We're kicking off the first part of our first miniseries on Japanese science fiction this week with a brief overview of SF in post war Japan leading into a mind blowing short story by Japanese SF legend Sakyo Katsumo. "The Savage Mouth" will push you to the brink of sanity with this sinfully delicious tableaux of self loathing, tranhuman, body horror. Be sure to follow us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/greetingsfromthemirrorzone/ and on twitter at twitter.com/Bryce_Skidmore and twitter.com/AlfredPacker.

We are tiger single and ready to mingle in a semi-barbaric state this week. Leskin and I are joined by a guest Gabriel “the Raven of Pleasant Hill” to discuss Saki’s “The Interlopers” and Frank Stockton’s “The Lady or the Tiger?” We will be tackling the age old question of f**k, marry, kill when tigers are involved? How much wolves care about vendettas? And where do we land in the spectrum between man and animal. Be sure to follow us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/greetingsfromthemirrorzone/ and on twitter at twitter.com/Bryce_Skidmore and twitter.com/AlfredPacker.

We are tiger single and ready to mingle in a semi-barbaric state this week. Leskin and I are joined by a guest Gabriel “the Raven of Pleasant Hill” to discuss Saki’s “The Interlopers” and Frank Stockton’s “The Lady or the Tiger?” We will be tackling the age old question of f**k, marry, kill when tigers are involved? How much wolves care about vendettas? And where do we land in the spectrum between man and animal. Be sure to follow us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/greetingsfromthemirrorzone/ and on twitter at twitter.com/Bryce_Skidmore and twitter.com/AlfredPacker.

Greetings from the Mirror Zone! Join Leskin and I as we accompany a small group of survivors who crash land on an unknown planet. Instead of Gilligan’s Island hijinks we’ll have to settle for witch hunts, treachery, resistance, and the acceptance of death as we follow the lone narrator through an ordeal which challenges the value inherent in our fellow humans. We will be asking questions about autonomy and the right to die provoked by Sci Fi master Joanna Russ’ most controversial novel “We Who Are About To.” Be sure to follow us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/greetingsfromthemirrorzone/ and on twitter at twitter.com/Bryce_Skidmore and twitter.com/AlfredPacker.

Greetings from the Mirror Zone! Join Leskin and I as we accompany a small group of survivors who crash land on an unknown planet. Instead of Gilligan’s Island hijinks we’ll have to settle for witch hunts, treachery, resistance, and the acceptance of death as we follow the lone narrator through an ordeal which challenges the value inherent in our fellow humans. We will be asking questions about autonomy and the right to die provoked by Sci Fi master Joanna Russ’ most controversial novel “We Who Are About To.” Be sure to follow us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/greetingsfromthemirrorzone/ and on twitter at twitter.com/Bryce_Skidmore and twitter.com/AlfredPacker.

This week Leskin and I are on the run with John Anderton in Philip K. Dick’s “Minority Report.” We will be talking about both the book and the movie as we navigate questions of guilt and culpability. Can surveillance create a safer world and what happens when the cop responsible for bringing a murderer in finds out he is that murderer?

This week Leskin and I are on the run with John Anderton in Philip K. Dick’s “Minority Report.” We will be talking about both the book and the movie as we navigate questions of guilt and culpability. Can surveillance create a safer world and what happens when the cop responsible for bringing a murderer in finds out he is that murderer?

WARNING: This week’s episode contains violent content of a sexual nature.

This week Leskin and I are taking a look at femicide and misogyny in James Tiptree Jr. (a.k.a. Alice B. Sheldon, Raccoona Sheldon)’s science fiction masterpiece “The Screwfly Solution.” We will be taking on issues of violence, specifically against women, in a world slowly loosing it’s cohesion to misogyny and devolving into full on civil unrest and eventually mass extinction. We will be asking questions about gender, propriety, and exactly when (if ever) does it become too late?

WARNING: This week’s episode contains violent content of a sexual nature.

This week Leskin and I are taking a look at femicide and misogyny in James Tiptree Jr. (a.k.a. Alice B. Sheldon, Raccoona Sheldon)’s science fiction masterpiece “The Screwfly Solution.” We will be taking on issues of violence, specifically against women, in a world slowly loosing it’s cohesion to misogyny and devolving into full on civil unrest and eventually mass extinction. We will be asking questions about gender, propriety, and exactly when (if ever) does it become too late?

This week Leskin and I are taking on the seminal short story and Twilight Zone episode of the same name, “The Paladin of the Lost Hour.” We will be looking at issues such as race, poverty, post-traumatic stress, and the intrinsic value inherit in each and every one of us. Be sure and follow us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/greetingsfromthemirrorzone/ and on twitter at twitter.com/Bryce_Skidmore and twitter.com/AlfredPacker.