Podside Picnic

For our first Augustageddon episode, we're visiting the Zelazny classic Damnation Alley. Gather 'round the fire. . . Hope you like your mutant gila monster rare!

Welcome to the Year of the New Sun! Join us in our read-along of chapters I - V of The Sword of the Lictor. Listen as we talk about Severian's journey beyond the gates of Nessus, and if you'd like to continue the discussion consider joining our Podside Picnic discord. Music by Loot the Body

Time to talk about the 1989 Jean Claude Van Damme flick, Cyborg. A cyborg holds the cure to a global plague, and the only thing standing between inventively named villains is the Muscles From Brussels and his devastating kick.

Our first face-to-face episode! We're all coming down from the highs of Knife Fest, so forgive us if we ramble (even if we were going to do that anyway).

We chat about Charles Stross' 2006 novella, Missile Gap and how Carl Sagan, Gregor Samsa, Seth Brundle and several others all ended up in the same story. https://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/spring_2007/fiction_missile_gap_by_charles_stross

It's that time again - time to unlock the next step in our journey through the Year of the New Sun. Just as you can't read a Gene Wolfe story, only re-read it, so we hope it goes with podcasts. Music by Loot the Body

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

Join us for a Very Special Episode of Podside, where we delve into the dangers of RPGs, LARPing and watching dull movies based on the dangers those things pose

We talk LD+R Season 3 this time, and as inevitable as Death and Taxes, there's another Scalzi one

We're here to talk about John Langan's Stoker-winning The Fisherman. Join us! The fish are biting, just mind how far out you cast your line.

It's that time again - time to unlock the next step in our journey through the Year of the New Sun. Just as you can't read a Gene Wolfe story, only re-read it, so we hope it goes with podcasts. Music by Loot the Body

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

You've read the Jack Chick Tract, now watch the movie! We get together to discuss Dark Dungeons (2014), a film that dares to explore the dangerous, and often lethal, world of role playing games

We talk to Magic Spot (2022) creator Matt Farley about his inspirations and process for making his Motern-verse a reality.

We get back together to take accountability for our Nebula Award predictions and discuss the available stories in the novelette category.

It's that time again - time to unlock the next step in our journey through the Year of the New Sun. Just as you can't read a Gene Wolfe story, only re-read it, so we hope it goes with podcasts. Music by Loot the Body

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

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

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

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