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Wheel of Genre

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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)

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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...

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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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00:40:55

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

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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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00:31:21

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

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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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00:41:52

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

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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)

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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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Ep 29: Red Star by Alexander Bogdanov (Utopian #2)

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2021/02/12

Next up in our Utopian fiction month: space communists from Mars! Bogdanov's 1908 novel creates a utopia amongst the stars. But does it work? And what happens when an Earth-man enters their red paradise? Explore our Patreon at patreon.com/wheelofgenre

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Ep. 28: Utopia by Sir Thomas More (Utopian #1)

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2021/02/05

The first book of our Utopia month! Welcome, brothers and sisters, to the wonderful nowhere-land of Utopia, where children wear gold chains and gemstones and adults shit in gold bedpans. Don't you dare say a goddamn bad word about my Utopia. If you do, we'll pull your arms off. Sit back and relax after the six-hour workday with Zac, Bob, and Jon as we lace up our Nike Tailwinds and knock back this 'satirical' Kool-Aid. Explore our Patreon at patreon.com/wheelofgenre

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Ep 27: The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle...

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2021/01/29

The final book of our Mystery month. Cocaine! Sherlock Holmes as Tony Montana at the end of Scarface. Cocaine! Watson cleverly disguising his engagement story within a mystery plot. Cocaine! Explore our Patreon at patreon.com/wheelofgenre

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00:54:52

Ep. 26: The Blue Cross by G.K. Chesterton (Mysteries #6)

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2021/01/22

Continuing our Mystery month. What do soup accidents and broken windows have in common? So asks Europe’s greatest mind, Detective Valentin, in hot pursuit of the world’s dastardliest criminal, Flambeau. Join Zac, Jon, and Father Bob in this G.K. Chesterton masterpiece. Explore our Patreon at patreon.com/wheelofgenre

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Ep. 25: The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha...

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2021/01/15

The next book in our Mystery month. What the heck is a denouement? Is Hastings our first literary loverboy? And what are the 10 rules of detective fiction? Explore our Patreon at patreon.com/wheelofgenre

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Ep. 24: My Gun is Quick by Mickey Spillane (Mysteries...

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2021/01/08

The second book of our Mystery month. BAM! Mike Hammer kicks down your door and makes you shotgun a twelve-pack. Are you ready to crack another case? Strap on your .45 with Zac, Bob and Jon and find out just who murdered Red, the love of Hammer's blood-gushing life. Explore our Patreon at patreon.com/wheelofgenre

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00:57:44

Ep. 23: The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe...

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2021/01/01

The first book of our Mystery month. Welcome to the podcast Jon! Is C. Auguste Dupin motivated by money, patriotism, or revenge? Is Arthur Conan Doyle a plagiarist? Are private investigators and beat cops the oldest frenemies in the history of literature? Explore our Patreon at patreon.com/wheelofgenre

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00:00:26

Holiday Break Announcement

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2020/12/09

Tip another log in the fire, and rest that cocoa on a hot plate, we'll see you in January for Mystery Month! ⁠Explore our Patreon at patreon.com/wheelofgenre

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