Podside Picnic

This time, we talk about Bruce Sterling's Mozart in Mirrorshades (collected in the much-hyped cyberpunk anthology, Mirrorshades) - a story about corporate extraction with extra steps (mainly, time travel)

Oh, Galactus wished he had it this good

This time around, we end up in the hinterlands of southeast Texas, where the local sasquatch is making the most of Stand Your Ground laws

Today, we talk about the proto-cyberpunk film, Brainstorm. Directed by a SFF cinema luminary, Douglas Trumbull, and with Christopher Walken and Natalie Wood in lead roles, this is a movie that asks what if Online was your feelings made fact?

It's time again to crack a few cold ones and shoot the shit about - among other things - a Japanese adaptation of The Shadow Over Innsmouth. Salud!

This time, we discuss Cronenberg's 1983 The Dead Zone, which asks the question: if you had the power to change the future in your clammy hands, would you?

Jeff Martin returns to rock out to the Chaindevils playlist, a real grimphony in the key of chainsaw!

Check out Jeff's comics:

https://hell.rentathugcomics.com/

And his games (Space Jerks, BURGERPunk, more):

https://rentathug.itch.io/

We talk about another De Palma, this time it's The Fury (1978). Two teenagers with psychic powers pitted against one another. . . it's a real enemies-to-enemies trope

Mattie joins us again to close out our read-alongs of Susanna Clarke's works with the charming and funny story of John Uskglass and the Cumbrian Charcoal Burner (collected in The Ladies of Grace Adieu)

We talk about Andrew Bujalski's 2013 film Computer Chess, where none of the people in the movie actually play chess. Check and mate, nerds

Today we talk family, bears, and discovering fire as we talk about Terry Bisson's Bears Discover Fire

Original story:

https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/bears-discover-fire/

Short film adaptation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu594ennuxI