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Wheel of Genre

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July Break

Wheel of Genre ·

2021/07/13

This July, we're hitting snooze! See you in August for a fresh round of adventure novels featuring lost worlds. Up next, The Land That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs! Explore our Patreon at patreon.com/wheelofgenre

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Ep. 48: Le Morte d'Arthur Book 1 by Sir Thomas Malory...

Wheel of Genre ·

2021/06/25

Last call for the Knights of the Round Table! Prison literature at it's finest, though the prose reads like the old english equivalent of a wikipedia article or booklet of cliffnotes. Must love jousting. Explore our Patreon at patreon.com/wheelofgenre

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00:40:33

Ep. 47: Le Morte d'Arthur in Alliterative Verse (AMA)...

Wheel of Genre ·

2021/06/18

Alliterative Arthur on a rampage against Rome. Arthur hacks down an ogre who wears a coat of dead king's beards and eats children from a stew pot. Arthur hacks down the Roman army man by man. Arthur takes on the world and is hacked down by his own nephew, Mordred, the ender of Camelot. Explore our Patreon at patreon.com/wheelofgenre

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Ep 46: Perceval, the Story of the Grail by Chrétien...

Wheel of Genre ·

2021/06/11

Arthurian tales! Why oh why does Troyes hate the Welsh? Gawain is back from his previous misadventure with the green knight, but this time, he loves thee faire maidenes. Also, that king with an open wound in his "thigh"? Explore our Patreon at patreon.com/wheelofgenre

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Ep 45: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight translated by...

Wheel of Genre ·

2021/06/04

Arthurian Romance--- Let's play a game of headsy cutsy. Watch-- Gawain struggle to keep on his armored pants. Learn-- how chivalry is more than opening car doors and saying "m'lady". Wonder-- at the random line about Gawain going to war against worms. Explore our Patreon at patreon.com/wheelofgenre

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Ep. 44: Three Ten to Yuma by Elmore Leonard (Westerns...

Wheel of Genre ·

2021/05/28

The thrill of the West! Shootouts and men with smiles on their faces. Is the Western the best genre for blowing off steam? Or is it the best genre for learning to be a good man? Whatever it is, it's fun as Hell. ⁠Explore our Patreon at patreon.com/wheelofgenre

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Ep 43: Hondo by Louis L'Amour (Westerns #5)

Wheel of Genre ·

2021/05/21

Western! Classic tale of love and death on the frontier. Also, one of the few film novelizations that stands on its own. Let's ride! Explore our Patreon at patreon.com/wheelofgenre

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Ep 42: The Shootist by Glendon Swarthout (Westerns #4)

Wheel of Genre ·

2021/05/14

Westerns! An old gunslinger learns he is ill with terminal cancer. As word spreads across town, who of the many lil' pistol-whippers will get to him first? Explore our Patreon at patreon.com/wheelofgenre

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Ep. 41: True Grit by Charles Portis (Westerns #3)

Wheel of Genre ·

2021/05/07

Westerns! Who has true grit? The one-eyed marshal with a body count well over thirty men? The smooth-talking, spurs-jingling sharpshooter of Texas? Or the fourteen-year old girl who fights off forty rattle snakes with nothing but a dead man's severed arm? Explore our Patreon at patreon.com/wheelofgenre

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Ep 40: When The People Fell by Cordwainer Smith...

Wheel of Genre ·

2021/04/30

Post-Apocalyptic! An old man recounts to a reporter the terrible things he saw when the Chinese government colonized Venus. But does anyone still care? Explore our Patreon at patreon.com/wheelofgenre

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Ep 39: The Chrysalids by John Wyndham...

Wheel of Genre ·

2021/04/23

Post-Apocalyptic Month! Mutants, strange forms of Christianity, and psychic New Zealanders abound in this classic novel. Explore our Patreon at patreon.com/wheelofgenre

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Ep. 38: Speech Sounds by Octavia Butler...

Wheel of Genre ·

2021/04/16

Post-apocalyptic! Is language useless? Do we lose humanity when we lose the word? Or do we become shadows of our former selves, playing cops and robbers and showing up drive the bus? Join us, as we venture, grunting, nodding and gesturing through post-epidemic LA. Explore our Patreon at patreon.com/wheelofgenre

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Ep 37: Deus Irae by Philip K. Dick and Roger Zelazny...

Wheel of Genre ·

2021/04/09

Post-Apocalyptic! Screaming worms, a master painter with no arms or legs, and the god of wrath himself. A collaborative novel that was a direct inspiration for the Fallout game series. Explore our Patreon at patreon.com/wheelofgenre

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Ep 36: I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream by Harlan...

Wheel of Genre ·

2021/04/02

Post-Apocalyptic books! What motivates this enraged massive supercomputer? Is this story a duck or a shed? Why does Harlan Ellison repurpose plot structures? Explore our Patreon at patreon.com/wheelofgenre

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Ep 35: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin (Dystopian #4)

Wheel of Genre ·

2021/03/26

Dystopian month, final book! What do you choose, happiness or freedom? What's up with love in these kinds of stories? How do you world-build with an 'industrial' language? Explore our Patreon at patreon.com/wheelofgenre

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Ep. 34: The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula...

Wheel of Genre ·

2021/03/19

Next up in dystopian month-- Have you ever been to Salem, Oregon? Well, to make it as perfect as it is (festivals in the green, green grass with beautiful naked people, ribbons flowing in their hair), they trap an innocent child in a dark, dank basement and make it suffer day in, day out. Is it too high a price to pay? Tell me: will you walk away from Omelas? Explore our Patreon at patreon.com/wheelofgenre

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Ep. 33: Cat Country by Lao She (Dystopian #2)

Wheel of Genre ·

2021/03/12

Continuing Dystopia Month, we ask: How does the author turn social criticism into plot? How does populating it with animals change the allegory? How does the narrator fail to integrate into the dystopia? Explore our Patreon at patreon.com/wheelofgenre

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Ep 32: 'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman by...

Wheel of Genre ·

2021/03/05

It's the start of our Dystopian month! How do we draw the line between utopia and dystopia? Where is Ellison drawing his unique style from? What are the ethics of the protagonist versus the society? Explore our Patreon at patreon.com/wheelofgenre

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Ep 31: Erewhon by Samuel Butler (Utopian #4)

Wheel of Genre ·

2021/02/26

Final episode in our Utopian Fiction month! Does Butler himself hate machines as much as his forgotten society does? How does satire effect the message that he is trying to communicate? Explore our Patreon at patreon.com/wheelofgenre

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Ep 30: Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Utopian #3)

Wheel of Genre ·

2021/02/19

Next up in our Utopian fiction month, Herland! An ancient lost civilization in which all women reproduce asexually, and no men have lived for thousands of years. Explore our Patreon at patreon.com/wheelofgenre

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