Podside Picnic

Tiffany Meuret returns to discuss one of the most awards-nominated stories of 2012, The Cartographer Wasps and Anarchist Bees by E. Lily Yu. We chat about how this rather short story manages to have a lot to say about colonization and imperialism, and whether wasps who sing sea shanties are sci-fi or not.

Read the story:

https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/yu_04_11/

Check out Tiffany's work:

https://tiffanymeuret.com/

Kurt and Chris of Parents Just Don't Understand podcast return to talk about the 1985 fantasy film, Ladyhawke. We chat a bit about the romance elements in the film, how Phillipe the Mouse's struggles with his faith make the film, and agree that the Bishop is a bad, bad man.

Check out PJDU podcast:

https://soundcloud.com/parentspodcast

Read Blood Knife:

https://bloodknife.com/

Karlo and The Podhand's Mattie Lewis discuss two of Angela Carter's retellings of Beauty and the Beast, "The Courtship of Mr. Lyon" and the much darker and sexier, "The Tiger's Bride"

Check Out Mattie's writing:

https://www.fairytalemagazine.com/2019/04/wolfskin-by-matilda-lewis.html#.YSRKXIhKjZQ

Check Out The Podhand:

https://thepodhand.podbean.com/e/01-the-prototype/

Abby and Emma return to talk about Satoshi Kon's 1997 thriller Perfect Blue. Come for the anime, stay for the parasocial relationship gone horribly wrong!

Check out Emma's Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/hyenasandgin

Karlo chats with Lincoln Michel about his upcoming novel, The Body Scout. We talk a bit about cyberpunk and punk-punk as an influence on this future noir as well as the challenges of writing a science fiction novel.

Pre-order The Body Scout (if not at your local indie bookstore):

https://bookshop.org/books/the-body-scout/9780316628723

Pete and Karlo revisit Book 2 in the Imperial Radch series, Ancillary Sword. Why the second book and not the first? Hint: it rhymes with "shrimperialism"

Pete chats with Ben H. Winters about his newest novel, The Quiet Boy in a wide-ranging discussion.

JT Greathouse returns to chat with Karlo about the quest of ye olde King Arthur's fail-nephew, Garwin. Spoiler alert: plot is overrated; only vibes are allowed

Check out Jeremy's book:

https://www.amazon.com/Hand-Sun-King-Book-Pattern-ebook/dp/B08KSX6T1P

Jeremy's website:

https://jtgreathouse.wordpress.com/

What's best in life? Can we squeeze "listening to Pete, Karlo and Emma Bowers talk Conan" between "Crush your enemies" and "hear the lamentations of their women?"

Watch Emma's great video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFn7yKbylNY

Karlo and Pete try to talk about Le Guin's book about dreaming reality into being, but learn the hard way that the Dao that can be told isn't the true Dao, and instead end up talking about ten thousand (other) things.