Welcome to the Year of the New Sun! Join us in our read-along of chapters XVI - XX of The Claw of the Conciliator. Listen in as we talk about Severian's journey beyond the gates of Nessus, and continue the discussion by joining our Podside Picnic discord.

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We read and discuss the novelette Pump Six (2008) by Paolo Bacigalupi, a tragicomic story about the heroism of lowly public employees

We get together to knock a few back, talk about some stuff we've been enjoying and then Pete dropped the hammer by asking us about the worst crap books we'd read. Cheers!

We discuss Ray Bradbury's The Veldt (first published in 1950 in The Saturday Evening Post) for this episode. What's a great addition to the House of Tomorrow? Why, the Nursery of Tomorrow, complete with a very realistic holodeck function! Nothing ominous about that. . .

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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Welcome to the Year of the New Sun! Join us in our read-along of chapters XI - XV of The Claw of the Conciliator. Listen in as we talk about Severian's journey beyond the gates of Nessus, and continue the discussion by joining our Podside Picnic discord.

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Our final Ani-May-tion Month entry is enigmatic and baroque Angel's Egg (1985). Kurt crashes the episode halfway through to preach the gospel of "vibes only, egg empty"

For our last Ani-May-tion Month premium episode, we check out the suis generis hybrid real-life and cel animation Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

P-p-p-please give it a listen!

Our next Ani-May-tion Month entry's Empress of Darkness (2020). What's a guy to do when his Empress is slain and the world's cursed with unending darkness? Break out of his imprisonment and try to win his enemies over with the power of HUGS

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