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857. Aubrey Sitterson (a.k.a. The Comicstorian) — Free Planet

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https://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/archive.org/download/sand-f-857-aubrey-sitterson/SandF_857_AubreySitterson.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSRevolutions, defining freedom, and empires, oh my! Shaun Duke and Stephen Geigen-Miller sit down with comics writer Aubrey Sitterson for a conversation about Free Planet! Together, they talk about Sitterson’s collaboration with artist Jed Dougherty, his approach to visual storytelling, the narrative style of Free Planet, comics formalism, and much more! Thanks for listening. We hope you enjoy the episode!

Accelerated Growth Environment
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Book Review: Accelerated Growth Environment by Lauren C. Teffeau

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Accelerated Growth Environment is the newest SF climate fiction novella from Lauren C. Teffeau. Accelerated Growth Environment is the story of Dr. Jorna Benton. In a near- to mid-future, she is the principal scientist aboard the Climasphere, a mobile ecosphere that grows a variety of plants from different biomes. Its goal is to be a mobile nursery and a special, rapid growth environment, for plants being developed to try and help restore biomes all over the Earth. From the arctic to the desert, there is a wide variety of plants that are being developed and made ready for transplant into the world, all around the world.  It’s a big job with a big responsibility. But when things start happening to Jorna’s work, her slowly-revealed past appears to be catching up with her.

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855. Oliver Brackenbury + Molly Tanzer (NESS) — Signal Boost

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https://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/archive.org/download/sand-f-855-brackenbury-tanzer/SandF_855_BrackenburyTanzer.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSWanderers, big swords, and snake cults, oh my! Shaun Duke and Trish Matson join forces to talk about sword and sorcery with Oliver Brackenbury and Molly Tanzer. Together, they explore the history of the subgenre, talk about New Edge Sword & Sorcery and its current crowdfunding efforts, Tanzer’s work with Joiry, and much more! Thanks for listening. We hope you enjoy the episode!

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854. Krakatit (1948; dir. Otakar Vávra) — At the Movies

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https://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/archive.org/download/sand-f-854-krakatit/SandF_854_Krakatit.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSSurrealist apocalypses, power games, and WMDs, oh my! Shaun Duke and Daniel Haeusser join forces to discuss Krakatit (1948; dir. Otakar Vávra), recently re-released by Deaf Crocodile. Together, they explore the film’s gorgeous visuals, its surrealist dream logic, its politics and ideas about mass destruction, and much more! Thanks for listening. We hope you enjoy the episode!

Cover of Jitterbug by Gareth L. Powell, featuring a silhouetted black rocketship against a red background with white grid planetoids, with tethered astronaut being dragged behind it against a black wake behind it.
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Review: Jitterbug by Gareth Powell

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Gareth Powell’s Jitterbug takes Powell’s talents for Space Opera and sets them into a Baxterian-like story of Big Dumb Objects, a starship crew, and the fate of humanity.  The fate of humanity and the universe is nothing new for Gareth Powell. He’s written plenty of large scale science fiction, be it Future’s Edge, with a destroyed Earth and alien artifacts, or Stars and Bones, with humanity on arks, or the Embers of Wars novels, full of Big Dumb Objects. But always, going back earlier to his Ack-Ack Macaque novels, it’s in the end about the characters, not all of them human, that really is the center of the story. In Jitterbug, however, Powell keeps his character focused style of novel and story, and enlarges the outside scale even more this time.

Cover of Hell's Heart, by Alexis Hall, featuring a great eye surrounding by squirming pink tentacles, against a black background.
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Book Review: Hell’s Heart, by Alexis Hall

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It did take me just a little work at the beginning of the book to get into it. If you hated Moby-Dick for its pacing, or lack thereof, and for all its digressions, you’ll almost certainly hate Hell’s Heart too. If you hate disaster characters, you’ll cringe at many decisions made by “I.” But there’s much more than enough in here to keep an attentive reader thoroughly engaged and entertained. I thought it was great!

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