Postcards from a Dying World: Recent Episodes
David Agranoff
Postcards from a Dying has been my blog for the last decade with more than 1,000 book reviews to promotional bonuses for my fiction. This podcast feed collections all the audio bonus materials for the blog, interviews and will include a monthly digest of my book reviews.
After every season of Star Trek, I gather a panel of nerds together and we talk about the highs and lows of the season that just ended. This time we talk about the fifth season of Star Trek Discovery. Returning for our 10th episode breaking down a completed season of Trek.
Joining me as always are my bridge crew vocal Star Trek fan Sara Lynn Michener, and Musician/ filmmaker Issa Diao.
In this episode, we will break down the ins and out of the final Star Trek Discovery Season. Sara with a bird on her dead, Issa doesn’t know who the Breen are, the future of Star Trek, the improvement of the writing in Discovery.
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Returning for his fourth appearance on the podcast Bird Box author Josh Malerman is back! This time we talk about Josh’s five-novella collection Spin a Black Yarn. To me, there is no more consistent voice in horror. An outside observer who doesn’t actually read his work and judges by the mainstream -meme culture of Bird Box might not have any idea just how creative, and experimental he is. I was a huge fan of Malerman’s last novella collection Goblin, which we talked about in a previous episode.
Like that episode, this one is a nuts-and-bolts discussion about the narrative construction behind these stories. We also have a little non-spoiler discussion about Josh’s forthcoming novel Incidents Around the House. This is a must-listen for Malermaniacs and anyone interested in writing weird or horror fiction. We mostly avoid spoilers but an hour in I give a full spoiler warning.
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In 1970 Avon Books published a landmark anthology “Science Fiction Hall of Fame” featuring 16 classic short stories that represent landmark tales of the genre. The stories were voted on by the members of the new (at the time in the late 60s) organization Science Fiction Writers of America. In this series, I will be joined by a panel of different guests to break down these stories and talk about the authors in the book.
In this episode, I am joined by three experts on the history of Science Fiction. Returning for her second appearance is the German Writer, teacher, translator, and Three-time Hugo finalist and 2022 Hugo winner for Best Fan Writer Cora Buhlert. For the first time on Postcards is (twice on DHP) Podcaster, academic editor and author Gary Wolfe. And for the first time the long overdue appearance of physicist and Science Fiction commentator Bill Higgins.
The story we are covering is the 1941 classic “Microcosmic God” This story about a mad scientist and a pocket universe is here in its original form if you have never read it.
https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v27n02_1941-04_dtsg0318/page/n45/mode/2up
In this episode, I welcome back The Mountain in the Sea author Ray Nayler for his second time on the show. He is my reigning Top Read of the Year author and he is back with another Banger. This novella packs more ideas and character-rich philosophical Sci-fi into 100 pages than most novels three times the length.
We talk a little bit about the continued reaction to The Mountain in the Sea, the writing of The Tusks of Extinction, what it means to be an earthling, and animal culture, and then in the last half after a spoiler warning we go deep into the process of writing The Tusks of Extinction.
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In this episode, we talk with the author of one of my favorite new novels of last year and one that will probably top my list next year.
Lavie Tidhar is the World Fantasy Award winning author of Osama (2011), Seiun nominated The Violent Century (2013), the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize winning A Man Lies Dreaming (2014), the Campbell Award, Neukom Prize and Chinese Nebula winning Central Station (2016), Prix Planete SF winner and Locus and Campbell award nominated Unholy Land (2018), British Fantasy Award nominated By Force Alone (2021), Philip K. Dick Award nominated The Escapement (2021), The Hood (2021), Maror (2022) and Locus Award nominated Neom (2022).
We talk about Lavie Tidhar’s Neom and The Circumference of the World two modern Science Fiction novels that have a golden age feel. In this interview,, we talk about Lavie’s novels, his process and nerd out on our favorite Science Fiction.
When Star Trek Voyager’s popular character Seven of Nine returned to the franchise in the first season of Picard it was a closely guarded secret in that first episode back Seven mentioned years spent being a frontier law enforcer with an outfit called the Fenris Rangers. My guest in this episode is prolific Star Trek author David Mack. When he heard the name Fenris Rangers, he paused the show, wrote his editor, and said put me in coach. It took a couple of years but Mack eventually got the green light to tell this story.
In the episode we talk about Mack’s origin story, how he started writing Star Trek and we go deep into the novel Picard Firewall. At the time of the interview, I had read 100 pages, but I have since finished and it is a banger. Does for modern Trek what Andor did for Star Wars, a gritty noir although the politics are more social than dealing with the system. No major spoilers so check this out!
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In 1970 Avon Books published a landmark anthology “Science Fiction Hall of Fame” featuring 16 classic short stories that represent landmark tales of the genre. The stories were voted on by the members of the new (at the time in the late 60s) organization Science Fiction Writers of America. In this series, I will be joined by a panel of different guests to break down these stories and talk about the authors in the book.
In this episode, I am joined by two experts on the history of Science Fiction. Returning for his second appearance is Juan Sanmiguel he is an engineer and an active Science Fiction fan. Ted Hand is a teacher and long-time Philip K. Dick researcher, although he was passionate about coming on to talk about this Heinlein classic.
The story we are covering is the 1940 classic “The Roads Must Roll by Robert A. Heinlein.” This classic of California and social science speculative fiction attempted to explore a different vision for transportation and society. Read it here:
https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v25n04_1940-06_SLiV/page/n7/mode/2up?view=theater
Radio play version:
https://youtu.be/VYko6Zov3rA?si=0sVw5n6gAaiMiPiM
Lucy A. Snyder is the six-time Bram Stoker award-winning author of Sister, Maiden, Monster. It is a science fiction novel. In the tradition of Weird Tales where the line between SF, Fantasy, and horror is thin I call on the admins to expand not narrow how they define Science Fiction. This novel uses dynamic and character work to blend emotional heartbreak, paranoid terror, and cosmic implications.
We start with 30 minutes of spoiler-free discussion, before getting under the hood of this pandemic weird apocalypse novel.
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In 1970 Avon Books published a landmark anthology “Science Fiction Hall of Fame” featuring 16 classic short stories that represent landmark tales of the genre. The stories were voted on by the members of the new (at the time in the late 60s) organization Science Fiction Writers of America. In this series, I will be joined by a panel of different guests to break down these stories and talk about the authors in the book.
In this episode, I am joined by two experts on the history of Science Fiction. Returning for his second appearance is Brian Collins the person behind the Science Fiction & Fantasy Remembrance blog. Dr. Robin Murphy is a professor of computer science and engineering at Texas A&M, and a pioneer in artificial intelligence for robots used during disasters. She is the author of Robotics Through Science Fiction: Artificial Intelligence Explained Through Six Classic Robot Short Stories. She also hosts a podcast of the same name.
The story we are covering is the 1938 classic “Helen O’Loy.” This story about a robotic housewife is short but we had lots to say. Have not read the story? Read it here:
https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v22n04_1938-12/page/n117/mode/2up
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One of the biggest inspirations for my career was the two volumes published by Avon Books in the early 90s from author and interviewer Stanley Wiater. The books Dark Dreamers Conversations with the masters of Horror, and Dark Visions: Conversations with the masters of the Horror Film were foundational for me. Featuring two dozen interviews in each book from Vincent Price and Clive Barker to Richard Matheson and Anne Rice. These interviews were some of the best ways we had to learn about the process of turning ideas into produced works of fiction and film.
We talk about Stanley’s origins and memories of recording the history of the horror genre. This is a really fun conversation about horror and science fiction history.
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Author Cody Goodfellow two episodes in a row! Cody Goodfellow is the author of more than a dozen books but he is here to talk his new thriller from Titan books Vertical. It is one of my top reads of the year. WE have some general talk and the start and then get into the new book. I assumed once the secret of Cody Goodfellow got out he was on track to become the biggest writer of our generation, a household name, bestselling novels, home on paperback racks that kind of thing. To me, he was that good. Over time I learned that happens to your Ray Bradburys and Isaac Asimovs. When the people doing really crazy original stuff like Barry Malzberg and Norman Spinrad you get respect from the hardcore but it took death for Octavia Butler and Philip K. Dick to be recognized as the towering giants they were. They didn’t play it safe; they wrote revolutionary genre fiction and sometimes it helps to be a mad scientist.
That is what Cody Goodfellow is at heart, a mad scientist, who unlike most literary freakazoids from those earlier generations Cody grew up with more than a massive library, but also punk rock, alternative culture, and an open attitude toward mind-altering genre and chemicals. The kind of alchemy that creates in Cody Goodfellow a human who writes novels that are so good, so weird the world is just not ready for them.
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San Diego’s 2024 New Year’s Reading Resolution Event Recorded live at Verbatim Books. (so the sound is not the best sorry)
Join members of the San Diego Horror Writers Association in an event to promote reading in 2024 and kick off the countdown to StokerCon, the international gathering of the Horror Writers Association, being held this summer right here in San Diego!
Featuring authors:
David Agranoff author of The Last Night to Kills Nazis, Jon Cohn author of Slashtag, Dennis K. Crosby author Death’s Despair Cody Goodfellow author of Vertical. Sorry Tiffany Brown Mok had to cancel we were bummed too.
The panel about their favorite reads and shares some tips for increasing your reading habits!
This year I read 111 books, novelettes, graphic novels, or SF magazines, with a total of 29,784 pages. It was a good year for new releases, and I intend to focus on retro reads next year. Joining for the third annual Favorite Reads podcast is Judge Marc Rothenberg. We finally got on board with reading some of the same books so this is a long one.
I don’t make money for all the time I spend reading and reviewing books so please consider giving me a tip or donation at this link:
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There is an episode that I reviewed most of the books I read: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-131-thumbnail-reviews-of-all-108-books-i/id1524359471?i=1000640009260
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Simple episode. I do short reviews of every book I read this year. Stayed for an episode talking about my favorite reads of 2023 with Marc Rothenberg. In January I will post a list of all the books. My blog has complete reviews of course. www.davidagranoff.blogspot.com
I spent many hours working on book reviews and podcasts this year and don’t make a dime so if you enjoy the content please consider making a donation here:
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Get out your notebooks! Or get ready to add some movies to your watch list on Letterboxd or IMDB! In this episode I invited two of my biggest movie nerd friends to talk about our year in movies. This is a two-hour discussion on our favorite movies of 2023. We each have very different tastesAnthonythree-hour so there will be lots of movie talk no spoilers. Joining me are filmmaker and Good Clean Fun vocalist Issa Diao and author Athony Trevino.
Who had a DCEU movie on their list? Who defended The Creator? Who had two three hour movies on their list?
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In 1970 Avon Books published a landmark anthology “Science Fiction Hall of Fame” featuring 16 classic short stories that represent landmark tales of the genre. The stories were voted on by the members of the new (at the time in the late 60s) organization Science Fiction Writers of America. In this series, I will be joined by a panel of different guests to break down these stories and talk about the authors in the book.
In this episode, I am joined by two experts on the history of Science Fiction. Alec Nevala-Lee author of Astounding was in part a biography of John W. Campbell and a history of the Golden Age of Science Fiction. Kate Heffner is a postgraduate researcher of science fiction and gender studies in the School of History at the University of Kent. She was awarded the Peter Nichols International Prize for best essay in science fiction for her research on feminist science fiction fan cultures.
The story we are covering is the 1934 classic “Twilight by John W. Campbell.” This story is considered a game-changer that changed Science Fiction forever. Don’t have the story to read before you listen? I got you. So use the link below to read the story before listening. Or listen to an audio version of the story on YouTube.
An Internet archive of the original magazine appearance: https://archive.org/details/astounding_v14n03_1934-11_1.1/page/n45/mode/2up?view=theater
Audio version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0_I4_ILREs
The next episode will be Helen O’Loy by Lester Del Rey featuring Robotics Through Science Fiction host Robin Murphy, Professor Lisa Yaszek, and Brian Collins of SF Remembrance.
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Philip Fracassi is a novelist and screenwriter most known for his hard-hitting traditional horror fiction but is branching out into Science Fiction and historical novels. He is the author of the award-winning story collections, Beneath a Pale Sky and Behold the Void. His novels include Don’t Let Them Get You Down (Zagava Press), A Child Alone with Strangers (Talos Press), Gothic (Cemetery Dance), and Tor/Nightfire re-issued his debut novel Boys in the Valley.
Boys in the Valley is Fracassi’s first international release, and it has been received with wide acclaim, including being in my top ten novels of the year. This is a highly technical conversation under the hood of this gothic historical horror novel. Philip Fracassi is a writer’s writer. We get into serious details of the research, construction, and execution of this horror novel. There are about thirty minutes of non-spoiler discussion and then we go deep. We also chat about future books, my favorite of his short stories, and book touring.
In 1970 Avon Books published a landmark anthology “Science Fiction Hall of Fame” featuring 16 classic short stories that represent landmark tales of the genre. The stories were voted on by the members of the new (at the time in the late 60s) organization Science Fiction Writers of America. In this series, I will be joined by a panel of different guests to break down these stories and talk about the authors in the book.
In this episode, I am joined by two returning guests. First up is the Hugo award-winning fan writer Cora Buhlert who knows her Science Fiction. Steve Davison is the current owner and publisher of one of the longest-running Science Fiction magazines Amazing Stories. Because this is the first episode we talk a lot about the make-up of the book and the process editor Robert Silverberg used to put the book together.
The story we are covering is the 1934 classic “A Martian Odessey by Stanley G. Weinbaum. This story is considered a game-changer that changed Science Fiction forever. Don’t have the story to read before you listen? I got you. So use the link below to read the story before listening. Or listen to an audio version of the story on YouTube
An Internet archive of the original magazine appearance: https://archive.org/details/Wonder_Stories_v06n02_1934-07/page/n47/mode/2up?view=theater
Audio version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SikXI-x-5UA&t=143s
The next episode will be Twilight by John W. Campbell featuring Alec Nevala-Lee, James Reich, and Kate Heffner.
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Mike Carey is a writer I have been a fan of since long before he was writing novels. His run on Hellblazer made me a fan instantly. Creator of Lucifer the Sandman spin-off he made his name in comics. Under his own name, he wrote an excellent series of novels about an exorcist named Felix Castor. It wasn’t until he published under a thinly veiled pen name MR Carey that he had an international bestseller in The Girl with All The Gifts. It also went on to be a movie starring Glen Close.
In this interview, Mike and I discuss his epic new space opera that never leaves Earth Infinity Gate. This is one of the best Science Fiction novels I have read in years. We talk about Mike’s career, taking big swings with high concepts, the genesis of Infinity Gate, and get under the hood of this incredible novel.
After every season of Star Trek, I gather a panel of nerds together and we talk about the highs and lows of the season that just ended. This time we talk about the fourth season of Star Trek Lower Decks. Returning for our 9th episode breaking down a completed season of Trek.
Joining me as always are my bridge crew vocal Star Trek fan Sara Lynn Michener, and Musician/ filmmaker Issa Diao and for this episode
In this episode, we will break down the ins and out of Lower Decks Season 4. Lots of Tuvix talk, cartoon bias for and against, is the joke getting stale?
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In this special episode of Postcards from a Dying World we are talking about the international bestselling anthology Never Whistle at Night co-edited by Shane Hawk. Never Whistle at Night is the type of anthology like Dark Forces, Revelations, or Dark Matter that will live on for Generations. Fans of short horror fiction should not miss this collection but it is also a must-have for horror readers that want to explore the genre through the work of diverse authors. What makes this book so special is it features twenty-plus stories by Indigenous native American authors.
Shane Hawk is a young author who hit the local and national scene and was so passionate about this project that they thought they might have to fund this book by Kickstarter, but it ended up with a Big Five publisher and on the bestseller list here and in Canada. So we talk in this interview about the amazing story behind this book.
This episode was recorded at the book launch here at our amazingly awesome local bookstore Mysterious Galaxy, so the song is not perfect. There is also no video this time. I was honored to be asked to do this interview! Shane is awesome and the book is great. Enjoy!
In this special episode of Postcards from a Dying World, we cover the book I have been talking about for two years now. My WW II vampire novel has finally hit the streets. You can order from anywhere that carries books and Barnes and Noble with soon carry it coast to coast. If you want a signed copy order it through here in San Diego at Mysterious Galaxy.
To help me cover this book I called on two fans of the book author and podcast Desmond Reddick the long-time host of the Dread Media podcast. Long-time listeners with recognize Des who is making his fourth appearance on the show. First-time guest is Zachary Rosenberg the author of the Jewish noir the Long Shalom and his horror Western Hungers as Old as This Land.
In this episode, we talk about my latest novel in depth. It is about 30 minutes spoiler free, and then we get under the hood talking about the writing process of The Last Night to Kill Nazis. Thanks to Des and Zach who were able to give my book the treatment I give to my guests when we deep dive into a book. Please buy, read, and review The Last Night to Kill Nazis! Request it at your library! Suggest to your local bookstores and tell friends word of mouth is so important!
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Episode 122 of Postcards is a special episode featuring the return of one of my favorite authors. Cyberpunk, Science Fiction, and horror legend John Shirley is most famous as one of the screenwriters of The Crow. He is the author of several dozen novels and multiple award-nominated and acclaimed short story collections including the award-winning Black Butterflies and the recently reissued Really, Really, Really, Really Weird Stories.
As a novelist I consider John to have masterpieces in both Science Fiction (City Come A-Walkin) and Horror (Wetbones). The last time he came on we talked about his recently released SF novel Stormland. This time we are talking about his new Science Fiction action novel Subortibal7. Developed alongside the studio Alon Entertainment who developed the TV series of The Expanse and the recent Blade Runner sequel. Suborbital7 will be on my top ten when the year is over so highly recommended.
In this interview we breakdown this new fresh take on military science fiction and orbital combat that is ripped from tomorrow’s headlines. We talk about John's recent projects, the real-life inspirations for Suborbital7, deep research, and writing realistic space combat. The first 45 minutes or so is spoiler-free. Then after a spoiler warning, I make John very uncomfortable talking about all of the writing process. He is serious he wants you to read it first.
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Joining me on this episode of PFDW is writer and film director Izzy Lee who is promoting her Kickstarter campaign to film her first feature-length film!
Izzy Lee was named as one of A.V. Club's 10 female filmmakers to hire, a director on the rise. Her award-winning tales have screened at major international genre festivals such as Fantasia, Overlook, Morbido, FrightFest, Fantaspoa, Brooklyn Horror, Boston Sci-Fi, Boston Underground, Chattanooga, and more. She's directed nearly two dozen shorts. From 2022-2023, Lee earned five Certificates of Completion from a variety of Sundance Collab’s Directing and Producing courses. Additionally, Lee shadowed director Adam Egypt Mortimer on the SpectreVision feature Archenemy, and her first novella, I Can See Your Lies, will be out on February 13, 2024, from Dark Hart Books, an imprint of Dark Matter Ink.
Her production company can be found here:
https://www.nihilnoctem.com/
The campaign is here:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/izzylee/house-of-ashes-a-horror-feature-film-by-izzy-lee?fbclid=IwAR21V-v_0M-yB50Gh_s28PqgPdqQTdVjFPCtLnzSjKDn6RVDsqdsS2pCU6Y
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In this episode, my guest is Dreampunk author and editor Cliff Jones Jr. whose new novel Dreck is Part Surreal, Part humor, part science fictional material… all the taste and appearance of a PKD nightmare all wrapped into a unique and modern voice. Cliff is a serious Philip K. Dick nerd and the vanguard of a new surreal subgenre Dreampunk.
In this interview we talk about Cliff’s influences, Philip K. Dick, writing weird fiction and we go into a spoiler discussion of his novel Dreck. Dreck is one of my favorite books of 2023.
Each and every book we read and consume is a relationship between two people on each side of the book. The time you really get a feeling for that is when you personally sell books at book signings and talk directly to that person. You can’t help but think about that when you are reading a book with a title like this one. Such is the theme of this science fiction novel by author, professor of English, and long-time Improv teacher Samuel Jaye Tanner.
Tanner is the author of the absurdist Vonnegut-inspired science fiction novel The Person on the Other Side of This Book.
In this interview we talk about Tanner’s path to science fiction and writing, compare the writing and reading experience of this novel, what authors it reminded me that Sam had not even heard of, and much more.
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After every season of Star Trek, I gather a panel of nerds together and we talk about the highs and lows of the season that just ended. This time we talk about the third season of Star Trek Strange New Worlds. Returning for our 8th episode breaking down a completed season of Trek.
Joining me as always are vocal Star Trek fan Sara Lynn Michener, Musician, and filmmaker Issa Diao and for this episode, we are joined by special guest Desmond Reddick. Des is an author, and the long time host of the Dread Media podcast making his fourth appearance on the show, he interviewed me in episode 50, joined us for the best Horror novels episode and this is his first time talking Star Trek.
In this episode, we will break down the ins and out of Star Trek Strange New Worlds Season Two, the highs and lows, ups and downs.
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Hey there listeners. In this episode, we continue a mini-series of panels discussing WW II mission movies that inspired my upcoming novel The Last Night to Kill Nazis from Clash books. The novel comes out next month, during the pre-order period (You can get it from the Clash site, Amazon, Barnes, and Noble, or basically any indie bookstore) we will celebrate by talking about the movies that inspired it.
In this episode, I am joined by author Dino Parenti and my old friend Judge Marc Rothenberg to discuss Sam Peckinpah’s WW II classic Cross of Iron and one of the most famous Mission movies The Dirty Dozen.
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Hey there listeners. In this episode, we continue a mini-series of panels talking about WW II mission movies that inspired my upcoming novel The Last Night to Kill Nazis from Clash books. The novel comes out next month, during the pre-order period (You can get it from the Clash site, Amazon, Barnes, and Noble, or basically any indie bookstore) we will celebrate by talking about the movies that inspired it.
In this episode, I am joined by an old friend. David Woken is a librarian with a history focus, but he is a film nerd that is knowledgeable in schlock and good cinema. You’ll find out quickly why I was excited to talk about these movies with him. The films we cover in this episode include the 1943 classic WW2 movie Five Graves to Cairo and the 1969 film Army of Shadows. These are not traditional Mission movies but they influenced the back story of one of the main characters of The Last Night to Kill Nazis. If you enjoy this discussion please check out my novel!
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Since 2000 one of the most extreme metal in Syracuse New York, a city known for brutal hardcore is the band Ebony Sorrow. Most of that time John Bukowski has been sharing the guitar playing and vocalist duties. I met John went I lived in Syracuse during the 90s and we bonded on our shared love of Mercyful Fate and King Diamond. I have always known John to be one of the most passionate metal nerds, who embraces trying to hear everything.
I wasn’t surprised when he started to DJ his own show on Syracuse FM radio. The show A Dangerous Meeting includes interviews with musicians talking about their influences. The show started with local guests and recently started to bring on national figures like members of Candlemass and Megadeth.
In this interview, John and I nerd out about music, hardcore, and metal and talk about the format of his show.
Sean Raymond is a Science Fiction loving American astrophysicist living in Bordeaux France. I have been a longtime fan of his blog PlanetPlanet. He studies the formation and evolution of planetary systems and has created a system for modeling fictional solar systems, which I enjoy as he blends imagination with hard science. On his blog he also evaluates the scientific validity of well-known settings from movies or books (such as Pandora, Arrakis, and more).
This conversation will be fun for space nerds and Science Fiction writers interested in getting the science correct.
http://perso.astrophy.u-bordeaux.fr/~sraymond/
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If there is a cursed episode of this podcast it is this one. Sparked by an argument on Twitter started when I declared John Brunner’s Stand on Zanzibar the best SF novel of the 20th century. Multiple people responded saying it wasn’t their favorite of the year. I invited all the people who weighed in and trying to schedule 4 time zones and five people’s schedules proved impossible. So it ended but three people instead six. I tried.
Lisa returning two episodes brings it of course and Brian Collins of SF Remembrance blog does a wonderful job helping me guide the conversation on Science Fiction in 1968. In this episode, we talk about the culture in 1968, the state of the SF community, which books were nominated for the two major awards, where the conventions were held, and deep into the books of that year. Those deep dives include Picnic in Paradise by Joanna Russ, Camp Concentration by Thomas Disch, Nova by Samuel R. Delany, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by PKD, and Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner.
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One of the most talked about Science Fiction novels of the last year is the debut novel of Ray Nayler. Born in Quebec and raised in California, Ray Nayler lived and worked abroad for two decades in Russia, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan,Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Vietnam, and Kosovo. A Russian speaker, he has also learned Turkmen, Albanian, Azerbaijani Turkish, and Vietnamese. In Vietnam he was Environment, Science, Technology, and Health Officer at the U.S. consulate in Ho Chi Minh City. Ray currently serves as the international advisor to the Office of National Marine Sanctuaries at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Beginning in August, 2023, he will be Diplomatic Fellow and Visiting Scholar at the Institute for International Science and Technology Policy at The George Washington University.
All those unique experiences set the one-of-a-kind alchemy that resulted in a one-in-a-million Science Fiction novel. With all hyperbole intended The Mountain in the Sea is a life-changing novel. It is the kind of novel that should be on the shelf of all who are fighting for the rights of non-humans or combating climate change.
This is one of the best conversations I’ve had for this podcast we talk about Ray’s experiences and upbringing. In the course of talking about the novel we get into the power of the ocean, sentience of non-human animals, and how world events changed the discussion of his novel from a focus on animal sentience to artificial intelligence. After a spoiler warning,upcoming novella we talk about the narrative process and Ray hints about his upcoming novella.
In 30 or more Science Fiction novels and countless short stories from the 1950s till his death in 1982 Philip K. Dick envisioned many wild futures. In this videoDickheads podcast co-host David Agranoff breaks down 10 examples of weird technology that PKD envision and has become real.
For morePKD podcasts:
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Lisa Yaszek is one of my favorite interviews but her appearances with me have all to this point been on the Dickheads podcast. She is the Regents Professor of Science Fiction Studies in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech. She is the author of Galactic Suburbia: Recovering Women’sScience Fiction co-editor of Sisters of Tomorrow. Most importantly today she is the editor of two Library of America editions of The Future is Female. These are definitive anthologies that paint the history of women’s role in the writing of 20th century Science Fiction.
I interviewed her about the first Future is Female Vol 1 on DHP, she also joined us for panels on Cancel Culture, Scholars in Quarantine, and a panel onthe work of Judith Merril. She is one of my favorite guests because the lady knows the genre, and the history, and every time I hear her on my podcast, lectures, or read her work I learn stuff. So buckle in!
In this interview we talk about the second volume of The Future is Female focused on the science fiction of second-wave feminists in the 1970s. We talk about the atmosphere in the era of SF, feminism, and more. We go story by story, author by author. I think it will greatly add to your experience if you read it. The two volumes of this series are must-read books for anyone interested in the history of the genre.
Lisa on Dickheads:
https://soundcloud.com/dickheadspodcast/interview-11-lisa-yaszek-the-future-is-female
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iVPDKJdUB0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq9rl66FMRU
https://soundcloud.com/dickheadspodcast/dick-adjacent-4-cancel-culture-roundtable-with-lisa-yaszek-alec-nevala-lee
https://soundcloud.com/dickheadspodcast/dick-adjacent-14-judith-merril
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M83NBikgZ4w
No regular show this week, but how about a bonus episode! John Shirley was part of the vanguard of the Cyberpunk literary movement, this came after he help break the ground for punk rock in Portland Oregon. He is my one of my favorite living writers and I wanted to do a short bonus video about 7 books by John Shirley that you cannot miss.•You can find my books here:Amazon-https://www.amazon.com/David-Agranoff/e/B004FGT4ZW•And me here:Goodreads-http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2988332.David_AgranoffTwitter-https://twitter.com/DAgranoffAuthorBlog-http://davidagranoff.blogspot.com/
The first time I interviewed Paul was 88 episodes ago for his new at the time novel Survivor Song, since then he joined us for a panel about basketball with Josh Malerman and Stephen Graham Jones. Lots has happened in Paul's life including a major studio motion picture based on his novel "The Cabin at the End of the World" called Knock at the Cabin.
In this episode, we talk about his punk-themed coming-of-age horror novel Pallbearers Club. There is plenty of non-spoiler talk about the process of the book but 40 minutes in after a spoiler warning we get super deep into the nuts and bolts of writing this exciting and very different Horror novel.
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I was sad to learn that NY Times bestselling author F. Paul Wilson suffered from a stroke. He is working to get back to health, but in my attempt to send healing vibes, I made a 20-minute bonus video with six reasons why you should be reading F. Paul Wilson. Paul was on the podcast twice, although he also appeared once on Dickheads for a panel about Tony Boucher. The first time he joined Postcards the interview wasdone before I had a podcast. I was teaching a class on novel outlining and I talked to Paul for background. Then I interviewed him for his latest novel for episode 60. Links to our episodes together...
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-agranoff/episodes/PFDW5-F-Paul-Wilson-talks-about-the-Art-of-Outlining-eh6fua/a-a2peem3
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/episode-60-interview-with-f-paul-wilson-double-threat/id1524359471?i=1000540180128
https://soundcloud.com/dickheadspodcast/dick-adjacent-7-shout-out-to-tony-boucher
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fsz67cLwmuI&t=2386s
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After every season of Star Trek, I gather a panel of nerds together and we talk about the highs and lows of the season that just ended. This time we talk about the third season of Star Trek Picard. Returning for our 7th episode breaking down a completed season of Trek. Joining me as always are vocal Star Trek fan Sara Lynn Michener, Musician, and filmmaker Issa Diao and for this episode, we are joined by special guest John Ordover. John is the first creator of a Star Trek series to join us. In the 90s he was the editor of Pocketbooks line of Star Trek novels including co-creating the Star Trek New Frontier book series with author PeterDavid. He also co-wrote two classic episodes of Deep Space Nine.
In this episode, we will break down the ins and out of Picard Season Three, the highs and lows, ups and downs.
Hey there listeners. In this episode, we start a mini-series of panels talking about WW II mission movies that inspired my upcoming novelThe Last Night to Kill Nazis from Clash Books. My novel comes out this summer, during the pre-order period (You can get it from the Clash site, Amazon,Barnes, and Noble, or basically any indie bookstore) we will celebrate by talking about the movies that inspired it.
In this episode, I am joined by two friends. Writers Ivan Zoric and Dino Parenti join me to do a double Eastwood the 1968 classic WW2 mission movie Where Eagles Dare and the 1970 film Kelly’s Heroes. The second film was new to all of us.
Hey there listeners. In this episode, we start a mini-series of panels talking about WW II mission movies that inspired my upcoming novel The Last Night to Kill Nazis from Clash books. My novel comes out this summer, during the pre-order period (You can get it from the Clash site, Amazon, Barnes, and Noble, or basically any indie bookstore) we will celebrate by talking about the movies that inspired it.
In this episode, I am joined by two old friends. Returning is Marc Rothenberg regular listeners will know him from the annual top reads of the year countdown. My other guest is Devlin McCarthy an old hardcore scene friend who happens to be a nerd for all things World War Two. He was one of the first people I asked to read my novel to vet it for accuracy.
We are gathered to talk about the classic WW 2 Mission movies based on the Alister Maclean novels The Guns of Navarone (1961), and Force 10 from Navarone(1978). These movies and the novels were major influences on Last night, my novel includes several easter eggs and direct homages to these movies. We talk about what makes these movies special, break down the elements that make a good mission movie, and give you some background on the creation of them.
I will be mixing these episodes in, while still producing my normal programming, but if you are new here and looking for WW 2 film content it is coming.
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On this episode S.B. Divya is back, her 2021 novel Machinehood was one of my top reads of that year, and in 2023 she is back to discuss the novel she hinted at with us before. Her new novel Meru is one of the best character-driven Science Fiction novels I have read in some time.
Set 900 years in our future Meru is a story about Transhumanism, colonialism and it has an interesting romance at its core. A masterwork of World-building and big ideas this conversation is a fun one for those interested in the state-of-the-art craft of Sci-fi.
The first 45 minutes is spoiler free, and after a spoiler warning, we really get into the nuts and bolts of Divya’s process. So read Meru and join us for the whole thing!
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This interview is overdue on the podcast. David James Keaton is a guest I have wanted on many times before. His work circles around bizarro, science fiction, and horror. His latest novel Head Cleaner is one I was looking forward to for some time. Head Cleaner is a Sci-fi horror hybrid that exists pays loving homage to the VHS era and more importantly the random video stores. In this discussion, we talk about movies, video stores, VHS time distortion, and this mind-bending and at times hilarious novel. Don’t worry we give a spoiler warning before we get into details.
David James Keaton's writing has appeared in over 75 publications, online and in print. He received his MFA from the University of Pittsburgh and was the co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of Flywheel Magazine. His first collection of fiction, FISH BITES COP! Stories To Bash Authorities (Comet Press), was named the 2014 Short Story Collection of the Year by This Is Horror and was also a finalist for the Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award. Kirkus Reviews called his debut novel, THE LAST PROJECTOR (Broken River Books), "A world of wild fiction… rapidly paced and loaded with humor... a loopy, appealing mix of popular culture and thoroughly crazy people." His second collection of fiction, STEALING PROPELLER HATS FROM THE DEAD (PMMP)
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After every season of Star Trek, I gather a panel of nerds together and we talk about the highs and lows of the season that just ended. This time we talk about the third season of Star Trek Lower Decks. Returning for our 6th episode breaking down a completed season of Trek. Joining me are vocal Star Trek fan Sara Lynn Michener, and Musician and filmmaker Issa Diao.
Sorry, this one was late, We love Prodigy- the delay was not intentional.
In this episode we breakdown the full first season of Star Trek Prodigy, what worked and what made us tear up. A little bit of looking forward to Picard.
Very excited to interview one of my favorite local authors here in San Diego Jim Ruland, who is quickly becoming one of the most important historians of underground music. In this conversation we talk about Jim’s journey to becoming a writer, discovering punk rock, organizing literature events punk rock style, researching his books about musicians and his process.
Jim is the LA Times bestselling author of Corporate Rock Sucks: The Rise and Fall of SST Records. He also co-authored My Damage with Keith Morris, the founding vocalist of Black Flag, and the freaking Circle Jerks, Do What You Want with Bad Religion. He wrote the award-winning novel Forest of Fortune and the short story collection Big Lonesome. His new novel, Make It Stop, will be published by Rare Bird Books.
His work has appeared in The Believer, Electric Literature, Esquire, Hobart, Granta, Los Angeles Times, and Razorcake -- America's only non-profit punk rock zine. He is the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the host of Vermin on the Mount, an irreverent reading series based in Southern California.
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In this episode of the podcast,I talked with Steve Davidson, the co-editor of the original science fiction magazine Amazing Stories. A lifelong active member of the Science Fiction fan community a few years back Steve noticed that Hasbro the one-time owner of Amazing Stories has let the trademark lapse. In this episode, we talk about how Steve became the owner of the classic trademark, the magazine, and the legacy of the OG Hugo Gernsbeck.
We also talk about the 1920s SF community highlighted Davidson’s book Cents of Wonder. The stories in this book were entries in a series of writing contests held in 1926 and 29, that used a piece of art as a story prompt. Writers could submit stories inspired by the art and Gernsbeck choose winners and honorable mentions. There was a cash prize for the top winners. The reason for this contest is simple. Gernsbeck needed to encourage new writers and expand his pool of talent.
This is a must listen for fans of Science Fiction history.
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Barry N. Malazberg and his multiple Science Fiction personalities were on the frontlines as eras shifted from Asimovian ideas to a counter-culture middle finger held high novels filled with sex, drugs, and political points of view. One of his weirdest meta- SF novels was the thin 1974 masterpiece Galaxies. The novel is the story of a 40th-century starship captain and the science fiction writer creating her and the novel at the same time. Galaxies was reprinted a few years ago by Professor D. Harlan Wilson’s Anti-Oedipus Press. So who better to join me for this discussion...
In this episode, we talk about why Barry Malzberg is a genius, underrated, and vastly more important to 20th-century Science Fiction than given credit for. Why he alone was in a position to make this commentary, we go on tangents about Philip K. Dick, John Brunner and some on this panel argue that Ursula K. Leguin is overrated. D. Harlan Wilson is a researcher, publisher, and author. His fiction includes a dozen novels and plays including Dr. Idenity and Jackanape and the Fingerman. His non-fiction includes the Modern Masters of Science Fiction series book on J.G. Ballard and a critical companion to the Stars, My Destination. James Reich is the author of Soft Invasions and The Song My Enemies Sing.
These are two of my favorite writers and I loved every stinking minute spent talking with them, I hope you will too.
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100 episodes! Season two Finale! For the big show, I decided I wanted to do something special, no matter if there was a demand or not. In my childhood, there was one Science Fiction property that was important to me as Star Wars or Star Trek. Debuting on NBC in May 1983 only weeks before Return Of The Jedi we were introduced to V the Mini-series. An alien invasion story that I enjoyed as a kid for laser battles and spaceship chases I had no idea that it was also a grown-up re-telling of It Can’t Happen Here the 1935 novel by Sinclair Lewis.
For this episode, I gathered a panel of V super fans who grew up on the show. We re-watched V and the sequel V the Final Battle. Did it hold up? Why is V so important to us? To Science Fiction in general? Joining the podcast for the first long time active member of the Orlando SF Society Juan SanMiguel, and returning is musician and filmmaker Issa Diao, Hugo’s There and Take me to Your Reader podcast host, Seth Heasley, and podcaster, writer, and Journalist Ryan J. Downey.
V for victory you tell em!
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2022 was a good reading year for me including SF magazines which are book-length (so not cheating) I read 100 books. I admit I didn’t finish Uncle Steve’s Fairy Tale, I had to read hundreds of unpublished Treatments and outlines for research, but only one of those was actually published at one time and doesn’t count. The amount that Goodreads counted was 25,499 pages.
I did a bonus video doing a thumbnail review of each and every read here:
https://youtu.be/dKg1GIC8s_E
Then for this podcast, I was joined by my homey Marc Rothenberg to break down our top reads of 2022 together. Now that it has been out for bit here is my list.
All books have full reviews on Goodreads and my blog: www.DavidAgranoff.blogspot.com
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Hey, 2022 was weird but a good year for movies. In years past I would always post my top ten films and five honorable mentions on my blog this time of year. Now I have a podcast. These are my favorite movies and my tastes can be different.
Joining me on the show with his list is my buddy and regular Star Trek and Star Wars commentator Issa Diao. He owns an AMC movie pass and sees lots of movies.
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David Gerrold is the legendary screenwriter and novelist who is most famous for inventing Tribbles and writing much of the series bible of Star Trek The Next Generation. More importantly, he is the Hugo and Nebula award-winning author of The Martian Child, The Man Who Folded Himself, and the War Against the Chtorr series of books.
His most recent novel Hella was one of my favorite reads of 2021. It is an incredible work of world-building and hard science speculative fiction. Set on a colony world that has enormous everything. This is a shorter interview than I normally do because I did it after interviewing David for an article on Dorothy Fontana.
In this interview we talk about the novel Hella, the inspiration, David’s writing process, building the world of Hella, then we talk about general science fiction stuff, Harlan Ellison stories, and how Barry Malazberg saved his classic time-travel novel. Fun stuff.
New novel out now:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BMJP1W3C?psc=1∣=ATVPDKIKX0DER&ref_=chk_typ_imgToDp
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Special bonus episode of postcards... after years of teasing it my Dickheads Podcast co-host Anthony Trevino and I are stoked to announce the release of our novel Nightmare City with Grand Mal press. This is a cross-genre of Horror, Science Fiction, and Crime. A dark urban fantasy, Nightmare City is a wild introduction to a bizarre future.
This panel discussion is hosted by Desmond Reddick author of the Mother of Abominations and host of Dread Media and features the authors of Nightmare City David Agranoff (me!) and Anthony Trevino and Grant Wamack author of God's Leftovers. Desmond and Grant were two of the early readers of the novel and joined us to help introduce the world to the novel.
In this conversation, we talk about how Anthony and I met, how this project started, our writing process, and The setting and characters of Nightmare City.
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Welcome to the second Star Wars roundtable. Two hours of Star Wars nerd-out this time talking about Andor Season one!
Joining me are three old friends Musician and filmmaker Issa Diao is a veteran of the Trek panels, Ryan J. Downey is a rock and entertainment journalist who joined us for The Strange New Worlds Panel, and joining us for the first is Dawud Khuluq who does an Instagram page Jedi Sufism. Andor is the Best Star Wars TV but is it our favorite? Hating the Luthan is a Jedi theory, Ryan and David shout-out Screen Crush easter eggs videos, anti-fascism show on Disney, and why Andor was personal for us.
Hey - my new novel Nightmare City co-written with Anthony Trevino is out TODAY! Buy it here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BMJP1W3C?psc=1∣=ATVPDKIKX0DER&ref_=chk_typ_imgToDp
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Welcome to this really fun episode of Postcards. Being the nerd that I am after every season of Star Trek I have gathered a panel to discuss the season. I had not been doing that with Star Wars and decided I needed to fix that. In this episode, we catch up with the Book of Boba Fett, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Tales of the Jedi. We will do a full episode about Andor next time.
Joining me are three old friends Musician and filmmaker Issa Diao is a veteran of the Trek panels, Ryan J. Downey is a rock and entertainment journalist who joined us for The Strange New Worlds Panel, and joining us for the first is Dawud Khuluq who does a Instagram page Jedi Sufism.
Who should be the Kevin Feige of Star Wars? Why was Book of Boba Fett so bad? Does the Obi-Wan show make the trilogies better? Can we get Issa to watch the cartoons? Two hours of Star Wars nerd-out just for you!
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After every season of Star Trek, I gather a panel of nerds together and we talk about the highs and lows of the season that just ended. This time we talk about the third season of Star Trek Lower Decks. Returning for our 6th episode breaking down a completed season of Trek. Joining me are vocal Star Trek fan Sara Lynn Michener, and Musician and filmmaker Issa Diao.
2 Plus hours of Star Trek yap. We talk about why Star Trek Lower Decks Season Three, our favorite episodes, what works, and what didn't, We go episode by episode, and there is and little general Trek talk about upcoming shows, Kate Mulgrew at the Captain Janeway statue, why Tuvix is the Bengazi of Star Trek debate.
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Note new my new novel Nightmare City (co-written w/ Anthony Trevino out soon!
Welcome to a special bonus Top Ten list. Halloween 2022 is coming up and I thought we should talk about ten horror fiction novels (ok two short stories and a bunch of novels) I would like to see made as movies. There are some exciting adaptations coming up with Paul Tremblay’s Cabin at the End of the World becoming a movie and we have recently seen Josh Malerman and Tim Lebbon’s genius novel Bird box and The Silence get made. Sarah Pinbrough’s Behind her eyes and more. I think modern horror is covered That’s why everything on this list is about 15 years or older. Also, I would love to adapt Lovecraft, Barker, or King but that happens all the time so let's go a bit deeper.
So here are ten projects I would want to make if Hollywood tapped me on the shoulder and said David make a horror movie based on something classic that already exists. I would love to see any or all of these but they start at 10 and I become more passionate about them as we go.
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The first of a couple of top-ten video bonus episodes I am going to do from time to time... December 8th 2021 I published an article on Tor.com called “Beyond Dune and Foundation: Golden Age and New Wave SF Classics That Should Be Adapted Right Now.” It has 72 comments and if I am being honest it is likely the thing I have written that has been most widely read. That article had 20 novels I wanted to see as movies In this video I focus only on the Golden Age.
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For the fifth and final episode of the 1930s Science Fiction podcast, we end on another SF-horror crossover the classic novella by H.P. Lovecraft At the Mountains of Madness. While this remains one of the complicated horror master’s enduring classics. Written in 1931 the story was rejected by Weird Tales based on the length in 1936 it was published in three issues of Astounding magazine.
I am joined by two Lovecraft experts. Cody Goodfellow is the Wonderland award-winning novelist and long-time host of the popular Cthulhu prayer breakfasts held at the Lovecraft-inspired festivals on each coast. Fred Lubnow is a scientist who does the blog Lovecraftian science.
In this episode, we talk about Lovecraft’s life, with a warts and all look at his biography. The history of weird tales and the rejection of the novella, the history of Astounding getting the classic tale, and then we break down the story itself.
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Part 4 of the 1930s Science Fiction series…
Read it from Astounding August 1938 p. 60: https://archive.org/details/as_1938_08/page/n3/mode/2up
In August of 1938 Astounding magazine ran a short story by the magazine’s own editor John W. Campbell under the pen-name Don A. Stuart. While the story was purchased by the magazine’s former editor this story Who Goes There would go on to become one of the all-time classics of Science Fiction and horror. It has inspired three movies already including the direct adaptation in 1982 by director John Carpenter into the cult classic The Thing.
Joining me for this episode is a powerhouse panel of guests Brian Keene author of The Rising and the Lost Level books, Mary Sangiovanni The queen of Cosmic Horror and author of the upcoming ALIEN: Enemy of my Enemy tie-in novel , and Tim Lebbon author of The Silence and one of my top reads of the year The Last Storm.
In this episode, we talk about how John W. Campbell’s childhood informed Who Goes There, the history of the publication, what else was in the issue of Astounding, the construction of the story and of course how it compares to the 1982 classic film.
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In July 1938 Astounding magazine under the editorship of John W. Campbell published a story for the first by future Grand master Clifford D. Simak. This story Rule-18 was not a classic, nor was it considered one of the great SF writer's better stories. OK, so why the hell are we covering it on this series devoted to classic SF stories classics of the 30s? The impact of this story is an interesting case. When the issue ran the story was dismissed in the letter column by a young fan from Brooklyn named Issac Asimov. Wanting to understand his issues with the story the elder Simak wrote Asimov and thus began a friendship. Re-reading the story to answer the letter, Asimov found the story worked; this experience is one he considered crucial to his development as a writer.
So I invited Alec Nevala-Lee the author of Astounding (A history of the golden age SF) and Seth Heasley host of The Hugos There podcast to join me for this episode. None of us had read the story before. Rule-18 is about a 24th-century football game between Mars and Earth. In this discussion we talk about the story, the issue of Astounding it appeared in, John W. Campbell's relationship to the writers, the influence on Asimov, and we debate if this story should be canon.
Read the story for free here:
https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v21n05_1938-07/page/n3/mode/2up
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In this second episode of the 1930s podcast series, I have dug into the vault to re-package a classic Dickheads podcast episode from our first season in 2018 when we were gathering in the studio. In this episode, we cover 'Alas, All Thinking' by Harry Bates most famous for writing the story that inspired the Day the Earth Stood Still. Originally published in the June 1935 issue of Astounding Magazine, a young Philip K. Dick considered this one of his favorite Science Fiction stories and a major influence on his writing.
Audio only this week... the DHP video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zllcyDD4znA&t=523s
If you would like to read the story before listening you can do that here:
https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v15n04_1935-06_Gorgon776/mode/2up
Next week Rule-18 by Clifford Simak!
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In November 1933 Weird Tales featured the first published science fiction of Catherine L. Moore, who wrote under the name CL Moore. This story Shambleau features a very cosmic horror style vampire and space rogue decades before Han Solo became a thing. This story has the elegant purple prose that Lovecraft was known for while at the same time featuring themes that would be considered lurid today.
In this episode we look into CL Moore’s life, growing up in my home state of Indiana, going to college walking distance from my childhood home, her first adventures in publishing, and then of course we talk about the story.
Featuring Cora Buhlert who won a Hugo award for best fan writer since we recorded this episode, and bestselling author and editor Greg Cox.
Read it in Weird Tales November 1933 here:
https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v22n05_1933-11_ELPM-SliV/page/n1/mode/2up
Listen to the author read it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqsy_5zdSW8
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In episode 87 I welcome one of my favorite writers to the show! Sarah Pinborough is a New York Times bestselling and Sunday Times Number one and Internationally bestselling author who is published in over 25 territories worldwide. Having published more than 27 novels across various genres, her recent books including Behind Her Eyes that was a viral sensation on Netflix in January 2021. Her most recent novel Insomnia is being developed for TV and she is adapting it herself. Her fiction includes horror, thrillers, historical, fantasy, dystopia and YA.
Sarah Pinborough is one of the few authors that I will follow in any book, or in any genre. Behind Her Eyes was heralded as the next “Gone Girl,” and certainly the last couple of books have subtle yet passionate feminism to them. In this interview, we talk about writing, her early horror novels, and building stories based on a twist, and in the last part we talk spoilers on Behind her Eyes and Insomnia.
Very excited about it, read Pinborough!
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Returning to the pod is the great Alma Katsu who is here to talk about the novel she was writing and teased in her last appearance on the show. The Fervor is a supernatural historical horror about the Japanese internment camps during WW 2.
Alma Katsu’s books have received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and Library Journal, been featured in the NY Times and Washington Post, been nominated and won multiple prestigious awards, and appeared on numerous Best Books lists including NPR, the Observer, Barnes and Noble, Apple Books, Goodreads, and Amazon.
RED WIDOW is her first spy novel, was special because it drew on her 30-year career in intelligence. As an intelligence officer, She is most well-known for novels that combine historical fiction with supernatural and horror elements. THE HUNGER (2018), a reimagining of the story of the Donner Party, was named one of NPR’s 100 favorite horror stories, was on numerous Best Books of the Year lists, and continues to be honored as a new classic in horror. Her first book, THE TAKER (2011), was named one of the top ten debut novels of 2011 by Booklist.
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On this special episode Of Postcards, I am stoked to welcome Writer, Producer, and director Brannon Braga. His first job in Hollywood was writing for Star Trek the Next Generation before being the showrunner of Voyager and Enterprise. He also wrote two films in the Star Trek franchise. In all, he had his name on more than 150 hours of Star Trek. A three-time Emmy nominee Braga is currently working on The Orville and Cosmos.
In episode 23 we chatted about his underrated adaptation of Clive Barker’s classic anthology series Books of Blood and Clive Barker in general. Brannon is first and foremost a writer and I enjoy getting under the hood of his projects and talk craft and process.
In this episode Brannon and I talk about Orville season three, we drill down on his episodes but there is tons of valuable insight into the season and the show in general. We talk about writers patience, The transgender storylines, writing for Dolly Parton, Sacrifice for ideals, not saving your life, Bortus, and Klyden reunion, and writing huge battles. Also at the very end, Brannon comments on the Filmationwriters' style Voyager video of his episode Threshold, and the ongoing debate about Tuvix.
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Very excited to welcome fellow Hoosier Maurice Broaddus. He is the author of one of my favorite reads of the year - the first of a Afrofuturist space opera trilogy the Sweep of Stars.
Maurice Broaddus is a community organizer and teacher, his work has appeared in magazines like Lightspeed Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Asimov’s, Magazine of F&SF, and Uncanny Magazine, with some of his stories having been collected in The Voices of Martyrs. His books include the urban fantasy trilogy, The Knights of Breton Court, the steampunk works, Buffalo Soldier and Pimp My Airship, and the middle-grade, detective novels, The Usual Suspects and Unfadeable. His project, Sorcerers, is being adapted as a television show for AMC. As an editor, he’s worked on Dark Faith, Fireside Magazine, and Apex Magazine.
In this episode we talk about how Maurice got into writing, his early career and how this project came to be. It is mostly spoiler free. Although at some point I do suggest you pause if you have not read the book
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Tim Lebbon is a British horror, science fiction and dark fantasy writer. The author of close to 50 novels ranging from The Silence to several media tie-ins franchises. Lebbon's short story ″Reconstructing Amy″ won the Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction in 2001, his novel Dusk won the 2007 August Derleth Award from the British Fantasy Society for best novel of the year. His novelization of the film 30 Days of Night became a New York Times bestseller and won a Scribe Award in 2008. The film Pay the Ghost starring Nicholas Cage is based on his short story of the same name. The Silence was made into a movie 2019 on Netflix. You can see Tim as a corpse in the film. His Firefly novel Generations (fourth in series) won the 2021 Dragon Award for Best Media Tie-In Novel.
Tim is joining us to talk about his brand new SF horror Cli-fi novel The Last Storm. We start by reviewing how Tim got into genre and writing, one of my all time favorite novels The Silence. Then we get into Tim’s fantastic new novel. There is a spoiler warning at some point but there is lots of interview before that.
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In this episode of PostcardsPh.D. I talk with Joachim Boaz the History Ph.D behind the prolific book review website Science Fiction Ruminations with nearly 500 detailed and thoughtful reviews of vintage science fiction novels, novellas, and short stories.
This is a friendly nerd-out, we start with how Boaz got into SF, and why he reviews it. Then we talk about our favorite classic authors and themes.
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After every season of Star Trek, I gather a panel of nerds together and we talk about the highs and lows of the season that just ended. This time we talk about the first fantastic season of Star Trek Strange New Worlds. Returning for our 5th episode breaking down a completed season of Trek. Joining me are vocal Star Trek fan Sara Lynn Michener, Musician, and filmmaker Issa Diao and Podcaster, Music, and film journalist Ryan J. Downey.
2 Plus hours of Star Trek talk. We talk about why Strange New Worlds works, our favorite episodes, what works, what didn't, and where we would like to see the franchise go.
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In this episode, we talk about one of the most thought-provoking and controversial horror novels of the year with the author Gretchen Felker-Martin. Manhunt is a brutal extreme horror novel as advertised. The cover certainly should be warning enough. This novel has zero fucks to give to any pearl-clutchers. That said it is also a character-driven story about a gender-specific apocalypse, and it might be the best one since the OG Alice Sheldon’s Screwfly Solution. The first one to really explore the issue from a trans point of view.
I really enjoyed this conversation with Gretchen Felker-Martin who has had to put up with mountains of shit since this book was released. Thankfully the people who have actually read it understand what she is trying to do. We don’t go heavy on spoilers but in this conversation, we talk about Gretchen’s history with horror and writing. The construction of the novel, and the controversy a little bit. Honestly, I am much more interested in how this excellently written novel got constructed.
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I am excited to be joined by Bev Vincent author and Stephen King expert on the show. Leading up to the forthcoming publication of Stephen King: A Complete Exploration of his Work, Life, and Influences I thought it was a good time to chat with Bev. Bev Vincent is the author of The Dark Tower Companion, The Road to the Dark Tower, the Bram Stoker Award-nominated companion to Stephen King’s Dark Tower series, and The Stephen King Illustrated Companion, which was nominated for a 2010 Edgar® Award and a 2009 Bram Stoker Award.
In 2018, he co-edited the anthology Flight or Fright with Stephen King. His short fiction has appeared in places like Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Borderlands 5, Ice Cold, and The Blue Religion. Four stories were collected in When the Night Comes Down and another four in a CD Select eBook. His story “The Bank Job” won the Al Blanchard Award. “The Honey Trap” from Ice Cold was nominated for an ITW Thriller Award in 2015 and “Zombies On A Plane” was nominated for an Ignotus Award in 2020.
Also joining me to help with the interview is my friend Marc Rothenberg.
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After every season of Star Trek, I gather a panel of nerds together and we talk about the highs and lows of the season that just ended. This time we talk about the second eventful season of Picard. Returning for our fourth season breakdown are, vocal Star Trek fan Sara Lynn Michener, Musician and filmmaker Issa Diao.
Listen to Sara slowly and patiently try to convince Issa and I that were wrong to not really like this season very much. In the end she changed our minds about many things. We all agreed on many positive notes including the emotional finale.
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Lisa Morton is an important and beloved figure in the horror community, besides being the president of the Horror Writer’s Association for many years she is one of the world’s most knowledgeable Halloween experts. A pretty cool thing to be an expert in if you ask me. Those two things already make her cool, but ad to that she has written a book about the films of ace Hong Kong director Tusi Hark and is an accomplished novelist. Her novel The Castle of Los Angeles is a criminally underrated haunted theater tale. She has a couple of Bram Stoker awards, Well six but who is counting? She has written produced screenplays and works at one of the coolest used book stores in Los Angeles.
In this interview we chat about her history with horror, becoming a Halloween expert, researching the history of weird women authors and then we go deep into her latest collection of short stories. Night Terror and Other Tales is a great collection that showcases Lisa’s short stories and shows why I think she is one of the best short story writers working today.
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In this episode, we talk with Wendy Wagner about her gothic novella The Secret Skin. We talk about Wendy’s path to horror, her writing process, and developing this gothic novella. We spend the first half avoiding spoilers and in the second half we drill down on Wagner’s incredible skill for writing powerful sentences.
Wendy N. Wagner is a writer and Hugo award-winning editor. She is the author of nearly fifty short stories and two novels for the Pathfinder role-playing game. Her third novel, An Oath of Dogs, came out in July 2017 from Angry Robot Books. She is currently the Managing/Associate Editor of Lightspeed and Nightmare magazines.
Her short fiction has appeared in nearly fifty venues, including magazines like Beneath Ceaseless Skies and Farrago’s Wainscot, and anthologies like Autumn Cthulhu and The Way of the Wizard. She lives in Portland, Oregon.
Follow her on Twitter @wnwagner.
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The theme of this episode is writing with Learning Disabilities. What most of you might not know is that I have dyslexia and a few other learning disabilities. I have a couple of books published and have been nominated for a few awards, but I struggled with my education and was bullied quite a bit as a young person. In my teenage years, I made a friend in Duncan Barlow who grew up one state away but our paths were similar. In this episode, Duncan and I talk about our journeys from the special needs classroom to published novelists.
Duncan B. Barlow is the author of A Dog Between Us (Stalking Horse 2019), The City, Awake (Stalking Horse 2017), Of Flesh and Fur (The Cupboard 2016), and SuperCell Anemia (2008). He teaches creative writing and publishing at the University of South Dakota, where he is a publisher at Astrophil Press and the managing editor at South Dakota Review. He has also edited for Tarpaulin Sky and The Bombay Gin, among others.
I first met Duncan long before he was published when he was a touring musician who played with the classic Louisville hardcore bands Endpoint, By The Grace of God, and Guilt. He has also played the Aasee lake, The Lull Account, Good Riddance, and just released a solo album. A friend for decades and an inspiration I can’t be more excited to present this conversation with Duncan about Dyslexia, fighting the educational system of the late 80s/90s, and our process of writing novels.
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After every season of Star Trek, I gather a panel of nerds together and we talk about the highs and lows of the season that just ended. This time we are talking and the first half of Star Trek Prodigy. For this panel, I am joined by two active and vocal lifelong Star Trek fans returning from the Lower Decks panel are Vocal Star Trek fan Sara Lynn Michener, Musician and filmmaker Issa Diao, and Science Fiction author Tony Peak.
Listen to the episode to get our opinion on the fourth season the new Star Trek series! Are favorite themes and characters, who wants to quit the show, did anybody really the DMA was V’ger?
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Christoph Paul is an overdue interview for me. He is the managing editor of CLASH Books, of course, they are one of my publishers and Christoph is an editor I have worked with. He is an award-winning author who cut his teeth writing erotica satires under the name Mandy DeSandra which he self-published and learned the publishing biz long before he and his wife author Leza Cantoral started Clash Books. They publish risky and powerful indie books that have led to them recently expanding to include national distribution and a roster of diverse writers.
He also plays bass and sings lead vocals in alt-rock band The Dionysus Effect who recently released their first single. In this interview we talk about writing, publishing, editing novels, and writing music. It is a wide-ranging conversation I think you will enjoy.
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Rio Youers is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors, and a writer I love to chat with about craft. His newest novel is No Second Chances, an action in a novel form much like his last novel Lola on Fire which we talked about in episode of 40 of this podcast. If you want Rio’s origin story that is in that episode. No Second Chances and the last one Lola on Fire straight action and crime stories built entirely on the power and strength of the Rio Youers secret ingredient. Characters. This freaking Youers guy knows how to write characters with complications that we can still root for.
In this episode we talk about Rio’s gig adapting Owen and Stephen King’s Sleeping Beauties, working with Joe Hill on a comic book project, developing this novel out of a failed Lola novel, writing action, researching California, and the importance of characters in this novel.
Spoilers start at the 42-minute mark. At that point, we lift up the hood on No Second Chances for Rio’s first spoiler-heavy conversation on No Second Chances. So make sure you read it first but there is plenty tips for writers!
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Joining Postcards for the first time is Jayaprakash Satyamurthy. He is the author, poet, bass player, vegan, animal rescuing collection of awesomeness hailing from Bangalore India. I have podcasted with JP once before on Dickheads for the episode on Counter-Clock World, I recommend that episode where we went deep on Indian Science fiction and of course Philip K Dick.
Since that episode, I read and reviewed JP’s latest collection of fiction Come Tomorrow. In my review, I said this: The comparisons to great writers like Thomas Liggoti and Laird Barron are fair. There is a similar level of quality. Readers looking for that cosmic level of dread combined with razor-sharp wordsmithing and uncanny knack for looking at the weird bubbles floating up in our reality then Come Tomorrow is worth every penny spent or minute of attention given. In this interview we talk about growing up a genre reader in India, playing music, finding his fictional voice and the second half is breakdown of the stories in Come Tomorrow.
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After every season of Star Trek, I gather a panel of nerds together and we talk about the highs and lows of the season that just ended. This time we are talking and the first half of Star Trek Prodigy. For this panel, I am joined by two active and vocal lifelong Star Trek fans returning from the Lower Decks panel are Vocal Star Trek fan Sara Lynn Michener, and Musician and filmmaker Issa Diao.
Listen to the episode to get our opinion on the first Star Trek series made for kids!
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For the episode numbered with Macgruger's passwords, we countdown our 2021 Favorite reads! I asked my homey and longest horror book nerd friend Judge Marc Rothenberg to join me. You might remember him from the best horror short stories episode to return and count down our top reads of the year. Featuring my favorite Retro reads, non-fiction, honorable mentions, and top ten. It features books from Rivers Solomon, Brian Evenson, Stephen Graham Jones, Hailey Piper, Stephen King, John Shirley, C.Robert Cargill, and more. If you need it all written out head over to my blog...
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Here are my ten Favorite movies of 2021! Joining me on the podcast Is Issa Diao, he is a filmmaker, having written and directed a film with the same name Good Clean Fun as his long-time band. As lead vocalist of Good Clean Fun Issa traveled toured internationally and he is a total movie nerd. In this episode, we talk about our favorite movies of 2021.
For the first time in forever, my favorite is not a genre movie! Countdown with us!
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My guest this week is writer, director, and film editor Tran Quoc Bao. His first directorial feature the Paper Tigers is one of my favorite movies I saw this year. It is a hilarious and super fun Kungfu comedy that is perfect for fans of Cobra Kai or No Retreat No Surrender. I loved the hell out of the movie. I reached out to Bao to let him know I loved the movie and he was kind enough to come on the podcast. This is great because we had a fun conversation about filmmaking, growing a first-generation immigrant in Olympia Washington, Growing up making skate and fight videos, making Paper Tigers, and the community that has sprung up around the movie. It is a great movie, and this is a fun and inspiring conversation.
There is lots of fun stuff here. Bao was mentored by master action director Corey Yuen. He has written and directed a short film called BOOKIE. His editing credits include CHO LON, one of Southeast Asia’s highest-budgeted action blockbusters, and JACKPOT, a heartfelt comedy selected as Vietnam’s official entry to the 2016 Oscars for Best Foreign Film.
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In this episode of Postcards, I welcome Cadwell Turnbull. author of the science fiction novel The Lesson. His short fiction has appeared in The Verge, Lightspeed, Nightmare, and Asimov’s Science Fiction. The short story “Loneliness is in Your Blood” was selected for The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018, and the story "Jump" was selected for the Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019. The Lesson was the recipient of the 2020 Neukom Institute Literary Award in the debut category.
In this episode, we are focusing on his second novel No Gods No Monsters that I jokingly called an Anarchist werewolf novel. The first in a series this novel is fantasy, science fiction, and activist themed with multiple layers No Gods No Masters is a delightfully powerful and unique piece of work. I would recommend it for all fans of modern dark fantasy but for the ones that enjoy deeper political reading, it is a MUST READ.
In this conversation we talk about Cadwell’s origin story, the differences between writing the first book and this one, the influence of Leguin and activism in Pittsburgh where he went to college and writing an anarchist themed monster novel about discrimination and the changing world. My audio is terrible something was wrong with my mic, but Cadwell sounds great, enjoy!
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This is a fun one. In this episode of Postcards, I welcome two good friends of mine to talk about the third and final book in the Hissers trilogy. If you are not familiar with this series of monster mash/ zombie hybrid novels written by horror author Ryan C. Thomas. The author of several horror novels Ryan’s most well-known novel The Summer I Died is a cult classic a decade and a half after it was published that has inspired two gore-drenched sequels. When came time to finish the final book of Ryan’s Hissers trilogy he was unhappy with the first draft when a friend offered to help.
Anthony Trevino is a talented writer, editor, critic, and podcaster. You may have heard Anthony giving me a hard time over at Dickheads the podcast he had the idea to do. When Anthony jokingly suggested Ryan let him finish the novel he was surprised when he agreed.
This conversation is about the Hissers books, the process of collaboration. We talk about blending voices, writing with an audience in mind, and more. This is a fun one for people who like the nuts and bolts of writing conversations.
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One of the best books I read this year is a new science fiction novel by debut novelist S.B. Diviya. This novel Machinehood is a smart and effective novel. The grandest of science fiction are the tales you can hold up like a mirror to the issues of today. Even more grand are novels that decades like still feel like they are that mirror. I suspect it will be in conversation during award season.
Diviya has spent 20 years as an electrical engineer in various fields including pattern recognition, machine intelligence, high-speed communications, digital music, and medical devices. Machinehood, is published by Saga Press, and her short story collection, Contingency Plans for the Apocalypse and Other Possible Situations, is published by Hachette India. Her Novella Runtime was nominated for the 2016 Nebula Award for Best Novella. She is still a working engineer and the Co-Editor for Escape Pod, along with Mur Lafferty.
In this conversation, we talk about her science fiction roots, her science training, and the writing of Machinehood. It is mostly spoiler-free but I do give a warning when I dive into the story stuff deeper.
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Hello listeners this is a bonus episode that features a recording of myself reading my short story Mister Crow Reporting. This story was first published in San Diego Horror Professionals Volume One. There are three volumes of the series and I like all three and recommend them. They are all available from Grand Mal Press.
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Paul Mahern was 16 years old when he played guitar and sang for the Zero Boys one of the pioneering punk bands of the early 80s punk scene in my home state of Indiana. He is also an adjunct lecturer in music in general studies at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. His recording clients include John Mellencamp, Neil Young, Willie Nelson, and Iggy Pop. He has produced and/or engineered 11 RIAA-certified gold or platinum albums. In 2017, the Indianapolis Star listed Mahern as the fifteenth most influential musician of all time from Indiana. This list of 25 musicians also includes some lightweights like Joshua Bell, Hoagy Carmichael, Michael Jackson, and The Coug.
Paul was on the front lines in the American hardcore movement but he has an incredible amount of knowledge on music in general. So, it makes sense that he has developed and teaches a course on the history of punk rock. Open to any students at Indiana University, or those of you at home elsewhere can take it.
In this conversation, we talk about Paul’s, band the Zero Boys, and doing a punk band in the early days, years recording and engineering in the studio, the history of punk and how he developed his class. What bands get entire lectures? Who is taught in regional classes? Wplaylistshat songs and playlist he assigns students, and how you can take the class from anywhere. This is a must-listen for music fans.
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OK, a new regular thing we are going to do around here. After every season of Star Trek, I am going to gather a panel of nerds together and we will talk about the highs and lows of the season that just ended. First up is Lower Decks Season 2. For this panel, I am joined by Three active and vocal lifelong Star Trek fans - Sara Lynn Michener, Issa Diao, and Anna Rosalind Walsh.
Listen up find out who hates cartoons, who has watched Lower Decks multiple times, and who will defend Star Trek the Motion Picture?
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Returning to the podcast is one of my all-time favorite authors, F.Paul Wilson. He is the New York Times bestselling author of the Repairman Jack series. The majority of Paul’s work fits into a saga he and his fans called the Secret History of the World. It is an interconnected universe that puts the Dark Tower and the MCU to shame including two separate book series that ends with the same book.
This year Paul released Double Threat a book in the secret history but it stands alone (well with a sequel). In this interview, we warm up with a little bit of FPW’s history and some golden age sci-fi talk and then get into his new novel. It is a re-imaging of his debut space opera novel Healer, set in modern times. There is lots of nuts and bolts talk of the writing process from one of the best to ever do it.
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It is time for the National Basketball Association to kick off its 75th season and sure there are lots of sports radio stations and TV pundits you can hear talk about basketball but where else are you going to find a panel of bestselling and award-winning authors talking about Basketball. All are return guests to postcards. You have the authors of Birdbox, A Headful of Ghosts, and The Only Good Indian. We chat about how we got into Basketball, why we love it, our favorite all-time players and teams, and talk about the upcoming season.
To check out these amazing authors' past interviews here on this podcast.
Paul Tremblay Episode 12
Josh Malerman 14 and 57.
Stephen Graham Jones Episode 15
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Horror fiction has long been one of my greatest passions and perhaps the best expression of the form is the short story. For this episode, I gathered a panel to talk about our favorite short stories. So take notes because there are plenty of tales mentioned here you’ll want to read yourself. We talk in detail about 60 or 70 classic horror fiction shorts. Like last October when I gathered a panel for best Horror novels, I put together a panel of experts.
First up is a return guest Laird Barron, who is the award-winning author of many books my favorites being the Isiah Coleridge trilogy. For many years Laird has been considered one of the best short story authors in the field.
Next up Mary Sangiovanni is an award-winning horror and thriller writer of over a dozen novels, including The Hollower trilogy andThe Kathy Ryan series, one time a co-host The Horror Show with Brian Keene and the cosmic horror-themed, Cosmic Shenanigans, and is currently a co-host of The Ghost Writers Podcast.
And then representing readers is my old friend. Marc Rothenberg. He is one of the biggest horror readers I know, but not a writer. He is a judge and is serious when it comes to horror fiction. Of course, I add my personal list as well.
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I am super excited to welcome back Josh Malerman for his second appearance on Postcards. Josh is the NY Times bestselling author of Birdbox. In his last appearance, we talked about his origins, the cultural moment that was the Netflix adaptation of his novel, and a lot more. This time we catch up with Josh about the film "We Need to Do Something." It is the first film production from Spin a Black Yarn Productions, That Josh co-founded with his partner Ryan Lewis.
From there we turn our attention to an in-depth look at Josh's new collection of interconnected Novellas set in the fictional gothic Michigan town of Goblin. This is a nitty-gritty under the engine look are the construction of the stories and the book as a whole. So if you enjoy writer's talk about the secrets to how they make their magic then you'll really enjoy this conversation. We give a spoiler warning 35 minutes in before we go too deep.
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My guest in this episode is the one the only Konstantin Batygin. He is a musician and astronomer whose day job is as a professor of Planetary Sciences and Orbital Mechanics at Caltech. Yes, that means if the sitcom The Big Bang Theory were real, he would have an office in the same department as Sheldon. As an astronomer, his research mostly focuses on the formation and evolution of planetary systems. He is most famous for his research with Michael E. Brown on the proposed existence of a ninth planet in the Solar System. Brown and Batygin are using various methods to search for a massive planetary body they believe is in the outer solar system.
Before we get into all the nerdy planetary stuff, we talk about Batygin’s upbringing in Japan and Santa Cruz. How he discovered Metallica and the guitar. His early attempts at punk bands and the new albums he is working on with his current band The Seventh Season.
In this conversation, we talk about music, planetary science, and how they recently came together when Batygin helped compose the guitar elements of a symphony dedicated to his planet nine research with the Miami symphony. From power cords to planetary orbital mechanics this is one of my favorite interviews.
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Episode 55 is an interview with the host and creator of the popular podcast Flash Forward - Rose Eveleth. A former producer of content at ESPN's 30 for 30 and NPR's Radiolab before going independent Rose created one of the most critically acclaimed science podcasts. Flash Forward was named one of the Best Podcasts by iTunes, Wired Magazine, New York Magazine, New Statesman, Business Insider, The Globe and Mail, Indiewire, Popular Science, and The New York Times.
Using audio drama and hardcore science reporting Flash Forward explores possible (and not so possible fantastical) futures. Asteroid mining? A future without meat? Living underground? Flash forward has tackled many topics over the last few years.
In this interview, we talk about Rose's origins, how she developed the idea for the show, and the ins and outs of producing the podcast, and what it means to study the future. I was excited to chat with Rose not just because I love the podcast because of the very powerful and original way she combines science fact and fiction
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In this episode, I interview Joe Dunman. This is part of my series of just cool people I know interviews. I like talking to punk rock and hardcore kids that have avoided the adult crash by doing good stuff. In this case, Joe went from Louisville mosh pits to the Supreme Court to protect civil rights.
Joe is now an assistant professor of legal studies at Morehead State University in Morehead, Kentucky. He teaches undergraduate courses on torts, legal research and writing, administrative law, and individual rights. Before entering full-time teacher, Joe was an attorney in Louisville, Kentucky. His primary areas of legal experience include employment law, civil rights, and constitutional law. He represented the plaintiffs/petitioners in the Kentucky marriage equality cases of Bourke v. Beshear and Love v. Beshear, a landmark civil rights decision by the U.S. Supreme Court.
We talk about the importance of science fiction, metal, and hardcore in his formation as a do-gooder. The Journey from hardcore to the supreme court and more. At the end, we nerd out on Science fiction for a little bit and I suggest a few books I think Joe needs to check out.
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If reading takes too long to consume my book reviews every month I gather up my book reviews and do a digest based on what I read over the month.
Books covered this month: The Best of Judith Merril by Judith Merril, Sleeping Beauties, Vol. 1 Based on the novel by Stephen King and Owen King Alison Sampson (Illustrations), Adapted by Rio Youers, A Master of Djinn by P.Djeli Clark, The Compleat Werewolf by Anthony Boucher, and Foe by Iain Reid.
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Episode 52 is a special one. My guest is Brian Evenson returning to Postcards to talk about his new short story collection with the subtle title The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell. Brian Evenson is a professor of creative writing at CalTech Arts and the author of several novels including Last Days, Immobility, Feral, and an Alien Tie-in novel called No Exit under the name B.K.Evenson.
The dark surreal underbelly of high literature is kind of the space that Evenson writes in. Weird, bizarro, horror, Science Fiction, cosmic, surrealist all labels that fit stories here and there in the various collections he has released.
This conversation is mostly focused on the writing of the stories and is spoiler-tastic. The first 23 minutes are general without spoilers. I suggest that you read the book before listening past that point. You can still gain much from listening if you have not read the stories in the collection about the craft of short stories. Brian Evenson is a master of short stories and I happy to say I learned a lot from this conversation I think you can too.
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- Book Review: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
- Only Apparently Real by Paul Williams
- The Worm and His Kings by Hailey Piper
- Hummingbird Salamander by Jeff Vandermeer
- The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell by Brian Evenson
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50 episodes! The majority of the episodes of this podcast come out of my desire to explore the worlds of the books I read. I like to learn from the authors I am reading but also it is a way I can give back and promote the authors and their books. I like giving back and I believe in the Book-a-sphere. I always say if you want to support this podcast you can support by picking up a copy of my books. So for once, we are going to focus on my published works.
One of the few people who has read all my published works and many still in development is Canadian author and podcaster Desmond Reddick. For 700 or so episodes Des has host Dread Media one of the most consistent horror culture podcasts on the internet. Covering mostly movies, but books and comicsway as well Des is a great interviewer. He is returning to Postcards having appeared on the Ten best horror novels episode.
This episode is 2 hours and 51 minutes. So spread it out over a couple of listens. You can prove you listened to it deep by sliding into my DM’s with the names of our favorite Dead Kennedys albums.
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Postcards number 49 is a special one. My guest Brian Keene will need no introduction to horror fiction fans. Brian writes novels, comic books, short stories, and nonfiction. He is the author of over fifty books, mostly in the horror, crime, and fantasy genres. In 2014 I was on hand to watch him receive the World Horror Grandmaster Award and he has been nominated six times for the Bram Stoker award and well as winning the big prize twice. His novel The Rising revolutionized the zombie novel in 2003 and was at the forefront of a rights battle with Leisure publishing who collapsed after decades of being one of the largest paperback publishers in the world. That battle resulted in Keene and several other authors regaining control of their work.
For years he took on exploitive forces in publishing through his six years hosting “The Horror Show with Brian Keene.” On the show, Brian took on a larger-than-life combative role. I enjoyed this and was a weekly listener but I always knew the gentler personal Keene and the genre historian was being overshadowed. My hope with this conversation is to show that side of Brian I had hung out with at cons and on book tours. We talk at length about his time coming up, his early influences, and the importance of teaching the history of the genre. We do talk a bit about Brian’s new novels including his new vampire novella With Teeth. If you dig what I am doing don’t forget to Like, Rate, and Subscribe to Postcards. But if you want to support my efforts buy one of Brian or my books, please.
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For episode 48 I have a conversation with a young and upcoming voice in the rising Queer horror movement. Of course, queer horror is nothing new Clive Barker and Poppy Z. Brite were out voices as far back as the 80s and 90s but exciting new things are happening in this space and Hailey has become a leader in the movement based on the strength of Her novella The Worm and His Kings which is an early favorite for a favorite read of the year already.
Hailey Piper writes horror and dark fantasy and is a member of the Horror Writers Association. Her other titles include Unfortunate Elements of My Anatomy, The Possession of Natalie Glasgow, and Benny Rose, the Cannibal King. Her short fiction appears in such places as Year’s Best Hardcore Horror, The Arcanist, Flash Fiction Online, Daily Science Fiction, Tales to Terrify, Blood Bath Literary Zine, and lots of other spaces.
In this conversation, we talk about Hailey’s early and modern influences, her early books, and her new collection. Then we dive into a spoiler-free and spoiler-tastic look at The Worm and His Kings. Don’t worry there is a warning but you can listen to most of the interview without concern of spoilers.
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Really excited to talk in this episode to Alma Katsu. Alma Katsu’s books have received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and Library Journal, been featured in the NY Times and Washington Post, been nominated, and won multiple awards.
Alma also writes novels of historical fiction with supernatural and horror vibes. The Hunger is a novel about the Donner Party, and was named one of NPR’s 100 favorite horror stories, was on numerous Best Books of the Year lists, and is considered by many as a new classic in the genre. Her debut novel The Taker was named one of the top ten debut novels of 2011 by Booklist.
Her new novel is Red Widow, her first spy novel, inspired by her 30+ year career in intelligence. As an intelligence officer. Alma worked at several federal agencies as a senior analyst where she advised policymakers and military commanders on issues of national security.
We have a really fun conversation about Alma’s career, learning writing from legends, doing research and writing historical fiction, a career in intelligence, getting a Stephen King blurb, and the nitty-gritty of writing a spy novel when you know what it is really like behind the scenes. Once we get into spoilers, we break down the nuts and bolts of crafting betrayals, writing realistic spies, and developing a plan.
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If reading takes too long to consume my book reviews every month I gather up my book reviews and do a digest based on What I read over the month. There was no digest in April because I was on a tight deadline for a screenplay, still working on it but the first draft is done, as always go to my blog or Goodreads for complete reviews.
Books covered in this episode:
Our War by Craig DiLouie
Fragments of a Revolution by Seb Doubinsky
My heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
Good Neighbors by Sarah Langan
Later by Stpehen King
Dying is Easy by Joe Hill
John Constantine: Hellblazer, Vol. 1: Marks of Woe
Hella by David Gerrold
After the rain by Nnedi Okorafor, John Jennings
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable by Amitav Ghosh
Red Widow by Alma Katsu
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In this episode of Postcards,three-time we have a very special guest the three time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Good Neighbors. Langan was also one of the judges for the inaugural Shirley Jackson Award and is currently on the Board of Directors. She got her MFA in creative writing from Columbia University, and also received her Master’s in Environmental Health Science/Toxicology from New York University. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and daughters.
In this wide-ranging interview, we chat about writing horror as a woman, dodging the sexist and misogynist tropes of the genre, the writing of her debut novel the Keeper, being put in writer jail despite numerous awards, and a deep dive into her new novel Good Neighbors.
Good Neighbors resists tight genre distinction but if you really want to know what it is I would call it a horror social satire of suburban culture. Like a modern re-telling of the classic Twilight Zone episode, The Monsters are Due on Maple Street Langan updates the concept by replacing the cold with climate change. Laced with thriller elements this novel lends itself to a deep discussion as it is a fine work of social commentary. I suggest you read it first but there is still much to get from this novel.
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Sébastien Doubinsky is a writer and a poet born in Paris. Having spent part of his childhood in the United States he widely published writings in both English and French. He is a radical thinker with a background in the pioneer days of punk rock who writes radical protest fiction that is sometimes speculative and sometimes experimental.
In this episode, we discuss his roots, and career but mostly focus on his new release from Stalking Horse books the radical novel A Fragments of a Revolution. It is a short but thought-provoking slice of fiction composed in short but vivid vignettes of powerful prose. We also touch on Mexican radicalism, protest fiction, and writing in multiple languages.
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If Richard Matheson is not one of the most important writers of the 20th Century he is without any doubt the most underrated. A master of the short story, the novel, television, and the silver screen. As his longtime editor, Greg Cox is known for saying “you may not know his name but you know his work.” The Thing on the wing of the plane, the button box, the Night Stalker, and I am Legend to name a few. In this panel, we discuss the career and impact of Richard Matheson. Almost two hours of personal stories, nerdy details, and career highlights this panel is great for super fans and people who want to know why they should care about this master of the craft of storytelling in all forms.
I am joined by David J. Schow the screenwriter and novelist well know as having written The Crow and Texas Chainsaw Massacre III, he is a brilliant novelist his novels from The Kill Riff to the Big Crush are fantastic and his collection of horror shorts Seeing Red is a must-read classic. He has written two books on the Outer Limits and is an expert in that show, and knows more about the Creature of the Black Lagoon than anyone on the planet. As an LA writer and friend of the Matheson family, he brings a lot to this panel.
Greg Cox is a novelist and editor who has written tie novels in franchises from Batman, Iron Man, The librarians, and more. He has more Star Trek Novels than most people who have pairs of underwear. He was also Richard Matheson’s editor for 20 years and managed his back catalog through the gauntlet of Hollywood tie-in editions. And we have John Scoleri was recommended to me by Mister Schow as the biggest collector of I Am Legend-related editions in the world. He is an author, collector, and publisher at Cimarron Street Books. John’s super deep details of Matheson collecting bring a lot to this panel. So enjoy this Matheson tribute and hopefully will do a part two someday…
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Craig DiLouie is an author of thrillers, apocalyptic/horror, and science fiction. He has been nominated for major literary awards such as the Bram Stoker Award and Audie Award, translated into multiple languages, and optioned for film. He is a member of the HWA, SFWA, International Thriller Writers, and IFWA.
Warning novels are important. So like Sinclair Lewis It Can’t Happen here felt like a well-timed warning 90 years after it was published. With Our War, Craig DiLouie was put in an uncomfortable place as the author of a warning novel that appeared to be coming true on January 6th, 2021. When right-wing seditionists tried to start the very conflict, he warned about it.
In this interview talk about his earlier novels but our main focus is Our War a novel set in a second modern American civil war in Indianapolis my home state. So, we talk about American politics, Indiana, the warning novel. The first half of the interview is non-spoiler but in the second half we drill down on the nuts and bolts of writing this book.
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If reading takes too long to consume my book reviews every month I gather up my book reviews and do a digest based on What I read over the month. Full reviews are on my blog and Good Reads. Lots of great interviews coming up.
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Rio Youers is the British Fantasy and Sunburst Award-nominated author of Westlake Soul and The Forgotten Girl. That 2017 novel was a finalist for the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel. He is the writer of Sleeping Beauties, a comic book series based on the bestselling novel by Stephen King and Owen King. Rio’s new novel is a gonzo one-woman army crime thriller Lola on Fire was published by William Morrow. In this interview, we have a spoiler talk about Rio's early novels, and influences. From Westlake Soul to Lola on Fire we talk about all the books Rio has written. Writing the perfect action film as a novel, My hometown Bloomington Indiana being in the novel, researching guns, and much more. Spoiler-free until the 48-minute mark then we go into full spoilers for Lola on Fire.
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When I was in high school there were several bands that I considered the soundtrack of the youth if that era had a house band it was the Louisville hardcore band Endpoint> Whenever I could I traveled to shows around the Midwest to Endpoint. At the end of their 7-year run, they played an emotional and compassionate style of hardcore that evolved from their early days playing metal-influenced punk. They were an amazing band and at the core, the beating heart of the music was vocalist Robert Pennington. He has fronted 11 bands including Endpoint, By the Grace of God, and Black Cross to name a few.
I am very honored to talk with Robert Pennington Ph.D. about a variety of topics. The influence of the punk rock paperboy, History of Louisville hardcore, how annoying Nirvana becoming cool was for old punks, the gig where Endpoint matured as a band on stage, the motivations of returning to hardcore with By the Grace of God. That is just the first 35 minutes.
After 35:00 We switch gears and talk about Rob’s academic career. You see we ended up on a similar path from punk rocker to a special educator. Rob however is a researcher and lecturer teaching special educators. As someone who currently spends 5 days a week in that type of classroom for the day job, it was fun for me to pick his brain on education. We also get into how Hardcore music prepared us for thinking in terms of social justice in the classroom and staying calm during violent tantrums.
If you stick around to the 1:04 mark we talk about our favorite Vegan Restaurants when traveling.
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Sam J. Miller is the Nebula-Award-winning author of The Art of Starving (an NPR best of the year) and Blackfish City (a “Must Read” in Entertainment Weekly and O: The Oprah Winfrey Magazine). A recipient of the Shirley Jackson Award and a graduate of the Clarion Writers’ Workshop right here in San Diego, Sam has been nominated for the World Fantasy, Theodore Sturgeon, John W. Campbell, and Locus Awards. He is a community activist, he lives in New York City and more than once couldn't be on a podcast panel I was recording because he had a protest on his schedule.
In this episode, we talk about his new release, the small-town horror novel 'The Blade Between' which balances issues of class warfare, LBGTQ issues with whale ghosts, and the hidden legacy of the small town the lead character escaped. We talk at length about the creation of this novel, small-towns with a secret, and the on-going conversation in genre fiction.
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Adrian J Walker is the Australian born, UK raised author of seven novels. I am like many readers who first discovered Walker’s books through a tweet from Stephen King, who tweeted that his novel End of the World Running Club was a real find. It is and we talk a lot about that novel, but the bulk of the conversation is about his equally brilliant new science fiction novel The Human Son.
We talk at length about both books without spoilers at length but in the last bit, we go into the writing with Human Son with spoilers but don’t worry you will get a full spoiler warning. Adrian is a great writer and this new novel is the best of the three I have read. It is an impressive piece of work and there are lots of great insights into the writing process.
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In this episode of Postcards, I have a chat with author P.Djeli Clark the author of one of my favorite books of last year Ring Shout. Phenderson Djéli Clark is the award-winning and Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon, and World Fantasy nominated author of the novellas Ring Shout, The Black God’s Drums, and The Haunting of Tram Car 015. Born in New York and raised mostly in Houston, Texas, he spent the early formative years of his life in the homeland of his parents, Trinidad and Tobago.
Ring Shout is an amazing piece of work from a singular voice. No one else on this planet could write this story and those are the best stories always. Ring Shout is a dark fantasy that is not only in conversation with history but confronting it. This novel is a cutting piece of commentary that comes out a century after its events and sadly doesn’t feel distant. This conversation is about Clark as a writer, and a historian but any discussion of a novel like Ring Shout will be deep. The history of the Klan, the movements against them but both historical and fictional. Balance of history, mythology, and much more.
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Scott R Jones is a novelist, poet, spoken word performer, and lover of all things weird fiction He lives in Victoria BC Canada. One of my favorite cities. Something we talk about in the interview. He is the author of tons of short stories are collected in a book entitled Shout / Kill / Revel / Repeat. This is my second time hosting Scott on a podcast, he joined us on the Zap Gun episode of Dickheads just after Anthony read and loved Scott’s debut novel Stonefish. Anthony believed in it so much that he bought me a copy not wanting to wait for me to work through my TBR.
Weirder than most cyberpunk Stonefish is not full of leather trench coats and Mirrorshades. This novel doesn’t have a Cyberpunk outfit but it has the beating heart of that genre. The novel published by Wordhorde Press is the main topic of conversation but the majority is non-spoilers and we talk Lovecraft, Philip K Dick, and cults. Spoilers start at the 43-minute mark.
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This is a very exciting episode for me! Avi Loeb is one of my dream guests! Without a doubt, Avi Loeb is my favorite Astronomer. Abraham (Avi) Loeb is the Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science at Harvard University. He received a Ph.D. in Physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel at age 24. Loeb has written 8 books, including the book he is here to promote Extraterrestrial (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021), and about 800 papers on a wide range of topics, including black holes, the first stars, the search for extraterrestrial life, and the future of the Universe. He had been the longest-serving Chair of Harvard's Department of Astronomy (2011-2020), Founding Director of Harvard's Black Hole Initiative (2016-present), and Director of the Institute for Theory and Computation (2007-present) within the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
In this episode, we talk about his new radical position that we already have the proof of Extraterrestrial intelligence. His book is a shot across the bow in the scientific community that would rather not even consider the idea we now have proof that we are not alone in the universe. We also talk light sails, black holes, yours truly being the first to review his work with an F-bomb and we end on the calculation he did the morning of the interview for detecting life in other galaxies on the back of a scrap envelope. This was recorded in November when I read Extraterrestrial. It is coming out this month so pick it up and read it.
Note: I managed to only reference Star Trek Twice.
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So every year around this time I publish a list on my blog of the top 15 new releases of movies I watched over the year. This year the list will live exclusively on the podcast for a week, and then I will do a print take on ye ol' Blog. This episode is moderated by my Dickheads podcast co-host, Langhorne J. Tweed.
Langhorne gives us his films. We love talking about, debating, and breaking down movies. So hope you have fun listing to us.
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So every year around this time I publish a list on my blog of the top new releases I read over the year. This year the list will live exclusively on the podcast for a week, and then I will do a print take on ye ol' Blog. This episode is moderated by my Dickheads podcast co-host, Langhorne J. Tweed.
I also added a few retro reads, favorite PKD reads and the Tweed-ster asks me about some of the 87 books I read this year. If you want to skip ahead to the Top Ten List it starts 44 minutes in.
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Part Three of the Chinese Cinema trilogy is a panel discussion of late 20th century Hong Kong cinema. I asked my panel of experts to list their favorite Hong Kong movies of the 1980s and 90s.
Lisa Morton is a screenwriter, author of non-fiction books, Bram Stoker Award-winning prose writer, and a Halloween expert. One of her non-fiction books includes The Cinema of Tsui Hark (the first comprehensive study of the influential Hong Kong filmmaker). Joey O'Bryan was a long time critic who wrote hundreds of detailed reviews of Hong Kong films, as a Screenwriter he has written films for Johnnie To (Fulltime Killer starring Andy Lau) and Ryuhei Kitamura (Downrange). Our final panelist is Jeff Briggs who works in the Warner Brothers archives and is a Hong Kong Film expert.
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Part Two of the Chinese Cinema trilogy is a tribute Panel to the films of Jet Li. In this episode, I am joined for a lively discussion with two guests.
Up first is author and film critic Outlaw Vern. Vern has been writing long thoughtful commentaries on action movies for two decades. He is the author of two novels Niketown and Worm on a Hook, and two non-fiction books about film. Those books include Seagalogy: A Study of the Ass-Kicking Films of Steven Seagal and “Yippee Ki-Yay Moviegoer!”: Writings on Bruce Willis, Badass Cinema and Other Important Topics.
Also joining us is Matthew Szymanski he is scientist and podcaster. As co-host of Upper Pylon 2, a now-completed Star Trek Deep Space Nine rewatch podcast. Matt always brought some of my favorite commentaries on that show and this podcast was a result of our late-night twitter discussion about Jet Li.
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In part one of my Chinese cinema trilogy, I chat with Dan Halsted the lead programmer at the Hollywood Theater in Portland Oregon. He is the Indiana Jones of Kungfu cinema who unearth 8,000 pounds of 35 MM prints that are now traveling the world being screened everywhere. In this interview, we go deep on how he rescued the prints of these classic movies. We also get into must-watch classics and talk about the film scene in Portland, one of the aspects of PDX I miss since returning to San Diego.
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In the last years, Eric Guignard and his imprint Dark Moon Books have become a leader in high-quality short horror fiction. In part by releasing excellent anthologies but also the Exploring Dark Fiction series. Five books into the series am always excited to see a book of this series in my mailbox. All five books are not just entertaining but the type of collection that teaches the art of the horror short story. This series does such a wonderful job of highlighting an author and showing many sides of their skills.
Each book comes with:
• Six short stories. • An author interview. • Complete bibliography. • Academic commentary on each story by Michael Arnzen, Ph.D.
So I am excited to welcome Author, Editor, and publisher Eric Guignard, and we are also joined by author and academic Michael Arnzen who teaches horror fiction at Seton Hill. In this episode, we talk about each book in this important series. There is a lot to learn every if you have not read the books, but anyone interested in the craft of dark short fiction should be interested in this series.
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In this episode of Postcards from a Dying World we speak with Daniel Kraus the man hired by the Romero estate to finish the novel George A. Romero was writing at his death. The director of Night of Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead and many more created the zombie genre in 1968 and this novel The Living Dead will serve as his final statement.
In this interview, we talk about the influence of Romero, How Kraus came up as an author, working with two famous masters of horror and the nuts and bolts of taking Romero's unfinished novel, and the hard work it took to finish the 700-page book.
Daniel Kraus is a New York Times bestselling author. With Guillermo del Toro, he co-authored The Shape of Water, based on the same idea the two created for the Oscar-winning film. Also with del Toro, Kraus co-authored Trollhunters, which was adapted into the Emmy-winning Netflix series. Kraus’s The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch was named one of Entertainment Weekly‘s Top 10 Books of the Year, and he has won two Odyssey Awards, YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults, and was a Bram Stoker finalist.
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In this episode of Postcards from a Dying World I talk to the author of the novel American War Omar El-Akkad. This novel is a Cli-fi Dystopia about a second American civil war that stands as a political allegory for Omar to shine a light on the War on Terrorism.
Omar El Akkad was born in Egypt, grew up in Qatar, moved to Canada as a teenager and now lives in the United States. As a journalist, he covered the war on terror on the ground. For the next decade he reported from Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay and many other locations around the world. His work earned a National Newspaper Award for Investigative Journalism and the Goff Penny Award for young journalists.
This interview was recorded on the Sunday before the American election and Omar's insight into global conflict is important if you have read American War or not. I think the book is a great read but the interview is interesting just as much for Omar's wide experience as a journalist. What does cover the War on Terrorism on the ground tell us about the current knife's edge America is balanced on?
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In this episode of Postcards from a Dying World I am excited to welcome Writer, Producer, and Director Brannon Braga. His first job in Hollywood was writing for Star Trek the Next Generation before being the showrunner of Voyager and Enterprise. He also wrote two films in the Star Trek franchise. A three-time Emmy nominee Braga is currently working on The Orville and Cosmos.
In this episode, however, we are talking about his first film as director an adaptation of Clive Barker's classic anthology series The Books of Blood. The first twenty minutes of the conversation is about Horror fiction, Clive's influence, and Braga's working relationship with the master of the Dark Fantastique. Then Braga and I get into the nuts and bolts of writing this film.
The film The Books of Blood plays in interesting ways with structure and story Braga has much to teach writers about the craft of horror storytelling with this film. I am excited that he gave us some insight into the process. We also nerd out about Clive Barker deep cuts, the genius of Stephen Graham Jones, Paperbacks from Hell, and a little bit of Star Trek and The Orville.
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This episode of Postcards is a special one. Jeremy Robert Johnson is the author of several groundbreaking books in the bizarro sub-genre, but he was always on the more horror end of the genre. He becomes the first returning interview. So go back and listen to Episode 6 that was recorded in 2017.
Jeremy Robert Johnson could be considered a part of a new wave of horror to have mainstream publishing success, but he is also the first to come out of the Bizarro scene with a major hardcover release. This is a spoiler-filled discussion on the nuts and bolts behind the writing of this book a must-listen for writers. Fans of the Loop will enjoy the peek behind the curtain.
If you stick around you'll get a little Cronenberg and Prince of Darkness talk too!
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Since her untimely death in 2006 the Science Fiction world has come to realize that Octavia Butler is one of its most important voices. This year for the first time her 1995 classic made the bestseller list because the 25-year-old book sadly casts a light on our modern world far too well.
In this episode, I interviewed an artist and writing duo Damian Duffy and John Jennings. They carrying the flag for Butler in one of the most exciting ways possible. Starting with Butler's classic novel about the horrors of Slavery Kindred. The book went on to win the 2017 Bram Stoker award for the best graphic novel.
This year they followed that release with an adaptation of Butler's most popular book The Parable of the Sower. This interview is a fun look at the process beyond the creation of the books, the choices the team made adapting the novel, and of course the importance of Octavia Butler.
John Jennings is a Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California at Riverside.
Damian Duffy Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he teaches courses on computers & culture, and social media & global change.
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This is one of my favorite episodes yet! Rose O'Keefe is the owner and editor of the world's most prolific cult publisher Eraserhead Press. Besides the mainline Eraserhead has Deadite Press, Fungasm and more for imprints. Over almost two decades in business, Rose has published hundreds of weird books. With a passion for planning and thinking several steps ahead, Rose has been one of the major voices of a literary movement.
Since most of my books were published by Deadite and Eraserhead I have had the pleasure of working with Rose. I wanted to give the world a deeper look at Rose the artist.
I have included links to Eraserhead books on Bookshop.org. Pick a local bookstore and pick some up.
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If reading takes to long to consume my book reviews every month I gather up my book reviews and do a digest based on What I read over the month.
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In this episode of Postcards, I am joined by three nerds...uh experts in the horror genre. We count down our top ten horror novels over two hours and talk about the reasons why we picked what we did. It was a great conversation and if you like reading horror you'll be writing down titles left and right.
Joining Splatterpunk award-nominated author David Agranoff for this episode...
Sadie Hartman AKA Mother Horror. She is the creator of the Night Worms horror fiction service and writes reviews for Scream and Cemetery Dance.
Desmond Reddick is a writer and podcaster living on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. The author of Mother of Abominations and host Dread Media. Dread Media has close to 700 episodes and hit the stream weekly.
James Chambers is the author of several books and comic books. A long-time HWA member he is the recipient of the 2012 HWA President's Richard Laymon Award and the 2016 HWA Silver Hammer Award. He won the Bram Stoker Award for Best Graphic Novel in 2016 for Kolchak: the Night Stalker: The Forgotten Lore of Edgar Allan Poe and has been a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award three times.
So yeah the four of us nerd out on horror fiction and I think you'll love it!
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In this episode of Postcards, I talk with an old school friend. Growing up in Bloomington Indiana one of the most important bands of my youth was local hardcore legends With Authority who rocked warehouses and basements around the midwest. After releasing three classic records the band ended and vocalist David Tate a former Marine went on to become a TV journalist. From punk rocker to covering mass shootings and warzones in the middle east. Tate has lived an interesting life and I was glad to catch up with him.
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With Authority Links:
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On this episode of Postcards from a Dying World I am joined by author Stephen Graham Jones author of fifteen novels and six collections. He lives and teaches in Boulder Colorado. He is the author of many horror novels and a few works of experimental fiction including the Least of my Scars, Demon Theory and werewolf coming of age masterpiece Mongrels.
For the first half of the interview,, we have a spoiler-free discussion about Stephen's long and acclaimed career. The second half is a spoiler-filled nuts and bolts discussion about his new novel The Only Good Indians. We talk about Stephen's process, intentions, inspiration, and a little bit about basketball.
The Only Good Indians is a pure horror novel, one of the best not just in this year, but in many years. 2020 has been shit for many things but horror novels have had a hell of a year.
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This episode of Postcards from a Dying World I am joined by the author of the international bestselling sensation Bird Box. Before it was the most downloaded and memed movie on Netflix it was a debut novel from my guest. It won him the Bram Stoker award and he followed it up with Black Mad Wheel, Unbury Carol, and Inspection. He is also one of two singer/songwriters for the rock band The High Strung. In this interview, we talk in the first hour without spoilers about all of Josh's books and his career. In the second we drill down on his new sequel to Bird Box MALORIE. This is heavy spoilers and filled with details on Josh's process. This is good nuts and bolts for writers.
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I read eight books in the month of August - here is a quick recap. If you want the full reviews go to my blog and use your eyeballs.
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Paul Tremblay is the winner of the Bram Stoker award-winning author of A Headful of Ghosts and Cabin at the End of the World. His new novel from William Morrow Survivor song is one of the biggest horror novels of the year. Not every horror novel gets tweets from Stephen King and reviewed on NPR.
I have already read and reviewed Survivor Song on my blog, hosted a panel discussion and now I am proud to welcome the author himself to the podcast. This not an appearance to promote the book. Paul and I are assuming that if you are here you read the book.
This is more than an hour of nitty-gritty letting under the hood at the mechanics of Survivor Song. There is lots of cool stuff for writers to learn about the process, technique, and style that went into this novel. I suppose you could listen to this if you have not read the book but that is crazy. Read the book and we will still be here.
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Paul Tremblay is the winner of the Bram Stoker award-winning author of A Headful of Ghosts and Cabin at the End of the World. His new novel from William Morrow Survivor song is one of the biggest horror novels of the year. In this episode, I am joined by two talented writers Daniel Vlasty and Kirk Jones is to discuss this novel. Daniel Vlasty is the author of several street level crime novels Only Bones and Stay Ugly. Kirk Jones is the Science Fiction and bizarro author of Fuck Happines and Die Empty.
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John Shirley is a musician and the award-winning author of more than thirty books. As co-screenwriter of The Crow, he gave Eric Draven a guitar and William Gibson called him Cyberpunk Patient Zero. In my opinion, he has masterpieces in both Science Fiction (City Come-a-Walkin') and Horror (Wetbones). At the forefront of Bizarro, Cyper, and Splatterpunk it was John who actually put the punk in those movements. Not only was he wearing dog collars to Science Fiction conventions in the 70s he was fronting early Portland punk bands like Obsession and Sado-nation.
John is back with a new band the Screaming Geezers and has a new novel Stormland on the way. That is what we mostly talk about but we of course get into the state of the world and touch on a few Shirley classics.
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When Laird Barron first announced Blood Standard as his first straight crime novel I was excited that an author known for cosmic horror and dread was giving his talents to a project like this. He was a 2007 and 2010 Shirley Jackson Award winner for his collections The Imago Sequence and Other Stories and Occultation and Other Stories. "Mysterium Tremendum" won a 2010 Shirley Jackson Award for best novella. He is also a 2009 nominee for his novelette "Catch Hell" Other award nominations include the Crawford Award, Sturgeon Award, International Horror Guild Award, World Fantasy Award, Bram Stoker Award, and the Locus Award.
The Isiah Coleridge novels are weird crime classics, the titles are Blood Standard, Black Mountain, and Worse Angels. The majority of our conversation is focused on these books with a bit of Samurai movie talk.
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So, over the last few years I have released several punk rock themed horror fiction novels including, Boot Boys of the Wolf Reich and Punk Rock Ghost Story. I also have a short story collection called Amazing Punk Stories and my final punk horror novel People’s Park is on the way. In that time, I have co-written and recorded original songs to go with two of the books. The music was written and recorded by my old friend Rat from England. In the case of Boot Boys of the Wolf Reich we wrote two Oi! Style songs. For Punk Rock Ghost Story, we had a tougher mission. We were doing a Blair Witch style fake trying to create a fake punk band from 1982. In this episode Rat and I talked over Zoom about the writing and recording of these songs and includes commentary as we listen to the songs.
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July 2020 Book Review digest Featuring
Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff, Extrapolation 61.1-2 Edited by Isiah Lavender III and Lisa Yaszek, An Unkindness of Ghosts by River Solomon, Waste Tide by Chen Qiufan, Ken Liu (Translator), Star Trek Picard The Last Best Hope by Una McCormack, Dead To Her by Sarah Pinborough.
Great month of reading!
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Jeremy Robert Johnson could be considered a part of a new wave of horror to have mainstream publishing success, but he is also the first to come out of the Bizarro scene with a major hardcover release. Stephen Graham Jones, Laura Lee Bahr, and Brian Evenson are authors who I think walk this line that some times touches Horror, Bizarro, and fine Literature all in the same stories. But Jeremy was a flag holder for the movement so Entropy in Bloom and the soon to be released novel The Loop feels different.
This interview was recorded on 8/3/17 when Entropy in Bloom was released.
This interview is focused on his new collection. At the end we do go pretty deep and ridiculous about a story in the book that I first commissioned for a Punk horror anthology I think this part will not be as interesting unless you have a punk or hardcore scene background.
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F.Paul Wilson is the bestselling author of science fiction and Horror. He is one of my all-time favorite writers, and since I read The Keep in the 8th grade I have been a devoted fan.
This is NOT an interview. In 2017 when this was recorded I was preparing to teach a class on writing horror novels at the Horrible imaginings Film Fest here in San Diego. My part of the class was about writing outlines for plot and structure. I had taken a class on the subject with F. Paul Wilson at the Borderlands Writers Boot Camp but that was not the only reason I wanted to talk with him.
Marvel has the MCU and Wilson has The Secret History. It spans almost three-book series, a trilogy, and several stand-alone novels and Short Stories. Starting in his novels Black Wind and The Keep (on my top ten horror novels of all time list) and ends in the novel Night World. That one book is the sixth novel of one series (Adversary Cycle) and fifteenth of another series(Repairman Jack). I read the whole secret history as it was in 2012, and it is one of my all-time favorite reading experiences. It is the most insanely interweaving saga constructed in fiction that I have ever seen. Equal to or even surpassing King's Dark Tower when you talk about a single author interweaving most of their work. He is at it again with a new addition to Adversary Cycle in 2020 called Signalz. (Check out his new interview on the Horror Show With Brian Keene for details on that book)
So this not an interview, just an open discussion about plotting. Note the book Paul was working on was The God Gene, and he talks about changes he was making the day this was recorded. Enjoy.
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If you enjoyed this audio review of the Boy on the Bridge check out our reviews on our blogs www.DavidAgranoff.blogspot.com and Marvin can be found at: www.thenovelpursuit.blogspot.com
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Oldie but a goodie, I interviewed Cody at the 6th annual Bizarro con and we talked about many things.
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Author David Agranoff interviews award winning novelist Brian Evenson (The Last Days and Immobility) about the novel Feral. Evenson co-wrote the novel with the writer/ director of the Purge films Jame Demanaco. Evenson talks about the nitty-gritty of writing the novel and why it is NOT a Zombie novel.
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Book reviews for June 2020!
Books include:
Rocket to the Morgue by Anthony Boucher
The Iron Dream by Norman Spinrad
Outre' By D. Harlan Wilson
The Boatman's Daughter by Andy Davidson
Revelations by Barry N. Malzberg