Jack of Shadows by Roger Zelazny Show Notes Intro 00:07 // Synopsis 02:29 // Themes and Games 09:12 // Magic and Technology 09:28 // Sabriel 09:53 // Trollbabe 15:11 // Tidally locked worlds 16:37 // concepts of day and night; … Continue reading →

The Eternal Champion by Michael Moorcock Millenium edition, 1992 HB ISBN 1 85798 026 3 Show Notes Intro 00:07 // The Cover 00:39 // Foreword 01:15 // Summaries 02:18 (The Eternal Champion, Phoenix in Obsidian, The Dragon in the Sword) … Continue reading →

Von Bek by Michael Moorcock Millenium edition, 1992 HB ISBN 1 85798 023 9 Show Notes Intro 00:07 // Preface to this edition 02:30 // Summaries 05:17 (The Warhound and the World’s Pain, the City in the Autumn Stars, the … Continue reading →

Interview with Dave Morris, author of Can You Brexit Without Breaking Britain, Dragon Warriors, Jewel Spider, Mirabilis and more! Show Notes Intro 00:07 // Can You Brexit Without Breaking Britain? 00:35 // Frankenstein 29:45 // Politics in games 35:43 // … Continue reading →

Little Brother by Cory Doctorow Show Notes Intro 00:07 // Synopsis 03:03 // Themes 15:57 // recap 1984 16:24 // Motives 16:48 // Tools 17:32 (art, counter-surveillance, state removing rights, media, consumption and the true enemy) // Other Reading 32:53 … Continue reading →

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell Show Notes Intro 00:07 (anniversaries of sorts) // Synopsis 05:06 // Themes 19:02 // Motives // Tools 24:14 (language, media, propaganda, surveillance, revisionism, war) // Other Reading 38:52 // George Floyd // Dystopia as aesthetic … Continue reading →

Intro 00:07 // Synopsis 02:50 // Commentary 15:20 // The Outside (what kind of a world has gigastores?) 15:28 // Manufactured cultures (zaibatsus and phyles) 16:26 // Grant Morrison (intelligent cities and corporations as planetary contagion) 16:48 // City as … Continue reading →

The Squares Of The City by John Brunner Show Notes Intro 00:07 // Synopsis 04:16 // Commentary 15:05 // Further Reading 21:35 Links The City Shaped and The City Assembled by Spiro Kostov City by P.D. Smith The City Accelerated, … Continue reading →

The City & The City by China Mieville Show Notes Intro 00:07 // Synopsis 01:47 // Commentary 12:02 // Breach 12:26 // Politics 18:14 // Conspiricies 19:24 // Precursor Age 25:01 // Tololgangers 28:19 // Further Reading 32:50 Links What … Continue reading →

Ombria in Shadow by Patricia A. McKillip Show Notes Intro 00:07 // Synopsis 02:21 // Commentary 12:39 // Modelling the shadow city 13:00 // Crossing between worlds 14:55 // Mapping 22:53 // Further Reading 30:50 Links Corpathium (lastgaspgrimoire.com) Other fiction … Continue reading →