Welcome to the Year of the New Sun! Join us in our read-along of chapters VI - XV of The Sword of the Lictor. Listen as we talk about Severian's journey beyond the gates of Nessus, and if you'd like to continue the discussion consider joining our Podside Picnic discord.

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Our next Augustageddon episode is a tour of Mega City One, where we follow the adventures of its top cop

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.

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For our next Augustageddon episode, we change gears to talk about Maximum Overdrive (1986). Written and directed by none other than the big man himself, Stephen King! Strap in, folks - we're in for a bumpy ride.

For our first Augustageddon episode, we're visiting the Zelazny classic Damnation Alley. Gather 'round the fire. . . Hope you like your mutant gila monster rare!

Welcome to the Year of the New Sun! Join us in our read-along of chapters I - V of The Sword of the Lictor. Listen as we talk about Severian's journey beyond the gates of Nessus, and if you'd like to continue the discussion consider joining our Podside Picnic discord.

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Time to talk about the 1989 Jean Claude Van Damme flick, Cyborg. A cyborg holds the cure to a global plague, and the only thing standing between inventively named villains is the Muscles From Brussels and his devastating kick.

Our first face-to-face episode! We're all coming down from the highs of Knife Fest, so forgive us if we ramble (even if we were going to do that anyway).

We chat about Charles Stross' 2006 novella, Missile Gap and how Carl Sagan, Gregor Samsa, Seth Brundle and several others all ended up in the same story.

https://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/spring_2007/fiction_missile_gap_by_charles_stross

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