Science Fiction
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The Curator of Schlock #235: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom vs. Rampage
The Curator of Schlock #235 by Jeff Shuster Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom vs. Rampage Why can’t scientists leave well enough alone? We’re back with another versus column. I tried this last week with Death Wish (1974) and Death Wish (2018) with stellar results if I do say so myself. I had the pleasure of seeing… Continue reading
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Episode 293: A Star Wars Roundtable (Happy Life Day!)
Episode 293 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, Tod Caviness, Julian Chambliss, Dianne Turgeon Richardson, and Jared Silvia join me in a roundtable discussion of the Star Wars Christmas Special of 1978 and maybe got a few other topics in there… Continue reading
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Episode 257: A Craft Discussion of Margaret Atwood’s In Other Worlds with Vanessa Blakeslee!
Episode 257 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 with Vanessa Blakeslee about Margaret Atwood’s In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination. TEXTS DISCUSSED Episode 257 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available… Continue reading
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Episode 221: There Will Be Fan Fiction 2 (The Revenge)
Episode 221 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 share There Will Be Fan Fiction 2, a special edition of Jesse Bradley’s prose reading series, There Will Be Words. This installment features the fan fiction of Shauna Basques… Continue reading
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Episode 187: Kelly Link!
Episode 187 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 fiction writer Kelly Link, Plus I share the reading she participated in, “Short Stories, Tall Tales,” also featuring Adam Johnson and Padgett Powell. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES A Quaker high… Continue reading
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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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