Podcast appearances and mentions of Daryl Gregory

Books keep our heads above water, and also weird animal facts! This week's books Circling the Sun by Paula McLain Mars Colony One by Gerald M Kilby When we were real by Daryl Gregory

What if none of this were real, but instead we were in a simulation? What would that mean about life, about the notion of reality, and about our own existence?  From award-winning, Seattle-based author Daryl Gregory comes a story following two friends on a cross-country bus tour through glitches as they grapple with secrets, love, and family — issues that are not uncommon, except these take place in a simulated world. When We Were Real follows longtime best friends JP and Dulin. When JP finds out his cancer has aggressively returned, Dulin decides it's the perfect time for one last adventure: a week-long bus tour of the Impossibles, the glitches and geographic miracles that started cropping right after the Announcement that revealed our world to be merely a digital simulacrum. The outing promises to be the trip of a (not completely real) lifetime. Unlike other sci-fi hits like The Matrix or Vanilla Sky, these characters know they are simulations. Through this self-awareness, they — as well as readers — explore what it means to be human, to be alive or even real. Through a cast of colorful characters (like a pregnant influencer determined to make her child too famous to be deleted) or the stops they make along the way (like a tunnel outside of time or a motivational-speaking avatar's compound) JP and Dulin have no shortage of things to talk about as they venture toward the tour's final stop, where the travelers may find out who is actually running the simulation. When We Were Real aims to uncover the things that really matter in life, even in an artificial world. Daryl Gregory is the award-winning author of numerous novels, including Revelator, Afterparty, and Spoonbenders, a Nebula, Locus, and World Fantasy Award finalist. His novella We Are All Completely Fine won the World Fantasy Award and the Shirley Jackson Award. He currently resides in Seattle, Washington. Matt Dinniman is a writer, artist, and musician (well, he's a bass player) from Gig Harbor, WA. He is the author of several books, including the bestselling Dungeon Crawler Carl series.   Buy the Book When We Were Real: A Novel Third Place Books

In this episode, we get excited about two new books: When We Were Real by Daryl Gregory and The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones. Then Mel shares the meaningful story of the new Witches of Scotland tartan. Links When We Were Real by Daryl Gregory Daryl Gregory's website Read an excerpt from When We Were Real Podcast: Mel talks about Spoonbenders in our Chicago episode Mel's write-up of Spoonbenders Podcast: Mel talks about the P&T Knitwear bookshop The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones The Witches of Scotland website, Instagram, and TikTok The book: How to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy's Guide to Silencing Women The podcast: Witches of Scotland Tartan Episode Smithsonian magazine on the campaign and tartan Nicola Sturgeon Issues Apology for ‘Historical Injustice' of Witch Hunts. Transcript of this episode. The Library of Lost Time is a Strong Sense of Place Production! https://strongsenseofplace.com Join our FREE Substack to get our (awesome) newsletter and join in chats with other people who love books and travel. Do you enjoy our show? Do you want to make friends with other (lovely) listeners? Please support our work on Patreon. Every little bit helps us keep the show going and makes us feel warm and fuzzy inside - https://www.patreon.com/strongsenseofplace As always, you can find us at: Our site Instagram Substack Patreon Parts of the Strong Sense of Place podcast are produced in udio! Some effects are provided by soundly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Smothermoss by Alisa Alering is an atmospheric, haunting and sometimes mystical family story set against the backdrop of 1980s Appalachia. Alering joins us to talk about the importance of nature in the novel, the blurred lines between fantasy and reality and writing the relationship between two sisters with cohost Jenna Seery. We end this episode with TBR Top Off Book recommendations from Marc and Mary.  This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Jenna Seery and mixed by Harry Liang.                      New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app.             Featured Books (Episode):  Smothermoss by Alisa Alering  The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters  Affinity by Sarah Waters  Featured Books (TBR Top Off):  The Cemetery of Untold Stories by Julia Alvarez  Revelator by Daryl Gregory 

Daryl Gregory discuss his novel Revelator.

Hey Cinners, we're just about to roll into March which will be our FOLK HORROR month. EMILY HUGHES, the creator and curator of the readjumpscares.com website has been kind enough to provide an incredible list of folk horror fiction for y'all which is in the show notes below. Emily is an absolute superstar and we'll be chatting with her about THE WICKERMAN and MIDSOMMAR next week. Until then, head out into the woods, meet some people that have very intense feelings about nature and how it influences and effects their lives and then tell them to their faces that they're wrong and see how that turns out for you. SHOW NOTES CURTESY OF THE AMAZING EMILY HUGHEShttps://readjumpscares.com/The Unmothers by Leslie J. Anderson: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/756652/the-unmothers-by-leslie-j-anderson/The Ritual by Adam Nevill: https://www.amazon.com/Ritual-Adam-Nevill/dp/0312641842Lute by Jennifer Thorne: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250826084/luteRevelator by Daryl Gregory (one of my faves of the last few years): https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/611690/revelator-by-daryl-gregory/Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand (one of my all-time faves): https://www.amazon.com/Wylding-Hall-Elizabeth-Hand-ebook/dp/B00UA1KO82The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher (inspired by Arthur Machen's The White People): https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Twisted-Ones/T-Kingfisher/9781534429567The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley (he's writing some of the best contemporary folk horror out there and is largely unknown in the US): https://www.amazon.com/Loney-Andrew-Hurley/dp/0544947193 Jackal by Erin E. Adams: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/707472/jackal-by-erin-e-adams/Slewfoot by Brom: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250622006/slewfoot Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon (vintage American folk horror!): https://www.amazon.com/Harvest-Home-Thomas-Tryon/dp/0394485289 Lanny by Max Porter: https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/lanny Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sci fi and fantasy author Daryl Gregory describes his books as “psychological realism in the face of surrealism.” He tackles topics that I find fascinating like the nature of consciousness, free will, paranormal abilities, and the power of belief, specifically of the religious variety. And then when I learned that he doesn't really believe in the things that he writes about, I was intrigued and eager to have a conversation with him. Happy to report that he was up for it!Daryl Gregory's novels and short stories have been translated into a dozen languages and have won multiple awards, including the World Fantasy and Shirley Jackson awards, and have been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, Edgar, Locus, Lambda, and Sturgeon awards. His latest books are the novel Revelator (Knopf) and the novella The Album of Dr. Moreau (tor.com). His eight other books include Spoonbenders, We Are All Completely Fine, Afterparty, the Crawford-Award-winning novel Pandemonium, and the collection Unpossible and Other Stories, a Publishers Weekly book of the year. He's an executive producer and writer for several of his novels being adapted for television. He also teaches writing and is a regular instructor at the Viable Paradise Writing Workshop.Writer guy Daryl Gregory's website“Gifts and Tools to Explore and Celebrate the Unseen Worlds” - The Lucid Path BoutiqueLucid Cafe episodes by topic Listen to Lucid Cafe on YouTube  ★ Support this podcast ★

WARNING: This podcast is a paid advertisement, for a book. The payment for the advertisement that this podcast is was the book that this podcast is advertising. So, it's not really “paid,” in the sense that the IRS should not worry about this. In this very special episode of Marooned on Mars, we discuss the recently released anthology Tomorrow's Parties: Life in the Anthropocene, edited by Jonathan Strahan and published by MIT Press. We manage to touch on every story in the collection, at least in passing! And in this episode we try our best to minimize spoilers, considering the format of the texts we're reading and their recent publication. Featuring stories by Meg Elison, Tade Thompson, Daryl Gregory, Greg Egan, Sarah Gailey, Justina Robson, Chen Quifan, Malka Older, Saad Z. Hossain, and James Bradley, artwork by Sean Bodley, and an interview with Kim Stanley Robinson, Tomorrow's Parties touches on many themes that that should be familiar to our listeners: political economy and ecology, trying to make history while living with the legacies of the past, the weirdness of being burdened with a body, capitalism and wage labor. Described by Strahan in the introduction as neither hopepunk nor material for doomscrolling, the stories here are imaginative and engaging, and well worth checking out (if you're into that kind of thing). Next up we'll be doing a deep-ish dive into Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072, by M.E. O'Brien and Eman Abdelhadi, published by Common Notions. There will be spoilers, so buy it and read it! (You won't be sorry!) Thanks for listening! Email us at maroonedonmarspodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter @podcastonmars Leave us a voicemail on the Anchor.fm app Rate and review us on iTunes or wherever you listen to your podcasts! Music by Spirit of Space --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/marooned-on-mars/message

Writers do their best to bring life an authenticity of the full range of human conditions. Sadly, however, writers are mere mortals and can fall into some trope-tastic misunderstandings and assumptions. At the titular panel at WorldCon2019, Daryl Gregory, Dr. Keren Landsman, Benjamin Kinney, Mick Schubert, and Hadas Sloin were there to set the record straight. =============================== Thanks for listening! I'll be back next Monday with more rambling ideas about writing. If you enjoyed this episode, share it with your friends and subscribe! You can find most of these posts over on my Blog (https://morganhazelwood.com) / Vlog/Youtube (https://youtube.com/MorganHazelwood) If you want to connect? Check out my Linktree (https://linktr.ee/morganHazelwood)

When you're reading a story and a character dies, you can tell if it's just the writer trying to manipulate your emotions or if it's good storytelling. In the titular panel at Worldcon77, Patrick Rothfuss, Veronica Roth, Su J Sokel, Amy Ogden, and Daryl Gregory did their best to make sure we know that every death should count. =============================== Thanks for listening! I'll be back next Monday with more rambling ideas about writing. If you enjoyed this episode, share it with your friends and subscribe! You can find most of these posts over on my Blog (https://morganhazelwood.com) / Vlog/Youtube (https://youtube.com/MorganHazelwood) If you want to connect? Check out my Linktree (https://linktr.ee/morganHazelwood)

The first chapter can make or break a reader's engagement with a story. We as writers must craft brilliant opening pages in order to hook those picky readers, so let's study the stories of others to see how they do it! The first sentence of Revelator by Daryl Gregory alludes to a kid meeting "the family god," so I just don't know how the stakes can go down from there. This story's got a feeling of the Southern Gothic in its voice and style, a dark, murky magic hidden in its green Kentucky valleys. The first pages not only provide an authentic voice for the little girl Stella, but a sense of true dread as we follow the adventurous child down a path into a church embedded in the mountain. What could possibly go wrong in such a place? I'm going to guess a lot. And what will you, fellow creatives, make of these first five pages? Let's find out!

Matt and Jeff are joined by author Daryl Gregory to discuss David Bowie's classic 1971 album Hunky Dory. They get into a number of other stray topics including the Hardy Boys and Daryl's latest book, Revelator.Show notes for this episode are right here.Remember, only you can prevent forest fires. Which is why it's probably a good idea for you to join our Record Club on Patreon. We appreciate your support of this podcast. Thanks for listening!

This week we all read Revalator, the (at this time) newest book from author Daryl Gregory. You can buy it (or any of his books) from his website here! https://darylgregory.com Follow us on social media! https://twitter.com/CasualHorrorPod https://www.facebook.com/CasualHorrorPod Follow the hosts on their individual accounts Emma https://twitter.com/Emmapanada https://twitch.tv/emmapanada Nina https://twitter.com/ninawolverina https://twitter.com/HouseUsherRises Noah https://twitter.com/Bubbadabad https://www.twitch.tv/bubbadabad Jeff https://twitter.com/bubbawubbadab https://www.instagram.com/thehammerofjeff/

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La guerra del Opio; Gonzalo González González, el estúpido al que no le pegan las drogas; El tío Alberto en el día de la bicicleta; El bar de Les Viejes Faloperes; "La extraordinaria familia Telemacus", de Daryl Gregory. Si una noche de invierno un viajero se emite los jueves a las 23.59 por El Destape Radio; y viernes a las 23 (hora de España) por Onda Polígono.

The Nice Jewish Fangirls convene urgently (but not with haste) for the final installment of our Middot Mussar series! The fangirls debate the definition of “zerizut,” discuss how this trait links back to the first in the series, and explore its applications in fandom and fiction. Plus… singing? This week's obsessions include the novel Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory, as narrated by Ari Fliakos, and rare shared preoccupation with the Netflix animated series Arcane. "Zrizus" from The Marvelous Midos Machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba5aj6EdvfI Middot Mussar source sheet: www.sefaria.org/sheets/211995.12?…with=all&lang2=en Get our NEW MERCH! www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/45021944 Tamar's BOOK! www.goodreads.com/book/show/492498…12nAq28iR&rank=1 Get in touch with us! Twitter: www.twitter.com/JewishFangirls Facebook: www.facebook.com/jewishfangirls/ Email us at nicejewishfangirls@gmail.com Review us on Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nice…ls/id1181390630 Edited by Jamie Blumberg. You can reach them on Twitter (twitter.com/jamie_blumberg), email them at jamietheblumberg@gmail.com, or visit their website at jamberg.me/

Nibble noodles with Daryl Gregory as we discuss how he celebrated the two books he published during the pandemic, what caused him to say about his latest novel, "I like to split the difference to keep everyone as unsatisfied as possible," the narrative technique which finally unlocked the writing of that book (and why it made Revelator more difficult to complete), how our mothers responded to our writing, the way marketing affects the reading protocols of our stories, how listening to Damon Knight and Kate Wilhelm argue about one of his stories freed him as a writer, the promise a murder mystery makes to a reader, his "Mom Rule" for Easter eggs, the way he tortured a comic book artist with an outrageous panel description, how to play fair when writing a science fiction mystery where anything can happen, what Samuel R. Delany told him which helped him make his first sale to F&SF, how he doesn't understand why everybody doesn't want to be writers, the way his writing gets better during the times he isn't writing, Gardner Dozois' "ladder of sadness," and much more.

On the heels of the news regarding the passing of Meat Loaf, Jeff and Matt share some of their individual memories and experiences with his music. We're also discussing carbonated beverages (thanks, Sloane Spencer!), a recent book by Daryl Gregory that's worthy of your reading time, Dweezil Zappa's excellent Van Halen podcast and other topics. See the show notes below for more details.Cassingle Notes:The passing of Meat LoafLosing control of your artThe long road to the success of BatJeff's UCR article on Meat Loaf and Steve Popovich of Cleveland International RecordsAn unexpected wedding ritual involving “Paradise by the Dashboard Light.”Seeing Meat Loaf live for the first time in the ‘90sMeat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell tour on Rockpalast in 1978Matt's interview with Bruce Kulick about playing in Meat Loaf's band on the Bat Out of Hell tour.Reader MailBonnie Raitt's ‘70s albums on Warner BrothersBook recommendation: Revelator by Daryl GregoryPodcast recommendations: Bubble Bottles and also, One Hit History, hosted by Sloane SpencerFavorite carbonated beveragesDr. Pepper vs. Mr. PibbBob Seger - The Fire Inside retro t-shirtRegional and small batch sodas - Fizzy Izzy Root Beer is awesome!Rocket Fizz“I've listened to 10 hours of you assholes over the past few days” - Jason HareJason Hare keeps receiptsLinda Martell - "Color Me Father"Holly G and Black OpryDweezil Zappa's Van Halen podcast is awesomeDetails on the next episode!Closing remarks -- leave us reviews on your favorite podcast platform!

Thema der Woche: Phantastik mit floralem Hintergrund In „Revelator“ von Daryl Gregory beschränkt sich der florale Aspekt auf den Einband und darauf das einer Familie in den Südstaaten der USA um 1940 von der vierten Inkarnation Gottes, dem Ghostdaddy, ‚forever blooming bodys‘ versprochen werden. Floraler ist klar „Die Sprache der Blumen“ von Sven Haupt: Eine […]

The following audio was recorded live at the KGB Bar on October 20th, with Daryl Gregory & Michael J. DeLuca, our first in-person reading since February 2020 when we went into lockdown for the pandemic. Welcome back everyone!    ... Continue Reading →

Dan Hillier is known for his dark, elaborate and often surreal artworks which draw on inspirations within nature, iconography and old traditions. Often using Victorian illustration as the basis of his work he layers together collages which generate an otherworldly feel. His latest piece is called ‘Revelator' which is also the front cover of the novel of the same name from Daryl Gregory. Forming part of his latest exclusive release with Enter Gallery we discuss both the book and what inspired the work itself. 

After a much needed vacation, Gary is back with some new events and new books happening in the store!    Events this week: Tuesday, August 31st: Kit Rocha discussing The Devil You Know  Wednesday, September 1st: Daryl Gregory, in conversation with Paul Tremblay  Thursday, September 2nd: MJ Howson and Rolf Yngve  Sunday, September 5th: Dungeons & Dragons    New this week: The Devil You Know by Kit Rocha Revelator by Daryl Gregory  A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins  The Riviera House by Natasha Lester  My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones  Felonious Monk by William Kotzwinkle  Red Pill by Hari Kunzru  The Royals Next Door by Karina Halle  The Last Chance Library by Freya Sampson  Malefactor by Robert Repino  Brackenbeast by Kate Alice Marshall  Fast Pitch by Nic Stone  A Psalm of Storms and Silence by Roseanne A. Brown  Take Me With You When You Go by David Levithan and Jenniver Niven  Enola Holmes and the Black Barouche by Nancy Springer 

Welcome to episode 19 of Season 12 of The Coode Street Podcast. This time out, Jonathan and Gary return, sans guests or much of a plan. They do manage to touch upon a number of significant issues, such as the work of newly minted World Fantasy Life Achievement winner Howard Waldrop, whether Waldrop could be viewed as a regional author (a Texan in particular), and which other writers might be thought of a representing particular regional voices (R.A. Lafferty, Andy Duncan, Christopher Rowe,  Daryl Gregory?), and how regional voice may show up even in the work of hard SF writers like Gregory Benford. This leads into a more general discussion of influences. Are films based on Philip K. Dick now more influential than Dick's novels themselves? How are innovative writers like Greg Egan (who just turned 60) and Ted Chiang seen as influential? This leads, somehow, into a discussions of how writers like Dick, Lovecraft, Le Guin, Octavia Butler made it into the Library of America, and finally to the importance of international and regional anthologies such as Oghenchovwe Donald Ekpeki's new Year's Best African Speculative Fiction. As always, we also touch upon what we're reading this week.

I Afterparty deler kirken stoffer ud til folk. Stofferne får dig nemlig til at tro på det guddommelige. Og skulle du komme til at tage en overdosis, får du måske din egen hotline til gud. Men mister du adgang til stoffet, så vil du føle dig forladt som aldrig før. Indlægget Ep. 86: Daryl Gregory, Afterparty blev først udgivet på SCIFI SNAK.

Welcome to episode 11 of Season 12 of The Coode Street Podcast. This week Jonathan and Gary are joined by Daryl Gregory, whose new novella The Album of Dr. Moreau is an improbable but delightful mashup of H.G. Wells, boy bands, Las Vegas, and locked-room murder mysteries. We discuss the challenges of attempting so much at novella length, the importance of managing tone, and, not least, the sheer fun of the whole undertaking. Along the way, we touch upon some of Daryl's earlier novels, including The Devil's Alphabet, Raising Stony Mayhall, We Are All Completely Fine, and Spoonbenders, as well his forthcoming novel Revelator, a gothic tale set in the Smoky Mountains.  As always, our thanks to Daryl and we hope you enjoy the episode.

It's a new month, and Mysterious Galaxy is officially reopen for browsing!    Events this week: Tuesday, June 1st: Veronica Roth, Alexandra Bracken, and Marie Lu  Tuesday, June 1st: Hannah Whitten and Megan Whalen Turner Wenesday, June 2nd: Mackenzi Lee and Stephanie Garber  Friday, June 4th:Eliot Schrefer and Adam Silvera Saturday, June 5th: Daryl Gregory and Bethany C. Morrow  Saturday, June 5th: Brian Catling  Monday, June 7th: J. Dianne Dotson and Jonathan Maberry   New This Week: For the Wolf by Hannah Whitten  Gamora and Nebula: Sisters in Arms by Mackenzi Lee  The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer  A Chorus Rises by Bethany C. Morrow  Hollow by Brian Catling  Luminiferous by J. Dianne Dotson  The Ghosts We Keep by Mason Deaver  Miles Morales: Shock Waves by Justin A. Reynolds and Pablo Leon  Chosen Ones by Veronica Roth  The Tea Dragon Tapestry by K. O'Neill  Instructions for Dancing by Nicola Yoon  Simone Breaks All the Rules by Debbie Rigaud  The Girl from the Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag  Future Feeling by Joss Lake    You can now find us on Patreon! Unlock exclusive content by subscribing today! Special thanks to Austin Farmer for letting us use the track "Kill the Farm Boy", from his album Bookshelf Symphony Orchestra!  Send us your questions to podcast@mystgalaxy.com Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook,  YouTube, and TikTok!  And support the store by ordering books at mystgalaxy.com!

We are joined by Daryl Gregory (twitter) to discuss his new novella, The Album of Dr. Moreau. We get into animal rights, the nature of consciousness, and the privilege of wealth. Also by Daryl Gregory and available in late August, Revelator, pre-order now. Other Works Mentioned Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgement by Daniel Kahneman, … Continue reading "Playing with Humanity, In Conversation with Daryl Gregory" The post Playing with Humanity, In Conversation with Daryl Gregory appeared first on Androids and Assets.

We are joined by Daryl Gregory (twitter) to discuss his new novella, The Album of Dr. Moreau. We get into animal rights, the nature of consciousness, and the privilege of wealth. Also by Daryl Gregory and available in late August, Revelator, pre-order now. Other Works Mentioned Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgement by Daniel Kahneman, … Continue reading "Playing with Humanity, In Conversation with Daryl Gregory" The post Playing with Humanity, In Conversation with Daryl Gregory appeared first on Androids and Assets.

Welcome to episode 2 of Season 12 of The Coode Street Podcast. This week, in the second of our main season of twenty-six hour-long episodes, our hosts Gary K. Wolfe and Jonathan Strahan talk to Locus Publisher and Editor-in-Chief Liza Groen Trombi and award-winning writer Daryl Gregory about the year in science fiction and fantasy. The annual Locus Recommended Reading issue is due out at the beginning of February featuring an overview of the year, the 50th Locus Reader's Poll and annual recommended reading list, so it seemed like a good time to talk trends, themes, books, and more.  And, of course, there's the odd digression because it's Coode Street and that's what we do. As always, our thanks to our guests Liza and Daryl. We hope you enjoy the episode and see you next time!

Episode 51October 15 2020 Special thanks to Kelly C. for her guest appearance while I was AGAIN with family.  On the Needles 1:45Color Love Shawl by Veera Välimäki in Malabrigo Arroyo, Madeline Tosh Oeste, and Jo Sharp Pond #44.Fern Top by Pattern Scout, muslin thus far.The Sharon Show by Casapinka, A Hundred Ravens Iachos in Bad Wolf (pink), Forbidden Fiber Co. Superstition in Wedding Dress, Three Irish Girls Adorn in Deep Blue Sea, Yarntini Sock in Ginger Ice--DONE!! Rikke hat by Sarah Young, Forbidden Fiber Pride DK (sparkles) in WW1984--DONE!! Hatdana by Denise Bayron, Three Irish Girls Felicity in Cherry Ginger Ale -- DONE!! Sunnyside cardigan by Tanis Lavallee, Travelling Rhinos superwash sock in Deep Sea-- knitting done Celtic Cardigan by Asita Krebs, Blue Brick Killarney Sock in electric avenue (sweater set)On the Easel 22:07Color Love Shawl by Veera Välimäki in Malabrigo Arroyo, Madeline Tosh Oeste, and Jo Sharp Pond #44.Fern Top by Pattern Scout, muslin thus far.On the Table 26:50 vegetarian stuffed acorn squash Pasta with salami and mint (Melissa Clark's Kitchen) Tofu spaetzle and Marmalade meatballs from melissa clark dinner changing the game Instant pot baked beans  Banana Poppy Seed cookies  from 100 cookies by Sarah Kieffer (Bake-a-long in progress!) DIY Oktoberfest herePork Schnitzel with Mustard Cream SauceBraised Purple Cabbage with ApplesMentioned the Bonne Maman Advent Calendar On the Nightstand 38:21Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory (audio)Vita Nostra by Marina Dyachenko, Sergey Dyachenko, Julia Meitov Hersey (Translator)Gentleman in Moscow by Amor TowlesWhen One is Looking by Alyssa ColeHow Much of these Hills is Gold by C Pam Zhang (audio)Sometimes I Lie by Alice FeeneyAmerican Royals by Katharine McGeeThe Glass Hotel by Emily St. John MandelTranscendent Kingdom by Yaa GyasiOn Reflection 56:28 25 hats8 socks/2 slippers6 cowls/shawls5 me sweaters/2 baby3 gnomesDissent cardiganUsed lots of my Stitches yarn Cortney’s grid projectRainbow trout and headphones for podcast illustration favs Toffee bars!Beans!Instant pot!Whipped coffeeStrawberry summer cake Microwave popcorn 109 books readMirror and the light by Hillary Mantel In the past year, I have painted approx. 215 illustrations, paintings, etc.  I’ve attempted about 100 new recipes.  And I’ve read about 55 books.My favorite of Monica’s knitting: Tewhenua Shawl, Dissent Cardi process, Brickyard Sweater, and my Murnong hat.I liked the podcast illustration of the Sourdough Mother in a Weck jar, and all the things I painted for last year’s Gouachevember.My family’s favorite recipe from the past year: Chicken Gyros, Toffee Bars. And I’m happy to have attempted Empanadas and potstickers from scratch!My two favorite books from the past year include: Life of Pi by Yann Martel and The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes.Thanks for listening!

Took some time off, but I'm back with a new episode of the MY WIFE HATES VIDEO GAMES podcast. In this episode we look at the dire state of 2020 thanks to the pandemic, Celebrity Family Feud, dildo jackets, drunken tales, pranks and the dangers of mixing diet drugs and alcohol.Links for some of what we talked about:Dark Rivers of the Heart by Dean Koontz: https://amzn.to/3fsH5KlAfterParty by Daryl Gregory: https://amzn.to/2L9DZwzFreefall by Craig Alanson: https://amzn.to/33A30vFLast One Laughing: https://amzn.to/31jGvrMAlli aka "the diet drug on a slippery slope to weight loss"Last... I'm obviously all about Free to Play when it comes to video games but if you can't and you must break out the wallet:Google Play - https://amzn.to/3cYrm4oiTunes - https://amzn.to/2TONIOjPlaystation - https://amzn.to/2w8j4pZXBox - https://amzn.to/2WbjtmcYou can always find me at FinallyHeSleeps.comEmail - travisgetoffended@gmail.comMusic provided by: https://www.purple-planet.comWe are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.Support the show (http://finallyhesleeps.com)Support the show (http://finallyhesleeps.com)

Ten minutes with... is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they're reading right now and what's getting them through these difficult times. World Fantasy and Shirley Jackson Award-winner Daryl Gregory comes on board for a discussion with Gary about how distracting the news can be from real work, reading manuscripts for blurbs or for friends, the new Lavie Tidhar novel, Island of Dr. Moreau movies, the virtues of Iain M. Banks, the occasional pleasures of locked-room murder mysteries, and Daryl's own forthcoming but not yet titled novel. Books mentioned include: Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory By Force Alone by Lavie Tidhar The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells The Culture novels by Iain M. Banks The Hollow Man by John Dickson Carr      

It's been a while but I'm finally returning to the MY WIFE HATES VIDEO GAMES podcast. In this week's episode we talk about being stuck inside for the Covid-19 Pandemic, a couple of books, the difference between being a Boomer and Generation-X, TikTok and the slow spiral into viral hell, a few drinking stories from a more entertaining time, 2 girls 1 cup and of course a bit about FIFA Mobile Links for some of what we talked about:Doctor Sleep by Stephen King: https://amzn.to/3fsH5KlAfterParty by Daryl Gregory: https://amzn.to/2L9DZwzPandemonium by Gregory Maguire: https://amzn.to/2LfxhFiTwo Girls, One Cup: twogirlsonecup.comLast... I'm obviously all about Free to Play when it comes to video games but if you can't and you must break out the wallet:Google Play - https://amzn.to/3cYrm4oiTunes - https://amzn.to/2TONIOjPlaystation - https://amzn.to/2w8j4pZXBox - https://amzn.to/2WbjtmcYou can always find me at FinallyHeSleeps.comEmail - travisgetoffended@gmail.comMusic provided by: https://www.purple-planet.comWe are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.Support the show (http://finallyhesleeps.com)Support the show (http://finallyhesleeps.com)

In episode 110, SPOONBENDERS author and comic book writer Daryl Gregory joins the podcast to discuss Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon’s WATCHMEN--a graphic novel that influenced his work and is considered a masterpiece by many critics. Daryl chats with Luke & James about the comic that changed everything, and even shares the surprising inspiration for one of his characters! Topics: Daryl’s experience reading Watchmen during its original run, the power of repeated phrases and symbols, the deconstruction of comic tropes, Neil Gaiman’s story seeds, the SPOONBENDERS pilot on Showtime, Alan Moore’s biography, the work-for-hire nature of comics, the illustrator/writer relationship, the sexual & gender politics, the power of the alternate history, and the legacy of the graphic novel and its modern adaptations.    The episode ends with an exploration of each of the following characters: The Comedian, Rorschach, Silk Spectre, Nite Owl, Dr. Manhattan, and Ozymandias. This episode’s intro/outro: A.O.E. - Crystal Clocks and Music Box (Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution for reuse) Daryl Gregory Twitter: @darylwriterguy Website: https://darylgregory.com Buy Spoonbenders  Become a Patron & unlock exclusive content/rewards, including our brand new "Book Club" tier: www.patreon.com/inktofilm Ink to Film is now on YouTube! Sign up for Ink to Film’s Newsletter  Follow Ink to Film on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram Home Base: inktofilm.com Ink to Film Book Club on Goodreads

Welcome to our 150th episode extravaganza! And by extravaganza we mean the same ol' same ol'. A few games, an album, a book, some banter, a disagreement or two. Parades and fireworks not included. MILESTONES: 00:12:44 -- Great Western Trail: Rails to the North (in-depth) 00:40:46 -- Lowenherz (session) 00:59:43 -- Mercury Rev, Bobbie Gentry's The Delta Sweete Revisited 01:14:20 -- Quartermaster General: The Cold War (in-depth session) 01:48:00 -- Spoonbenders, Daryl Gregory  02:20:25 -- The State of the Podcast 02:39:22 -- Loss

“Nine Last Days on Planet Earth” Even better than reading an excellent story is discussing with the author how and why they wrote it! We are so pleased to have Daryl Gregory with us to discuss the nuances, secrets and personal touches in his apocalypse-themed science fiction story “Nine Last Days on Planet Earth”. (But first listen to Episode 3.4 of the podcast for our summary and discussion of this story.) 

“Nine Last Days on Planet Earth” by Daryl Gregory and “The Privilege of the Happy Ending” by Kij Johnson Apocalypse now, or some day soon when we least expect it? Karen and Karen compare and contrast two very different stories with a common theme – the end of the world as we know it. But apocalypse can mean many things when we consider the privileged or the vulnerable; the distant past or the near future; the observer or the affected; the slow, creeping horror or fleet-footed death. Award winning authors Gregory and Johnson more than deliver on the philosophical promise of this topic.

We’re all out enjoying the holidays, but we also wanted to celebrate with you! So we did a quick round up this week about a bunch of different ways the Winter Solstice is celebrated around the world. We got recipe ideas, talked about death and darkness a lot, and talked about poetry. Y’know, all the Spirits classics.   Sponsors - Audible, the best place to get audiobooks and more. Go to audible.com/spirits or text spirits to 500-500 to start your free trial and redeem your free audiobook. This week Julia recommends Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory. - Poshmark is the easiest way to buy and sell fashion items from millions of closets across the U.S. Download their app and use promo code spirits5 for $5 off your first purchase.   Find Us Online If you like Spirits, help us grow by spreading the word! Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, & Goodreads. You can support us on Patreon to unlock bonus Your Urban Legends episodes, director’s commentaries, custom recipe cards, and so much more. Transcripts are available at spiritspodcast.com/episodes. To buy merch, hear us on other podcasts, contact us, find our mailing address, or download our press kit, head on over to SpiritsPodcast.com.   About Us Spirits was created by Julia Schifini, Amanda McLoughlin and Eric Schneider. We are founding members of Multitude, a production collective of indie audio professionals. Our music is "Danger Storm" by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0.

Erica Christianson, Assistant Director at Ela Area Public Library, and makes the case for listening to and enjoying audiobooks. You’re already listening to a podcast - give it a try! 01:03 Meet our guest Erica Christensen02:07 The twist in this episode03:33 Cool story about books05:43 Opinions about Jim Dale07:28 Audiobook 1- Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl09:32 Christen mentions Strange Stars13:35 Audiobook 2- Spoonbenders17:04 Erica’s other favorite books of 201820:44 Audiobook 3- Marsh King’s Daughter23:45 Erica’s favorite narrators27:24 Christen’s top 3 audiobook performances32:51 Christen’s audiobook narrator crush34:34 Becca’s 3 Audiobooks38:56 Becca’s Narrator crush39:40 Speeding up audiobooks- pro or con?47:46 Erica’s QuoteErica’s Three Books: Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein (read by the author)Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory (read by Ari Fliakos)Marsh King’s Daughter by Karen Dionne (read by Emily Rankin) Other Titles/Information Discussed: Rootabaga Stories by Carl SandburgThe Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettLittle House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls WilderLord of the Rings by J. R. R. TolkienHarry Potter (read by Jim Dale)The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (read by Jim Dale) Mr. Men & Little Miss Books by Roger Hargreaves (read by Jim Dale) Discworld Series (and Tiffany Aching) by Terry Pratchett (read by Stephen Briggs)Strange Stars: David Bowie, Pop Music, and the Decade Sci-Fi Exploded by Jason HellerShrill by Lindy West (read by the author) GuRu by RuPaul Charles (read by the author) Bossypants by Tina Fey (read by the author)Yes, Please by Amy Poehler (read by the author) You Can’t Touch My Hair and Other Things I Still Have to Explain by Phoebe Robinson (read by the author) Everything Is Trash (But It’s Okay) by Phoebe Robinson (read by the author) All Systems Red by Martha WellsThe Animators by Kayla Rae WhitakerThe Immoralists by Chloe BenjaminSavvy by Ingrid LawNOS4A2 by Joe Hill (read by Kate Mulgrew) The Fireman by Joe Hill (read by Kate Mulgrew) Christine by Stephen King Check out Hoopla for audiobooks! Email: threebookspodcast@gmail.comTwitter - @threebookspod

Podéis escucharlo aquí.Editorial ("Traducir Malaz y sobrevivir al intento")Reseña de Miquel Codony (“La Extraordinaria Familia Telemacus“, de Daryl Gregory).Reseña de Alexander Páez (“Cada Corazón, Un Umbral“, de Seanan McGuire)BSO: Álbum "Up and Down Singles", de Robodub (Robodub is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License.)

Fantasy and horror author Daryl Gregory has a story for you. Spoonbenders (just out in trade paperback) tells the story of a family of dreamers gifted with psychic abilities of varying strengths and stability, how they became famous, how they fell apart, and how they tried to bring all the pieces back together again. Source

If Tolstoy had written Spoonbenders (Knopf, 2017), he might have started it: “All happy families are alike; each family of psychics is unhappy in its own way.” Then again, who needs Tolstoy when you have Daryl Gregory, whose masterful family drama is tied together with telekinesis, astral traveling, and genuine mindreading magic. A Nebula Award finalist and an NPR Best Book for 2017, Spoonbenders tells the story of the one-time Amazing Telemachus Family, who have struggled to make ends meet ever since they were exposed as frauds on national TV. Only they really aren’t frauds. Most of them have true psychic gifts. The problem is that psychic gifts aren’t all that they’re cracked up to be. As Gregory explains, “I was trying to figure out why if people have these powers … wouldn’t they just become rulers of the world? Why wouldn’t they become rich and famous, and I was struck by the rationale that Uri Geller always used, which is ‘there are so many things that can reach out and interfere with your powers that only a faker can make his powers work all the time.’” Frankie Telemachus, whose get-rich-quick schemes have left him in debt to the mob, can move objects with his mind, but his ability never comes when he needs it. His sister, Irene, a grocery store cashier, is a human lie detector, which makes it impossible to have intimate relationships. And their brother, Buddy, is so worried about the looming end of the world (which he replays over and over again in his clairvoyant mind) that he devotes every waking moment to fretful, obsessive planning to prevent it. The story is told from five alternating points of view, revealing a cascade of secrets that explain the siblings’ inability to lead fulfilling lives while laying a foundation for their future salvation. Among the inspirations for the Spoonbenders is the U.S. Army’s Stargate Project, launched in 1978 to study the potential military uses of psychic phenomena. “I was intrigued by the idea that the government was buying into this… Up until 1995, we were throwing millions of dollars into it,” Gregory says. The book, in fact, is set in 1995, when a CIA agent hopes to save the program by recruiting Irene’s adolescent son, Matty, who has just discovered he can astral travel. Gregory himself doesn’t believe in psychic powers. “I’m a skeptic but I do like it in science fiction.” The only magic he believes in is that which a writer produces from his imagination. “A reader with a writer is making the same kind of contract as an audience with a magician. You know that magician is trying to fool you; you want them to fool you… And that’s what I’m really interested in. You know I’m going to tell you a story… but hopefully you’re willing to go along.” Rob Wolf is the host of New Books in Science Fiction and the author of The Alternate Universe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If Tolstoy had written Spoonbenders (Knopf, 2017), he might have started it: “All happy families are alike; each family of psychics is unhappy in its own way.” Then again, who needs Tolstoy when you have Daryl Gregory, whose masterful family drama is tied together with telekinesis, astral traveling, and genuine mindreading magic. A Nebula Award finalist and an NPR Best Book for 2017, Spoonbenders tells the story of the one-time Amazing Telemachus Family, who have struggled to make ends meet ever since they were exposed as frauds on national TV. Only they really aren’t frauds. Most of them have true psychic gifts. The problem is that psychic gifts aren’t all that they’re cracked up to be. As Gregory explains, “I was trying to figure out why if people have these powers … wouldn’t they just become rulers of the world? Why wouldn’t they become rich and famous, and I was struck by the rationale that Uri Geller always used, which is ‘there are so many things that can reach out and interfere with your powers that only a faker can make his powers work all the time.’” Frankie Telemachus, whose get-rich-quick schemes have left him in debt to the mob, can move objects with his mind, but his ability never comes when he needs it. His sister, Irene, a grocery store cashier, is a human lie detector, which makes it impossible to have intimate relationships. And their brother, Buddy, is so worried about the looming end of the world (which he replays over and over again in his clairvoyant mind) that he devotes every waking moment to fretful, obsessive planning to prevent it. The story is told from five alternating points of view, revealing a cascade of secrets that explain the siblings’ inability to lead fulfilling lives while laying a foundation for their future salvation. Among the inspirations for the Spoonbenders is the U.S. Army’s Stargate Project, launched in 1978 to study the potential military uses of psychic phenomena. “I was intrigued by the idea that the government was buying into this… Up until 1995, we were throwing millions of dollars into it,” Gregory says. The book, in fact, is set in 1995, when a CIA agent hopes to save the program by recruiting Irene’s adolescent son, Matty, who has just discovered he can astral travel. Gregory himself doesn’t believe in psychic powers. “I’m a skeptic but I do like it in science fiction.” The only magic he believes in is that which a writer produces from his imagination. “A reader with a writer is making the same kind of contract as an audience with a magician. You know that magician is trying to fool you; you want them to fool you… And that’s what I’m really interested in. You know I’m going to tell you a story… but hopefully you’re willing to go along.” Rob Wolf is the host of New Books in Science Fiction and the author of The Alternate Universe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If Tolstoy had written Spoonbenders (Knopf, 2017), he might have started it: “All happy families are alike; each family of psychics is unhappy in its own way.” Then again, who needs Tolstoy when you have Daryl Gregory, whose masterful family drama is tied together with telekinesis, astral traveling, and genuine mindreading magic. A Nebula Award finalist and an NPR Best Book for 2017, Spoonbenders tells the story of the one-time Amazing Telemachus Family, who have struggled to make ends meet ever since they were exposed as frauds on national TV. Only they really aren’t frauds. Most of them have true psychic gifts. The problem is that psychic gifts aren’t all that they’re cracked up to be. As Gregory explains, “I was trying to figure out why if people have these powers … wouldn’t they just become rulers of the world? Why wouldn’t they become rich and famous, and I was struck by the rationale that Uri Geller always used, which is ‘there are so many things that can reach out and interfere with your powers that only a faker can make his powers work all the time.’” Frankie Telemachus, whose get-rich-quick schemes have left him in debt to the mob, can move objects with his mind, but his ability never comes when he needs it. His sister, Irene, a grocery store cashier, is a human lie detector, which makes it impossible to have intimate relationships. And their brother, Buddy, is so worried about the looming end of the world (which he replays over and over again in his clairvoyant mind) that he devotes every waking moment to fretful, obsessive planning to prevent it. The story is told from five alternating points of view, revealing a cascade of secrets that explain the siblings’ inability to lead fulfilling lives while laying a foundation for their future salvation. Among the inspirations for the Spoonbenders is the U.S. Army’s Stargate Project, launched in 1978 to study the potential military uses of psychic phenomena. “I was intrigued by the idea that the government was buying into this… Up until 1995, we were throwing millions of dollars into it,” Gregory says. The book, in fact, is set in 1995, when a CIA agent hopes to save the program by recruiting Irene’s adolescent son, Matty, who has just discovered he can astral travel. Gregory himself doesn’t believe in psychic powers. “I’m a skeptic but I do like it in science fiction.” The only magic he believes in is that which a writer produces from his imagination. “A reader with a writer is making the same kind of contract as an audience with a magician. You know that magician is trying to fool you; you want them to fool you… And that’s what I’m really interested in. You know I’m going to tell you a story… but hopefully you’re willing to go along.” Rob Wolf is the host of New Books in Science Fiction and the author of The Alternate Universe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's time for a special lightning-round episode of Eating the Fantastic as 15 guests devour a dozen donuts while recounting their favorite Nebula Awards memories. Michael Swanwick explains how his love of Isaac Asimov impelled him to walk out on guest speaker Newt Gingrich, David D. Levine remembers catching the penultimate Space Shuttle launch, Daryl Gregory recalls the compliment which caused him to get yelled at by Harlan Ellison, Barry Goldblatt reveals what cabdrivers do when they find out he's an agent, Cat Rambo puts in a pitch for SFFWA membership, Fran Wilde confesses a moment of squee which was also a moment of ooops, Steven H. Silver shares how he caused Anne McCaffrey to receive a Pern threadfall, Annalee Flower Horne tells of the time John Hodgman stood up for her onstage during the awards banquet, and much, much more!

Brea and Mallory finally talk about audiobooks, and interview actor, writer and audiobook performer Wil Wheaton! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlasses to participate in online discussion. Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!   Links -   Audible Penguin Random House Audio Overdrive Libby   Loyal Books Digital Book Open Culture Audie Awards   Wil Wheaton https://twitter.com/wilw https://wilwheaton.bandcamp.com/ https://www.amazon.com/Books-Wil-Wheaton https://www.audible.com/search?searchNarrator=Wil+Wheaton Books Mentioned - Reincarnation Blues by Michael Poore   Red Clocks by Leni Zumas   Not My Father’s Son by Alan Cumming Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein Sex Object by Jessica Valenti The Regional Office Is Under Attack! by Manuel Gonzales Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery   Home Comforts by Cheryl Mendelson   The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas Exit West by Mohsin Hamid   Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory   Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds   The Book of Dust by Philip Pullman Hunger by Roxane Gay   Ready Player One by Ernest Cline Night Shift by Stephen King Carter Beats The Devil by Glen Gold House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski   Hell House by Richard Matheson   Crash Override by Zoe Quinn The Brothers by Stephen Kinzer  

Thema der Woche: Löffelverbieger! Als Löffelverbieger bezeichnet man gemeinhin übersinnliche begabte Menschen die Löffel verbiegen, oder genauer: Schwindler die sich für solche ausgeben. In „Spoonbenders“ von Daryl Gregory treffen wir auf eine solche Familie von Löffelverbiegern: die Telemachus (…Telemachii?) Familie. Hier haben wir drei Generationen von Leuten die übersinnlich begabt sind. Oder Betrüger. Oder beides. […]

Bienvenidos a un nuevo capítulo del podcast de los VerdHugos.En esa ocasión tenemos como invitado a Edmundo Paz Soldán, autor de obras tan interesantes como Iris y Las Visiones, con quien hablaremos de su obra, sus planes de futuro y el estado de la ciencia ficción en la actualidad. En la segunda parte del programa, repasaremos los libros que más nos han gustado en 2017(0h : 6m) : influencias en Iris(0h : 18m) : atisbo, en exclusiva, del nuevo proyecto de Edmundo(0h : 34m) : repaso a lo mejor del añoRecomendacionesJosep María OriolLincoln in the Bardo de George SaundersIce de Anna KavanArs Ludens : relatos para sobrevivir al enemigo de final de fase de Charles YuThe Regional Office is under Attack de Manuel GonzalesElías CombarroToo Like the Lightning y Seven Surrenders de Ada PalmerThe Moon and the Other de John KesselSpoonbenders de Daryl GregorySix Wakes de Mur LaffertyThe Legends of Luke Skywalker de Ken LiuThe Book of Swords de VV.AA.Steal the Stars (audiodrama) de Mac RogersArmando SaldañaSix Wakes de Mur LaffertyA Man of Shadows de Jeff NoonDevil's Day de Andrew Michael HurleyLeticia LaraRuin of Angels de Max Gladstone Mandelbrot the Magnificient de Liz ZiemskaAustral de Paul McAuleyAutonomous de Annalee NewitzBSOEpic Mountain Goat Related Music by Son of Robot is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

This episode features "Second Person, Present Tense" written by Daryl Gregory. Originally published in Asimov's, September 2005. Reprinted in the November 2017 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/gregory_11_17_reprint Support us on Patreon at http://patreon.com/clarkesworld

This episode features "Second Person, Present Tense" written by Daryl Gregory. Originally published in Asimov's, September 2005. Reprinted in the November 2017 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/gregory_11_17_reprint Support us on Patreon at http://patreon.com/clarkesworld

Daryl Gregory discusses his latest novel Spoonbenders and a manual on being a writer

Brea and Mallory help you manage your TBR pile, interview author and disability activist Elsa Sjunneson-Henry and absolve you of your book guilt. Participate in online discussion by using the hashtag #ConquerTBR on Instagram and Twitter! Link below if you want to support the Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction! kickstarter. Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lynnemthomas/disabled-people-destroy-science-fiction-uncanny-ma Bookshelf - American Federation for the Blind http://www.afb.org/bookshelf/librarylogin.asp Books Discussed:  The Regional Office Is Under Attack! By Manuel Gonzales The Witches by Stacey Schiff Ready Player One by Ernest Cline Updraft by Fran Wilde Borderline by Mishell Baker Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory

We talk to the author of one of the most intriguing summer novels published this year, SPOONBENDERS, by Daryl Gregory, the story of a family of people gifted with psychic abilities. And Monica Hesse joins us to talk about her new nonfiction book, AMERICAN FIRE, about a series of odd arsons in Virginia. That book is turning out to be a great summer read, too. Our editors also join us to give their takes on which bestsellers are worth your time.

Daryl Gregory discusses his novel about an American family of psychics, Spoonbenders.

Host Cyd Oppenheimer talks with author Daryl Gregory about quarreling with his editor about structure, about the advantages of writing science fiction, and about the ways science fiction is like every other genre; guest readers Tui Sutherland and Alfie Guy join Oppenheimer to discuss fraud, fakery, fire-starters, friendship, and family.

We had a week full of SFF events. First, we saw Daryl Gregory reading at University Bookstore. He had a fun way of conducting his Q & A, plus he also read from his newly-released novel Spoonbenders. We also attended the Locus Awards, including the Friday evening readings from Carrie Vaughn and Connie Willis. We both read two more Hugo finalists for Best Novelette: “You’ll Surely Drown Here If You Stay,” by Alyssa Wong and “The Jewel and Her Lapidary,” by Fran Wilde. We loved the complex magical rules and intricate politics of Fran’s story and the western desert magic of Alyssa’s tale.   Dave watched The Girl With All the Gifts and compares it to the novel. (Remember, we talk details of everything, so spoilers in this and every episode!) And hey, Moana is free on Netflix. You’re welcome! (By the way, here’s a link to the video that was cracking us both up: Forever Spinning Kid On Go Cart) Warp Drives #12: The Salacious Fluffernutter

Two great guests this week! Daryl Gregory author of Spoonbenders and Callie Bates author of The Waking Land are here to tells us all about their books for our Summer Reading Special. Top Nerd News is packed with Star Wars, Wonder Woman, John Carpenter and more.This Week in Geek History closes out the show.

On this episode we discuss the winner of the Folio Prize for Fiction, the reading of an real autopsy report as a piece of poetry, Alan Moore's second novel and more. Our featured book is Harrison Squared by Daryl Gregory. #LiteraryLoitering #TheGeekShow #Books #Novels #Arts #Theatre #Comedy #News #Reviews #Podcasts #Harrison_Squared #Daryl_Gregory

Annie and Chris plan their new side business--Sweet and Savory Pizza Stones--but mostly discuss what they read this month and what they plan to finish before Friday rolls around.  Annie read: + Shark Club by Ann Kidd Taylor (out June 6) + Do Not Become Alarmed by Maile Meloy (out June 6) + Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders + Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give by Ada Calhoun (out May 16) + Exit West by Mohsin Hamid + The Fall of Lisa Bellow by Susan Perabo + The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy + Who Thought This Was a Good Idea? by Alyssa Mastromonaco + We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter Chris read: + The Impossible Fortress by Jason Rekulak + Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie + Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory (out June 27) Check out any of these titles in our online store at http://www.bookshelfthomasville.com/shop, where you can also learn how to register for an account with Libro.fm, an audiobook distribution service that partners with independent bookstores like The Bookshelf to deliver the same quality audiobooks you get elsewhere, but with the benefit of supporting a small business.

Thema der Woche: Zombies und die USA als Schauplatz phantastischer Geschichten. Grund hierfür was das Buch „Raising Stoney Mayhall“ von Daryl Gregory, das dass Aufwachsen eines Zombiekindes in den USA beschreibt (Jugend in Iowa aufm Bauernhof, Jugend in San Francisco…) Das hat mich auf die Idee gebracht einen Podcast zu machen der sich mit der […]

Thema der Woche: Inflation der Serienmörder! Krimis und vor allem Krimiserien im Fernsehen sind ohne Serienmörder praktisch undenkbar. Grund genug um die ganze Thematik mal aus phantastischer Sicht zu betrachten. In „We are all completly fine“ von Daryl Gregory geht es um die Überlebenden. Am Ende eines jedes Buches oder jeden Filmes gibt es Leute, […]

     Welcome to Episode 150 of Speculate! The Podcast for Writers, Readers and Fans.  In this episode, part of our Paths to Publication series, we talk about the changes in the industry from the perspective of two veteran and multiple award-winning authors who have been at this for a while: Elizabeth Bear and Daryl […]

[…] saoulée par le bonheur, enivrée par le vent de la révolte, la Salle 101 enlève sa chemise dans la joie et te parle de plusieurs choses dingues, voire folles : Nous allons tous très bien, merci, roman plutôt chouette de Daryl Gregory. La justice de l’Ancillaire, space-opera youpiyé de Ann Leckie.  L’autre-ville, roman chelou [...]

[…] saoulée par le bonheur, enivrée par le vent de la révolte, la Salle 101 enlève sa chemise dans la joie et te parle de plusieurs choses dingues, voire folles : Nous allons tous très bien, merci, roman plutôt chouette de Daryl Gregory. La justice de l'Ancillaire, space-opera youpiyé de Ann Leckie.  L'autre-ville, roman chelou […]

Thema der Woche: die wunderbare Welt der Drogen! Drogen spielen in der phantastischen Literatur eine große Rolle, wenngleich oft leider nur als McGuffin. Nichtsdestotrotz hier zwei Bücher, die sich des Themas annehmen: In „Afterparty“ von Daryl Gregory taucht eine Droge names Nominous auf. Wenn man ein wenig davon nascht bekommt man ein gutes Gefühl, eine […]

Sooner Than GoldBy Cory SkerryI tug on clean underwear in case I get arrested, paint my makeup perfectly because there's nothing sadder than a grown man in badly applied eyeliner, and climb out my apartment window, onto the fire escape.I can't be late to this assignment, and if I go through the lobby, there's a strong chance the night doorman will have a thing or two to say about the video footage of our card game last night. I forgot there was a camera pointed at the lobby desk.The asphalt below reeks of garbage and piss; about half of the latter is probably mine. Don't judge. If I'm drunk enough, there's not even any point in aiming for the toilet.My boots land softly as I hit the ground, but the ladder clangs as my weight slides off. I look back up at the enchantment, where it strings out from my leg to the trunk in my apartment.----more----[Music plays]Hello, Welcome to GlitterShip episode nine for June 4... ish... 2015. I'm your host, Keffy, and I'm super excited to be sharing this story with you.I don't know what the weather is like where you are, but in Seattle it's gone from kinda-warm-May to high summer death heat— which probably doesn't really count as that hot for pretty much anyone else but ugh. I mean, we're talking like 85 degress Fahrenheit. So I know that yes, that does mean I'm a wimp, but that's really hot for me. And I'm probably doomed as I move over to New York at the end of August. So hopefully I don't just end up melting into a horrible puddle.Anyway. Since our last episode a couple things have happened, at the beginning of the month, the Queers Destroy Science Fiction! special issue of Lightspeed Magazine is out. You can read the first two stories for free now, or buy the issue to read the whole thing right away. I think some of the content is going to remain ebook only but more of the stories will be made available for free as the month goes on.The 27th annual Lambda Literary Awards have also been announced. The winner for LGBT science fiction / fantasy / horror is Chaz Brenchley for his short fiction collection Bitter Waters. The other nominees included Daryl Gregory for Afterparty, Lee Thomas for Butcher's Road, A. M. Dellamonica for Child of a Hidden Sea, Max Gladstone for Full Fathom Five, Lea Daley for FutureDyke and Craig Laurance Gidney for Skin Deep Magic. Congrats to everyone for making it to the shortlist, or winning if you're Chaz. The full list of winners and nominees is available on lambdaliterary.org, and I'll include a link in the transcript so you can check out the other categories.Our story for this week is "Sooner than Gold" by Cory Skerry.Cory Skerry lives in a converted garage that belongs to a pair of valkyries. If he's not peddling (or meddling with) art supplies, he's writing, reading submissions, or off exploring with his sweet, goofy pit bulls. When his current meatshell begins to fall apart, he'd like science to put his brain into a giant killer octopus body, with which he'll be very responsible and not even slightly shipwrecky. He promises. For more stories, visit coryskerry.netSooner Than GoldBy Cory SkerryI tug on clean underwear in case I get arrested, paint my makeup perfectly because there's nothing sadder than a grown man in badly applied eyeliner, and climb out my apartment window, onto the fire escape.I can't be late to this assignment, and if I go through the lobby, there's a strong chance the night doorman will have a thing or two to say about the video footage of our card game last night. I forgot there was a camera pointed at the lobby desk.The asphalt below reeks of garbage and piss; about half of the latter is probably mine. Don't judge. If I'm drunk enough, there's not even any point in aiming for the toilet.My boots land softly as I hit the ground, but the ladder clangs as my weight slides off. I look back up at the enchantment, where it strings out from my leg to the trunk in my apartment.It's a violet chain so thin it looks like I could break it with my fingers, glossy and iridescent like niobium. It burns where it enters my skin, a pain so bright and cruel it took me a week to learn to sleep again.Sometimes I think about finding some woo-woo psychic to tell me what it is or try to remove it, but I'm afraid the person at the other end of the chain will find out.Desert heat radiates from the ground, warming the soles of my boots, and I worry about pit-stains and failing hair gel. I shouldn't have worn my jacket, but I cut a better figure with something to embellish my shoulders. And I need to look sharp. I can't use my charm at a drag queen convention if I look like a microwaved cat turd.I give in and hail a cab, where I endure five minutes of crackly radio commercials and a Celine Dion song. My reward is AC while I sip from my flask and neurotically check the book for new directives.The book is old, like grandpa-times-three old. The worn leather cover is flexible and shiny from years of use, but the gilt edges of the pages haven't rubbed away. Sometimes I flip through all the paragraphs of nonsense, written in languages I don't recognize, but I usually just open to the page with the ribbon bookmark, the one page that's in English.The book says the same thing it said when I woke up this afternoon:GlitzCon Ball. Saturday night, 8:00 p.m. Pluck the thorns of the black lily. Do not touch her with your bare flesh.This cryptic bullshit is sometimes worse, sometimes better, but it nearly always works out in the end. I tuck the book back in my pocket as the cab rolls up to the convention. The side mirror shows me still-flawless makeup before the cab pulls away.Inside the hotel, I follow signs to the ballroom entrance, where the bass from the party is rattling the doors. An employee holds up a warning hand. She has enough cakey makeup and sparkly rings to be a GlitzCon attendee, and she's old enough to be my mother.This isn't the only entrance for me, but I want to see if I look as good as I think I do, so I'll try it."Where's your con badge?" the Sparkly Cougar asks."I don't have one," I say."Then—"I step back, cock a hip, and hold out my hands in the universal gesture for "I'm unarmed." It works even when you're not talking to cops. "But that room is full of horny, middle-aged queens, and you know what they like even more than bitching about how painful their shoes are?"I use both thumbs to peel back the fitted black cloth of my coat, exposing my all-black rockstar outfit: lace shirt, pierced nipples, edges of a mystery tattoo creeping up above the low-slung waistline of my skinny jeans. I'm going for "slutty Japanese pop star" tonight."This."Sparkly Cougar reluctantly chuckles.I grin. "I know, right? Come on, honey, you know no one is going to complain."She rolls her eyes, but she laughs and opens the door for the best thief she'll ever meet.I stroll into pandemonium. The stench of perfume, sweat, fuzzy teeth, and wine is almost too heavy to breathe;  the requisite flock of disco balls spin stars across the crowd; and the electronic music booms and whirs beside the cacophony of hundreds of gaudy floral costumes. One queen is wearing a ball gown that looks like a giant upside-down rose; another has a bouffant wig with real miniature pansies planted in it. Daffodils, lupines, orchids... None of the elaborate, garish costumes is a black lily.I don't see any black anything—I stand out like a goth skidmark.I had this coat tailored just for me, a slim-waisted frock style with buttons made of real antique coins: pieces-of-eight from a treasure chest I never should have stolen and definitely never should have opened. Still, without the chest I wouldn't have had the cash to pay the seamstress, and now I have over thirty hidden pockets to stuff with jewelry. Even though I'm here for the thorns of the black lily, nothing says I can't nab some extra rock candy to pay bills like rent and booze.I wend my way through the garden of glitter, searching for others in male clothing. Dudes or not, their jewelry is more likely to be real.I pretend that I've tripped on a drag queen's train,  stumble into a fat fellow whose tie tack looks like it might be real diamonds, and walk off wishing I dared snatch the matching cuff links. But even though I did put on clean underwear, I don't want to risk getting caught.The author of the book is not pleased when I'm delayed by jail.I try not to think about that, instead searching for a black flower costume. There must be a thousand attendees in this cavernous geode of a ballroom, plus at least fifteen hotel staff, ten live parrots hanging in gilded cages by the garden-themed photo set in the back, and two service dogs for one old lady. After forty-five minutes of charming my way through the crowd, winking when someone slaps my ass and leaning over to kiss fingers while I tease off rings—that shit works, I'm telling you—I'm still the single smudge of goth couture in this florist shop LARP.It's been almost two years since I failed to steal what the book directed.I am not going to fail again.Even the AC can't stop me from sweating now, and I pat at my hairline with my handkerchief. My mascara is waterproof, but that only goes so far.The fucking book can't be specific, can it? No, it just gives me riddles. Maybe I'm looking for a small enamel lily pin on someone's lapel. Maybe the book means black as in African-American, wearing a lily costume of any possible goddamned color.Around the room again, and again. Checking lapels, checking skin colors against costumes, panicking every time I see people trickle out the doors. I head for the nearest door—it's actually the one I came in—and place my hand on the knob. Options blur through my mind: the elevator, the emergency stairs, a utility closet. I choose the last, and when I open the door, that's where it leads.I shut the door quickly behind me, because I don't want anyone following. Now if they try to open the same door, it will lead into the hall, where it actually goes. Relieved, I take a deep breath of the closet's comparatively fresh air. Just a faint odor of pine, bleach, and the musty suggestion of a mop put away while wet.Two doors' distance is all I get. Don't ask me how it works, or why I can do it, but if I lay my hand on a knob or a handle, I can choose if the door opens into the following room, or any of the rooms that annex that same room. Sometimes it's a dead end, like this closet, because there's no other door to open. I've chosen the wrong door and gotten arrested before—it's a bit like trying to solve a maze with a pen instead of a pencil. You just screw up sometimes.Like sometime, you might go into a room no other human could have found. Maybe you take a chest that wasn't meant for a human to have. You smugly carry it back to your apartment, but the moment you open the lid, a chain snakes into your leg. The pain is phenomenal. You dig through the chest, looking for something to cut yourself free, but there's nothing but gold coins and one crappy old book in a language you can't read.The intangible chain stretches all the way to the hardware store, where they think you're a psycho case when you start hacking at the linoleum floor by your feet with garden shears, and then an axe, and then a sledgehammer. The cops mace your crazy ass, but you barely even feel it because your leg is getting worse. You say you were angry and drunk, and you agree to pay the damages, and you go home in defeat.You can't even tell the truth to friends or your now-ex-boyfriend, because they can't see the enchantment.There is no sleep. Not for days. You consider amputation, start looking up methods on the Internet. Turns out there are fetishists for everything, and their utter batshitness might be your gain. But before you pack your leg in ice to induce a frostbite so severe the doctors will be forced to surgically remove your curse, you wonder about the book.You open it again, hoping there's something in there, something to explain, even if it's just a picture. It's gibberish until one page, the page that says:Nautical exhibit at museum at midnight. Brass spyglass from a 1728 wreck. Place it in chest.You know which museum has the nautical exhibit. What do you have to lose? It doesn't hurt any more to walk than it does to stay in place. And you miss stealing, since you've been hiding in your apartment biting a pillow and swallowing a plethora of Vicodin tablets that do absolutely nothing.The moment you place the spyglass in the chest, it slides through the wooden bottom, like it's sinking through water.The pain in your leg becomes bearable. It doesn't disappear—it never fucking disappears, never—but you can pass out now. You sleep, and you don't wake up from a dream about being savaged by a shark or stepping in a bear trap or being allergic to only one of your socks.So you steal what the book tells you, and you put it in the chest. Gold coins ooze up from the other side, breaching like whales, until there's a stack to replace your offering.The burning subsides for a time, but the book always makes more demands.Now that I have the privacy of the closet, I pull the book out and look again. It says what it said before, plus one more word.NOW.I jam it back into my pocket, take a deep breath, and step back into the bouquet of B.O. and carcinogenic perfumes. I arrange a smile on my face with all the care that a florist takes with a wreath for a state funeral.Maybe I'm not looking for a person. Maybe the "her" was a statue, or a painting. I close my eyes almost all the way, so I just see a blur of light and color through my lashes, and scan the room. When a dark patch appears, it's just one of the service dogs I spotted earlier, a saggy-bellied lab standing guard by her owner's feet. Before I can dismiss her entirely, however, I spot a glint of silver on her service coat.Hundred bucks says I know that dog's name.They're leaving right now. The door shuts behind them.I duck around huge hats and ponyfalls, poofy skirts and trailing scarves. When I exit the ballroom, they're nearly to the elevator.No, no, no. I break my practiced saunter and jog down the hall toward the woman and her dogs. I hate drawing attention, but I don't have a choice.I slow as I approach, creeping up behind Lily's wagging tail. The pin comes off of her embroidered "Service Animal" coat easily, though the sharp edges puncture the pads of my fingers.Lily's tail brushes across my cheek as I get to my feet.She spins and snarls. Her elderly owner hauls at the leash, her face calm as her four-legged companion tries to get close enough to chew my nuts. I don't have to pretend to be terrified.I clench the pin in my hand, trying to pretend it's not cold as a polar bear's butthole. It's not the first object I've been told to steal that has strange properties, but it's the first that numbs my fingers until I can't even tell if they're still gripping it."Holy shit, your dog is psycho!" I yell, backing away."You probably deserve it," the woman snaps. Her other dog growls low in its throat, but it doesn't struggle to reach me the way Lily does.I flee, my heart beating faster than the electronic music in the next room.Good. Now I'll go home and throw this pin in the chest and waste Glenlivet by drinking it fast until I pass out. I open the book—still the same message—and tuck the bloody pin under the cover. When I get frisked, they never seem to be able to find the book, so it'll be safest there.I no sooner finish tucking it into my breast pocket than someone with a beautiful Spanish accent says, "You're not supposed to pet service dogs."I glance over my shoulder, just to be sure it isn't security.It's a queen, maybe. I can't tell; she's lanky, with a Roman nose and overpainted lips. She could be female with strong features, or male with delicate ones. She has blood-red extensions, high-quality toyokalon bound into a messy ponytail to show off her impossibly thin hoop earrings and her black leather choker.She's the only other person wearing black, a simple velvet dress powdered with glitter. I didn't see her in the ball room, when I was looking for black costumes. I realize I'm staring, and shrug. "Service dogs don't bite. Pretty sure that lady bought the coat on E-bay so she could smuggle her fleabag into tea parties," I say. "It's like a fad with old bitches. Give it a few centuries; we'll be doing it, too."She narrows her eyes but doesn't speak, as if she can't decide if she's offended or not."Nice being lectured by you," I say, and head for the stairwell.I hate elevators, because I can't open the doors with my hands, so if I'm trapped in an elevator, there's nothing I can do. Luckily, I'm my own elevator. I haul back the stairwell's heavy fire door and it opens straight to the parking garage.My footsteps echo alone for long seconds before I hear the elevator door open behind me. Heels click on the pavement, and I glance back to find the goody-two-shoes with red plastic hair. "You're leaving already? Not enjoying the convention, then?" she asks. She trots closer, inviting herself to walk along with me."Drag isn't my scene. I'm way too pretty to pretend to be a woman," I reply. The chain is hurting more. I'm taking too long, and the book's author is angry. I look for doors to get outside faster, but most of them are on cars, which won't do the trick.For a moment, I imagine going back into the convention with her and having a drink. She has style, and it's been a long time since I hung out with anyone I wasn't stealing from. But the book doesn't leave room for socializing in the schedule."What's your name?" she asks, toying with the silver disk hanging from her choker."Could you piss off? I'm not interested in anything with tits, even if they're fake.""My name's Lily," she says.I'm too slow. I turn to look at her, my mouth opening to ask a stupid question, when she reaches down on the ground and grabs the violet chain.She pulls, hard, and I thump onto my back.Even though I think I'm still awake, everything is black and sparkly. It's like her dress, like the sky, and then I keep blinking until my vision focuses again on the ceiling, with its emergency sprinkler system nozzles and sleeping moths. My head hurts and my leg hurts and I think I forgot how to breathe.I don't understand how she can touch the chain when I can't, but I also don't understand how she was a dog. The collar is the same, though. I remember now.The pavement scrapes by beneath me as she hauls me by the chain, toward the elevator. Some people getting into their cars glance over, then studiously pretend not to notice so they don't have to get involved. To people who can't see the chain, this looks like a psychotic tantrum, like I'm scooting myself toward Lily."Stop," I plead. It's barely audible, just a croak."I'll stop when you give me back my pin, you insufferable bag of dicks. If you were scared of me biting you, just wait until you see what I can do with this tether.""I can't—" I start, but I lose my breath again when she whips the chain around a few times, like a jump rope. I curl forward, retching. She lets go, and I lie gasping like a landed fish as her fingers poke through my pockets. She flings jewelry on the ground as she finds it, and finally, gives up."What did you do with it?" she asks."I gave it to someone," I say. The pin is cold against my heart, reaching through the book and the coat.I know my mascara is smeared now, waterproof or not. I have to remind myself that as bad as this is, it will be worse if I don't put the desired item in the chest. I just need to get to a door."I need the silver thorns to do my job. That 'old bitch' is down one body guard until I can change back into a dog. I've killed for her before, and I'll do it again.""Please, it's too late.""You're a wretched liar." She swings the chain around, lifting me off the ground, and slams me into the back of a lime green Escalade. The crunch is either a rear window or all of my bones.This time the flashing lights are colors. Blue, red. There's glass in my hair and everything tastes like blood.There are cameras, I remember, in the parking garage.I force my eyes open, past the prodding cops, and see them escorting Lily away. She glares over her shoulder, yells about theft.I'm not sure if I'm coughing or laughing. They frisk me, looking for her pin, but it's in the book where they can't find it. They do find the other jewelry I stole—well, what Lily didn't already throw on the ground—and they handcuff me.Fine. If I have to pick from: getting murdered, not putting the pin in the chest, or getting arrested, this is my best option.They don't care enough about me to call an ambulance, and after a few minutes, I have to admit I probably don't need one. The injuries they can measure are just a mild concussion, a split lip, and some bruising.The book is still in my jacket, and they make me wear ghastly jail jammies, so I spend all night wondering what the page says now.The first time I failed the author, the book gave me a countdown for fixing my mistake, and when I gave up, because I didn't understand how bad it would get, the book told me to go into my kitchen, pull out everything with a skull-and-crossbones sticker on it, and pour myself a cocktail.I had no intentions of doing it, but that's when I found out the chain reached deeper inside than just my leg, than even my flesh and bone.My hands mixed every cleaning product I had into the glass I usually use for scotch. My mouth opened, and I poured it down my own throat. The slop burned as it passed through me, for days, from my lips to my asshole. It crept through my veins and flavored my breath, blurred and stung my vision.When I couldn't take any more and tried to slit my wrists, I did bleed, but it smelled like Pine Sol and trickled out like rust-colored syrup. It didn't change my condition. When I tried to leave my apartment, or use the phone, my hands refused.I was so alone that Death refused to visit, and even my own body was on someone else's side.I keep my lawyer's business card laminated in my wallet, and I call him with my usual lies. He gets me out late on Monday morning, and I'm in too much of a hurry to sit through his warnings and advice. In the cab on the way home, I open the book.Place thorns in chest. Fifty-four minutes until punishment.I pull out the pen I stole from the front desk at the police station. I don't know if this will work, but I'm desperate. Bracing the book against my knee, I write:black lily touched my skin, tried to kill me for the thorns. got away but can't steal for you if dead. what now?My words disappear, but I don't know if that means they've been read. I stare at the page until the cab pulls up outside my apartment building. I am too sore to go up the fire escape.The doorman I cheated holds up a hand, like I'm traffic he's directing, and says, "Hey, you owe me forty bucks, or—""I'll get it for you tonight, when your mom pays me," I say, eyes still on the blank page. I open the stairwell door and step straight into the fifth floor hallway, where he can't follow fast enough to kick my ass.As I walk toward my apartment, text appears on the page, showing up in strokes as someone writes each letter.Place thorns in chest. Thirty-three minutes until punishment. Stab her with iron knife.I stole an iron knife with a silk-wrapped handle months ago and put it in the chest. My teeth creak against each other. I don't know where to get another. Who would even want a knife that rusts?I shut the book and fumble with my keys. I don't know if I could even use the knife—I can't imagine stabbing Lily, stabbing anyone. I'm a thief, not a murderer.I can't wait to put the pin in the chest so I don't have to worry about it anymore. My leg feels like one solid cramp. I'm so distracted that I don't smell the perfume until I close the door behind me.I look up in time to see Lily grab the violet chain and flip me onto my back again. At least it's carpet, I think."You left your filthy face grease on my tail, so I had your scent," she says. She's dressed much as she was Saturday night, in a short black dress and pumps.I'm not playing this game again. "I'll give it to you," I say. I thrust out my palms, my favorite no-weapons signal.She crosses her arms."Let me get it." My sore muscles tear like wet paper as I struggle to my feet."You sure made a shitty deal," she sneers.I pause on my way to the chest. It looks like a normal steamer trunk, against the wall under an expensive-ass painting that I also stole, next to an even expensiver-ass plasma screen, which I actually bought because for once it was easier than stealing."Deal?""This isn't a deal?" she asks, quirking an eyebrow. She dangles the chain meaningfully."No. I just... I stole that chest," I say, pointing. I explain about the chain and the book.I open the chest, because I want to show her the gold—prove I'm not lying—and see the same iron knife I stole months ago, with the chartreuse silk tied around the handle. The author must be loaning it to me.Lily flops down on my couch, setting her shoes up on my glass coffee table."You foolish mortal. Do you know what you could have gotten, if you'd asked instead of stolen?""What?""A contract with a clause stipulating when your service ends. We make fair deals, you know. We always have.""What are you?" I whisper. I've watched TV; I've seen movies; sometimes if no one is looking I even read comics. I don't want to say any of the silly words out loud, like demon or faery.She snorts and shakes her head."Me? I'm someone who can actually kill you. I'll just wait for you to start chugging Drano-on-the-rocks again, and then offer a quick death in exchange for my pin...unless you want to take me back to the hotel and show me where you hid it. I smelled you in that utility closet—is that it?"Lily pours herself a couple fingers of scotch and sips it, watching me. I reach into the chest and slide the knife into my sleeve. It's cold under my fingers; I imagine sinking it into the soft hollow at the base of her long throat.I'm suddenly so nauseated I almost fill the chest with half-digested jail food."How do I get this chain off?" I whisper. "That's all I want.""Good luck, bitch. Pretty sure you have to kill the bastard writing in the book."I pull out the book, flip it open again, stare at the words.Four minutes until punishment. Place thorns in chest. Stab her with an iron knife.My only idea is desperate, and stupid, but what do I have to lose?I hold the book over the trunk and shake it. The pin falls out. The bottom of the trunk swallows every silver thorn before Lily has even gotten to her feet.Her face crumples with rage, and even if she can't turn into a dog now, her bared teeth could have fooled me."Help me kill him and I'll get your pin back," I say quickly, half of a second before she yanks the chain toward her. If I can't make my plan clear she might kill me, so I force myself to explain even though every word is a scream."I can... control doors," I gasp. "I can get there."She scowls. "That could take forever.""It won't."I'm more scared of this plan than I am of Lily. The last place I want to go is the place where the pain comes from.After an interminable moment, Lily drops the chain.I'm too shaky to stand again. I kneel at the coffee table and reach for my only glass, which has her lipstick prints on the rim and a finger of scotch left in the bottom.She slides it out of reach. "Start talking.""Okay." I gather my thoughts, trying to ignore the glass. "I can get there and steal the pin back. I just need you to protect me the way you protect the old lady."She shakes her head. "The book's author has a dog, I'm sure, and she'll still have her pin, because some slutty mortal crybaby didn't snatch it.""I am not slutty!""Could've fooled me, Captain Nippleparty," Lily says, pointing at my torn shirt. She stretches, rolls her head to pop her neck, and gets to her feet. "Okay. If you can get the pin back fast enough for me to use it, I'll keep the dog from eating your face. But you're on your own with the book's author."She grabs my hand, and I feel a thrill at the touch of her strong fingers, until she casually kicks the violet chain on her way toward the front door.I pull her back.With my other hand, I close the chest's lid and grip the cold brass handle. I feel through the possibilities: the tiny wooden room it usually opens to, or the bigger room beyond."Maybe you're not as stupid as you smell," she says.I open the lid/door, step in, and we both fall through, linked by our hands.We land on a desk carved of glittering white stone.I don't have time to look around: in a chair in front of the desk, so close I can smell his graveyard breath, there's an old man with butter-yellow eyes and Count Dracula hair. His waxy, colorless skin reminds me of a maggot.For just a moment, he looks like he got fisted with an ice cube—and then his eyes drop to see the violet chain coiled on the desk's smooth surface. He smiles and lays one palm over it.Pain. I'm on my belly instantly, swimming across the desk. My hands claw at the stone, at Lily, at the still-wet pages of the book he'd been writing in, as if somewhere I might find the switch to turn it off. My boots encounter momentary resistance, followed by the music of hundreds of coins clinking, rolling, and spinning on a marble floor.I crane my neck at Lily, just in time to see him strike her face with the side of his fist. The quill with which he'd been writing stabs into her cheek, dribbling black ink down her jaw.In one smooth motion, she slides off the desk and lands in a defensive crouch.As she backs away, the clicking of her heels multiplies. It's a dog trotting up behind her. Woolly and beige, like an old couch, it seems harmless until it bares its teeth. The rumble in its throat sounds like a power tool.This was stupid, so stupid. I should go back through the chest. My left elbow bumps against it, so I know it's still here on the desktop. Just shut the lid, then open it once, tumble through into my apartment. No doubt I'd be punished, but at least I'd be far away, where I belonged.The plume hanging out of Lily's cheek quivers as she stands between the book's author and his canine mercenary. Then the dog jumps on her, its paws on her chest, tearing into her arm when she swings at its face.It's hard to focus, but I force my right arm flat on the desk so I can reach into my sleeve.The book's author watches Lily go down to her knees, his face expressionless. I draw the iron knife, and before I can change my mind, before I can get sick again, I slam the blade into the side of his neck.The blood that dribbles out is iridescent like a parking lot puddle. He paws at the knife with both hands, but a moment later he goes limp and molds to the contours of his chair like wet laundry.The pain fades, but it doesn't go away. I don't have time to worry about that, or the fact that I just went from thief to murderer.It's my fault Lily's here.I dig through everything I knocked off of the desk, coins and the inkwell and a bunch of jewelry, but I don't see Lily's pin. I have to get it to her—a dog against a dog is a better chance than she has now.I can't find it. The dog snarls louder behind me and Lily curses. I glance back to see her holding it at arm's length by its collar, its teeth gnashing the flesh of her arm as if it means to chew it off.No time to keep digging. I scan the room. It seems carved from a single block of opalescent white stone, even the desk. Sourceless frost-tinted light shows me shelves and shelves of familiar items. I spot a broken pocketwatch that worked back when I stole it, a hat pin I remember sneaking off of a mannequin in a porn store window, and finally, the brass spyglass I stole from the nautical exhibit.That's the one I grab.Lily's blood is slick under my shoes as I dash over. I swing the spyglass at the dog. I don't want to hit it, but its mouth is foaming with Lily's blood, blood she never should have had to spill. When the brass strikes the top of the dog's skull, it yelps, falls to the side, and is too dizzy to get up. I know how it feels. If I tried to pull the knife out of a dead man I would have passed right the eff out—I'm barely hanging on as it is. I swallow the gush of about-to-puke saliva and breathe through my nose.Lily stands, her lacerated arm dripping more blood. "Where is my pin?" she asks."I don't know. Why am I still chained?""I don't know."We stare at each other, she without her pin, me still attached to the chest by the violet chain."Let's load the chest with all the coins and jewelry," I say. "When we get back, we'll sort through it all."I take off my coat and rip out the lining to bandage Lily's  arm. When it's wrapped tight, she helps me pile handfuls of treasure onto my coat, all of it stained with ink and blood. We lift it together and dump the contents into the chest, over and over until there's not a coin left. "I can take you back through," I say, "so you can go to a hospital.""You'd trust me in your apartment with all that cash?" she asks. She starts to grin, winces, and yanks the quill from her cheek. "How come you're not going back that way?""I have to own both chests until I get the chain off," I say. "I can't bring it through itself—I don't know what'll happen—so I have to go back the long way."Maybe I don't hide my dread well enough. Her eyes are sharp and dark as she looks at the chest, already empty, and then back at me."No, thanks," she says. "I think I want to see what's through door number two." I fight the urge to hug her—I'm covered in enough blood as it is.I grab one end of the chest, and she grabs the other, and we walk toward the door. I caress the cool handle, considering the possibilities. None of them will take us home, but you don't get through a maze without hitting a few dead-ends.I choose a hallway, and then another door, and another.END"Sooner than Gold" was originally published in Glitter and Mayhem, edited by John Klima, Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, published by Apex Publications.This recording is a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license which means you can share it with anyone you’d like, but please don’t change or sell it. Our theme is “Aurora Borealis” by Bird Creek, available through the Google Audio Library.Thanks for listening, and I’ll have another story for you on June 11th.[Music plays out]This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

¡Por fin estamos aquí! Diversos problemas técnicos nos ha impedido ofreceros antes este segundo episodio de nuestra cuarta temporada (y, de hecho, notaréis que el sonido no es especialmente bueno en algunos momentos), pero los hemos sorteado como mejor hemos podido. ¡Todo por vosotros, queridos oyentes!En este episodio los VerdHugos dedicaremos un rato a hablar de la pasada HispaCon, la MIRcon, celebrada en diciembre en Montcada y Reixac (guarida en la vida real de Miquel Codony, uno de los organizadores) y aprovecharemos la presencia de Leticia Lara para saber todo lo posible de un proyecto muy interesante en el que ella estuvo involucrada: Alucinadas, la antología de ciencia ficción escrita por mujeres en la que participó como editora acompañada por Cristina Jurado. La segunda mitad del programa la dedicaremos a valorar el año 2014 en lo que a literatura fantástica se refiere y a explicar nuestras expectativas de cara a 2015. Para finalizar, siguiendo la costumbre, cada uno de nosotros recomendará dos libros o tebeos:LeticiaVita Nostra, de Sergey y Marina Dyachenko Tebeo: Sir Pyle S. Culapio (Guión: Jean-David Morvan; Dibujo: José Luis Munuera y Rubén)Pedro Los Premios Ignotus 1991-2000, edición de Rodolfo Martínez Serie: The Best American Science and Nature WritingJosep María Pandemonium, de Daryl Gregory The Race, de Nina AllanElíasThe Three-Body Problem, de Liu Cixin Dark Intelligence, de Neal AsherMiquelLa Rueda Celeste (The Lathe of Heaven), de Ursula K. Le Guin Historia y Antología de la Ciencia Ficción Española, de Julián Díez y Fernando Ángel MorenoEl episodio se puede descargar de archive.org y, en cuanto se propaguen los feeds, de iVoox e iTunes.Música: Bitches of your souls (The Saurs) - http://thesaurs.bandcamp.com/Logotipo: Javier Hansard

Guest speaker Daryl Gregory shares his message "The Maori World View" at Grace Vineyard Beach Campus morning service.

Guest speaker Daryl Gregory shares his message "The Maori World View" at Grace Vineyard City Campus morning service.

Our fourth piece of audio fiction for July is "The Illustrated Biography of Lord Grimm" written by Daryl Gregory and read by Kate Baker.   First published in Eclipse 2, edited by Jonathan Strahan. Subscribe to our podcast.

This week, on the Major Spoilers Podcast: Dracula curses us all, Batman kills the Joker, Bedlam insues, and... wait a minute... THAT WAS OUR PLANET! NEWS Lucasfilm to pursue spin-off movies LINK REVIEWS STEPHEN Batman: The Dark Knight Returns - Part 2 The Batman has returned after a 10-year absence. The Gotham authorities want to arrest him. An old foe wants a reunion. The Feds want the Man of Tomorrow to put a stop to him. [rating:4/5] MATTHEW New Avengers #3 Writer: Jonathan Hickman Artist: Steve Epting, Rick Magyar Publisher: Marvel Comics Cover Price: $3.99 “INFINITY”
 The Illuminati experience their first incursion since reforming.
 Can the loose brotherhood of end times trust each other enough to use the Infinity Gems in unison?
 And a new member joins the Illuminati! [rating:2/5] RODRIGO Planet of the Apes Special #1
 Written by Daryl Gregory
 Drawn by Diego Barreto
 SC, 32pgs, FC, SRP: $4.99
 Diamond Code: DEC12 0909 Daryl Gregory returns to the PLANET OF THE APES in this epic over-sized issue, featuring fan-favorite artist Diego Barreto (IRREDEEMABLE) throughout 32 pages of new story and art! It’s the return of what Jason Aaron (SCALPED, WOLVERINE AND THE X-MEN) called: “The best PLANET OF THE APES comic ever. And one of my favorite comics of the year, period.” When the Lawgiver was assassinated by a human, Ape City fell into a vicious civil war. Ten years have passed since the horrific violence and a fragile peace is emerging. Voice Alaya has been deposed and awaits sentencing in Ape City’s prison. Meanwhile, Sully has begun to rally forces, both human and ape. Little do they know they’re both on a collision course towards an even greater danger… [rating:3/5] ZACH Bedlam #4
 Writer: Nick Spencer
 Artist: Riley Rossmo
 Publisher: Image Comics
 Cover Price: $3.50
 The Good Doctor [rating:2.5/5] Major Spoilers Poll of the Week When it comes to space travel, there are a couple of routes you can go. The first is the safe route, which means it takes 100 years or more to put a colony on the Moon, which is a good thing, because everyone knows the Moon blew up in 1999. The other is to seek out strange new worlds, and make a buck or two by smuggling spice for the Hutts. The second is a bit more reckless, but can lead to so much more in the end. Which brings us to the Major Spoilers Poll of the Week! [poll id="272"] LINK Discussion: THE CURSE OF DRACULA The Curse of Dracula is back in this deluxe new hardcover edition! A mysterious, charismatic figure is moving amongst the circles of San Francisco’s political elite. When Jonathan Van Helsing and his team of vampire hunters come to town investigating a string of grisly murders, they know it’s only a matter of time before they come face to face with the master of the dark! Contact us at podcast@majorspoilers.com Call the Major Spoilers Hotline at (785) 727-1939. A big Thank You goes out to everyone who downloads, subscribes, listens, and supports this show. We really appreciate you taking the time to listen to our ramblings each week. Tell your friends about the podcast, get them to subscribe and, be sure to visit the Major Spoilers site and forums.

Each week on 15 Minutes of Fiction...with Fictional Frontiers, Host Sohaib Awan will highlight the best in genre entertainment. Dedicated to a serious discussion on pop culture, industry leaders will provide their unique takes on science fiction and fantasy. This week...enjoy our segment with the writer on BOOM! Studios' Planet of the Apes comic series and author of the critical smash, Del Rey's RAISING STONY MAYHALL, Daryl Gregory. Fictional Frontiers on Suvudu: http://suvudu.com/tag/fictional-frontiers

After a sojourn due to Father's Day, when we ran the very well received Jo Walton episode, Gary and I are are back on deck to discuss young adult science fiction, Ian McDonald, his new novel Planesrunner, Daryl Gregory and his new collection, robots and computerised houses, and a bit of waffle on the subject of Orson Scott Card and "Hamlet's Father". As always we hope you enjoy the podcast. See you next week!

It's the June BS show. This week we discuss Russ' trip to Comicpalooza, Secret Warriors, Kung Fu Panda 2, a little X-Men:First Class talk, The Hangover 2, and more.Then at the 1:22:00 mark we talk to Boom Studios' Planet of the Apes writer Daryl Gregory. We discuss PotA, growing up in Chicago, his writing projects, and end it with a little baseball talk. Notes: www.comicpalooza.com

The first thing you have to understand about Daryl Gregory is that despite all evidence to the contrary he is not in fact British. I know, right? The next thing you need to know about Daryl Gregory?  He’s writing two of the best comics around.  His Dracula: Company of Monsters is simply the best Dracula […]

It's a new edition of APE TALK as Daryl Gregory writer of Boom Studios new Planet Of The Apes Comic series joins us. The new ongoing series is set in thne classic POTA film continuity and has an intersting starting point. Daryl tells us about his plans for the series plus we talk about his other sci-fi/comic book work.

Episode 212: Speeding Bullets Show: We talk about a ton this episode including Brightest Day 4, Justice League Generation Lost 3, Booster Gold 33, Birds of Prey 2, the Jonah Hex Movie, the future of DC film. BREAKING NEWS: There is also a quick segment on the just released DC Digital Comics initiative on iTunes and Playstation Portable. We also have a special extra bonus segment with Daryl Gregory on “Dracula: The Company of Monsters”. Show Notes: 0:00 Show opening, http://www.heroinitiative.org, http://www.DCBService.com, http://www.Instocktrades.com,  our ongoing contest (Ragingcontest@gmail.com), senseiofwhatnot@gmail.com, http://www.geturgeekonradio.com, http://www.comiccollectorlive.com show voicemail line 1-440-388-4434 or drnorge on Skype,and more.   5:47 Speeding Bullets: Brightest Day 4, Justice League Generation Lost 3, Booster Gold 33, Birds of Prey 2 1:28:20 Daryl Gregory and “Dracula: The Company of Monsters” 1:48:55 Jonah Hex Movie Review and the future of DC film and television 2:58:54 BREAKING NEWS: Quick review of the newly released DC Comics App for Apple products and Playstation Portable 3:13:16 Show Closing We’ll be back next week with our next episode.  Check Ragingbullets.com and the forum for regular updates. Daryl Gregory http://www.boom-studios.net/ http://darylgregory.wordpress.com/2010/05/26/final-fantasy-comic-book-edition/ http://twitter.com/darylwriterguy