Podcasts about catherynne valente

Eurovision meets Die Hard, in SPACE? As though that's not enough to discuss, many fans (and Verities) have finally had their theories validated. Join Tansy, Kat, and Lynne as they talk about their experiences with Eurovision, break down the Interstellar Song Contest, and then spend some quality time examining the two big, exciting twists in the episode. What did you think of The Interstellar Song Contest? Had you watched Eurovision before this, or did Doctor Who introduce you to this annual extravaganza? We'd love to hear from you! Take a moment to leave a comment here, send us an email, or join us over on BlueSky or Instagram. ^K Finding Eurovision, Kat's Eurovision podcast mini-series. The Catherynne Valente novels Lynne talked about: Space Opera & Space Oddity

Catherynne Valente discusses her novels Space Opera and Space Oddity.

Lords: * Nathan * https://store.steampowered.com/app/2976260/ChainStaff/ * Tom Topics: * During the summer olympics, France introduced breakdancing as an event, which was invented in America. They stole it from us! What new event should we steal from another country when the Olympics comes to LA in 2028? * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izzy_(mascot) * Getting to an age where media is good: the writers are your contemporaries so their work doesn't feel stodgy anymore. * How are you saying goodbye to trigraphs? * Rain by Raymond Carver * https://readalittlepoetry.com/2012/12/13/rain-by-raymond-carver/ * Jumping levels of abstraction while explaining computery things, how to pronounce angle brackets and command-line flags * 3rd tetris playtest developed ("rolling"), ponder an entirely new approach to a game (or medium, or problem) that comes nearly 40 years later. * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV5DIZyqsaw Microtopics: * Whether the chain staff is also the grappling hook. * How all games ought to be made. * Using an ancient alien artifact as an immersion blender. * Getting the steamer arm upgrade before you can steam the milk. * Space Opera by Catherynne Valente. * Books where you read a couple paragraphs and you're done for the day. * A sport where if you reach just a little bit further maybe you can touch your opponent's face with your foot. * Stealing cheese rolling from France at the 2028 Olympics. * Hosting the Olympics: a huge money-loser. * Shouldering the terrible burden of hosting the 2028 Olympics. * Aging up the 1996 Olympics mascot so they'll be the right age for the 2028 Olympics. * The Chinese Olympics mascot Jim keeps confusing for Tingle. * Olympic announcers just assuming everyone knows what a "B-Boy" is. * This right here is a horse. * Arranging a competition as bracket of 1v1 matches when it could just as easily be individually scored performances. * Gymnasts all over the world chalking their hands because humans are more alike than they are different. * Running fast at the Olympics. * Hiring Topic Lords as Olympic announcers. * Synchronized swimming except you need to synchronize with all your competitors. * Getting out the shotgun mics to televise basketball players trash talking each other. * Liking television alongside people who share your generational values. * Enjoying being part of a target demographic until you get too old. * Making an effort to appreciate new art more. * The inexhaustible supply of old movies you haven't seen. * What is lost and what is gained now that we're not all watching exactly the same TV shows every night. * Realizing your social values match the media you're consuming because you didn't roll your eyes at the Very Special Episode. * All the video games where you build a bionic arm for an NPC. * Two guys in a missile silo arguing to keep trigraphs in the C standard. * Boring programming situations where memory leaks are impossible. * A guy drinking a beer looking over your shoulder while you program who says "yep" whenever you do something he approves of. * Compiling C++ to a web site. * Writing a web assembly program by typing opcodes into a Javascript string. * What website people are into. * Music that plays while you're waiting for a game to load. * Loading the loading screen. * Some things are being destroyed and other things rebuilt. * Waking up and it's raining. * Saying you have no regrets when of course you have regrets – everyone has regrets, fool! * What cities were destroyed in December 2012? * Scraping information so you can stick it in a file system. * Complete List of Destroyed Cities. * How grumpy Raymond Carver was as a six year old. * How to communicate about what you want someone to type. * What they call curly braces in other countries. * Smooth brackets. * How Mandarin speakers write C code. * Drawing weird shit with Unicode glyphs, making it your URL, printing it on the side of a bus and making people figure out how to type it. * Mathematicians giving all their variables single letter names. * Embarrassing yourself by begging the compiler to not reformat your code. * Choosing to do the easy part of your job right now. * How to play Tetris faster. * Strumming arcade buttons to press them faster. * Weird ways of holding the NES controller to move Tetris pieces faster. * A new way to interact with this piece of plastic. * Turning the back of the controller into a giant button. * What high jump competitors thought the first time they saw the Fosbury Flop. * Learning to do close-up magic and getting frustrated because you can't literally make the card vanish. * Funding a weird game and finding out later if it ever ships. * Whether the folks who made ZPF considered any better names.

In this conversation, Mojo sits down with SJ Tucker to discuss the 20th anniversary of her first album, Haphazard. They talk about the album cover, the process of recording the album, and the stories behind some of the tracks. SJ shares her experiences in the music industry and the importance of community support. The conversation highlights the journey of a young artist finding her voice and creating music that resonates with her audience. Haphazard is an album that holds a special place in SJ Tucker's heart, as it represents her journey as a musician and her connection to the pagan community. The album features songs that reflect her experiences and emotions, from the story of Inanna and Ereshkigal in 'Crystal Cave' to the empowerment anthem 'Stick It'. SJ shares the stories behind each song, including the influence of her dear friend and collaborator, Catherynne Valente. The album captures Tucker's growth as an artist and her commitment to authenticity and self-expression. Purchase Haphazard and all of SJ's music here! It's All About the Love!

In this episode of Critical Friends, the Strange Horizons SFF criticism podcast, Aisha and Dan discuss what happens when books make you work. How does a reader know whether to persevere with a book when at first they're not sure of it? How can we decide if a book really isn't working on its own terms—or whether we're missing something and need to pay closer attention? And how can a critical reader check their own expectations to assess a text fairly? Expect discussion of Susannah Clarke, Yuri Herrera, Christopher Priest, Catherynne Valente, and more. A transcript of this episode is available in the June 19th, 2023 issue of Strange Horizons.

What could possibly be so bad about paradise? Catherynne Valente joins us to dish on her terrific new novella COMFORT ME WITH APPLES. Plus: the French Revolution, the Masked Singer and more!

Felicia discusses all things fairy tales (and early web pioneering) with author Catherynne Valente. Her new middle grade book "Osmo Unknown & the Eightpenny Woods" is out April 26th!  catherynnemvalente.com

This week, we're reposting two awesome interviews with authors who were just nominated for the Hugo Award. Our guest today was nominated 3 times for best short story, best novelette, and best novella. Today's guest is fantasy and science fiction author Catherynne Valente. Catherynne Valente is the writer of The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (and the four books that followed it), Palimpsest, the Orphan's Tales series and so many books you've probably read or heard about. She's a New York Times bestselling author, winner of the Andre Norton, Tiptree, Sturgeon, Eugie Foster Memorial, Mythopoeic, Rhysling, Lambda, Locus, Hugo awards, and more. Usually, in Geekdom Empowers we follow the paths of the geeks around the world who are not highlighted. And yet, Cat's path is exactly the path we talk about. She talks about how, with the power of social media, before it was called social media, she got from knowing no one to what she is today. Social media helped her every stage of the way, including today where her Patreon gives her financial independence from the publishers. It is the story of a rise to success of an author who came from nothing, knowing no one. It is the story of an author who made her own niche, who kept her style and authenticity, and who has withstood, as we'll see, quite a bit of terrible pushback from science fiction and fantasy fans. I think you'll enjoy this interview. It's fascinating. You can find Catherynne Valente here: Website: catherynnemvalente.com/ Twitter: twitter.com/catvalente Instagram: www.instagram.com/catvalente Geekdom Empowers comes out Tuesdays and Thursdays. You can find us here: Website: www.geekdomeempowers.com Instagram: www.instagram.com/geekdomempowers/ Twitter: twitter.com/GeekdomEmpowers Facebook: www.facebook.com/geekdomempowers TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@geekdomempowers

In this episode of The Written World Podcast, we discuss Space Opera by Catherynne Valente. Listen to find out what we thought, what we liked & didn't, and who we would (or wouldn't) recommend this particular read to. We'll also share our own pieces of writing inspired by this book, and stay tuned at the end for a special, personalized book recommendation! This podcast was edited by Sophie Goad.

Y'all wanted a rebrand?In every episode of Pressed Pages, we'll be going over the books we read during the month and pick a book of a random genre to discuss.  February's random pick is... Stalked by the Kraken by Lillian Lark. Buddy read with us!Check out our socials: Dani's Twitter and Goodreads, Azalea's Twitter and Goodreads. BOOKS MENTIONED:Waiting on a Bright Moon by Neon YangA Psalm for the Wild Built, A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky ChambersElectric Idol by Katee RobertMexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-GarciaGetting to Know Grace by HildeComfort Me with Apples by Catherynne ValenteFix Her Up, Love Her or Lose Her by Tessa BaileyRun Away with Me, Girl by Battan

Perfect places breed hideous crimes – that's my understanding at least. If you like The Twilight Zone, Black Mirror, or Twin Peaks (or anything by David Lynch) then you'll get a kick out of Catherynne M. Valente's Comfort Me with Apples.Despite being a novella of less than 130 pages, it crams in everything from the whole rotten tradition of awful things – from the book of Genesis, via fairytales and the Gothic, all the way up to the most cutting-edge dystopian sci-fi. This tiny tale of a perfect small town and a perfect marriage, all undercut with the sour tang of wrongness. Catherynne talks in detail about the various strands that she has knotted together into this story. We cover religion and the potential for evil within, Disney towns and cartoon police, and we discuss why Bluebeard and his locked cellar door is such a key and recurrent trope in domestic horror. And, as ever, I take the chance to go off on a frothing political rant.Enjoy! Comfort Me with Apples is published by Tor on November 9th Check out Mark Kermode's rant about the movie Entourage – to prepare for the Hallowe'en special.Support the show on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/TalkingScaredPodCome talk books on Twitter @talkscaredpod, on Instagram, or email direct to talkingscaredpod@gmail.com. Download Novellic on Google Play or Apple Store.

In an ISN/IPM exclusive, friend of the show and multiple award-winning SFF author Cat Valente returns! In her previous appearance we briefly discussed how the video game epic Mass Effect liberally borrows from Babylon 5, and so when the Legendary Edition of Mass Effect dropped we knew we had to have her back to dive deeper into the canon that she has actually significantly contributed to.We discuss Cat's books, our approach to the games, and why Garrus fits a friend-shaped hole in our lives. Oh, and also how Picard is literally just Mass Effect.Cat's Twitter: @catvalente Cat's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/catvalente/.Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/catvalente/status/1371874910314840072Connect with the show at @babylonpodjectHelp us keep the lights on via our Patreon!Justen can be found at @justenwritesAna can be found at @The_Mianaai, and also made our show art.Both Ana and Justen can also be found on The Compleat Discography, a Discworld re-read podcast.Jude Vais can be found at @eremiticjude. His other work can be found at Athrabeth - a Tolkien Podcast and at Garbage of the Five Rings."The Voice" of the Babylon Podject is provided by Alyson Grauer, who can be found at @dreamstobecomeClips from the original show remain copyrighted by Warner Bros, Inc. and are used under the Fair Use doctrine.Music attribution:The Descent by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4490-the-descentLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This show is edited and produced by Aaron Olson, who can be found at @urizenxvii

Today in botanical history, we celebrate a Spanish botanist, a Swiss poet and diarist, and an American industrialist. We'll hear an excerpt from a best-selling book where the main character is a 12-year-old girl named September. We Grow That Garden Library™ with a book that offers a year of fantastic wild flower paintings and notes. And then we'll wrap things up with a lab girl - a scientist whose incredible book was released just five years ago.   Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart To listen to the show while you're at home, just ask Alexa or Google to “Play the latest episode of The Daily Gardener Podcast.” And she will. It's just that easy.   The Daily Gardener Friday Newsletter Sign up for the FREE Friday Newsletter featuring: A personal update from me Garden-related items for your calendar The Grow That Garden Library™ featured books for the week Gardener gift ideas Garden-inspired recipes Exclusive updates regarding the show Plus, each week, one lucky subscriber wins a book from the Grow That Garden Library™ bookshelf.   Gardener Greetings Send your garden pics, stories, birthday wishes, and so forth to Jennifer@theDailyGardener.org   Facebook Group If you'd like to check out my curated news articles and original blog posts for yourself, you're in luck. I share all of it with the Listener Community in the Free Facebook Group - The Daily Gardener Community. So, there's no need to take notes or search for links. The next time you're on Facebook, search for Daily Gardener Community, where you'd search for a friend... and request to join. I'd love to meet you in the group.   Curated News New books: how designers see the world | Wallpaper.com | Jonathan Bell   Important Events September 27, 1777 Birth of Simón de Rojas Clemente, Spanish botanist, intellectual, politician, and spy. He is regarded as the father of European ampelography (the identification and classification of grapevines). Today a statue of Simón overlooks the Royal Botanical Garden in Madrid. In the early 1800s, Simón taught Arabic. One of his students, Domingo Badía Leblich, invited Simón on an extensive trip through Africa from the Atlas Mountains to the Nile. Anticipating resistance from locals, Domingo and Simón disguised themselves as Muslims and even changed their names. Simón became Mohamad Ben-Alí. And at some point after joining the expedition, Simón learned the true reason for the trip: spying on North Africa for Manuel Godoy, the First Secretary of State of Spain. Simón went on to explore Andalusia before returning to Madrid, where he served as the director of the Royal Botanical Garden library. In 1820, Simón planted a collection of grapevines at the Madrid Royal Botanic Garden. To this day, Simón's grapes are among the wine and table grapes grown in the garden since the 18th century. Simón's herbarium contained 186 specimens of grapes, which remain in excellent condition. They are especially prized because they are the oldest collection of grapevines and because Simón collected them before phylloxera arrived in Spain. Today Simón's grapevine specimens have been genetically analyzed thanks to modern DNA testing.   September 27, 1821 Birth of Henri Frederic Amiel, Swiss philosopher & poet. He is remembered for his Journal Intime, which he kept from 1847 until twenty-two days before he died in 1881. On August 26, 1868, he wrote, Say to yourself that you are entering upon the autumn of your life; that the graces of spring and the splendors of summer are irrevocably gone, but that autumn, too, has its beauties. The autumn weather is often darkened by rain, cloud, and mist, but the air is still soft, and the sun still delights the eyes, and touches the yellowing leaves caressingly: it is the time for fruit, for harvest, for the vintage, the moment for making provision for the winter. My life has reached its month of September. May I recognize it in time, and suit thought and action to the fact! He also wrote, A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.   September 27, 1877 Birth of James Drummond Dole, American industrialist. Known as the “Pineapple King,” he founded the pineapple industry in Hawaii. His Hawaiian Pineapple Company (HAPCO) later became the Dole Food Company. In 1899, James made his way to Hawaii after graduating from Harvard. After realizing that the native Kona pineapple could not be grown commercially, he started growing a Florida variety known as Smooth Cayenne on sixty acres. The local newspapers scoffed at his idea. James persisted and hired help to create a machine that could process one hundred pineapples every minute. He also aggressively marketed pineapple in mainland America. Within twenty years, Hawaiian pineapples dominated the market. In the first half of the 20th century, the popularity of the pineapple upside-down cake further helped the pineapple become mainstream. In terms of their makeup, pineapples contain an enzymatic protein called bromelain - a chemical that prevents gelatin from setting. Once a pineapple is heated for canning, the bromelain is destroyed, which is why canned pineapple can be used successfully with jello. Today, Hawaii produces only .13 of the world's pineapple.   Unearthed Words She liked anything orange: leaves; some moons; marigolds; chrysanthemums; cheese; pumpkin, both in pie and out; orange juice; marmalade. Orange is bright and demanding. You can't ignore orange things. She once saw an orange parrot in the pet store and had never wanted anything so much in her life. She would have named it Halloween and fed it butterscotch. Her mother said butterscotch would make a bird sick and, besides, the dog would certainly eat it up. September never spoke to the dog again — on principle. ― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making   Grow That Garden Library Wild Flowers of Britain by Margaret Erskine Wilson This book came out in 2016, and the subtitle is Month by Month. Here's what the publisher wrote about this book: Margaret Erskine Wilson, late President of Kendal Natural History Society, was a keen amateur botanist and watercolorist. In 1999, she donated to the Society 150 sheets of water-colour paintings representing a thousand British and Irish plants in flower and fruit, painted in situ over many years and in various places. At the time she donated the paintings to Kendal Natural History Society, she wrote: Begun in 1943/4 for a friend who said, 'I might learn the names of flowers if you drew them for me, in the months they're in flower'! The result is this beautiful, previously unpublished book of all her accurate and informative illustrations, painted over a period of 45 years. Over a thousand British and Irish flowers are represented in this book, and it still today serves Margaret Erskine Wilson's original purpose - it is an easy way to learn the names of our delicate and beautiful wild flowers. This book is 176 pages of a year's worth of Margaret Erskine Wilson's extraordinary paintings, notes, the English common names, and the scientific names. You can get a copy of Wild Flowers of Britain by Margaret Erskine Wilson and support the show using the Amazon Link in today's Show Notes for around $12   Today's Botanic Spark Reviving the little botanic spark in your heart September 27, 1969 Birth of Hope Jahren, American geochemist and geobiologist. In her work at the University of Oslo in Norway, she analyzes fossil forests dating to the Eocene. Her popular book Lab Girl (2016) is part memoir and part ode to nature. In Lab Girl, she wrote, There are botany textbooks that contain pages and pages of growth curves, but it is always the lazy-S-shaped ones that confuse my students the most. Why would a plant decrease in mass just when it is nearing its plateau of maximum productivity? I remind them that this shrinking has proved to be a signal of reproduction. As the green plants reach maturity, some of their nutrients are pulled back and repurposed toward flowers and seeds. Production of the new generation comes at a significant cost to the parent, and you can see it in a cornfield, even from a great distance.   Thanks for listening to The Daily Gardener. And remember: “For a happy, healthy life, garden every day.”

Today's guest is fantasy and science fiction author Catherynne Valente. Catherynne Valente is the writer of The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (and the four books that followed it), Palimpsest, the Orphan's Tales series and so many books you've probably read or heard about. She's a New York Times bestselling author, winner of the Andre Norton, Tiptree, Sturgeon, Eugie Foster Memorial, Mythopoeic, Rhysling, Lambda, Locus, Hugo awards, and more. Usually, in Geekdom Empowers we follow the paths of the geeks around the world who are not highlighted. And yet, Cat's path is exactly the path we talk about. She talks about how, with the power of social media, before it was called social media, she got from knowing no one to what she is today. Social media helped her every stage of the way, including today where her Patreon gives her financial independence from the publishers. It is the story of a rise to success of an author who came from nothing, knowing no one. It is the story of an author who made her own niche, who kept her style and authenticity, and who has withstood, as we'll see, quite a bit of terrible pushback from science fiction and fantasy fans. I think you'll enjoy this interview. It's fascinating. You can find Catherynne Valente here: Website: http://catherynnemvalente.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/catvalente Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/catvalente Geekdom Empowers comes out every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. You can find us here: Website: www.geekdomeempowers.com Instagram: www.instagram.com/geekdomempowers/ Twitter: twitter.com/GeekdomEmpowers Facebook: www.facebook.com/geekdomempowers TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@geekdomempowers

Original broadcast date April 11, 2019. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2019/04/binary-system-podcast-172-welcome-to-night-vale-145-the-veterans/ We learn a little more about an ongoing conflict rocketing across time and space in this week's episode, as Night Vale welcomes home several returning soldiers from the Blood Space War. Among other things, we find out that the attackers are the Polonians from star system Lakaia 9352, our allies are Beings of Astonishing Structure from Battle Station Wolfgang, and John Peters (you know, the farmer) and his brother Jim had a father who was awesome. Fair warning, the creators of Night Vale drew some parallels in this episode with our own country's treatment of veterans and it's NOT SUBTLE. It's also not wrong. In order to lighten things up after the recap we switched over to (deep breath): the Hugo Nominees https://pixelatedgeek.com/2019/04/2019-hugo-awards-the-finalists/#more-151731 (Catherynne Valente and Lindsay Ellis, yay!), an idea for a work of team fiction, the movie Annihilation, the Zero Punctuation video game reviews, photo galleries from Wondercon, and catching a cold at Wondercon. Cough. This week's outro music is a clip from Transition by Six Umbrellas http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Six_Umbrellas/Private_Ark/02_Six_Umbrellas_-_Transition?fbclid=IwAR2wbLNeF3K2RN-_xvy0duFOYtAEKBIMrz3dKMvWfX1moOpBa-i4odIWafY The first part of Lindsay Ellis's Hobbit duology (in three parts) can be found here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTRUQ-RKfUs&t=471s

Lizy psychoanalyzes some billionaires. Joseph ranks some friends. This week, we're putting on our bifocals for a book review! Join us for the first-ever meeting of the Bifocals Book Club as we critique Catherynne Valente's 2018 science-fiction novel, Space Opera!Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/bifocalscast?fan_landing=true

Welcome back to the Crown & Anchor, Greyhounds! On this bonus episode Christian and Brett host the wonderful Catherynne Valente to discuss her recent essay, "This Better Not Awaken Anything In Me: How Ted Lasso Totally Did Awaken Lots of Things In Me Even Though Absolutely No One Asked It To Go So Hard."Our conversation touches on Bob Fosse, Star Wars, Eurovision,  David Foster Wallace, Allen Iverson, and Kanye. We  also chat about how Ted Lasso exemplifies the highest ideals of Americanism, how he inspires us to become better versions of ourselves, and how we all just wish he was our dad. Discussed On This EpisodeThis Better Not Awaken Anything In Me: How Ted Lasso Totally Did Awaken Lots of Things In Me Even Though Absolutely No One Asked It To Go So Hard (Catherynne Valente, 2021)The Bechdel Test (Dictionary dot com)Cat Valente’s Patreon, Twitter, and Instagram pagesThe Refrigerator Monologues (Catherynne Valente & Annie Wu, 2017)Women In Refrigerators (Wikipedia, 1999)Space Opera (Catherynne Valente, 2018)All That Jazz (IMDB, 1979)The "Ted Lasso" way is comforting – and a counter to the hollow nationalism Americans have embraced (Salon, 2020)'Ted Lasso' Is a Wonderful Comfort Binge, Really (Thrillist, 2020)E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction (David Foster Wallace, 1993)Iverson Practice! (Youtube, 2002)Everything an American needs to Understand Eurovision (Vox, 2014)From A Certain Point of View (Star Wars, 2017)Exogorth (Wookieepedia)A Brief History of Pitch Correction in Music (Izotope, 2018)Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram.A full transcript of this episode can be found here.Richmond Til We Die is a conversation about the Apple TV+ show Ted Lasso. A place where fans (and curious newcomers) come together to discuss the characters, their relationships to each other, and how they're able to make us laugh until we can hardly breathe one minute and then feel with the deepest parts of our hearts the next. When you're here, you're a Greyhound!

Welcome to episode 7 of Season 12 of The Coode Street Podcast. This week Jonathan and Gary return to form with a classic ramble through a jumble of topics ranging from the postponement of this year's Swancon in Perth (and a bit of trivia about an American Swanncon from decades ago); the possible effects of the missing convention years on the SFF field; a brief foray into utopian/dystopian fiction; Charles de Lint, urban fantasy, and his new novel Juniper Wiles; our mutual admiration for Catherynne Valente's forthcoming The Past is Red; and bits about what we've been reading lately, including Nghi Vo's The Chosen and the Beautiful, fictions that focus on a single technology like Sarah Pinsker's We Are Satellites, alternate histories like P. Djèlí Clark's A Master of Djinn, set in Cairo, and why we've been overloaded on London steampunk (especially on TV), while other world cities seem to get short shrift in the whole steampunk/alternate history trend. Some of these authors, we promise, will get a chance to speak for themselves in future episodes. This year has been tough for a lot of people. Swancon has suffered a lot of extra costs and GoH Claire Coleman is running a GoFundMe to help them out. You can donate here. Also, John Varley had major heart surgery earlier this year. They're running a GoFundMe to help him with expenses. You can donate here. Both campaigns are worthy of support. As always, we hope you enjoy the podcast. We'll see you again soon!  

In which the Podject crew are joined by a guest star: SFF author Cat Valente! Cat shares what she loves about B5 and why it means so much to her, in prose and poetry! She and the crew discuss the show broadly as well as Cat's recent tweet thread on technology, the Nobel effect, space travel feasibility, Babylon 5, and sci-fi in general. Finally, everyone discusses what they'd like to see in a reboot of the show, and whether they'd actually want to watch a reboot. Cat's Twitter: @catvalente Cat's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/catvalente/.Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/catvalente/status/1371874910314840072Connect with the show at @babylonpodjectHelp us keep the lights on via our Patreon!Justen can be found at @justenwritesAna can be found at @The_Mianaai, and also made our show art.Both Ana and Justen can also be found on The Compleat Discography, a Discworld re-read podcast.Jude Vais can be found at @eremiticjude. His other work can be found at Athrabeth - a Tolkien Podcast and at Garbage of the Five Rings."The Voice" of the Babylon Podject is provided by Alyson Grauer, who can be found at @dreamstobecomeClips from the original show remain copyrighted by Warner Bros, Inc. and are used under the Fair Use doctrine.Music attribution:The Descent by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4490-the-descentLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This show is edited and produced by Aaron Olson, who can be found at @urizenxvii

Welcome to episode 4 of Season 12 of The Coode Street Podcast. Despite an unexpected glitch that caused Jonathan to disappear partway through, he and Gary are joined by Veronica Schanoes, whose Burning Girls and Other Stories is just out, with endorsements from writers and scholars as diverse as Karen Joy Fowler, Jack Zipes, Jane Yolen, Catherynne Valente, Jeffrey Ford, and Roz Kaveny. We talk about fairy tales, anti-Semitism, feminism, labour history, immigrant history, punk rock, and many other elements that go to make up her remarkable short stories. As always, we'd like to thank Veronica for making the time to talk to us, and hope you enjoy the podcast.

A live reading of Chapter 1 of this amazing book! Some timely ideas for our world at the moment seeming to continue to struggle with "who is people and who is meat?" Buy her book (this is my second copy!) at you favorite local book seller.  Tip your reader (me!) on PayPal THIS IS AN EXPERIMENT and maybe the GlamourHobo Bedtime Tales will get its own podcast?  Find original work and support the arts economy on my Patreon.

Hit the road, jack, and don't you come back no more no more no MORE NO MORE Okay, serenades aside, this week as you're preparing to undergo your own road trips and holiday journeys, we're back with a deep dive into the various manifestations of road trips in science fiction and fantasy. We ask all of the important questions, like: journey or destination--how do they relate? What separates a "road trip" from a standard "journey narrative"? What does a poem by Margaret Atwood have to do with ANY of this craziness? And why do we love road trip narratives as a whole, and why do we love some specific stories ... specifically? Some of the many texts we interrogate include: David Mitchell's "Cloud Atlas," JRRT's "Lord of the Rings," Brian K. Vaughan's greater body of comic work, Catherynne Valente's "Space Opera" and its inspiration, Douglas Adams' "Hitchhiker's Guide," Richard Powers' "The Overstory," Jacqueline Carey's "Starless," Seanan McGuire's "Ghost Roads" series, the film "Mad Max: Fury Road" and ... yes, a whole lot more. Even the Epic of Gilgamesh (the FIRST RECORDED STORY, WHAT) gets some brief, and laughing love. You can find our back episodes on YouTube. Our Twitter handle is @imaginary_pod, our website www.imaginaries.net, and our email imaginarypod@gmail.com. If you would like to help support our work, you can do so at www.ko-fi.com/imaginaries. And don't forget to vote on on our "What Should We Read Next?" lists on Goodreads! See our Twitter for more information on that. Thanks for listening!

What are space operas, and what is their relationship to science fiction? Join us this episode for a long talk on the ins and outs, the ups and downs, and the future significance of this--what, subgenre? Mode? Cat? CATS! We open with a quick reading from Catherynne Valente's new breakout hit, appropriately titled "Space Opera" and featuring, appropriately, one super serious feline threat. We then talk about a number of other, less obviously named space operas, including the immortal "Hitchhiker's Guide," some Kim Stanley Robinson, "Star's End," and Ian McDonald's "Luna" series. We give a quick hat-tip to fan favorites such as the MCU (especially "Guardians of the Galaxy" and "Thor: Ragnarok"), "Star Wars," and "Star Trek." We're interested in modes and media, stakes and science, and what makes a blockbuster versus a flop. It's all here, and it's all SUPER DRAMATIC! You can find our back episodes on YouTube. Our Twitter handle is @imaginary_pod, our website www.imaginaries.net, and our email imaginarypod@gmail.com. If you would like to help support our work, you can do so at www.ko-fi.com/imaginaries. And don't forget to vote on on our "What Should We Read Next?" lists on Goodreads! See our Twitter for more information on that. Thanks for listening!

This week's episode ranges from a discussion about the growing importance of novellas and their advantages both for readers and writers, the difficult question of which story you might pick to introduce a new reader to a favourite author, the importance of distinctive voices in both short fictions and novels, the upcoming 87th birthday of the great Gene Wolfe, and James Cameron's new TV documentary on SF, which features appearance from several SF writers and critics, including Gary. Then Jonathan springs on Gary the question of what his favourite book is, so Gary tossed it right back to Jonathan. We both came up with answers that date back to our respective childhoods. In addition to Gene Wolfe, some of the authors mentioned include R.A. Lafferty, Ted Chiang, Margo Lanagan, Kelly Link, Robert A. Heinlein, T.H. White, Sam J. Miller, Kate Wilhelm, Ursula Le Guin, Andy Duncan, Howard Waldrop, Catherynne Valente, Jeffrey Ford, Lavie Tidhar, John Varley, James Patrick Kelly, Alec Nevala-Lee, and Joseph Heller. In other words, another ramble.

As the new year begins, The Pageist joins Lee to discuss delicious books to curl up with this winter. From hot erotica to invigorating writing to bring excellence to your sex life, they look at their favorite reading from the past year and beyond. Examining the shift from local bookstores to online-megamarts, they compare books and kinky toys, while encouraging everyone to find the best opportunities for learning and inspiration for them. Passion And Soul Podcast: iTunes Subscription: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/passion-soul-podcast-by-lee/id840372122  RSS Feed: http://passionandsoul.libsyn.com/rss  Past MP3 files: http://passionandsoul.libsyn.com  PassionAndSoul Audio Page: http://passionandsoul.com/audio  Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/erotic-awakening-podcast/passion-and-soul  Contact The Pageist: Website: http://thepageist.com iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/pageist-bdsm-sex-book-reviews/id1078134480 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thepageist/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ThePageist Email: thepageist@gmail.com Links, Events, People and Movies Mentioned: Mystic Productions Press: http://www.MysticProductionsPress.com Essence of Shibari by Shin Nawakari: https://www.amazon.com/Essence-Shibari-Kinbaku-Japanese-Bondage/dp/1942733852/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=pass-20 Queer Magic Anthology Call: http://www.mysticproductionspress.com/news/queer-magic Dan and Dawn of Erotic Awakening: http://eroticawakening.com Rachel Maddow Fan Page: http://www.maddowfans.com The Barbara Pimm Society: http://www.barbara-pym.org Amazon Smile Charity Program: https://org.amazon.com Arcane's Attic Floggers: http://www.arcanesattic.com PXS (Power Exchange Summit), May 19-21, 2017: http://powerexchangesummit.org The Marketplace 6-book Series, by Laura Antoniou: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B015TCJ4IM/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=pass-20 Laura Antoniou: http://lantoniou.com Catherynne Valente: http://www.catherynnemvalente.com Palimpsest, by Catherynne Valente: https://www.amazon.com/Palimpsest-Catherynne-Valente/dp/0553385763/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=pass-20 Stephen King: https://www.stephenking.com Jack Rinella: http://leathermusings.blogspot.com Designer Relationships: A Guide to Happy Monogamy, Positive Polyamory, and Optimistic Open Relationships, by Mark Michaels and Patricia Johnson: https://www.amazon.com/Designer-Relationships-Monogamy-Polyamory-Optimistic/dp/1627781471/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=pass-20 Opening Up: A Guide to Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships, by Tristan Taormino: https://www.amazon.com/Opening-Up-Creating-Sustaining-Relationships/dp/157344295X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=pass-20 Ethical Porn for Dicks: A Man's Guide to Responsible Viewing, by Dr. David Lay: https://www.amazon.com/Ethical-Porn-Dicks-Responsible-Pleasure/dp/0996485236/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=pass-20 BDSM: A Guide for Explorers of Extreme Eroticism, by Ayzad: https://www.amazon.com/BDSM-Guide-Explorers-Extreme-Eroticism/dp/8892598457/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=pass-20 Look Into My Eyes: How to Use Hypnosis to Bring Out the Best in Your Sex Life, by Peter Masters: https://www.amazon.com/Look-Into-My-Eyes-Hypnosis/dp/1440449864/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=pass-20 Real Service, by Joshua Tenpenny and Raven Kaldera: https://www.amazon.com/Real-Service-Joshua-Tenpenny/dp/0982879431/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=pass-20 Erotic Slavehood: A Miss Abernathy Omnibus, by Christina Abernathy: https://www.amazon.com/Erotic-Slavehood-Miss-Abernathy-Omnibus/dp/1890159719/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=pass-20 Sexual Outsiders: Understanding BDSM Sexualities and Communities, by David M. Ortman and Richard A. Sprott: https://www.amazon.com/Sexual-Outsiders-Understanding-Sexualities-Communities/dp/1442217367/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=pass-20 CARAS: https://carasresearch.org Alfred Press: http://alfredpress.com Unequal by Design: Counseling Power Dynamic Relationships, by Sabrina Popp, MD and Raven Kaldera: https://www.amazon.com/Unequal-Design-Counseling-Dynamic-Relationships/dp/0982879482/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=pass-20 National Leather Alliance book awards: http://www.nla-international.com/allawards.html Rooms Formed of Neurons and Sex, by Ferrett Steinmetz: http://uncannymagazine.com/article/rooms-formed-neurons-sex/ Leather Spirit Stallion, by Raven Kaldera: https://www.amazon.com/Leather-Spirit-Stallion-Kaldera-2015-03-18/dp/B01F9GZ9EQ/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=pass-20 Mollena Williams: http://mollena.com Jolted Awake: An Unconventional Memoir, by Richard Levine: http://alfredpress.com/jolted-awake-an-unconventional-memoir/ Soul of a Second Skin: The Journey of a Gay Christian Leatherman, by Hardy Haberman: https://www.amazon.com/Soul-Second-Skin-Christian-Leatherman/dp/1934625388/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=pass-20 Paige's page of 101 and recommended books page: http://thepageist.com/book-recommendations/ Paige's Goodreads Book List: https://www.goodreads.com/ThePageist Lee's Recommended Reading and Other Such Things: http://astore.amazon.com/pass-20 Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (Penguin Great Ideas Edition): https://www.amazon.com/Meditations-Penguin-Great-Marcus-Aurelius/dp/0143036270/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=pass-20 The Anatomy of Melancholy, by Robert Burton: https://www.amazon.com/Anatomy-Melancholy-Robert-Burton/dp/1781395764/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=pass-20 Remembrance of Things Past, Complete Unabridged 6-Book Bundle, by Marcel Proust: https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Library-Search-Complete-Unabridged-ebook/dp/B006NKL8BQ/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=pass-20 Lee's Upcoming Events/Appearances: http://passionandsoul.com/appearances Lee Harrington Contact Information: Website: http://www.PassionAndSoul.com FetLife: http://www.FetLife.com/passionandsoul Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/PassionAndSoul  Facebook Fan Page: https://www.facebook.com/lee.harringon The Pageist shares her literary wit and wisdom with us all!

Author, occult expert, psychic vampire, and television personality Michelle Belanger joins us to talk about subtle activism, the rabbit hole of gender issues, and her newest book “Conspiracy of Angels.” From sexism in publishing to energetic connections in personal relationships, she shares her approaches to communicating in the cultural “mother tongue” of the person she is communicating with. With her fiction work depicting action without obligatory romance based on her perceived gender, she also addresses the issue of romance that is more teeth and claw rather than bouquets of roses. Walking between the worlds of kinky player and television psychic, intersex awareness and spiritual populations, vampirism and publishing, Michelle helps us all look at how we can each walk between worlds with grace and strength alike.     *** Passion And Soul Podcast: iTunes Subscription: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/passion-soul-podcast-by-lee/id840372122 RSS Feed: http://passionandsoul.libsyn.com/rss Past MP3 files: http://passionandsoul.libsyn.com PassionAndSoul Audio Page: http://passionandsoul.com/audio Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/erotic-awakening-podcast/passion-and-soul Erotic Awakening Network: http://www.eroticawakening.com/podcast Michelle Belanger Contact Information: Website: www.michellebelanger.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Michelle-Belanger/72962712212 Blog: https://talespeaker.wordpress.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/sethanikeem Links, Events, People and Books Mentioned: Conspiracy of Angels by Michelle Belanger (Pre-order): http://www.amazon.com/Conspiracy-Angels-Novels-Shadowside-1/dp/1783297336/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=pass-20   Wicked Kisses (my collection of erotic short fiction): www.amazon.com/dp/1453725369/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=pass-20    Gathering 2015: http://kheperu.org/gatherings/gather-2015/ Shibaricon (use the code MORESHIBARI for a discount): http://shibaricon.com/ International Mr. Leather (IML): http://imrl.com/ Arizona Power Exchange (APEX): http://www.arizonapowerexchange.org/ Spirit of Desire: Personal Journeys in Sacred Kink: http://www.amazon.com/Spirit-Desire-Personal-Explorations-Sacred/dp/0557992419/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=pass-20 Titan Publishing: http://titanbooks.com/ Intersex: http://www.isna.org/faq/what_is_intersex Watcher Angel Tarot: http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/cards/watcher-angel/ Bruce Jenner Trans Interview: http://abcnews.go.com/2020/fullpage/bruce-jenner-the-interview-30471558 The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland by Catherynne Valente: www.amazon.com/Girl-Circumnavigated-Fairyland-Ship-Making/dp/1250010195/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=pass-20 Daddy by Madison Young: www.amazon.com/Daddy-A-Memoir-Madison-Young/dp/0985490284/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=pass-20 Michelle as Psychic on Paranormal State: http://mrss.aetv.com/paranormal-state/meet-investigators/michelle.jsp David Wraith on the Passion And Soul Podcast: http://passionandsoul.com/audio/wraith-podcast SMART Energy group: https://fetlife.com/groups/37598 House Kheperu: http://www.Kheperu.org Victor Turner and Communitas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communitas Lee's Upcoming Events/Appearances: http://passionandsoul.com/appearances/ Lee Harrington Contact Information: http://www.PassionAndSoul.com http://www.FetLife.com/passionandsoul http://twitter.com/#!/PassionAndSoul   https://www.facebook.com/lee.harringon https://www.facebook.com/passionandsoul

Having just gotten back from a whirlwind trip of the American south, Lee reflects on scenes and music, and how they touch upon our hearts. The trip also took him to the WWII Museum, which spurs discussion of the fetishization of Asian cultures in the BDSM community. We look into white privilege in a kink context combined with playing with what might seem “hot” when we don't understand its cultural context. Let's root our erotic journeys into authenticity by bringing consciousness to our play.   Passion And Soul Podcast: iTunes Subscription: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/passion-soul-podcast-by-lee/id840372122 RSS Feed: http://passionandsoul.libsyn.com/rss Past MP3 files: http://passionandsoul.libsyn.com/ PassionAndSoul Audio Page: http://passionandsoul.com/audio Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/erotic-awakening-podcast/passion-and-soul Erotic Awakening Network: http://www.eroticawakening.com/podcast/   Links, Events, People and Books Mentioned: Les Bons Temps: https://fetlife.com/groups/26330 House Je Te Vois: https://fetlife.com/groups/69513 Same Love by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, ft. Mary Lambert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlVBg7_08n0 S.J. Tucker: http://sjtucker.com/ Wonders Album: http://music.sjtucker.com/album/wonders Catherynne Valente: http://www.catherynnemvalente.com/ Valkyrie Daughter by S.J. Tucker: http://music.sjtucker.com/track/valkyrie-daughter The National WWII Museum: http://nationalww2museum.org/ Japanese Internment Camp: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohwer_War_Relocation_Center George Takei's Story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yogXJl9H9z0 White Privilege by Macklemore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INNCxVpGpyU Zamil: http://www.kinbaku-art.com/ Shibari You Can Use: http://www.amazon.com/Shibari-You-Can-Use-Japanese/dp/061514490X/ Mollena Williams: http://www.mollena.com/ Spirit of Desire (featuring the race play story mentioned): http://www.amazon.com/Shibari-You-Can-Use-Japanese/dp/061514490X/ Black Face at the Eagle issue: http://www.mollena.com/2013/02/blackface-still-racist-yall/ Lee's Upcoming Events/Appearances: http://passionandsoul.com/appearances/     Lee Harrington contact information: http://www.PassionAndSoul.com http://www.FetLife.com/passionandsoul http://twitter.com/#!/PassionAndSoul https://www.facebook.com/lee.harringon https://www.facebook.com/passionandsoul