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Join Jeff Patterson, John Stevens and Fred Kiesche as they they discuss military fiction, self-publishing and reinventing yourself (multiple times) with Nebula Award nominated author Linda Nagata!

Linda Nagata!

Hosts Fred Kiesche, John E.O. Stevens, and Jeff Patterson with Linda Nagata.

Linda Nagata’s Website

Linda Nagata at ISFDB

The Last Good Man

Linda Nagata on The Last Good Man at John Scalzi’s Whatever

Linda Nagata on The Last Good Man at Chuck Wendig’s Terrible Minds

Excerpt from The Last Good Man

The Red Trilogy:

The Red: First Light

The Red: Trials

The Red: Going Dark

The Nanotech Succession:

Book 0: Tech-Heaven

Book 1: The Bohr Maker

Book 2: Deception Well

Book 3: Vast

Other Works by Linda Nagata:

Memory

Light and Shadow: Eight Short Stories

Limit of Vision

Skye Object 3270a

Goddesses & Other Stories

Culture Consumed!

Linda Nagata:

Summit by Harry Farthing

Jeff Patterson:

Worlds Apart: An Anthology of Russian Fantasy and Science Fiction ed. by Alexander Levitsky

John Stevens:

Borne by Jeff VanderMeer

Jerusalem by Alan Moore

Fred Kiesche:

2017: The Year in Books (22)

2017: The Year in Shorts (90)

2017: The Year in Graphics (100)

Join Jeff Patterson, John Stevens and Fred Kiesche as they once again venture into the void and tangle with technology!

In tonight’s podcast, between three hosts and three guests: microphone, Skype & recorder issues. Two internet outages. Two power outages. Several crossed wires. But…We are joined by Donna Royston, David Keener and Martin Wilsey to talk about their new Tannhauser Press anthology Worlds Enough: Fantastic Defenders.

Waitaminutenow. (flips through table of contents) Patterson? Patterson? They let Jeff Patterson write a story in this thing? Wot?

Books, We Have Books

Hosts Fred Kiesche, John E.O. Stevens, and Jeff Patterson with David Keener, Martin Wilsey, and Donna Royston.

Books by David Keener.

Books by Donna Royston.

Books by David A. Tatum.

Books by Martin Wilsey.

Sigh…O.K., O.K… Books by Jeff Patterson.

Worlds Enough: Fantastic Defenders

Culture Consumed!

Cosmic Powers (edited by John Joseph Adams)

Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2

Jeff Patterson:

Since We Fell (Dennis Lehane)

October: The Story of the Russian Revolution (China Mieville)

World Reader (Jeff Loveness and Juan Doe)

God Country (Donny Cates and Geoff Shaw)

What is a Mandelbox?

John Stevens:

Iain M. Banks (Paul Kincaid)

Amulet (Kazu Kibuishi)

Wonderbook (Jeff VanderMeer)

Time for the Stars (Robert A. Heinlein)

The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl (Ryan North, Steve Ditko, Will Murray, Erica Henderson)

Hero Girls: Finals Crisis (Shea Fontana and Yancey Labat)

Mountain Home: The Wilderness Poetry of Ancient China (David Hinton, translator)

Fred Kiesche:

Twin Peaks, Season 1 and Season 2

High Justice (Jerry Pournelle)

Vic and Blood (Harlan Ellison)

American Gods (Neil Gaiman)

Dune (Frank Herbert)

2017: The Year in Shorts (89)

2017: The Year in Books (18)

2017: The Year in Graphics (100)

Jeff Patterson, John E. O. Stevens and Fred Kiesche welcome back Jesse Willis of the SFF Audio Podcast to discuss Alan Moore’s epic graphic examination of H.P. Lovecraft.

We talk about The Courtyard, Neonomicon and Providence, by Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows.

Here There Be Spoilers!

Everything's Coming Up Octopoid

Hosts Fred Kiesche, John E.O. Stevens, and Jeff Patterson with Jesse Willis.

The Courtyard

Neonomicon

Providence (Act 1)

Providence (Act 2)

The Courtyard Companion

Facts in the Case of Alan Moore’s Providence

Culture Consumed!

Jesse Willis:

Providence

The Mummy’s Hand (1940)

We Can Build You by Philip K. Dick

Jeff Patterson:

Kung Fu

Fred Kiesche:

Cosmic Errors: The Peculiar Legacy of H.P. Lovecraft by Chris Morgan (Lapham’s Quarterly)

“The Secret Courtyard on Perry Street” from Scouting New York

Unspeakable Vault

Pickman’s Guest

The Ordeal of Randolph Carter

From Beyond the Beyond

The Double Shadow Podcast

The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast

Doctor Who)

The Call of Cthulhu (silent)

The Whisperer in Darkness (talkie)

The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath

The Ghoul) (the mysterious film I could not remember!)

Year in Books: 13

Year in Shorts: 52

Year in Graphics: 100

Jeff Patterson, John E. O. Stevens and Fred Kiesche welcome back Kate Sherrod and Jonah Sutton-Morse to discuss Jose Luis Borges!

Perhaps optimistically, we “assigned” four stories: Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius; The Circular Ruins; The Library of Babel; The Garden of Forking Paths—and ended up only really scratching the surface of one! It is clear that we will be back to this subject many more times (before we even start to branch off into “authors that we also like”!).

Sit down, pour yourself a good port and settle in. And please let us know what stories (or essays, or poetry) you would like to see us cover next!

Jorge Luis Borges on Wikipedia.

Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius

The Circular Ruins

The Library of Babel

The Garden of Forking Paths

SF Encyclopedia on Jorge Luis Borges

SF Encyclopedia on libraries.

Paris Review, Jorge Luis Borges: The Art of Fiction

Ficciones (many editions)

Collected Fictions (Penguin)

Labyrinths (many editions)

Borgescast Subcast 01!

Hosts Fred Kiesche, John E.O. Stevens, and Jeff Patterson with Jonah Sutton-Morse and Kate Sherrod.

Additional notes on the main topic plus Culture Consumed!

From Kate Sherrod:

Pulp Sonnets (paper and eBook)

Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum

James Joyce, Ulysses

Philip K. Dick: The Valis Trilogy

William Ashbless, The William Ashbless Memorial Cookbook

William Ashbless, Offering the Bicentennial Edition of The Complete Twelve Hours of the Night

Gene Wolfe, The Book of the New Sun—Shadow & Claw; Sword & Citadel

The Koran

Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel

James S.A. Corey, Nemesis Games

Henry James, The Princess Casamassima

Darren Wershler-Henry, Iron Whim—A Fragmented History of Typewriting

From Jonah Sutton-Morse:

Cabbages & Kings

Jorge Luis Borges and Medieval Germanic Literatures (M.J. Toswell)

Robert K. Merton, On the Shoulders of Giants—A Shandean Postcript

Nicola Griffith, Hild

Colson Whitehead, Underground Railroad

Yoon Ha Lee, Ninefox Gambit

Helen S. Wright, A Matter of Oaths

Sarah Tolmie, The Stone Boatmen

Richard Adams, Watership Down

Sun Yung Shin, Unbearable Splendor

FIYAH: Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction

Rose Fox and Daniel José Older (editors), Long Hidden—Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History

Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad (editor), Islamicates Volume I—Anthology of Science Fiction Short Stories Inspired from Muslim Cultures (review here)

Gerry Canavan, Octavia E. Butler (Modern Masters of Science Fiction)

From Jeff Patterson:

Bernie Wrightson

Grant Morrison, Aditya Bidikar, N.S. Sathish, and Jeevan J. Kang, Avatarex

Paul Cornell and Jimmy Braxton, Vampirella

Amy Chu and Carlos Gomez, Red Sonya

Brian Catling, The Erstwhile

Monica Valentinelli and Jaym Gates (editors), Upside Down: Inverted Tropes in Storytelling

Jaym Gates (editor), Genius Loci

Alec Ash, The Economist—1843: Folding Meanings

From John E. O. Stevens:

The Borges Center (University of Pittsburgh)

Jorge Luis Borges, The Aleph and Other Stories

Bibliography of Adolfo Bioy Casares

Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omealas—A Story

From Fred Kiesche:

Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum

Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

Umberto Eco, Postcript to The Name of the Rose

Adele J. Haft, Jane G. White, and Robert J. White, The Key to the Name of the Rose

Tim Powers, The Anubis Gates

Christopher Miller, The Cardboard Universe—A Guide to the World of Phoebus K. Dank

Stanislaw Lem

Neil Gaiman and Co., The Sandman Volume 1, The Sandman Volume 2.

Homer, The Odyssey (translated by Robert Fagles)

Douglas R. Hofstadter

The Man Who Would Teach Machines to Think

Douglas R. Hofstadter, Godel, Escher Bach—An Eternal Golden Braid

Godel Escher Bach—A Mental Space Odyssey

J.S. Bach: Complete Edition

J.S. Bach, Crab Canon

J.S. Bach, Endlessly Rising Modulation Canon

J.S. Bach, Neverending Canon

M.C. Escher

Kurt Godel

Ben Aaronovitch, Midnight Riot

Eric Flint, 1632

Charles Stross, The Jennifer Morgue

Paul Cornell, London Falling

Paul Cornell, Chalk

Bernal Alpha: Afterwords and Acknowledgments

2017: The Year in Books (10)

2017: The Year in Shorts (21)

2017: The Year in Graphics (44)

Scurrying from rotating work schedules and expanding projects, John E.O. Stevens, Jeff Patterson and Fred Kiesche convene in the tubes that make up the internet as well as the tubes that make up Ceres Station to discuss the second season of The Expanse, Lois McMaster Bujold, hermetic poetry and more!

The Expanse: Season 01

Amazon Prime

DVD

The Expanse: Season 02

Amazon Prime

Official Site on SyFy (includes full episodes)

Wait, what?

Science!

(In which we consume a lot of culture...proto and otherwise...)

Hosts Fred Kiesche, John E.O. Stevens, and Jeff Patterson.

001: Leviathan Wakes

002: Caliban’s War

003: Abaddon’s Gate

004: Cibola Burn

005: Nemesis Games

https://www.amazon.com/Nemesis-Games-Expanse-James-Corey/dp/0316217581/ref=tmmhrdswatch0?encoding=UTF8&qid=1488747760&sr=1-6

006: Babylon’s Ashes

The Churn

Gods of Risk

The Butcher of Anderson Station

The Vital Abyss

Drive (appears in Edge of Infinity, edited by Jonathan Strahan)

The Expanse Origins Comic (four issues)

Jeff Patterson:

Yuval Noah Harari: Homo Deus—A Brief History of the Future

Ellan Datlow (editor): Black Feathers—Dark Avian Tales: An Anthology

Michael Cisco: The Wretch of the Sun

Donny Yates & Geoff Shaw: God Country

*John E.O. Stevens: *

Gail Simone (writer) and Jon Davis-Hunt and Quinton Winter (artists): Clean Room, Vols. 1 and 2

Jud Newborn and Annette Dumbach: Sophie Scholl and the White Rose

Li He (Li Chang-Ji) (author) and J.D. Frodsham (translator): Goddesses, Ghosts, and Demons: The Collected Poems of Li He

Han-Shan (author) and Burton Watson (translator): Cold Mountain: 100 Poems by the T’ang poet Han-Shan](https://www.amazon.com/Cold-Mountain-Poems-Tang-Han-Shan/dp/0231034504/ref=sr15?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1488418201&sr=1-5&keywords=cold+mountain+poems)

Fred Kiesche:

Fritz Leiber: Swords and Deviltry (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser 01)

Allen Steele: Sex & Violence in Zero-G (The Complete “Near Space” Stories, Expanded Edition)

The Butcher of Anderson Station (see above)

*Alexis Gilliand: *

The Revolution from Rosinante

Long Shot for Rosinante

The Pirates of Rosinante

Randy Brown: Welcome to FOB Haiku

Dale E. Wilson: Treat ‘Em Rough!

Edward James: Lois McMaster Bujold (Modern Masters of Science Fiction)

Lois McMater Bujold:

Shards of Honor

Barryar

GMT’s Coin Series

Horror on the Orient Express

RuneQuest Kickstarter

2017: The Year in Books (6)

2017: The Year in Shorts (13)

2017: The Year in Graphics (44)

Coming Soon—Unless we’ve proven that just planning it has eternally cursed it again!

The old year departs, the new year arrives. John E.O. Stevens, Jeff Patterson and Fred Kiesche gather around the warm glows of their ham radio rigs and warm their hands over the vacuum tubes to discuss the best of 2016, what they are looking forward to in 2017 and culture consumed.

Also…why do so many Russian sites feature the works of Samuel R. Delany?

Newsflash: Past Fourth Hoarse Patrick Hester has a book! For reals!

A lot of this episode was inspired by John DeNardo’s two-part look at what is coming in 2017, we recommend a read (while hiding your wallet): Part 01. Part 02.

So Many Books, So Little Time

Hosts Fred Kiesche, John E.O. Stevens, and Jeff Patterson with Fred Kiesche, Jeff Patterson, and John E.O. Stevens.

Picks and Culture Consumed: John E.O. Stevens!

Larry Smith on File 770

Universal Harvester (John Darnielle)

Borne (Jeff VanderMeer) (also here)

New York: 2140 (Kim Stanley Robinson)

Agents of Dreamland (Caitlin R. Kiernan)

The Found and The Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin (Ursula K. Le Guin)

Train to Busan (Yeon Sang-Ho, Director)

Zot!: The Complete Black and White Collection: 1987-1991 (Scott McCloud)

The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain (Han Shan, Author; Red Pine, Translator)

Picks and Culture Consumed: Jeff Patterson!

Ninefox Gambit (Yoon Ha Lee)

Revenger (Alastair Reynolds)

Lucifer (Holly Black and Lee Garbett)

Clean Room (Gail Simone and John Davis-Hunt)

Monstress (Marjorie Li and Sana Takeda)

Seven to Eternity (Rick Remender, Jerome Opena and Matt Hollingsworth)

Heavy Metal

Picks and Culture Consumed: Fred Kiesche!

The Expanse

Stranger Things

Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff

The Incomparable

The Coode Street Podcast

Galactic Suburbia

The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast

Hypnagogue Podcast

The Grognard

The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe (Kij Johnson)

Deathbird Stories (Harlan Ellison)

The Chaunur Saga (The Pride of Chanur, Chanur’s Venture, The Kif Strike Back, Chaunur’s Homecoming), Merchanter’s Luck, Downbelow Station (C.J. Cherryh)

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (John Le Carre)

The Rediscovery of Man, Norstrilia (Cordwainer Smith)

Roger Zelazny: Doorways in the Sand, The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny, Volume 01—Threshold (Roger Zelazny)

Darth Vader (Kieron Gillen, Salvador Larroca)

Chewbacca (Gerry Duggan & Phil Noto)

Han Solo (Marjorie Liu and Mark Brooks)

Poe Dameron (Charle Soule & Alex Maleev)

Princess Leia (Mark Waid & Terry Dodson)

Kanan: The Last Padawan (Greg Weisman & Andrea Broccardo)

Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Chuck Wendig & Luke Ross)

Star Wars (2015) (Jason Aaron and Jorge Molina)

Transmetropolitan Volume 1, Transmetropolitan Volume 2 (Warren Ellis)

Watson & Holmes: A Study in Black (Karl Bollers, Rick Leonardi, Paul J. Mendoza, Taylor Esposito)

Injection, Volume 1 (Warren Ellis & Jordie Bellaire and Declan Shalvey)

The Black Monday Murders, Volume 1 (Jonathan Hickman and Tomm Coker)

The Fuse, Volume 1 (Antony Johnston, Shari Chankhamma, Justin Greenwood)

The Sheriff of Babylon (Tom King & Mitch Gerads)

The Courtyard, Neonomicon, Providence (Alan Moore, Jacen Burrows, etc.)

2016: The Year in Books (060)

2017: The Year in Books (003)

2016: The Year in Shorts (411)

2017: The Year in Shorts (003)

2016: The Year in Graphics (333)

Coming soon?

In this episode, The Three Hoarsemen continue their fine tradition of helping you to empty your wallet! To do so we have the help of returning guest Patrick Hester, along with his Functional Nerds associate John Anealio to pick what you would like to see under the tree (whether it be for you or for somebody you know).

Afterwards, Jeff Patterson and Fred Kiesche are joined by John E. O. Stevens to hear John’s picks and then to wrap up the year with some culture consumed.

Are you ready for the picks?

Hosts Fred Kiesche, John E.O. Stevens, and Jeff Patterson with Patrick Hester and John Anealio.

Picks!

Patrick Hester:

Socksmith Men & Women’s Novelty Crew Socks “Bagel Schmear” for men and women.

Babylon’s Ashes by James S.A. Corey (pBook) (eBook) (aBook)

The Vorkosigan Series by Lois McMaster Bujold (and as audio)

John Anealio:

Zero World by Jason M. Hough

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (and the series)

YouTubeRed

Jeff Patterson:

Stowaway to the Stars: A Graphic Album to Color by John Byrne

Valerian by Jean-Claude Mezieres and Pierre Christin

The Big Book of Science Fiction, edited by Jeff and Anne VanderMeer

New Worlds Old Ways, edited by Karen Lord

Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation, edited by Ken Liu

Homefront Horrors: Frights Away From the Front Lines, 1914-1918, edited by Jess Nevins

John E. O. Stevens:

The Exterminating Angel (1962, Luis Bunuel, Director)

Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams (Akira Kurosawa, Director)

The Found and The Lost by Ursula K. Le Guin

Patience by Daniel Clowes

Fred Kiesche:

The Star Trek Encyclopedia—Revised and Expanded Edition—A Reference Guide to the Future by Michael and Denise Okuda

The Call of Cthulhu, Seventh Edition by Sandy Petersen and Divers Hands

Collected Essays on Evolution, Nature, the Cosmos (Volume 1: The Immense Journey, The Firmament of Time, The Unexpected Universe, Uncollected Writings) (Volume 2: The Invisible Pyramid, The Night Country, Essays from the Star Thrower) by Loren Eisley

Weightless Books

Subterranean Press

Trilogia de Guillermo Del Toro (Chronos/The Devil’s Backbone/Pan’s Labyrinth)

https://www.amazon.com/Moebius-Library-World-Edena/dp/1506702163/ref=laB004MPEISY11twihar2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1481389183&sr=1-1

Culture Consumed:

2016: The Year in Books (41)

2016: The Year in Shorts (323)

2016: The Year in Graphics (333)

John E. O. Stevens:

Spectral (Nic Mathieu, Director)

3% (Pierre Aguilera, Creator)

Anna Mercury Volume 1 by Warren Ellis, Facundo Percio

Bugs After the Bomb:Insect: Representations in Postatomic American Fiction and Film (Catherine S. Cassel)

The Post-Apocalyptic Film Genre in American Culture, 1968-2013 (Emma Anne Harris)

Jeff Patterson:

Monstress by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda

Champions by Mark Waid and Humberto Ramos

The Ultimates by Al Ewing and Kenneth Rocafort

Doctor Aphra by Kieron Gillen and Salvador Larroca and Ken Walker

The Unworthy Thor by Jason Aaron and Olivier Coipel

Jerusalem by Alan Moore

Normal by Warren Ellis

Fred Kiesche:

The Dying Earth by Jack Vance (eBook) (aBook)

The Eyes of the Overworld by Jack Vance (eBook) (aBook)

The Moebius Library Volume 01: The World of Edena by Jean Giraud (Moebius)

(We’ll be back in 2017! What will we talk about then?)

System crashes, Skype issues, tablets bursting into metaphorical flame, microphones that won’t cooperate and more fail to keep The Three Hoarsemen, Fred Kiesche, Jeff Patterson and John E.O. Stevens from being joined by returning guest Jonathan Strahan, editor of many anthologies, reviewer and editor of Locus, editor at Tor, and podcaster (along with Gary K. Wolfe) of The Coode Street Podcast. And better yet, Jonathan joins us from the future (future…future…future…fuuuuutuuuurrrreeee…)

Hosts Fred Kiesche, John E.O. Stevens, and Jeff Patterson with Jonathan Strahan.

Works edited by Jonathan Strahan:

Drowned Worlds

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 10

Beyond the Aquila Rift: The Best of Alastair Reynolds

The Best of Joe Haldeman

Mirror Kingdoms: The Best of Peter S. Beagle

The Infinity Project:

Bridging Infinity

Meeting Infinity

Reach for Infinity

Edge of Infinity

Engineering Infinity

The Starry Rift

Life on Mars: Tales from the New Frontier

The New Space Opera 01

The New Space Opera 02

Culture Consumed!

2016: The Year in Books (38)

2016: The Year in Shorts (290)

2016: The Year in Graphics (388)

Jonathan Strahan:

Revenger by Alastair Reynolds

The Evil Wizard’s Smallbone by Delia Sherman

Luke Cage)

Class

The Starlit Wood, edited by Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe

Timeless

John Stevens:

Black Mirror Season 3

Fossil Capital by Andreas Malm

Zot!: The Complete Black and White Collection—1987-1991 by Scott McCloud

Zot! Online

Jeff Patterson:

Dimensions of the Future by Maxwell H. Norman

Black Mirror Season 3

Fred’s Kiesche:

Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency) and official site.

As a graphic novel: here and here.

Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams

The Salmon of Doubt—Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time by Douglas Adams

Battling issues with Skype, microphones, tablets and more, The Three Hoarsemen, Fred Kiesche, Jeff Patterson and John E.O. Stevens are joined by returning guest David Annandale (“…that’s Professor Annandale to you…”) who has taken a break from his regular appearances on The Skiffy & Fanty Show and Totally Pretentious to discuss horror in this vaguely Halloween-themed episode. Do they celebrate Halloween in the mythic forested lands of Canada? They sure do discuss horror.

Hold on to your wallets, by the way. This is another potentially expensive episode!

(AND WAIT! THERE’S MORE! Once the podcast was over we kept talking and some of it was pretty gosh darned good. So, good thing the recording was still running, eh?)

Hosts Fred Kiesche, John E.O. Stevens, and Jeff Patterson with David Annandale.

Main Show Notes

From David Annandale:

Yarrick: Pyres of Armageddon

The Unburdened (Horus Heresy)

The Hunt for Vulkan (The Beast Arises)

Watchers in Death (The Beast Arises)

Warden of the Blade (Grey Knights)

Grey Knights: Sons of Titan

Roboute Guilliman: Lord of Ultramar (The Horus Heresy: Primarchs)

Legends of the Age of Sigmar (various authors)

Kaiju Rising: Age of Monsters (various authors)

Crown Fire (A Jen Blaylock Thriller)

Gethsemane Hall

VideoScope

The Haunting (1999 version)

From John E.O. Stevens:

Casting the Runes and Other Stories by M. R. James

A Podcast to the Curious: Dedicated to the Weird Fiction of M.R. James

Hellboy, Vol. 12: The Storm and the Fury by Mike Mignola (writer), Duncan Fedrego (illustrator)

Hellboy: The Midnight Circus by Mike Mignola (writer), Duncan Fedrego (illustrator)

Hellboy in Hell: The Descent by Mike Mignola (writer, Dave Stewart (illustrator)

Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming by Andreas Malm

From Jeff Patterson:

The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu edited by Paula Guran

Angels of Music by Kim Newman

A Natural History of Hell by Jeffrey Ford

A Cupful of Space by Mildred Clingerman

Red Dwarf Season 11

Seven to Eternity

Reborn

Green Valley

From Fred Kiesche:

The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kij Johnson

A Night in Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny with illustrations by Gahan Wilson

Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities—My Notebooks, Collections, and Other Obsessions by Guillermo del Toro and Marc Zicree

Guillermo del Toro—At Home with Monsters—Inside His Films, Notebooks, and Collections by Guillermo del Toro and Guy Davis

The Virginia Edition (Rocket Ship Galileo, Space Cadet, Red Planet) by Robert A. Heinlein

X-Files, Season Five

Firefly

Additional Show Notes:

2016: The Year in Books (37)

2016: The Year in Shorts (290)

2016: The Year in Graphics (353)

2016: The Year in Active Listens

With a (hurricane) (tropical storm) (tropical depression) threatening, The Three Hoarsemen batten down the hatches, throw bars across window shutters, and get pails ready for bailing. Fred Kiesche, Jeff Patterson and John E.O. Stevens are joined by returning guest Karen Burnham to discuss the life and works of Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger (a.k.a., Felix C. Forrest; a.k.a. Carmichael Smith), best known as Cordwainer Smith.

Hosts Fred Kiesche, John E.O. Stevens, and Jeff Patterson with Karen Burnham.

Show Notes

Books by Cordwainer Smith:

Psychological Warfare

The Rediscovery of Man (NESFA Edition) (SF Masterworks Edition)

Norstrilia (NESFA Edition) (SF Masterworks Edition) (Ballantine/Del Rey Edition)

The Best of Cordwainer Smith (Ballantine/Del Rey Books Edition)

The Instrumentality of Mankind (Del Rey Books Edition)

The Quest of the Three Worlds (Del Rey Books Edition)

When the People Fell (Baen Books Edition)

We the Underpeople (Baen Books Edition)

About Cordwainer Smith:

Cordwainer Smith’s dedication in Space Lords

SF Crossing the Gulf Episode 16c: Discussing Cordwainer Sith with Gary K. Wolfe, hosted by Karen Burnham and Karen Lord

Remembering Cordwainer Smith: Full-Time Sci-Fi Author, Part-Time Earthling (The Atlantic)

Wikipedia on The Instrumentality of Mankind

Wikipedia on Norstrilia

Wikipedia on “Kirk Allen”

The Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith, by Karen Hellekson

Concordance of Cordwainer Smith, by Anthony R. Lewis

Exploring Cordwainer Smith, edited by Andrew Porter

Culture Consumed:

Karen Burnham:

The Landmark Thucydides, translated by Richard Crawley and edited by Robert B. Strassler

Journey to the West, by Wu Cheng’en

Alphabet of Embers, by Rose Lemberg, Nin Harris and Nisi Shawl, et al.

Review of Alphabet of Embers, by Karen Egan (Strange Horizons)

The Merril Theory of Lit’ry Criticism: Judith Merril’s Nonfiction, by Judith Merril (author) and Ritch Calvin (editor)

TANIS (a podcast)

Greg Egan (Modern Masters of Science Fiction), by Karen Burnham

Fred Kiesche:

The Issue at Hand, by James Blish (as William Atheling, Jr.)

More Issues at Hand, by James Blish (as William Atheling, Jr.)

Benchmarks: Galaxy Bookshelf, by Algis Budrys

Benchmarks Continued: F&SF “Books” Columns 1975-1982, by Algis Budrys

Benchmarks Revisited: F&SF “Books” Columns 1983-1986, by Algis Budrys

Benchmarks Concluded: F&SF “Books” Columns 1987-1993, by Algis Budrys

In Search of Wonder, by Damon Knight

2016: The Year in Books: 29

2016: The Year in Shorts: 214

2016: The Year in Graphics: 353

2016: The Year in Audio Listens: Too many!

Jeff Patterson:

Mammoth Book of Cthulhu, edited by Paula Guran

Best New Horror Volume 36, edited by Stephen Jones

Sing Me Your Scars, by Damien Angelica Walters

John Stevens:

The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse, by Stonehouse, author; Red Pine, translator

The Silver Surfer, by Dan Slott, writer; Mike and Laura Allred, artists

Nowhere to Go But Forward: The Fiction of Octavia E. Butler, by Emily Anderson

Ghost Light, by Eric Basso

The Future-As-Past in Dystopian Fiction, by Adam Stock (academic paper) (PDF) (published in Poetics Today 37(3): 415-442, 2016.

Alan C. Elms’ Introduction to Norstrilia