourning Coat
• Lorraine Wilson’s Last to Drown
• The Ursula K. Le Guin Prize
• The Ignyte Awards
• Premee Mohamed’s The Siege of Burning Grass
• Vajra Chandraskera’s Rakesfall
• Jared Pechaček’s The West Passage
• Seth Dickinson’s Exordia and The Traitor Baru Cormorant
• Emet North’s In Universes
• Eden Robin’s Remember You Will Die
• Scott Guild's Plastic
• Aliya Whiteley's Three Eight One
• T. Kingfisher’s Saint of Steel books
• Marie Brennan's A Natural History of Dragons
• Robert Jackson Bennett’s Divine Cities and Founders trilogies
• Adrian Tchaikovsky’s House of Open Wounds
• Greg Egan
• Charlie Stross's Neptune’s Brood
• Zachary Gillan’s “Reading Weird Fiction in an Age of Fascism”
• Foz Meadow’s A Strange and Stubborn Endurance
• Roseanna's review of Someone To Build A Nest In
• Brad Wright’s Travelers
• Helen MacDonald and Sin Blaché’s Prophet
• Roseanna’s Small Press Dispatch column
• Nerds of a Feather

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Credits:

• Guest: Maia Gil′Adí
• Title: The Lost Book of Adana Moreau by Michael Zapata
• Host: Jake Casella Brookins
• Music by Giselle Gabrielle Garcia
• Artwork by Rob Patterson
• Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough

References:

• Palgrave SFF: A New Canon
• The Zombie Archive
• Doom Patterns: Latinx Speculations and the Aesthetics of Violence
• Augustina Bazterrica's Tender is the Flesh
• Fernanda Trias' Pink Slime
• Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go
• Colson Whitehead's Zone One
• Toni Morrison's Beloved
• Fernanda Melchor's Hurricane Season
• Indrapramit Das
• Brendan Shay Basham's Swim Home to the Vanished & Casella’s review
• Mariana Enriquez's Our Share of Night
• Fredric Jameson
• Chicago Review of Books Awards
• Ilana Masad’s “Holocaust Beach Reads” for The Maris Review
• Jason (Friday the 13th)
• Simón Bolívar
• August Derleth, Clark Ashton Smith, H.P. Lovecraft, C.L. Moore
• Moebius/Jean Giraud
• Ancient Aliens
• Blake Crouch’s Dark Matter & adaptation
• Studs Terkel
• US Occupation of the Dominican Republic, 1916
• Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
• Jonbar points
• Aimee Pokwatka's Self-Portrait with Nothing
• Lavie Tidhar's The Circumference of the Earth & Unholy Land
• Rob Nixon's Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
• Sesshu Foster's Atomic Aztecs
• Maia on Bluesky

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Credits:

• Guest: Sean McTiernan
• Title: Dreams of Amputation by Gary J. Shipley
• Host: Jake Casella Brookins
• Music by Giselle Gabrielle Garcia
• Artwork by Rob Patterson
• Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough
• Transcribers: Kate Dollarhyde

References:

• The SFUltra podcast
• Alasdair Gray’s Lanark & Poor Things
• James Joyce’s Ulysses
• Fredric Jameson
• Absolute DC comics
• Michael Comeau’s Hellberta
• Alan Grant & John Wagner’s Doomlord
• Ray Nayler’s Where the Axe is Buried
• Neil Sharpson’s When The Sparrow Falls
• Michael Mann's Blackhat
• Later Die Hards
• Tony Scott’s Enemy of the State
• Jean Baudrillard
• Shipley’s Stratagem of the Corpse, Crypt(o)spasm, and Serial Killing: A Philosophical Anthology
• Dennis Cooper
• Blake Butler’s “Sci-Fi Doesn’t Have to Be Dominated by Horny Bro Wizards” for Vice
• Darko Suvin
• Manuela Draeger's Kree (and Antoine Volodine’s other work)
• Mark Danielewski
• B.R. Yeager
• Apocalypse Party
• William S. Burrough’s Naked Lunch
• Neal Stephenson
• Daniel Dennett
• Memetics
• Philip K. Dick’s A Scanner Darkly
• J.G. Ballard, M. John Harrison, John Updike
• Blake Butler’s Uxa.gov & the SFUltra episode
• Christopher Priest’s “Hull 0, Scunthorpe 3”
• Brian Evenson, Pierre Guyotat
• Harrison's Nova Swing
• Tad Williams' Otherland
• Derek Raymond (Rober Cook)’s He Died With His Eyes Open
• Thomas Metzinger The Ego Tunnel
• Bernard Wolfe’s Limbo
• Evenson’s Last Days / Brotherhood of Mutilation
• William Gibson, Bruce Sterling
• Warhammer 40k
• Ballard's Crash
• Curt Siodmak’s Donovan's Brain
• Matt from Bookpilled
• Nick Land
• CCRU & Dark Enlightenment
• Baudrillard’s The Transparency of Evil, Cool Memories, The Perfect Crime
• Mark Fisher, Kodwu Eshun, Kode9
• Fisher’s “Exiting the Vampire Castle”
• Andrea Dworkin
• Brion Gysin
• Travis Baldree's Legends and Lattes
• Walter Hill's The Driver
• Brian Catling
• Ian Sinclair
• SFUltra episodes on Lanark, Poor Things, and Catling