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84: Everway interview

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2020/12/09

This is a special episode of Fictoplasm where I interview the Everway Company on their forthcoming Silver Anniversary release of Jonathan Tweet’s Everway, coming to Kickstarter in January 2021. Show Notes Preamble 00:07 // Introductions 00:30 // History 04:55 // The anniversary edition 18:55 // The indie connection 25:39 // Supplements 31:35 // The new…Read more 84: Everway interview

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34:30

83: I Am Legend by Richard Matheson

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2020/10/30

I Am Legend by Richard Matheson Show Notes Intro 00:07 Synopsis 00:54 Themes and Games 08:45 – Vampire Science 08:55 – Blade – The Strain – The X Files – Proper Vampires 14:39 – pretty vs nasty vampires, or how the 90s ruined vampires Other Media 21:52 – The Films – The Last Man on…Read more 83: I Am Legend by Richard Matheson

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1:00:23

82: Hawkmoon by Michael Moorcock (the Tale of the...

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2020/10/18

Hawkmoon by Michael Moorcock Millenium edition, 1992 HB ISBN 1 85798 027 1 Ralph with Dirk the Dice from the Grognard Files podcast Show Notes Introductions 00:07 The Cover 04:46 The Foreword 09:44 Synopsis 10:41 (The Jewel in the Skull, The Mad God’s Amulet, The Sword of Dawn, The Runestaff) Favorite bits 23:43 (Count Brass,…Read more 82: Hawkmoon by Michael Moorcock (the Tale of the Eternal Champion vol. 3)

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81: Damnation Alley by Roger Zelazny

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2020/10/11

Damnation Alley by Roger Zelazny Show Notes Intro 00:07 Synopsis 00:56 Themes and Games 12:00 (Ribbon Drive, Witch: Road to Lindisfarne, Ultraviolet Grasslands, Deluge, Station Eleven, American Gods) Further reading 24:33 (the movie, Annihilation, Roadside Picnic, Into the Badlands, Kiteworld) Other links Fear of a Black Dragon’s episode on the Ultraviolet Grasslands Andy Bartlett’s blog…Read more 81: Damnation Alley by Roger Zelazny

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33:15

80: Jack of Shadows by Roger Zelazny

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2020/09/04

Jack of Shadows by Roger Zelazny Show Notes Intro 00:07 // Synopsis 02:29 // Themes and Games 09:12 // Magic and Technology 09:28 // Sabriel 09:53 // Trollbabe 15:11 // Tidally locked worlds 16:37 // concepts of day and night; no astronomers or astrologers // idea for setting between two singularities 20:56 // Further reading…Read more 80: Jack of Shadows by Roger Zelazny

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36:12

79: The Eternal Champion by Michael Moorcock (Tale of...

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2020/08/20

The Eternal Champion by Michael Moorcock Millenium edition, 1992 HB ISBN 1 85798 026 3 Show Notes Intro 00:07 // The Cover 00:39 // Foreword 01:15 // Summaries 02:18 (The Eternal Champion, Phoenix in Obsidian, The Dragon in the Sword) // Favorite bits 19:10 (Arrival of Erekose, The Good One, no good deaths, endings) //…Read more 79: The Eternal Champion by Michael Moorcock (Tale of the Eternal Champion vol. 2)

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29:26

78: Von Bek by Michael Moorcock (Tale of the Eternal...

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2020/08/05

Von Bek by Michael Moorcock Millenium edition, 1992 HB ISBN 1 85798 023 9 Show Notes Intro 00:07 // Preface to this edition 02:30 // Summaries 05:17 (The Warhound and the World’s Pain, the City in the Autumn Stars, the Pleasure Gardens of Filipe Saggitarius) // Favorite bits 15:01 (Demon in the Sphere at Bakinax,…Read more 78: Von Bek by Michael Moorcock (Tale of the Eternal Champion vol 1)

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77: Interview with Dave Morris

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2020/07/26

Interview with Dave Morris, author of Can You Brexit Without Breaking Britain, Dragon Warriors, Jewel Spider, Mirabilis and more! Show Notes Intro 00:07 // Can You Brexit Without Breaking Britain? 00:35 // Frankenstein 29:45 // Politics in games 35:43 // Design Mechanism’s Lyonesse 47:32 // Tekumel and Tirikelu 53:18 // Dragon Warriors and Jewel Spider…Read more 77: Interview with Dave Morris

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76: Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

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2020/07/16

Little Brother by Cory Doctorow Show Notes Intro 00:07 // Synopsis 03:03 // Themes 15:57 // recap 1984 16:24 // Motives 16:48 // Tools 17:32 (art, counter-surveillance, state removing rights, media, consumption and the true enemy) // Other Reading 32:53 // Wasp by Eric Frank Russell Little Brother teaching guides Music Credits Music is by…Read more 76: Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

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75: Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

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2020/07/05

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell Show Notes Intro 00:07 (anniversaries of sorts) // Synopsis 05:06 // Themes 19:02 // Motives // Tools 24:14 (language, media, propaganda, surveillance, revisionism, war) // Other Reading 38:52 // George Floyd // Dystopia as aesthetic // confusing Dystopia and Post-Apocalypse // Dystopocalypse Other book references: The Citadel of the Autarch…Read more 75: Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

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74: Days by James Lovegrove

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2020/05/18

Intro 00:07 // Synopsis 02:50 // Commentary 15:20 // The Outside (what kind of a world has gigastores?) 15:28 // Manufactured cultures (zaibatsus and phyles) 16:26 // Grant Morrison (intelligent cities and corporations as planetary contagion) 16:48 // City as organism 17:20 // (autocracy) 18:36 // (microcosm) 19:01 // (visitors) 19:41 // (spaces) 24:26 //…Read more 74: Days by James Lovegrove

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73: The Squares of the City by John Brunner

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2020/04/07

The Squares Of The City by John Brunner Show Notes Intro 00:07 // Synopsis 04:16 // Commentary 15:05 // Further Reading 21:35 Links The City Shaped and The City Assembled by Spiro Kostov City by P.D. Smith The City Accelerated, a city building tool by Ralph Lovegrove Music Credits Music is by Chris Zabriskie: chriszabriskie.com…Read more 73: The Squares of the City by John Brunner

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35:42

72: The City & The City by China Mieville

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2020/03/08

The City & The City by China Mieville Show Notes Intro 00:07 // Synopsis 01:47 // Commentary 12:02 // Breach 12:26 // Politics 18:14 // Conspiricies 19:24 // Precursor Age 25:01 // Tololgangers 28:19 // Further Reading 32:50 Links What happened at the prom by Elizabeth Lovegrove Music Credits Music is by Chris Zabriskie: chriszabriskie.com…Read more 72: The City & The City by China Mieville

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44:18

Episode 71: Ombria in Shadow by Patricia A. McKillip...

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2020/02/07

Ombria in Shadow by Patricia A. McKillip Show Notes Intro 00:07 // Synopsis 02:21 // Commentary 12:39 // Modelling the shadow city 13:00 // Crossing between worlds 14:55 // Mapping 22:53 // Further Reading 30:50 Links Corpathium (lastgaspgrimoire.com) Other fiction mentioned in the episode Neverwhere and Sandman: World’s End by Neil Gaiman The City and…Read more Episode 71: Ombria in Shadow by Patricia A. McKillip (fantasy cities pt. 3)

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1:06:49

Episdode 70: Rats and Gargoyles by Mary Gentle...

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2020/01/17

Rats and Gargoyles by Mary Gentle Rats and Gargoyles by Mary Gentle Show Notes Intro 00:07 // Synopsis 05:30 // Commentary 36:05 // Bleed 36:05 // Magic 39:09 // Magicians, Runequest and Mage: The Ascension 41:01 // Dialect 47:14 // Resources 53:45 (Yates, Agrippa, Authentic Thaumaturgy) Music Credits Music is by Chris Zabriskie: chriszabriskie.com //…Read more Episdode 70: Rats and Gargoyles by Mary Gentle (cities pt. 2)

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1:01:27

Episode 69: Viriconium by M. John Harrison (cities...

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2019/12/24

Viriconium by M. John Harrison Show Notes Synopsis 03:47 // Act 1 (Viriconium Knights, The Pastel City, Lords of Misrule) 04:13 // Act 2 (Strange Great Sins, A Storm Of Wings, The Dancer and the Dance, The Luck in the Head, The Lamia and Lord Cromis) 09:47 // Act 3 (In Viriconium, A Young Man’s…Read more Episode 69: Viriconium by M. John Harrison (cities series pt 1)

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Episode 68: Mythago Wood and Lavondyss by Robert...

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2019/10/22

Mythago Wood and Lavondyss by Robert Holdstock Show Notes Synopsis 01:10 // Mythago Wood 01:15 (plot dump 02:46) // Lavondyss 08:27 (Blavatsky 08:30) // Themes 20:07 // “British rural fantasy” 20:07 (Robin of Sherwood, Children of the Stones, Century Falls) // The “rural fantasy formula” 22:37 // Landscape 26:09 (Wizardry and Wild Romance, M John…Read more Episode 68: Mythago Wood and Lavondyss by Robert Holdstock

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26:13

Episode 67: Cyberpunk further reading

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2019/09/07

Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner Transmetropolitan by Warren Ellis Wild Palms Vurt by Jeff Noon Burning Chrome by William Gibson Show Notes Stand on Zanzibar 00:30 // Transmetropolitan 01:55 // Wild Palms 09:50 // Vurt 14:15 // Burning Chrome (and others) 22:00 Music Credits Music is by Chris Zabriskie: chriszabriskie.com // bandcamp // free…Read more Episode 67: Cyberpunk further reading

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35:27

Episode 66: The Child Garden by Geoff Ryman

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2019/08/15

The Child Garden by Geoff Ryman Show Notes Plot and Setting 01:18 (viral learning, accelerated childhood, photosynthesis, viral augmented reality, living history, communism, living history, viral empaths) // Themes 15:04 (utopia and distopia, invading thoughts in the gestalt, J G Ballard, Anne Leckie, the bigger picture, Big Questions, Cyberpunk cheats death, constrained by time, death…Read more Episode 66: The Child Garden by Geoff Ryman

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37:28

Episode 65: Autonomous by Annalee Newitz

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2019/08/05

Autonomous by Annalee Newitz Show Notes Synopsis 02:19 // Themes 06:51 // activism // corporate totalitarianism // biotech // Roleplaying 19:11 // corporate dystopia // cyberprep // PbtA and Urban Shadows (storms/fronts) // the contract // dual advancement tracks // “Village fiction” (The Prisoner, Twin Peaks, Wayward Pines) Music Credits Music is by Chris Zabriskie:…Read more Episode 65: Autonomous by Annalee Newitz

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