In this week’s edition of Around the Podosphere, the podcasts have sexy pun festivals, superhero science battles, rants about video game movies, and more. Here’s what we’ve been listening to:
On Movies:
- The fine folks of We Hate Movies talk about The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking and go back in time for a G.I. Joe special!
- Jason Snell takes his guests down the Yoshi hole in the latest Incomparable episode on the Super Mario Bros. film adaptation, which is on our list of Torture Cinema hopefuls.
On Science:
- Neil DeGrasse Tyson takes us on a journey through the science of superheroes in the latest episode of StarTalk Radio.
On Writing and Books:
- On Midnight in Karachi, Mahvesh Murad interviews Aliette de Bodard about her work, from the early days to the present.
- On Rocket Talk, Justin Landon brings on Sam Sykes and Tiffany Reisz to talk about writing sex scenes. There may be a lot of puns in this one. Consider yourself warned.
- In his latest Shaun’s Rambles, Shaun talks about teaching science fiction and selecting reading lists.
- Continuing their interviews with international writers, Adventures in Sci Fi Publishing talks to Gaie Sebold and David Gullen at Archipelacon about writing strong female characters and other fun topics!
- On The Coode Street Podcast, Jonathan and Gary talk to Renay and Nina Allan on fandom, its limits and its trials.
What about you? What’s been in your ear?