Podcasts about Dhalgren

In this episode of Other Worlds, we explore the theme and concept ‘The Empty City'. This theme stretches across time, art, literature, and imagination as we examine the many ways that the empty city, or the city emptied of its people, has been represented in science fiction. Joining Sue Berman to discuss this theme is Other Worlds exhibition curator Andrew Henry. Visit the onsite exhibition and join us in a series of events and activations: www.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/Other-Worlds-exhibition For recommended reads visit: www.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/Other-Worlds-reads Books mentioned in the podcast: Gustave Doré and Blanchard Jerrold. London: a pilgrimage. London: Grant, 1872. Europa's fate, or, The coming struggle: a history lesson in New Zealand A.D. 2076. London: Griffith and Farran, 1875. Nevil Shute. On the beach. Melbourne: Heinemann, 1957. Craig Harrison. The quiet earth. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1981. New worlds SF, vol. 49, no. 152. London: Roberts & Vinter, July 1965. Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren. New York: Bantam Books, 1975. Music credit: https://www.melodyloops.com/tracks/space-harmony/ Image credit: Cover image from Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren. New York: Bantam Books, 1975. Produced by Sue Berman and JL.

For any listeners who have missed our longstanding tradition of almost unfettered rambling, we turn our attention this week to the questions of how and why certain novels and writers seem to hold up better than others, how younger readers can enjoy some older classics while completely tuning out others, and the difference between books that celebrate old traditions as opposed to books that seek to reinvent the field, or that are simply sui generis. We touch upon a few novels from 50 years ago, like The Mote in God's Eye, The Dispossessed, Dhalgren, and The Forever War, books that seem to find new readers in each generation, and writers who seem to fade away with time.

The major science parts of the plot: 3 Body Problem | Official Trailer | Netflix The book series translated to english: https://www.amazon.com/Three-Body-Problem-Boxed-Set-Remembrance/dp/1250254493 Three body problem in physics: Newtons Arm is a short visual explanation of the 3 body problem at work: https://youtu.be/U39RMUzCjiU?si=6xPH8eBwWQBKIylo Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains The Three-Body Problem Ken Liu translation of The Three Body Problem: https://www.amazon.com/Three-Body-Problem-Remembrance-Earths-Past-ebook/dp/B00IQO403K […]

This is a cross post from Rare Candy's Gain of Fiction series featuring yours truly as well as former guest Eddy Rathke, hosted by Glen and Psi from RC. We look at Samuel R. Delany's classic and very wild science fiction experimental novel, Dhalgren.To access the full episode as well as Getting Lit Podcast's aftershow, Back Matter, go to patreon.com/gettinglit.Enjoy!Follow Rare Candy: https://rarecandy.substack.com/And Eddy: https://radicaledward.substack.com/

Full episode is available at https://rarecandy.substack.com/p/gain-of-fiction-vol-30-dhalgren-w

In Episode 154, we talk about the Battle of Okolona and the Dhalgren Raid, also known as the Dhalgren affair. https://cwweeklypod.wixsite.com/my-site *Mobile capability through the app Spaces by Wix. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/CWweeklypod Venmo: @Timothy-Patrick-48 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/civil-war-weekly/support

The British writer LP Hartley opened his novel “The Go-Between” with an unforgettable line “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” There's a long-standing idea of literature being a vehicle to explore these “foreign countries”, be they temporal or geographical or cultural.  My guest today has been one of the most innovative voices with regard to the immigrant experience, especially through his 2007 novel “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”. Junot Díaz is a Dominican-American writer who won the Pulitzer Prize for that novel, thanks to its incredibly modern story-telling. The prose was insane, with different characters' vernacular switching on and off, the timelines, inspirations, characters felt incredibly fresh and exciting. It's the story of a young Dominican-American boy who navigates this new world of America, whilst pining for the homeland of the Dominican Republican, and he copes with this, and with the turmoil of adolescence, by immersing himself in typical teen nerd culture of comics, and sci-fi. If you haven't read that book, then I strongly suggest that you do. Junot Diaz is now a Professor of Creative Writing at MIT (the Massachussetts Institute of Technology) as well as a contributing editor to the Boston Review of Fiction. In this episode, we talk about his inspirations for his work, his process and what makes him tick as an artist. A list of the books mentioned in the episode: The book I've never heard of: Incantations and Other Stories, by Anjana Appachana (1991) Best book of the last 12 months: “The Sellout” by Paul Beatty (2015) Most disappointing book of the last 12 months: “Star Maker”, by Olaf Stapledon (1937) Which book would he take to a desert island: Either “Beloved” by Toni Morrison (1987) or “Dhalgren”, a sci-fi novel by Samuel Delany (1975) What book changed his mind: “City of Quartz” by Mike Davis (1990) Follow me ⁠⁠⁠@litwithcharles⁠⁠⁠ for more book reviews and recommendations!

John Plotz talked with Samuel Delany, living legend of science fiction and fantasy back in 2019. You probably know him best for breakthrough novels like Dhalgren and Trouble on Triton, which went beyond “New Wave” SF to introduce an intense and utterly idiosyncratic form of theory-rich and avant-garde stylistics to the genre. Reading him means leaving Earth, but also returning to the heady days when Greenwich Village was as caught up in the arrival of Levi-Strauss and Derrida to America as it was in a gender and sexuality revolution. Recall This Book loves him especially for his mind-bending Neveryon series: did you know that many consider his 1984 novella from that series, “The Tale of Plagues and Carnivals,” (set both inside the world of Neveryon and along Bleecker Street in NY) the first piece of fiction about AIDS in America? He came to Wellesley's Newhouse Center for the Humanities to talk about Afrofuturism, but also carved out two little chunks of time for this conversation. On August 6, 2019, an article based on this podcast interview appeared in our partner publication, Public Books Discussed in this episode: The Neveryon Series, “Racism and Science Fiction,” Triton (also referred to as The Trouble on Triton), “Aye, and Gomorrah,” “Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones,” Samuel R. Delany In Milton Lumky Territory, Confessions of a Crap Artist, Mary and the Giant, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick “The Science Fiction of Roe vs. Wade,” Palmer Rampell Library of America Volumes, Ursula K. Le Guin (Delany disses them!) A Little Earnest Book Upon a Great Old Subject, William Wilson I Will Fear No Evil and By His Bootstraps, Robert A. Heinlein The Fifth Season Novels, N.K. Jemisin More than Human and The Dreaming Jewels, Theodore Sturgeon The Making of Americans, Gertrude Stein Read the episode here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John Plotz talked with Samuel Delany, living legend of science fiction and fantasy back in 2019. You probably know him best for breakthrough novels like Dhalgren and Trouble on Triton, which went beyond “New Wave” SF to introduce an intense and utterly idiosyncratic form of theory-rich and avant-garde stylistics to the genre. Reading him means leaving Earth, but also returning to the heady days when Greenwich Village was as caught up in the arrival of Levi-Strauss and Derrida to America as it was in a gender and sexuality revolution. Recall This Book loves him especially for his mind-bending Neveryon series: did you know that many consider his 1984 novella from that series, “The Tale of Plagues and Carnivals,” (set both inside the world of Neveryon and along Bleecker Street in NY) the first piece of fiction about AIDS in America? He came to Wellesley's Newhouse Center for the Humanities to talk about Afrofuturism, but also carved out two little chunks of time for this conversation. On August 6, 2019, an article based on this podcast interview appeared in our partner publication, Public Books Discussed in this episode: The Neveryon Series, “Racism and Science Fiction,” Triton (also referred to as The Trouble on Triton), “Aye, and Gomorrah,” “Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones,” Samuel R. Delany In Milton Lumky Territory, Confessions of a Crap Artist, Mary and the Giant, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick “The Science Fiction of Roe vs. Wade,” Palmer Rampell Library of America Volumes, Ursula K. Le Guin (Delany disses them!) A Little Earnest Book Upon a Great Old Subject, William Wilson I Will Fear No Evil and By His Bootstraps, Robert A. Heinlein The Fifth Season Novels, N.K. Jemisin More than Human and The Dreaming Jewels, Theodore Sturgeon The Making of Americans, Gertrude Stein Read the episode here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature

John Plotz talked with Samuel Delany, living legend of science fiction and fantasy back in 2019. You probably know him best for breakthrough novels like Dhalgren and Trouble on Triton, which went beyond “New Wave” SF to introduce an intense and utterly idiosyncratic form of theory-rich and avant-garde stylistics to the genre. Reading him means leaving Earth, but also returning to the heady days when Greenwich Village was as caught up in the arrival of Levi-Strauss and Derrida to America as it was in a gender and sexuality revolution. Recall This Book loves him especially for his mind-bending Neveryon series: did you know that many consider his 1984 novella from that series, “The Tale of Plagues and Carnivals,” (set both inside the world of Neveryon and along Bleecker Street in NY) the first piece of fiction about AIDS in America? He came to Wellesley's Newhouse Center for the Humanities to talk about Afrofuturism, but also carved out two little chunks of time for this conversation. On August 6, 2019, an article based on this podcast interview appeared in our partner publication, Public Books Discussed in this episode: The Neveryon Series, “Racism and Science Fiction,” Triton (also referred to as The Trouble on Triton), “Aye, and Gomorrah,” “Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones,” Samuel R. Delany In Milton Lumky Territory, Confessions of a Crap Artist, Mary and the Giant, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick “The Science Fiction of Roe vs. Wade,” Palmer Rampell Library of America Volumes, Ursula K. Le Guin (Delany disses them!) A Little Earnest Book Upon a Great Old Subject, William Wilson I Will Fear No Evil and By His Bootstraps, Robert A. Heinlein The Fifth Season Novels, N.K. Jemisin More than Human and The Dreaming Jewels, Theodore Sturgeon The Making of Americans, Gertrude Stein Read the episode here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/lgbtq-studies

Occasionally, JF and Phil do a song swap. Each host chooses a song he loves and shares it with the other, and then they record an episode on it. This time, JF chose to discuss "Jesus, Etc." from Wilco's 2001 album, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, and Phil picked Judee Sill's ethereal "The Kiss," from Heart Food (1973). It was in the zone of Time, in all its strangeness, that the two songs began to resonate with one another. Sill's song is a fated grasping at the eternal that is present even when it eludes us, and "Jesus, Etc." is a leap across time that captures, in jagged shards and signal bursts, the events of the day on which Wilco's album was scheduled to drop: September 11, 2001. Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/weirdstudies) and gain access to Phil's podcast on Wagner's Ring Cycle. Listen to Meredith Michael and Gabriel Lubell's podcast, Cosmophonia (https://cosmophonia.podbean.com/). Download Pierre-Yves Martel's new album, Mer Bleue (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/mer-bleue). Visit the Weird Studies Bookshop (https://bookshop.org/shop/weirdstudies) Find us on Discord (https://discord.com/invite/Jw22CHfGwp) Get the T-shirt design from Cotton Bureau (https://cottonbureau.com/products/can-o-content#/13435958/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s)! REFERENCES Judee Sill, [“The Kiss”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0feFedDWiQ&abchannel=donmussell12) James Elkins, Pictures and Tears (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780415970532) Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys, “Surf's Up” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rur92ArNZKg&ab_channel=TheBeachBoys-Topic) Weird Studies, Episode 148 on “Twin Peaks” (https://www.weirdstudies.com/148) Wilco, “Jesus Etc.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efq95Pfqt5U&ab_channel=DaltonRay) Jeff Buckley (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Buckley), singer-songwriter William Gibson, Forward to Dhalgren (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780375706684) L. E. J. Brouwer, Concept of “two-ity” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuitionism) Dogen, Genjokoan (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780992112912) David Bowie, “Heroes” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXgkuM2NhYI) Philip K. Dick, Valis (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780547572413) Weird Studies, Episode 147 “You Must Change Your Life” (https://www.weirdstudies.com/147) Theodore Adorno, Aesthetic Theory (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780816618002) James Longley, Iraq in Fragments (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0492466/) Sam Jones, I am Trying to Break your Heart (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0327920/) Number Stations (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station)

We finally did it. We tackled 'the Ulysses of Science Fiction', all 600 pages of Samuel R. Delaney's magnum opus Dhalgren. We talk about race, sex, Deleuze, Doctor Who, and the bad compromises queer writers had to make in the seventies. Music by GEL

Tracklist: 1. Combo Sby - Grey Matter (Main Tease) 2. Rebel Youth - What Is Soul? (Joseph Ashworth Mix) 3. Catching Flies - Oi (Sofia Kourtesis Mix) 4. Federico Flores - Universe Of Peace 5. The Open Circle - Species 6. Katrin Souza - Cactus Blossom 7. Lemon8 - A Better Place (Andy King Mix) 8. Eryc Karezza - Helsinki 9. Hyunji-A - The Great Odyssey 10. Heilan - Faraya 11. Hot Tuneik - Guateque Nights (Zankee Gulati Mix) 12. Malian - Lux 13. Freny - Mechanical Fantasy 14. Thankyou City - The Bay 15. Butane - Evacuate 16. Nike - Go On 17. Nufects - Wake Up (Lio Q Mix) 18. Octave Parango - Origin 19. Intacto - 12th Floor (Mind Conspiracy Mix) 20. Nomas - Lost In You 21. Stereo Underground - True Colors 22. Lena Storm - Sacred Feeling 23. Buranello - Life In The Sky 24. Ormus - Offerus 25. Dhalgren - 25i Acid 26. Alexskyspirit - Fundamental #2 27. Carlos Almazan - Cygnus 28. Tibetan Monks - The Only One (Progressive Edit) 29. Jon The Dentist - Jacob's Ladder (Cortex Thrill Mix) 30. Mikka Leinonen - Acid Rocker

Art gave us the task of speaking about the season fall – and we did. I guess it was more shadow talk… Halloween, Archangel Michael, some poetry… shared trauma… And a good bit about the great fictional novel by Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren – and Rammstein!! #mopedoutlaws #enjoy

In August, 2022, JF and Phil flew to the UK to attend the Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) at the University of St. Andrews and the Supernormal Festival in Oxfordshire. In addition to recording two live shows (to be released in the coming weeks), they encountered billiant minds, novel ideas, and arresting works of art that opened new avenues for thought. It's these encounters that anchor this conversation, which branches off to touch ideas such as the elusive ideal of intersciplinarity, Hakim Bey's temporary autonomous zone, the legacy of the 20th-century counterculture, the fate of revolutionary movements, non--human intelligences, and the weirdness of human thought. Header Image by RomitaGirl67 via Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vintage_Malibu_Barbie_2.jpg#mw-jump-to-license). Listen to volume 1 (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/weird-studies-music-from-the-podcast-vol-1) and volume 2 (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/weird-studies-music-from-the-podcast-vol-2) of the Weird Studies soundtrack by Pierre-Yves Martel (https://www.pymartel.com) Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/weirdstudies) Find us on Discord (https://discord.com/invite/Jw22CHfGwp) Get the new T-shirt design from Cotton Bureau (https://cottonbureau.com/products/can-o-content#/13435958/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s)! Get your Weird Studies merchandise (https://www.redbubble.com/people/Weird-Studies/shop?asc=u) (t-shirts, coffee mugs, etc.) Visit the Weird Studies Bookshop (https://bookshop.org/shop/weirdstudies) References Dial M for Musicology, Interdisciplinarity (https://dialmformusicology.wordpress.com/2015/06/28/disciplinarity/) Hakim Bey, The Temporary Autonomous Zone (https://bookshop.org/books/t-a-z-the-temporary-autonomous-zone-ontological-anarchy-poetic-terrorism/9781570271519) Entitled Opinions Podcast (https://entitledopinions.stanford.edu/episodes) William Gibson, Foreword to Samuel Delaney's Dhalgren (https://bookshop.org/books/dhalgren/9780375706684) DISI Podcast, Many Minds (https://disi.org/manyminds/) John Krakauer (https://www.santafe.edu/people/profile/john-krakauer), professor of nuerology and neuroscience Hunter S. Thompson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_S._Thompson), American journalist The Great Ape Dictionary (https://greatapedictionary.ac.uk/), specific database used by Cat Hobaiter (https://zenodo.org/record/5600472#.Yxe3NOzMK_L)

Daniel Shank Cruz in conversation with Samuel R. Delany, celebrating the U.S. launch of the publication of "Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950 to 1985," edited by Andrew Nette & Iain McIntyre, published by PM Press. This event was originally broadcast live via Zoom and hosted by Peter Maravelis. This session was part of a weekend-long symposium exploring the radical currents of Science Fiction. It was presented by City Lights in conjunction with PM Press. Born into a distinguished Harlem family, Samuel R. Delany was a success at nineteen, changing the tone, the content, and the very shape of modern science fiction with his acclaimed novels and stories that bridged the apparent gap between science and fantasy to explore gay sexuality, racial and class consciousness, and the limits of imagination and memory. His vast body of work includes memoir, comics, space adventure, mainstream novels, homosexual erotica, and literary criticism of a high order. He has received numerous honors for his work including numerous Nebula and Hugo Awards, the J. Lloyd Eaton Lifetime Achievement Award in Science Fiction, the Kessler Award, and the Anisfield-Wolf Lifetime Achievement Award amongst others. His fiction includes Babel-17, The Einstein Intersection (winners of the Nebula Award for 1966 and 1967 respectively), Nova, Dhalgren, the Return to Nevèrÿon series, and Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders. Until his recent retirement he was a professor of English and creative writing at Temple University. Daniel Shank Cruz is an author and educator. Cruz is the author of "Queering Mennonite Literature: Archives, Activism, and the Search for Community" (Penn State University Press, 2019. Their research has merged queer theory with Mennonite studies producing illuminating and original work that explores the intersection of critical theory with gender studies and religion. This event was made possible by support from the City Lights Foundation: citylights.com/foundation/

This episode ended up being an accidental theme episode! We all had very dark item to cover this week! And we had a guest! Megan Spell of the On The Download podcast 4:05 - Megan talks about Ridley Scott's 1979 sci-fi slasher in space classic Alien (she even talks a little bit about the more action oriented sequel, Aliens) 14:38 - Sam talks about the gen-x crime drama about angst, violence, and teenage drama directed by Tim Hunter and featuring a few notable young faces (Keanu Reeves) - River's Edge 25:46 - Tessa talks about one of the bigger books on her list with the sci-fi classic by Samuel R. Delany - Dhalgren.  37:11 - Andy airs his own frustrations about not being able to accurately describe a comic that is amazingly beautiful and incredibly dark with Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda's Monstress! Full Transcript  

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Samuel R. Delany’s Dhalgren was originally published in 1975. Since its publication, Dhalgren has had its fair share of proponents and enemies - it has been called both the best and the worst book ever to come out of the field of science fiction.  Over the course of its eight-hundred pages, we follow our main character, the Kid, as he wanders listlessly through devastated city of Bellona, located somewhere in the United States on the border between utopia and dystopia.  It is a city where time dilates and contracts, buildings spontaneously combust, obscuring mists curl through the streets.  And here, all society’s misfits and outcasts have gathered under its twin moons.    In this conversation we discuss the extent to which Dhalgren can be considered science fiction, examine the role of its metafictional games, and think about its presentation of racial and sexual politics.   The readings in this episode are by Daniel Mills, host of the true crime podcast, These Dark Mountains: https://thesedarkmountains.com/ Bibliography: ‘The Convergence of Postmodern Innovative Fiction and Science Fiction: An Encounter with Samuel R. Delany's Technotopia’ by Teresa L. Ebert Poetics Today, Vol. 1, No. 4, Narratology II: The Fictional Text and the Reader (Duke University Press, Summer, 1980) ‘Rites of Reversal: Double Consciousness in Delany's Dhalgren’ by Mary Kay Bray in lack American Literature Forum, Vol. 18, No. 2, Science Fiction Issue (Summer, 1984) ‘Playing at Birth: Samuel R. Delany's Dhalgren’ by Todd A Comer in Journal of Narrative Theory, Vol. 35, No. 2 (Summer, 2005)  https://lithub.com/dont-romanticize-science-fiction-an-interview-with-samuel-delany/

Hello, fellow reader. We thought that right now, when we're all getting less human contact than ever, it would be a good time to get as personal as we can with you, our listeners.  So for the next little while, we'll be popping bonus episodes into this feed where you'll hear from our staff of readers and booksellers, and they're going to tell you all about a book they recommend.  Read Simon's pick, Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany Read Michael's note on why and how Kobo transitioned to being 100% work-from-home for the next while: Why we're now working remotely, and how we'll make it work Hear more from Kobo in Conversation

Hello, fellow reader. We thought that right now, when we're all getting less human contact than ever, it would be a good time to get as personal as we can with you, our listeners.  So for the next little while, we'll be popping bonus episodes into this feed where you'll hear from our staff of readers and booksellers, and they're going to tell you all about a book they recommend.  Read Simon's pick, Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany Read Michael's note on why and how Kobo transitioned to being 100% work-from-home for the next while: Why we're now working remotely, and how we'll make it work Hear more from Kobo in Conversation

The Duffer Brothers' hit series Stranger Things is many things: an exemplary piece of entertainment in the summer blockbuster mold, a fresh take on the "kids on bikes" subgenre of science fiction, a loving pastiche of 1980s Hollywood cinema. And as Phil and JF attempt to show in this episode, Stranger Things is also a deep investigation into the metaphysical assumptions of our times, and a bold statement on the ontology of the analog real. This, at least, was the thesis of JF's three-part essay "Reality is Analog: Philosophizing with Stranger Things," which appeared on Metapsychosis (https://www.metapsychosis.com/reality-is-analog-philosophizing-with-stranger-things-part-one/) after the first season dropped in 2016. Here, Phil and JF revisit that essay in order to expand on its arguments and discuss how it hoilds up in light of the series continued unfolding. The conversation touches on Apple's famous 1984 ad for the first Macintosh, the 2016 election of Donald Trump, the otherworldliness of airports, the ensorcelments of consumerism, and much more. REFERENCES [Stranger Things](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StrangerThings)_ "Reality is Analog: Philosophizing with Stranger Things" available at Metapsychosis (https://www.metapsychosis.com/reality-is-analog-philosophizing-with-stranger-things-part-one/) or in ebook format (https://www.amazon.com/Reality-Analog-Philosophizing-Stranger-Things-ebook/dp/B01LXO775I) Samuel Delaney, Dhalgren (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhalgren) 1984 Apple commercial (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axSnW-ygU5g) for Macintosh [Wild Wild Country](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WildWildCountry), Netflix documentary series Tom Frank, “Why Johnny Can’t Dissent” (https://www.jstor.org/stable/43555671) Phil Ford, Dig: Sound and Music in Hip Culture (https://www.amazon.com/Dig-Sound-Culture-Hardcover-August/dp/B010EW5LNY) Arcade Fire, “We Used to Wait” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ7osdJ4H_8) William S. Burroughs, [Naked Lunch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NakedLunch)_ Jack Kerouac, [Visions of Cody](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisionsofCody) William James, A Pluralistic Universe (http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11984) Marc Augé, [Non-Places: An Introduction to Supermodernity](https://books.google.ca/books/about/Nonplaces.html?id=5YsOAQAAMAAJ&rediresc=y) Weird Studies, episode 2: Garmonbozia (https://www.weirdstudies.com/2) Homer, Odyssey (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey) Matt Cardin, Dark Awakenings (http://www.mattcardin.com/fiction/dark-awakenings/) The Wachowskis, [The Matrix](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheMatrix)_ Jonathan Haight and Greg Lukianoff, The Coddling of the American Mind (https://www.thecoddling.com)

Tony Wood and Brian Kuan Wood discuss “Intrusions: Or, The Golden Age Is Not in Us” published in e-flux journal #98, March 2019. The text examines three science-fiction scenarios that for Tony illustrate three collapses of orders of magnitude or scale—Samuel R. Delany’s Dhalgren, written in the US in the 1970s; Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker, filmed in the USSR in the same decade; and Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach trilogy, published in the US in the 2010s. Tony Wood lives in New York and writes about Latin America and Russia. He is the author of Russia without Putin: Money, Power and the Myths of the New Cold War (2018), and is currently working on a PhD about the Latin American radical left in the 1920s and 1930s.

On August 6, 2019, an article based on this podcast interview appeared in our partner publication, Public Books.  Fresh on the heels of our conversation with Madeline Miller, author of Circe,  John Plotz has a talk with Samuel Delany, living legend of science fiction and fantasy. You probably know him best for breakthrough novels like Dhalgren and Trouble … Continue reading "7 In Focus: Samuel Delany in conversation with John Plotz (Nevèrÿon, Triton, Gertrude Stein and more….)"

In this second of a two-part conversation on Andrei Tarkovsky's 1979 film Stalker, Phil and JF explore the film's prophetic dimension, relating it to Samuel R. Delany's classic science-fiction novel Dhalgren, the cultural revolution of the 1960s, the affordances of despair, the spookiness of color, the transformation of noise into music, and the Chernobyl disaster. They even come up with a title for a novel Robert Ludlum never wrote but should have written: The Criterion Rendition! REFERENCES Andrei Tarkovsky (dir.), Stalker (https://www.criterion.com/films/28150-stalker) Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhalgren) (foreword by William Gibson) H.P. Lovecraft, "The Colour Out of Space" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Colour_Out_of_Space) John Searle, Seeing Things as They Are: A Theory of Perception (https://www.amazon.com/Seeing-Things-They-Are-Perception/dp/0199385157) Steve Reich, Come Out (https://pitchfork.com/features/article/9886-blood-and-echoes-the-story-of-come-out-steve-reichs-civil-rights-era-masterpiece/) Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 1 (http://gustavmahler.com/symphonies/mahler-symphony-1.html) Martin Heidegger, "The Question Concerning Technology" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Question_Concerning_Technology) Stanley Kubrick, The Shining (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081505/) The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_Exclusion_Zone) Sigmund Freud, [Beyond the Pleasure Principle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeyondthePleasurePrinciple)_

In this episode we discuss Space Opera and all the endless tangents. This is a LONG conversation (we almost split it in two, but we’re trying to catch up episodes to our current reading topic). We talk about losing our solid footing on genre definitions, defining the term “worldbuilding”, when re-reading books from your youth goes horribly wrong, wondering just what is up with those TV and movie tie-ins, misogyny infecting Sci-Fi classics (Oh, hello there Sad Puppies), the delight of scientists reading Sci-Fi, and so much more. Your Hosts This Episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Amanda Wanner Space Opera We Read (or kinda): Recommended Retribution Falls by Chris Wooding (lukewarm recommendation by a reader who is deeply ambivalent about anything speculative, Sci-Fi, or Fantasy in nature) Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke (not spectacular but a slow-burn, exploratory read) Diving into the Wreck by Kristine Kathryn Rusch (difficult to like narrator warning) Ancillary Mercy (and the entire Ancillary Justice series) (HIGHLY recommended series) Accessing the Future: A Disability-Themed Anthology of Speculative Fiction edited by Kathryn Allan Lightless by C.A. Higgins Read Sassinak by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Moon Knights of Sidonia, Vol. 1 by Tsutomu Nihei, translated by Kumar Sivasubramanian Space Opera edited by Brian W. Aldiss (Features stories from 1900 (!) - 1972. Most are from the 1950s) More Adventures on Other Planets edited by Donald A. Wollheim Stitching Snow by R. C. Lewis (Not so much Space Opera and not enough girl mechanic) The Year’s Best Military SF & Space Opera 2015 edited by David Afsharirad Did Not Finish Armada by Ernest Cline (read this Wikipedia article about a video game urban legend instead) Red Rising by Pierce Brown Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks (would try another one by this author) The Star Dancers by Spider Robinson and Jeanne Robinson The Sheriff of Yrnameer by Michael Rubens  A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge (so long - for 900+ pages, would prefer to try the better known A Fire Upon the Deep, which was recommended by another group member) The Warrior’s Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold (recommended to us - ran out of time this month; try it as an audiobook?) Koko the Mighty by Kieran Shea (really enjoyed Koko Takes a Holiday) Other titles and media mentioned Mass Effect video games are totally Space Opera, especially if you read all the internal game encyclopedia entries like Matthew. The Mote in God’s Eye by Larry Niven, and Jerry Pournelle The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (not exactly Space Opera but totally recommended) Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein - Military Sci-Fi or Space Opera?? Space Opera by Jack Vance - An opera troupe in Space Red Spider White Web by Misha Nogha The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (Have you not read this yet? It’s short - go read it!) District 9 movie Firefly TV series & Serenity movie & the Firefly comics (pretty much all recommended highly) Please skip Sassinak and read Elizabeth Moon’s excellent connected series set in the world of Paksenarrion (Fantasy not Sci-Fi), or at least read the three books of The Deed of Paksenarrion. All those zillion Pern books (Science Fantasy series) by Anne McCaffrey Dune by Frank Herbert (hefty but worth a read - recommended) The Martian by Andy Weir (about space but not Space Opera and definitely recommended) Transformers: More than Meets the Eye, Vol. 1 (comic book series) (recommended even if you don't care about Transformers. Really! ) Ascension (Tangled Axon, #1) by Jacqueline Koyanagi (Meghan mis-spoke and called this book “Ascendent”) After Man by Dougal Dixon (so cool!) Octavia’s Brood edited by Walidah Imarisha, and Adrienne Maree Brown Samuel Delaney  - We discuss Dhalgren which is not space focused, but Delaney has a few space books to try. Illuminae by Amie Kaufman, and Jay Kristoff (YA Space Opera - read before the month, recommended) A Confusion of Princes by Garth Nix (read after the episode, recommended) Links etc. OK Go Upside Down & Inside Out (music video shot in zero gravity) The review of Ancillary Justice Anna tried to read without being spoiled for the book The Wikipedia article on Space Opera bring up many aspects of the definition we discussed and is worth a skim, at least. Scientists read sci-fi and have opinions about it Read some stuff (here, here, and here are a few to start with) about Sad Puppies if you care about issues of diversity in publishing, book awards, and media more generally. Check it out: Afro futurism Book Riot sympathises with Sci-Fi fans Xenoanthropology Questions What (the heck) is space opera? (We thought we knew! We were so naive.) What is Worldbuilding? Any suggestions of your favourite instances of worldbuilding? Is bug punk real? Who else wants a “Ten Rules to Break When Dating a Space Pirate” from Sarah MacLean? Are Star Trek tie-in novels Space Opera? What’s the relationship between Space Opera/space-based Sci-Fi and the history of Colonialism? Check out our Pinterest board and Tumblr posts for all the Space Opera people in our club read (or tried to read), and follow us on Twitter!

scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/puUYcVPT3Xs?wmode=opaque&enablejsapi=1" width="854" frameborder="0" height="480">Join your DM CJ Boat and the adventures Jarred Azevedo, Raul Gaza, Andy Young and Dale Campbell as they continue their journey in the world of Dungeons and Dragons: 5th Edition.We may have been purple manned in the last round, but we somehow managed to survive and it’s time to celebrate and take a much needed rest.  The vacation is short lived, however, as darkness looms on the horizon.Dhalgren let’s loose, Saltaba get’s a typhoon hangover, Davdak sparkles up the room, and Dricu get’s all the ladies.  Still, that evil temple radiating evil needs to be investigated, so our team packs a sammich and hits the skies.  Kai’s eagle eyes are at the ready, and the gang takes to the skies.  What awaits them there?  Tune in to find out!  Plus!  Who’s a praying mantis?Join us on The Mana Pool, won’t you?  Hey you’re a dragon, and this is crazy...but here’s my amulet, so call me maybe?Mana Pool 13 Audio Archive

scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/IRTrsmjH6k0?wmode=opaque&enablejsapi=1" width="854" frameborder="0" height="480">Join your DM CJ Boat and the adventures Jarred Azevedo, Raul Gaza, Andy Young and Dale Campbell as they continue their journey in the world of Dungeons and Dragons: 5th Edition.The party get’s all magiced up, and it’s time to get our hands dirty and start punching some minotaurs.After enjoying and recovering from Kai's farewell party (complete with lesbian wind dancers), Dricu forgets his prayers, Davdak does some sweet arrow tricks, Saltaba tries and fails to set a half-pheonix on fire, and all the animals love Dhalgren now.  With their new ally Al the mage, they storm the evil earth temple to do 30 million damage.  Will any more party members be lost?  Will they all be lost?  Tune in to find out!Join us on The Mana Pool, won’t you?  It’s better than the Ice Age movie no one asked for.Mana Pool 16 Audio Archive

Join your DM CJ Boat and the adventures Jarred Azevedo, Raul Gaza, Andy Young and Dale Campbell as they continue their journey in the world of Dungeons and Dragons: 5th Edition.We were synced up despite the internet lag and everything will be great...other than the funeral.We gazed in awe at the most greenest green you have ever greened and bid farewell to our comrade Kai.  Our hearts heavy, we celebrated Kai with Fire! Fire! Fire!, Dricu hit the dance floor, Dhalgren’s spider sense tingled, Saltaba couldn’t find anything to burn, and we said goodnight to Captain Sparkelpants. There was also the elf god guy, the other fairy, and a weird wind dance thing.  We were all pretty winded.Join us on The Mana Pool, won’t you?  We will...never mind...I won’t reveal my secrets.Mana Pool 15 Audio Archive

scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/AGWh2VGwQc0?wmode=opaque&enablejsapi=1" width="854" frameborder="0" height="480">Join your DM CJ Boat and the adventures Jarred Azevedo, Raul Gaza, Andy Young and Dale Campbell as they continue their journey in the world of Dungeons and Dragons: 5th Edition.The party is back right where we left them: surrounded by enemies and ready to fight for their lives!  So, a punchy guy and a stabby guy walk into a cave…Saltaba brings the smack talk and finally get’s to light things on fire, Davdak works his dagger and rolls 20 on the wrong end, Dhalgren takes many punches, Kai shoves it in his mouth and drinks it, and Dricu explodes a rock knight’s face.  The battle rages on, and ultimately we made the eagles cry.  No more drinks?  No!  More drinks!Join us on The Mana Pool, won’t you?  You’ll get a bonus and a bon-bon.Mana Pool 14 Audio Archive

scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/C6HKBcPo_iI?wmode=opaque&enablejsapi=1" width="854" frameborder="0" height="480">The adventurers are back for another dip in the Mana Pool.  They are approaching upon the tower, and everyone was nice to each other until they weren’t.After being scared by a horse sized vulture, the gang was invited in to completely bullshit everything.  Davdak sparkled and spun in the sunlight, Dhalgren was open like the sky, Saltaba resisted lighting things on fire, and Dricu got plus one sticky notes.  A poor decision is made in the heat of the moment once again.  Oy.Join us on The Mana Pool, won’t you?  The eagle is really loud.Episode 9 Audio archive

scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/1vZerKskzm0?wmode=opaque&enablejsapi=1" width="854" frameborder="0" height="480">Join your DM CJ Boat and the adventures Jarred Azevedo, Raul Gaza, Andy Young and Dale Campbell as they continue their journey in the world of Dungeons and Dragons: 5th Edition.We’re back in The Mana Pool and the party has returned from one battle only to be dropped (literally) into another one.  I’m gonna rock them like a Hurricane!Dhalgren almost died, Davdak almost died, Saltaba almost died, and Dricu tried to almost die while he swung his scimitar around like a big, dumb dragon.  Kai did some weird things with his things and then dropped a RAWR bomb.  The battle raged.  Friend and foe fell.  Did anyone actually die?  Tune in to find out.Join us on The Mana Pool, won’t you?  All we want for Christmas is level 4.Episode 12 Audio Archive

scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/mxWUHQdF2jc?wmode=opaque&enablejsapi=1" width="854" frameborder="0" height="480">This week on The Mana Pool, it’s time to check out the view from the top of the tower!  There are things going on up there, man.  Things.Dricu got his comeuppance, Dhalgren felt threatened, Davdak admired the vast valley, and Saltaba still managed to restrain his fire.  There were statues with guyliner, a BB-8 made out of fire, a weird rock thing, feasting, dancing, grumping, and dragon hugs.  Stand tall!  We built this tower on rock and thrall!Join us on The Mana Pool, won’t you?  We’ll bring the magic Post-It notes.Episode 10 audio archive

scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/02_LjSPOECU?wmode=opaque&enablejsapi=1" width="854" frameborder="0" height="480">This week on The Mana Pool, it’s time to head back to The Mana Pool.  In the aftermath of the fight with the cult members, the adventures regroup and prepare to take the next step of their journey.Saltaba simmered down, Davdak asserted his ass, Dhalgren searched for answers, Dricu touched ‘the book’, and for once no allies died.  The angel thing guided our visions toward the Feathergale Spire to find answers to all the strange elemental happenings they’ve encountered.  Things are about to get intense.Join us on The Mana Pool, won’t you?  It’s better than one too many black whoppers.Episode 8 Audio Archive

scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/Cf5a5nZgfXc?wmode=opaque&enablejsapi=1" width="854" frameborder="0" height="480">This week on The Mana Pool, we grabbed our giant tube of novelty D4 to kicked back to have a level three upgrade round.  Our characters move from larpers to legit, and then we hit you with the paragraph.Welcome to cavelands, adventurers. Davdak added some sweet skills to his sparkly belt, Saltaba got FIREd up, Dricu filled his spell slots, and Dhalgren stopped being lawful good (WHUT?!).  The party is prepared for the next leg of their quest.  Will it be enough?  Plus! The Summer Movie Smackdown is over!  Who won awards and took home the gold?  You can now take care of your fart gas.Join us on The Mana Pool, won’t you?  It’s better than thunder next to your face.Episode 6 Audio Archive

scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/rveJFjAiiZw?wmode=opaque&enablejsapi=1" width="854" frameborder="0" height="480">This week on The Geek I/O Show, CJ tries to murder everyone as the party heads outside of Red Larch to encounter the bandits who have been causing problems for the local townsfolk.  Grab your longbow and get ready.Dhalgren the Weird stands strong while Davdak takes two arrows in the sparkle pants.  Saltaba lights it up, and Dricu heals with one hand and cuts bandits down with the other.  Feeling vengeful, the party moves in only to encounter a hungry bear.  The battle rages on.  Fires burn high.  There is rolling in the Google doc.  Is the party victorious?  What’s up with that pixie and the exploding purple skeleton (my favorite 90s band)? Tune in to find out!Join us on The Geek I/O Show, won’t you?  Because no one likes a fake dragon.Episode 3 Audio Archive

Time travel back to 2001 for lunch with science fiction Grand Master Samuel R. Delany at Bistro Bis in Washington, D.C.'s Hotel George as we discuss the 25th anniversary edition of his magnum opus Dhalgren,  the "sheer madness" of trying to write such a book in the first place, the state of the science fiction field during the mid-‘70s, the joys he receives from teaching, and much more.

As the New Horizons probe hurtles past Pluto in the dark beyond, a con-crud-stricken John E. O. Stevens regales Fred Kiesche and Jeff Patterson with his adventures at Readercon. Then attentions turn to special guest Hoarsewoman Stina Leicht (on book release day, no less) to talk about her new novel Cold Iron. The discussion includes forty years of Dhalgren, writing protocols, book budgets, historical baggage, the bookstore landscape, eels, and our relationship with violence. As always, The Hoarsemen recount the books, comics, podcasts, and television that have occupied their free time. Host Fred Kiesche, John E.O. Stevens and Jeff Patterson with Stina Leicht.