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DEATH // SENTENCE

DEATH // SENTENCE

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02:08:51

The Alison Rumfitt Interview

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2021/12/11

Whoa! Death // Sentence is back, baybee! And so is Gareth! Langdon is also here but Eden is not. What mysteries are revealed with this conjunction, nay, this syzygy? Why, it's the secrets of Alison Rumfitt, author of gothic-horror book "Tell Me I'm Worthless". What if there was a book so good that not only did we end our hiatus prematurely, but the show's founder came out of retirement for one last job? Tell Me I'm Worthless is a haunted house story where the house is modern England and the ghost

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02:15:46

The Book of the New Sun - Episode 4

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2021/10/26

Winged angels fight with cocky birds. Swordsmen plague the land, looking for a lark. A sailor returns, reincarnated as a soldier. Or does he? That's right, it's the fourth, and final, episode of Book of the New Sun! We did it! We actually did it. This episode wraps up what we both consider to be THE greatest series of science fiction books ever written. We'll ignore the fact that there's a fifth. And, you know, two other series which turn this whole thing in one giant epic. Ignore that. We're

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02:26:08

Book of the New Sun - Episode 3

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2021/09/19

A wind blows through a cruel city. The mountains sing with rain. Ancient tyrants awaken in their holds and everywhere war and the rumors of war leap between the peaks. It's Book of the New Sun - Episode 3! It's Sword of the Lictor time baybee, as our very own multiple-Christ, the one and only (hah!) Severian comes closer and closer to more answers and, naturally, more questions. Double-headed tyrants, aliens tumbling backwards through time, and all the giant-on-torturer action that's fit to

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02:07:26

Book of the New Sun - Episode 2

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2021/07/24

The past bubbles up from within forgotten caves. The light that once shined bright now falls and we feel our bodies give way to darkness. Who will save us from our decay? What beast now slouches towards the podcast to be born? It's Book of the New Sun - Episode 2! After taking a break to allow for Life™ (it, uh, finds a way), Langdon and Eden are back to take the Claw of the Conciliator, the second volume of the Book of the New Sun, head on. How many Severians are there? Yes! Time loops,

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01:59:10

Book of the New Sun - Episode 1

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2021/05/31

The future continues to unfold. Swords continue to sing. Prophets continue to roam the land. The past continues to collapse. The present continues to be unintelligible. It's Book of the New Sun - Episode 1! This time around, Langdon and Eden tackle the first volume of Book of the New Sun - The Shadow of the Torturer. Miracles! Resurrections! How may resurrections? Who knows! At least several! Duels with plants! Spaceships which are buildings. Great stuff. Episode 2 coming soon! FEATURED MUSIC The

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01:04:03

Book of the New Sun - Episode 0

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2021/05/31

At last! The fated prophecy has been completed and the first episode of the Book of the New Sun arrives! Spaceships fly to the forested moon! Swords are wielded in the dark! Time bends like so many swallows in the last light of the day! Lots of confusing shit is soon to happen so Langdon and Eden do some setup for the next few episodes, diving into Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun. FEATURED MUSIC: Gonemage - The Gullying and the Purple

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00:42:01

Sofia Samatar - A Stranger in Olondria

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2021/05/10

Smelling faintly of roses and holy words, Eden conjures forth this solo episode. He tackles one of the most beautiful, delicate, and magical books he's read in the last few years, Sofia Samatar's A Stranger in Olondria. FEATURED MUSIC: serpentwithfeet - Amir https://serpentwithfeet.bandcamp.com/album/deacon

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01:38:12

Keller Easterling - Extrastatecraft: The Power of...

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2021/04/25

On a blazing steed of heat and light, Death // Sentence arrives once again. This time around, Langdon and Eden navigate the post-modern labyrinth that is the Suez Canal stoppage, unravelling the blood-ritual at its core. Then, they discuss "Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space" by Keller Easterling, a mind-boggling, expansive analysis of how capital uses Free Trade Zones, mobile networks, and standardization to move around the world. FEATURED MUSIC: Cirith Ungol - Brutish Manchild

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01:57:31

M. John Harrison - Light

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2021/04/15

After recovering from falling out of two buildings consecutively, Langdon finally posts the newest episode. In it, Eden and Langdon tackle NFTs, the new psychopoison of the capitalist age, then tackle the psychedelic mindwarp SF/F novel LIGHT by M. John Harrison. FEATURED MUSIC: Steel Bearing Hand - "Command of the Infernal Exarch", Seputus - "The Learned Response" Steel Bearing Hand - SLAY IN HELL https://steelbearinghand.bandcamp.com/album/slay-in-hell Seputus - PHANTOM

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02:11:01

Suzette Elgin - Native Tongue

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2021/03/14

On this week's death sentence, Eden and Langdon tackle Suzette Elgin's ambitious linguistic-feminist science fiction novel/project NATIVE TONGUE. But first, they must conquer the United States Stock Market and defeat the evils of reactionary analysis at root within the Gamestop investing push. Eden is transformed into a psychocloud and Langdon contacts six of the seven buddhas. FEATURED MUSIC: Stonehealer - "Into the Spoke of Night", Humavoid - "Aluminum Rain"

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02:02:15

B. Catling - The Vorrh Trilogy

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2021/01/27

Langdon and Eden tackle The Vorrh trilogy by B. Catling, a wild lysergic absinthian literary feast combining shards of magical realism, avant-garde literature, ecstatic spiritualist poetry and prose, anti-colonialism, paganism, fantasy, horror and historical fiction into one spellbinding modern masterwork. But first they must discuss how utterly fucked that coup was, which sucked mondo ass. FEATURED MUSIC: Frozen Soul - "Encased In Ice", The Botanist - "Water"

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01:01:04

Kij Johnson - At the Mouth of the River of Bees

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2021/01/19

On this new Death//Sentence Solo Series, Eden explores award-winning author Kij Johnson's AT THE MOUTH OF THE RIVER OF BEES, a collection of magical realist fantasy fiction. FEATURED MUSIC: Snooze - "Amicus Pawsterum"

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01:50:04

P. Djeli Clark - Ring Shout

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2021/01/04

On this episode, Langdon and Eden tackle the universe's most pressing issue: the nature of the Grinch, the contradictions of the Grinchgeist, and the spiritual warfare that fires his burning heart. Additionally, they cover P. Djeli Clark's novella RING SHOUT, Langdon's book of the year, which is a Lovecraftian counter-read interposing the KKK as servants of Lovecraftian darkness and hateful chaos. There's a magic sword and killer politics. FEATURED MUSIC: Tribulation - "Hour of the Wolf", Beaten to

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01:52:39

Mark Z Danielewski - House of Leaves

DEATH // SENTENCE ·

2020/12/12

Langdon and Eden do the long-threatened and discuss House of Leaves, both as a cultural object and as a novel, especially as it pertains to literalizing anxiety states. The novel carries both an overwhelming adoration a reciprocal stigma, both of which cloud its functions as an art object. We seek at least in part to dispel that. Discussion of the book starts at 46min. TW: descriptions of anxety attacks, physical violence. FEATURED MUSIC: Ithaca - "Hold Fast Hope" (Thrice cover), Cinder Well - "Our

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01:34:14

Brooke Bollander - The Only Great Harmless Thing

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2020/10/23

Recovered from Langdon being extremely bad at technology comes an episode long in the making. We actually started prep for this episode over a month ago but, between anxiety breakdowns and, tech issues. BUT: Now we cover the powerful novel THE ONLY GREAT HARMLESS THING by Brooke Bollander, a novel about humanity's history of atavistic self-harm and our abusive relationship with the biology of the ecosystem of the world, as well as the politics of health and the body in the age of COVID, especially

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00:52:47

Andrew Krivak - The Bear

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2020/09/21

On our newest Death Sentence Solo Series, Eden (@tallesteden) discusses Andrew Krivak's THE BEAR, a heart-wrenching and powerful book that peers deeply into both a human and a naturalist terror. That of grief, of solitude, of love and of the natural world. He mentioned sobbing at the end of the book; prepare for a heavy and real one. FEATURED MUSIC: Amiensus - "A Convocation of Spirits"

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00:42:27

Jeff Noon - The Nyquist Mysteries

DEATH // SENTENCE ·

2020/09/08

On our newest Death Sentence Solo Series, Eden discusses Jeff Noon's series The Nyquist Mysteries. Jeff Noon is a remarkable figure in the field, sitting somewhere between Philip K Dick and Paul Auster; following that analogy, this series functions almost like Noon's own version of what The New York Trilogy by Auster might look like in the hands of a cerebral but still richly pulpy genre writer. FEATURED MUSIC: Xythlia - "Ablation of Subconscious"

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02:01:09

Becky Chambers - To Be Taught, If Fortunate

DEATH // SENTENCE ·

2020/08/29

Langdon and Eden tackle Becky Chambers' Hugo-nominated novella TO BE TAUGHT, IF FORTUNATE, a work which grapples with the holocratic and highly mediated communal/social side of science. Meanwhile, on the first half, they discuss two radically different images of the teenager: the Kenosha shooter and the girl who made a smart-than-she-got-credit TikTok about the philosophy of math. TRIGGER WARNING: suicide (0h21m - 0h22m). FEATURED MUSIC: Motorpsycho - "The All Is One", Ulver - "A Thousand Cuts"

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00:59:46

The Kazuo Ishiguro Oeuvre 1 of 8 - A Pale View of Hills

DEATH // SENTENCE ·

2020/08/25

A solo episode! Langdon launches a new sub-series working through analysis of all of Kazuo Ishiguro's body of work in chronological order. This time it's his debut, A PALE VIEW OF HILLS (1982), a novel exploring a Japanese woman's grief after losing her eldest daughter to suicide following a move to Britain and the confounding non-response of her youngest daughter who doesn't mourn her sister at all. FEATURED MUSIC: Unleash the Archers - "Legacy"

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02:10:25

Roger Zelazny - Lord of Light

DEATH // SENTENCE ·

2020/08/18

Langdon and Eden breakdown the glittering poetic beauty of Roger Zelazny's seminal science fiction novel LORD OF LIGHT. But first, we have to talk about shoes that look straight up like ribbed condoms as well as the VP pick for the 2020 election. Spoiler: Electoral leftism in the West is a near systemic impossibility and worth less time than the boots-on-the-ground activism happening all around us. Also, holy shit, those shoes look fucking terrible. FEATURED MUSIC: Primitive Man - "Foul", nug -

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