Podside Picnic

There's a spectre haunting the club - a phantom, even. That's where we come in: to discuss Brian De Palma's Phantom of the Paradise (1974). Rock and roll, baybee!

Read Chris's Blood Knife essay on Phantom of the Paradise:

https://bloodknife.com/phantom-of-the-paradise/

Pete returns to talk about Matthew Hughes and his novella, The Helper and His Hero (collected in The Compleat Guth Bandar- see link below). Hughes draws on the fun of Vance's Dying Earth, but without the deep misanthropy.

Check out Matthew Hughes on Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4687520

Read The Compleat Guth Bandar:

https://www.amazon.com/Compleat-Guth-Bandar-Matthew-Hughes/dp/1927880262

Beyond 1984, beyond 2001, beyond love, beyond death: Zardoz. What else can we say about a movie bold enough to say, "the gun is good, the penis is evil"?

A rare St. Clair! We talk about one of Margaret St. Clair's short story, The Gardener, where any bureaucrat given sufficient rank will go mad with power and must be dealt with

Read The Gardner (page 56):

https://archive.org/details/ThrillingWonderStoriesV35N01194910/page/n55/mode/2up

Welcome to our episode. Only good vibes allowed. . . Don't harsh em, bro!

Returning champ and author of The Marigold returns, and brings horror author Nick Cutter with him to show us how to replace the seals on the hatches, and make other repairs to this old pod.

Oh, they also talk about their forthcoming book, The Handyman Method.

Pre-Order The Handyman Method:

https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-handyman-method/18899608?ean=9781982196714

It's that time again - time to unlock the next step in our journey through the Year of the New Sun.

Just as you can't read a Gene Wolfe story, only re-read it, so we hope it goes with podcasts.

Music by Loot the Body

The Culture War rages on as we discuss Iain M. Banks' Excession. And just like that, the Culture Peace has been declared (but may flare back up at any moment), so it pays to stay alert. Until the next Culture War breaks out, stay safe. . .

Aaron Thorpe of Everybody Loves Communism and the Trillbilly Worker's Party podcasts returns to talk about Krypton's Last Son and 1978's Superman: The Movie. You'll believe a man will podcast

Pete returns to talk a bit about the 2012 mumblecore zombie apocalypse movie, The Battery before (much like the movie) veering off to talk less about zombies and movies, and a bit more about StokerCon