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22:37

Episode 64: Until the End of the World, Strange Days

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2019/07/11

This episode I’m revisiting two charming 90s near-future films: Wim Wender’s Until the End of the World, and Kathryn Bigelow’s Strange Days. Show Notes Until the End of the World 01:17 // Strange Days 06:26 // Themes 10:49 // Brain taping, addiction to dreams, Snow Crash, Dollhouse, Sense8 10:53 // Fear of the future, The…Read more Episode 64: Until the End of the World, Strange Days

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45:01

Episode 63: Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

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2019/06/24

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson Show Notes Plot and Setting 00:55 // Themes and Images 08:12 // Retrofuturism 09:05 // Baseline 09:24 // Analog 10:14 // Cyberpunk 1984 11:10 // The Gibson Continuum 13:32 // 1.cyberspace 13:54 // 2.corporate governance 14:58 // physical augmentation 16:11 // 4.prefab 17:15 // 5.individual vs collective identity 17:30 //…Read more Episode 63: Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

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1:16:00

Episode 62: Interview with Tod Foley

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2019/06/15

Fractopia Interview with Tod Foley, leader of this is Fractopia and editor of Ubiquicity, author of Day Trippers RPG and Cyberspace. Show Notes Sample topics, in approximate order: What is Fractopia? Hierarchical vs. Anarchistic Frameworks (Day-trippers vs The Strange) Daytrippers, an open-ended, multidimensional system Who buys the games? Socialist overtones of the early indie RPGs…Read more Episode 62: Interview with Tod Foley

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29:49

Episode 61: King in Yellow coda

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2019/06/08

This is a companion to and additional content that didn’t make into Episode 60. The King In Yellow by Robert W. Chambers Show Notes Plot and Setting 01:56 // Themes and Images 07:10 (False Documents, vectors, Tommy Westphall, Dollhouse, Snow Crash, Marvel Boy, The Invisibles, Kult, Hellraiser) // The RPG bit 19:23 (Freeform Games, Carcosan…Read more Episode 61: King in Yellow coda

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1:13:31

Episode 60: The King in Yellow with Scott Dorward

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2019/05/29

The King In Yellow by Robert W. Chambers With Scott Dorward from the Good Friends of Jackson Elias! Visit their site for their ongoing series on the King in Yellow. Show Notes defining cosmic horror 04:30 // gothic horror 07:50 // everything is delusion 09:50 // gothic motifs (question for Matt Sanderson) 13:20 // cosmic…Read more Episode 60: The King in Yellow with Scott Dorward

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29:40

Episode 59: Time Trap by Nicholas Fisk

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2019/05/14

Time Trap by Nicholas Fisk Show Notes Synopsis 01:37 // Themes 07:00 (time travel by hypnosis, portal fantasy, dystopian authority, tangled timelines, consensus reality) // Games 16:42 (generation ships, competing timelines, Sapphire and Steel, Event Horizon, Microscope, A Penny For My Thoughts, Chrononauts, marginalised timelines) Music Credits Music is by Chris Zabriskie: chriszabriskie.com // bandcamp…Read more Episode 59: Time Trap by Nicholas Fisk

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49:27

Episode 58: Imajica part 3

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2019/05/07

Imajica by Clive Barker (chapters 43-62, approx 450 of 1100 pages) Show Notes Synopsis 00:40 // Themes 12:05 // Wonderlands of Flesh and Blood by Christian Daumann 12:15 // Metaphors for the body 13:41 // The Patriarchal God 14:44 // Gender: female 15:22 // Gender: male 18:41 // Pie’oh’Pah 20:34 // Carnivale and the grotesque…Read more Episode 58: Imajica part 3

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50:38

Episode 57: Imajica part 2

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2019/05/01

Imajica by Clive Barker (chapters 18-42, approx 500 of 1100 pages) Show Notes Synopsis 00:35 // Themes 13:25 // What is Portal Fantasy? 13:52 // The sub-genre (self-contained, relative to our world, superstructures, identity, travellers, geography) 17:25// Dopplegangers 26:00 // Games (Portal Rats, Day Trippers, Lords of Gossamer and Shadow, Everway, Grand Tableau) 32:33 Links…Read more Episode 57: Imajica part 2

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42:38

Episode 56: Imajica by Clive Barker pt1

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2019/04/24

This is the first in a series of 3 episodes discussing Imajica by Clive Barker, covering chapters 1-17. Show Notes Synopsis 04:45 // Themes 16:39 in which I rant about 1e vs 2e Vampire the Masquerade, plus some waffle about the Urban Fantasy genre // Games Keeping Urban Fantasy “fresh” 21:15 // Department V (embarassing…Read more Episode 56: Imajica by Clive Barker pt1

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34:29

Episode 55: Cocaine Nights by J G Ballard

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2019/04/08

Cocaine Nights by J G Ballard Show Notes Synopsis 01:15 // Themes 15:15 (three act structures, crossing boundaries, Futureworld and cultists) // Games 23:11 (Lag, spheres of comfort, trusting NPCs) Music Credits Music is by Chris Zabriskie: chriszabriskie.com // bandcamp // free music archive Samples: “Is That You Or Are You You?” from Reappear //…Read more Episode 55: Cocaine Nights by J G Ballard

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51:10

Episode 54: The Tremor of Forgery by Patricia Highsmith

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2019/03/21

The Tremor of Forgery by Patricia Highsmith Show Notes Synopsis 02:48 // Themes 19:01 // Spheres // Speed of communication // Emotional and factual communication // RPG 25:58 // Dramasystem // Malandros // Lag // Next 49:34 // Cocaine Nights Music Credits Music is by Chris Zabriskie: chriszabriskie.com // bandcamp // free music archive Samples:…Read more Episode 54: The Tremor of Forgery by Patricia Highsmith

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19:26

Episode 53: Big Planet by Jack Vance

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2019/02/06

Big Planet by Jack Vance Show Notes Synopsis 01:05 // Themes 04:25 // Big Planet is Big 04:27 // Kaiju and Cthulhu 05:56 // Superstition 06:48 // Expanding consciousness 08:48 // And then there were none 10:01 // Games 10:12 // Dramasystem 11:27 // Further Afield 12:40 // Carcosa 13:54 // The Black Hack and…Read more Episode 53: Big Planet by Jack Vance

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16:41

Fictoplasm episode 52: The Land of Laughs by Jonathan...

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2019/01/22

The Land of Laughs by Jonathan Carroll Show Notes High and low fantasy definitions 01:03 // Synopsis 02:32 // A digression 04:05 // Synopsis resumed 05:05 // Themes and roleplaying 10:43 // Pale Assassins, Hope and Nabokov 12:16 Pale Assassins blog post (April 2017, DepartmentV) The Prisoner of Zenda (Nov 2016, Fictoplasm) Pale Fire (April…Read more Fictoplasm episode 52: The Land of Laughs by Jonathan Carroll

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45:31

Episode 51: fiction within fiction, part 1 (The...

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2018/07/30

This is the first of a series looking at secondary worlds that exist as known fiction inside a primary, fictional world. In this episode Ralph tackles Lev Grossman’s The Magicians, and talks to Becky Annison about her game When the Dark is Gone. Show Notes The Magicians by Lev Grossman When the Dark is Gone,…Read more Episode 51: fiction within fiction, part 1 (The Magicians, When the Dark is Gone)

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23:08

404: Under the Skin by Michael Faber

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2018/07/05

This is our 50th episode! Not doing anything special, just sipping a gin and talking about Michael Faber’s Under the Skin. Show Notes Under the Skin by Michael Faber Under the Skin (film) directed by Jonathan Glazer Synopsis 00:56 Themes 05:22 Ben Hopkins and The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz Displacement Isolation Corporate Greed Duality…Read more 404: Under the Skin by Michael Faber

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14:27

4.03: The Last Policeman, Hard Sun, The Three Body...

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2018/05/22

Ralph briefly discusses three pre-apocalyptic novels, with the conclusion that all that matters is how much time you’ve got left. Show Notes Three works of fiction 01:00 The Last Policeman by Ben Winters 01:30 Hard Sun 03:40 The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu 06:30 Remarks 08:55 Summary 12:30 Links This episode is partially inspired…Read more 4.03: The Last Policeman, Hard Sun, The Three Body Problem

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56:49

Episode 4.02: Excession by Iain M. Banks

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2018/05/13

Rhi and Paul join Ralph to talk about Iain M. Banks’ Excession and The Culture. Post-scarcity, intelligent starships, body modification and first contact. Show Notes Excession (and other Culture novels) by Iain M. Banks Rhiannon Lassiter, Paul Mitchener and Ralph Lovegrove Overview of The Culture 00:50 Synopsis of Excession 05:40 Themes 12:05 Diverging human cultures…Read more Episode 4.02: Excession by Iain M. Banks

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54:04

Episode 4.01: what we’re reading, new year 2018

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2018/05/09

Rhi, Josh and Ralph talk about books they’re reading, and other things. (I know, it’s not January, it’s May) Show Notes Rhi has been reading What Makes This Book So Great? by Jo Walton and Heriot by Margaret Mahy, and has just started Imaginary Cities by Darran Anderson. She’s looking forward to reading The Refrigerator…Read more Episode 4.01: what we’re reading, new year 2018

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28:56

Episode 4.00 Annihilation Redux

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2018/04/21

Ralph talks about running Cthulhu Dark: Annihilation at Concrete Cow, the differences between Jeff Vandermeer’s book and Alex Garland’s film, and managing player expectations in one-shots and beyond. Show Notes Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer // Annihilation by Alex Garland Planning Cthulhu Dark: Annihilation Annihilation the movie 00:45 // Differences between novel and film 03:15 //…Read more Episode 4.00 Annihilation Redux

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36:28

Episode 310: The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper

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2017/12/31

For our second seasonal episode Ralph and Liz discuss Susan Cooper’s The Dark Is Rising as part of the worldwide #thedarkisreading hashtag. Show Notes The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper Elizabeth Lovegrove and Ralph Lovegrove Synopsis 00:35 Themes 10:50 Comparisons with The Box Of Delights Winter and isolation Myth and prophecy Time travel Transformed…Read more Episode 310: The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper

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