In his continuing mission to get us to read more Walter John Williams, Pete got us together to talk about 1987's Dinosaurs. Is the story political? Does Ambassador Drill have an ideology? Will there be peace between humanity and the Shar? We have thoughts. . .

Welcome to the Year of the New Sun! Join us in our read-along of chapters I - V of Shadow of the Torturer. Listen to us talk about Severian's journey through the ancient city-state of Nessus, and continue the discussion by joining our Podside Picnic discord.

Music by Loot the Body (https://soundcloud.com/loot-the-body)

Mattie Lewis of The Podhand returns to talk about Ekaterina Sedia's 2008 novel, The Alchemy of Stone. Listen in as we talk about a completely different Mattie, and her struggles to be recognized as human

Check out The Podhand:

https://player.fm/series/the-podhand

Kurt and Chris return to talk about Equilibrium (2002), so get ready for gun katas, tetragrammaton clerics, and Christian Bale who emotes solely through his jaw. Is Equilibrium part of the Dumb Guy Canon? Listen in and find out.

Check out Parents Just Don't Understand:

https://soundcloud.com/parentspodcast

Read Blood Knife:

http://bloodknife.com/

The editors of Pseudopod visit Podside to warn us not to say their podcast's name three times in a mirror.

Stories Championed From the Slush:

Kavar the Rat

https://pseudopod.org/2011/09/30/pseudopod-249-kavar-the-rat/

Looker

https://pseudopod.org/2011/09/16/pseudopod-247-looker/

Hometown Horrible

https://pseudopod.org/2009/07/24/pseudopod-152-hometown-horrible/

Stories that made us want to join the PseudoPod

Exit Exam, Section III: Survival Skills, Question #7

https://pseudopod.org/2009/05/08/pseudopod-141-flash-on-the-borderlands-i/

The Jamcoi

https://pseudopod.org/2017/11/23/pseudopod-570-jamcoi/

Narrator Really Elevated the Prose

The Coven of Dead Girls

https://pseudopod.org/2019/06/07/pseudopod-651-coven-of-dead-girls/

A Visit to the Catacombs of Via Altamonvecchi

https://pseudopod.org/2018/08/17/pp-608-visit-to-the-catacombs/

Closet Dreams

https://pseudopod.org/2021/11/19/pseudopod-785-closet-dreams/

Stories That Gave Us Nightmares

The Screwfly Solution

https://pseudopod.org/2014/08/22/pseudopod-400-the-screwfly-solution/

The gang's back to watch Roger Corman's 1981 Galaxy of Terror. We go over Corman's influence on modern movie-making and later try to understand why things happen in this film because the "B" in this movie is "baffling"

Check out Parents Just Don't Understand:

https://soundcloud.com/parentspodcast

Read Blood Knife:

https://bloodknife.com/

The gang's had a presentiment of their future and stocked up on enough beer (but not enough Pringles, sadly!) to get through their read-along of Gene Wolfe Book of the New Sun.

The whole gang returns to talk about Time Bandits (1981). Join us as we follow the adventures of Kevin, Randall and the rest of the time bandits as they steal their way through the ages

Check out Parent Just Don't Understand:

https://soundcloud.com/parentspodcast

Read Blood Knife:

https://bloodknife.com/

Sean M. Thompson returns to talk about Kathe Koja's 1991 novel The Cipher. We discuss Koja's talent at capturing the malaise of being in your 20s and underemployed, urban blight and the perfect conditions for a funhole to sprout on its own.

Check out The Cipher:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008LDFLMU/ref=dp-kindle-redirect

Check out Sean's press:

https://www.facebook.com/Nictitating/

(Outro music is Funhole by Uglyhead)

Podside's second Book Club! Listen in to our Discord community's discussions of the final chapters of Walter John Williams's Metropolitan.