Science Fiction
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Episode 150: Melissa Crandall!
Episode 150 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. In this week’s episode, I talk to the fantasy, science fiction, and nonfiction writer Melissa Crandall, plus Síofra Shaman Skye shares a letter she wrote to J.D. Salinger. TEXTS DISCUSSED Check out Melissa Crandall’s blog, The… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #21: The Call
Buzzed Books #21 by Leslie Salas Pat Rushin’s The Call The Call: A Virtual Parable, is the novella that inspired the screenplay for Terry Gilliam’s The Zero Theorem. Both novella and screenplay, penned by Pat Rushin, explore existentialism and causality through the exploits of a certain entity-cruncher who refers to himself in the first-person-plural perspective.… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #71: Scanners
The Curator of Schlock #71 by Jeff Shuster Scanners Now with More Asterisks! It’s New Year’s Day and I’m trying to think of something significant to say about the movie Scanners. Actually, it’s technically the day after New Year’s day, if you want to get technical. I think it’s almost 2 A.M. and I have… Continue reading
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Episode 117: Pat Rushin!
Episode 117 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. In this week’s episode, I interview Pat Rushin, who authored the screenplay for the new Terry Gilliam film, The Zero Theorem, which opens in the U.S.A on September 19th, Plus Craig-Paul Moreau writes about Randy Shilts’s And the… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #29: Star Trek: The Motion Picture
The Curator of Schlock #29 by Jeffrey Shuster Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Back when motion pictures had motion pictures in the title!) This is a bad film. I know Star Trek: The Motion Picture has its defenders and to them I would ask, “What is wrong with you?” Yes, the model work is impressive… Continue reading
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Like a Geek God #4: The Uncomfortable Question of Orson Scott Card
Like a Geek God #4 by Mark Pursell The Uncomfortable Question of Orson Scott Card Separating the art from the artist is a necessary element of art appreciation in any medium, but in the Information Age, it’s easier said than done. The Internet affords a heretofore never-experienced level of accessibility to one’s favorite singers, writers,… Continue reading
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Like a Geek God #3: Doctor Who, An Unarmed Hero
Like a Geek God #3 by Mark Purcell Doctor Who: An Unarmed Hero for a World That Won’t Put Down Its Guns Whenever an incident of mass shooting violence strikes flint to the tinder of our national consciousness, many people—both the media and the laity—are quick to scapegoat pop culture as the primary contributing factor. … Continue reading
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Like a Geek God #1: Pacific Rim and the Ballet of Mayhem
Like a Geek God #1 by Mark Pursell Pacific Rim and the Ballet of Mayhem Mayhem is problematic. In recent years, it seems as if action filmmakers have lost the thread of what makes grand-prix melee both engaging and eye-widening. The fight scenes in the Transformers movies are a dark, disorienting blur of flailing metal. … Continue reading
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