Podside Picnic

We chat about the amazingly pulpy Enchantress of Venus, by Leigh Brackett and her life as pulp science fiction, noir and screenwriter.

Cowabunga! We chat Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) and a bit about some of their other iterations across media, so listen in and be sure to have a slice or two to celebrate

For this episode we bring Ashely Adams back and take out our BIG shovels for The Kaiju Preservation Society. Be sure to wear your hazmat suits with this crap - it's literally radioactive!

An old acquaintance ain't forgot as we show 2022 the door and look forward to the new year.

Karlo, Kurt and Chris share a Holiday Beer. Happy Holidays, Podsiders!

This is it - as the Year of the New Sun comes to a close, we reach the end of Severian's journey. Listen to our discussion on these last, glorious chapters of The Book of the New Sun!

The most dangerous woman in speculative fiction returns! Raquel S. Benedict joins us for Black Christmas. One of the first slasher movies, it inspired Carpenter when making Halloween. Go forth, podsiders, and watch the original, accept no substitutes

Looky, looky who's got the Hooky! That's right, we revisit the reason for the season - James A. Hook, who will kidnap your loved ones if you're bad. Hell, he'll do it if you're good, too. Join us as we fight, we fly and crow

We're joined by Podside's own World Warrior, Zangief, to take the pulse of the genre and talk about the Short Fiction and Novelette ballots for the Shirley Jackson Awards.

An ex-con, a good union man and an old droid walk into a funeral on Ferrix. . . For this super-sized episode, we're joined by return guest, Trevor Drinkwater to round out our Andor coverage (at least, until 2024)

We've unlocked our premium Andor episode for you! Join us in revisiting (and mostly enjoying) Episodes 1-6 of the Disney+ show.

It's that time again - time to unlock the next step in our journey through the Year of the New Sun. Just as you can't read a Gene Wolfe story, only re-read it, so we hope it goes with podcasts. Music by Loot the Body

Welcome to the Year of the New Sun! Join us in our read-along of chapters XXI - XXX of The Citadel of the Autarch. We're getting close to the end of Severian's journey - what awaits him now? Music by Loot the Body

For our last Dinovember entry, we are joined by none other than Madhabmatics to talk about The 13th Warrior. Join us for adventure, danger, and most importantly. . . listening!

As we all take a break from eating dino-meat, let us be thankful for Primal and the epic adventures of Spear and Fang!

Ashely Adams returns to help us shovel up after this stinking pile, 65 million and 22 years in the making.

Dinovember continues as your Patreon dollars fund our visit to an island off the coast of Costa Rica, where a very ambitious new park will - we hope - open without a hitch!

For our next Dinovember episode, we read Ray Bradbury's A Sound of Thunder and compare it to one of its most famous riffs, Time and Punishment (from The Simpsons' Treehouse of Horror V)

Welcome to the Year of the New Sun! Join us in our read-along of chapters I - X of The Citadel of the Autarch. We talk about Severian's journey beyond the gates of Nessus, and if you'd like to continue the discussion consider joining our Podside Picnic discord. Music by Loot the Body

For our next Dinovember episode, Ashely Adams joins us to talk about Apple TV's Prehistoric Planet - and all her dino faves

It's that time again - time to unlock the next step in our journey through the Year of the New Sun. Just as you can't read a Gene Wolfe story, only re-read it, so we hope it goes with podcasts. Music by Loot the Body

For this premium episode, we get together to talk about the first half (Episodes 1 - 6) of the Disney+ show, Andor.

We thought we'd dug ourselves out of the Graveside, but got mixed up and ended up even further down into the prehistoric past! Ah well, digging's thirsty work so we take a break, drink some cold ones and talk dinos

Just in time for Halloween, we welcome Tai Black to Graveside to talk about the film that started it all - Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974). The grill's fired up and the meat's sizzlin'. . . why don't y'all stick around for dinner?

For this episode, the most dangerous woman in speculative fiction, Raquel S. Benedict visits Graveside to talk about the most dangerous woman in Hamilton High School - Mary Lou Maloney. Get ready to watch a jilted prom queen visit mayhem to anyone in the way of rightfully getting her tiara. . .

Gather close 'round the Graveside because today we'll be discussing the strange case detailed in F. Marion Crawford's The Screaming Skull. What - no, no, I didn't hear anything outside. Nothing at all!

It's that time again - time to unlock the next step in our journey through the Year of the New Sun. Just as you can't read a Gene Wolfe story, only re-read it, so we hope it goes with podcasts. Music by Loot the Body

Welcome to the Year of the New Sun! Join us in our read-along of chapters I - X of The Citadel of the Autarch. We talk about Severian's journey beyond the gates of Nessus, and if you'd like to continue the discussion consider joining our Podside Picnic discord. Music by Loot the Body

We return to Graveside to talk about the eerie little game, Inscryption. Part CCG, part rogue-lite, part point-and-click puzzle game, it's truly a singular game - but one that's best played in a remote cabin, out in the woods. Let us give you the directions to get there. . .

For our next Graveside offering, we discuss Stuart Gordon's From Beyond (1986). Prepare as we peer past the veil and live through the original gooped-up experience.

For our next Graveside Picnic morsel, we sample the late horror master Peter Straub's Pork Pie Hat (from his collection, Interior Darkness). Part a coming of age tale, part bloody family drama, all of it a horror of family secrets that dare not be uncovered.

Everyone says they love when their favorite stories come to life - at least until those stories try to end the world. For this Graveside episode, we're watching the last of John Carpenter's apocalypse trilogy, In the Mouth of Madness (1994). Do you read Sutter Cane?

Mattie returns to the Graveside to talk about three stories from Livia Llewellyn's collection, Furnace (Yours Is the Right to Begin, The Last, Clean, Bright Summer and and Love shall have no Dominion) Check out Mattie's fiction: https://devilsdoorbell.itch.io/

We've unlocked the crypt so our first Graveside Picnic episode can shamble across the landscape. . . FREE Emma Berquist returns to talk about John Carpenter's absolute classic, The Thing. Come for the isolation, deadly cold, and paranoia - stay for the body horror!

Welcome to the Year of the New Sun! Join us in our read-along of chapters XXVI - XXXVIII of The Sword of the Lictor. Listen as we talk about Severian's journey beyond the gates of Nessus, and if you'd like to continue the discussion consider joining our Podside Picnic discord. Music by Loot the Body

What happens when you're centuries old and the thrill of unlife pales? We invite Nebula-nominated author Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam to watch Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) and find out. Check out Bonnie's new novella, Glorious Fiends https://www.amazon.com/Glorious-Fiends-Bonnie-Jo-Stufflebeam/dp/1630230669 Or her short story collection, Where You Linger: https://www.amazon.com/Where-You-Linger-Bonnie-Stufflebeam/dp/1952283221

Is GWAR a band and artist collective out of Richmond, Virginia or are they the vessels for a cosmic race of barbarian demigods? Porque no los dos?

Pete and Karlo chat about Michael Swanwick's fabulist science fiction novel, Stations of the Tide. Is a character named only "The Bureaucrat" to be trusted?

Hit Factory's back, which means Aaron and Carlee are here to chat about Jordan Peele's newest film, Nope (2022). Come get the takes while they're hot!

We get together to chat about Star Trek's most recent show, Strange New Worlds. Listen in and get ready to punch it

We gripe a bit about who put all this sand in our beer as we talk about The Sandman and the recent Netflix adaptation

We're back to read the short stories and novelettes we didn't already cover in our Nebula Predictions episode, this time with special guest and World's Greatest Writer, June Martin (if you don't believe us, visit her at https://theworldsgreatestwriter.com/)

Welcome to the Year of the New Sun! Join us in our read-along of chapters XVI - XXV of The Sword of the Lictor. Listen as we talk about Severian's journey beyond the gates of Nessus, and if you'd like to continue the discussion consider joining our Podside Picnic discord. Music by Loot the Body

For our last Augustageddon episode we talk about James Tiptree Jr.'s (as Racoona Sheldon) The Screwfly Solution, where a harrowing new pandemic sweeps the globe.

It's that time again - time to unlock the next step in our journey through the Year of the New Sun. Just as you can't read a Gene Wolfe story, only re-read it, so we hope it goes with podcasts. Music by Loot the Body

Ready for an early live-action Transformers knock-off? For our next Augustageddon entry, we discuss the Stuart Gordon/Joe Haldeman (yes, THAT Joe Haldeman) collaboration, Robot Jox (1989). Crash and burn, folks. . . Crash and burn.

Our next Augustageddon episode discusses Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" and how the House of Tomorrow handles there being no tomorrow Read the story: https://www.btboces.org/Downloads/7_There%20Will%20Come%20Soft%20Rains%20by%20Ray%20Bradbury.pdf

Podside's next Augustaggedon episode is another insect-centered one. There's a lot of ants in this one, but no picnic - only a new world order.

Next up for Augustageddon, we visit another apocalypse on another planet in the James Tiptree Jr's 1973 award-winning story Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death (link below). Keep a watch on those winters. . . Read the story (audio version - highly recommended): https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/love-is-the-plan-the-plan-is-death/

Welcome to the Year of the New Sun! Join us in our read-along of chapters VI - XV of The Sword of the Lictor. Listen as we talk about Severian's journey beyond the gates of Nessus, and if you'd like to continue the discussion consider joining our Podside Picnic discord. Music by Loot the Body