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William Meikle is a Scottish writer, now living in Canada, with over thirty novels published in the genre press and more than 300 short story credits in thirteen countries. He has books available from a variety of publishers including Dark Regions Press and Severed Press and his work has appeared in a large number of professional anthologies and magazines. He lives in Newfoundland with whales, bald eagles and icebergs for company. When he's not writing he drinks beer, plays guitar, and dreams of fortune and glory.This story originally appeared Transmissions from Punktown, 2018.Narrated by: Josh RosemanJosh Roseman (not the trombonist; the other one) has narrated several stories for StarShipSofa and the District of Wonders over the past fifteen years. In addition, he's an author with more than three dozen books and short stories published (some under pseudonyms). He lives in Georgia (the state, not the country) and absolutely loves to pet dogs (especially pitbulls). Find him online at roseplusman.com or on Twitter @listener42Fact: Looking Back at Genre History by Amy H Sturgis Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/starshipsofa. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This episode is a round table discussion about the overlap and merging of horror and science fiction. Featuring Tim Curran (Alien Horrors, Dead Sea) Jeffrey Thomas, (Boneland, Punktown), and Garrett Boatman (Stage Fright, Floaters).
It all comes down to this. A fight against Joseph Nye to stop the apocalypse, and what is Aikeet doing? Why going to a lovely dinner with Mr. Nye while the party puts that plan into action. Will they survive this ordeal, or is this indeed the end of Paxton and everything else. If you like what you hear, head on over to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher or wherever you get you podcasts and leave us a review.If you are in the Grand Rapids area check out our meetup at https://www.meetup.com/We-Hate-Bards/ to check out our games. We've got games going every week.If you want to throw some coin our way head on over to our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/wehatebardsBackers will receive early access to our Epic Tales podcasts, homebrew modules and games, and other members only access items.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Our punktowners are in a tight spot. Joseph Nye has put his plan into motion. There needs to be a good plan or this could be a catastrophe of apocalyptical proportions. Luckily Aikeet has a dinner invitation. If you like what you hear, head on over to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher or wherever you get you podcasts and leave us a review.If you are in the Grand Rapids area check out our meetup at https://www.meetup.com/We-Hate-Bards/ to check out our games. We've got games going every week.If you want to throw some coin our way head on over to our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/wehatebards Backers will receive early access to our Epic Tales podcasts, homebrew modules and games, and other members only access items.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Another in-between session! This time Tenpenny loses his most prize possession, his camera! With a little help from Vinney I'm sure this is all going to end up just fine. If you like what you hear, head on over to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher or wherever you get you podcasts and leave us a review. If you are in the Grand Rapids area check out our meetup at https://www.meetup.com/We-Hate-Bards/ to check out our games. We've got games going every week. If you want to throw some coin our way head on over to our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/wehatebards Backers will receive early access to our Epic Tales podcasts, homebrew modules and games, and other members only access items.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Our crab clawed punktowner finally gets to be the hero, with a little convincing from Aikeet. The question is though, will his sacrifice be enough?★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Well our Punktowners have found the ship, and it seems to have some crew! Strange, they all should be dead. Something does not seem right, and the only way to get a handle on the situation is for Tenpenny to do some deep space accounting. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Our Punktowners have a new mission. Travel to a unknown place, outside of the galaxy, find a missing experimental starship, and retrieve a piece of technology. Well if you're going to be going on a long distance trip that means it's time to drain Aikeets bank account to upgrade the gang. The ship should be abandoned, but what if it isn't? ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
We've got another in-between episode for you! This time our down on his luck forcer finds his way to love again. Can this one be THE ONE, or will this end up like all the others. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
The party is in full swing and the hot dog challenge is about to get serious! Can Mooch and his lady friend find the book in time? Can Aikeet keep this raucous party goers entertained long enough? And did they add too much aphrodisiac to the appetizers? ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
The party has been prepped, now it's time to get in there, serve some volcano dogs, and get that book! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Our Punktowner's have got to get a plan together. A local ultranet star has a rare book they want and it looks like he is going to be throwing a party. Time to dust off the hot dog carts and order more capsaicin for the volcano dog challenge. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Our Punktowners are in need of some good ol' fashioned book learning, and a very specific kind of book learning at that. More on the occult side of things if you will. So it's off to the bookstore to enact some felonies. I mean have some fun. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
It's another in-between episode! Keeper Cris pulls out the story prompt box and our Punktowners lives get more complicated, except for Tenpenny, whose life gets even better with a new pet!★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Our Punktowners know where the object is located and they have a plan, but what could be waiting for them? Come for the green plasma, stay for the mecha-shoggoths. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Our Punktowners have got two jobs to complete, theft and murder respectively, and with all that is going on Aikeet has his eye on the prize. Using every situation to enrich himself further. It is the Punktown way!★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
After a short Covid hiatus, our Punktowners are back! In this episode they are given two missions to accomplish, steal something and kill someone. But one of these missions is not like the other. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Authors Jeffrey Thomas, Regina Watts, and Gregor Xane join me in this panel-style discussion about the uses of erotic horror and the role that sex can play in horror fiction. We discuss how sex can be used to intensify character development, set the tone of a story, or warped to create fear or disgust. We also talk about censorship and the stigma of sexually explicit art. Episode Links - Jeffrey Thomas - https://www.amazon.com/Jeffrey-Thomas/e/B000APMJZ4Gregor Xane- https://www.amazon.com/Gregor-Xane/e/B00H2R53EMRegina Watts - https://www.amazon.com/Regina-Watts/e/B088F2FC3VSponsored Links -DEVIL'S NIGHT ebook and paperback - https://www.amazon.com/Devils-Night-Curtis-M-Lawson-ebook/dp/B09C2Q6FG1DEVIL'S NIGHT special edition - https://www.weirdhousepress.com/product/devils-night/
It's time for another in-between episode. In this one vinney's on again off again girlfriend finally confesses her love to Mooch, and things do not go well.
Our Punktowners are in way over their heads now. Secrets are revealed, and they are initiated into a secret organization whose job is to fight existential threats that are apocalyptical in nature. No problem for a bunch of hardened Paxton citizens.
How are the characters going to find who their "handler" wants them to eliminate? Try following the spiders......
It's another in-between episode for our Punktowners, now with 100% more prostitution saving!
Our Punktowners have a very super secret meeting with some very important people. Time to get on their super secret disguises, aka bondage gear. Just another day in Paxton.
Well our punktowners are in it now. You could almost say they are in too deep to get out. But what does it all mean? Who are they all working for? What is the endgame for all this? All things in good time.......in good time.
Fishing? In Paxton? What are our Punktowners up to this time? I'm sure it has something to do with the robot Akeet and his amazing ability to make a plan come together.
Our Punktowners are hip to some new information about a pending disaster, and they have to find a way to stop it. But with any good plan comes some hiccups along the way.
Our Punktowners after a tip from a former adversary are looking into some dangerous business. People are going to die, well, only one person per say. Why does Vinnie have all the bad luck.
Our heroes have made it out alive and it's time for some culture! I'm sure this will end well for all our character and no one will get horribly mutated.
After a much planned bank heist it's time for our characters to get out of dodge in one piece and get paid! But is anything ever that easy?
Time to get this heist moving! I'm sure that everything will work out just fine without any hiccups. No way that things will go all pear shaped right from the get go.
Now that our punktowners have got some altered identities and a "plan," it's time to get to work on robbing Paxtons most notorious gangster.
It is time for our Punktowners to get the crew together for extradimensional bank heist.
Our punktowners have finished another case, and now it is time for an upgrade! It just so happens that Dr. Clock's budget clinic can help our heroes out with a much needed limb upgrade.
Our Punktowners have found out where the kid is, with some cult on the outskirts of Paxton. The problem though is how to get him out of there. Aikeet's food delivery service to the rescue!
Our punktowners are still looking into the missing case of a missing child, which leads them to a small time gang of thugs. Now if there was someway to distract them, perhaps with a food challenge from Aikeet's food truck.
Our punktowners are given another case by their mysterious benefactor. Just a little favor, to find a missing child. Of course in Paxton things are never that easy.
A long discussion with veteran weird fiction author Jeffery Thomas. We discuss how he came up in weird fiction zines and his ascent to mass market books, his numerous fiction worlds, writing Freddy Kreuger, his collaboration with W. H. Pugmire, and so much more.Episode links - https://www.patreon.com/Punktownerhttps://www.amazon.com/Jeffrey-Thomas/e/B000APMJZ4 Want to get early access to every episode of Wyrd Transmissions? Check out my Patreon page!https://www.patreon.com/curtismlawson
With our Punktowners out of the worlds worst underground nursing home, now it is time to find out how our character fair living out their daily lives. But things are never so easy in Paxton.
Our Punktowners are in the worst underground retirement community of all time. How will they solve this problem? Violence? Stealth? Clever Plans? Or how about some good old fashion bureaucratic know how.
Our Punktowners are deep underground and have found the source of the missing people. Something is strange about this place though. Will our heroes make it out alive?
Our punktowners are still trying to find out the mystery of the missing people, a common occurrence is the city of Paxton, but this leads them underground where some dangerous critters call their home.
What is an RPG without the obligatory groveling at the altar of mindless capitalism? Our Punktowners feel naked without weapons dangling from every appendage, so it's off to buy some things!
Our Punktowners are hot on the trail of a "monster." Of course this is Paxton, which makes differentiating the populace from horrific creatures can be rather difficult.
Our Punktowners have a new mission. Simple enough, find a missing person, but in Paxton nothing is ever so simple.
Our punktowners have "solved" the mystery of the cult and now it is time for some rest and relaxation. Come find out what happens when our players have to do some improvising about their daily lives.
Our investigators reluctantly dig deep into the workings of a cult on the outskirts of Punktown. Everything seems to be on the up and up, and one of the characters starts to see things their way, but all of this just does not feel right.
After settling in to Punktown to start new lives, our characters are once again drawn into doing someone else's deeds. Without much choice, and with some extra help, they begin investigating a new cult in town.
Things are going from bad to worse for our characters and the body count is rising. If only there was a place our characters could hide out till this all blows over. Someplace far away from earth, where they could be a face in the crowd.
We Hate Bards proudly presents, from the mind of Jeffrey Thomas, Punktown. Three down on their luck earthers are offered a way to better their situations. All they have to do is accept a job, simple enough right?
Steve and Rodney discuss Jeffrey Thomas' classic collection Punktown. Pick up a copy at the link below. https://www.amazon.com/Punktown-Jeffrey-Thomas/dp/1894815750
Steve and Rodney discuss the BRP and Call of Cthulhu supplement based on Jeffrey Thomas' Punktown setting. You can pick up a copy HERE! Or you can pick up some of Thomas' excellent fiction including Punktown collections and novels HERE!
Kim, Rodney, and Steve chat with THE Jeffrey Thomas about the upcoming Visions from Punktown graphic novel. The Kickstarter is here:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/164890421/visions-from-punktown-a-comic-book-anthologyShameless:Microphones of Madness is a proud member of the Legends of Tabletop Broadcast Network:http://legendsoftabletop.boards.net/board/13/microphones-madness
The Lovecraft eZine panel interviews Jeffrey Thomas and Christopher Taylor about the upcoming PUNKTOWN comic book anthology! We also talk with Adam Scott Glancy about DELTA GREEN, and as usual, all things Lovecraft, Cthulhu, and horror.
It’s episode 108 and we go a little dark and scary with prolific horror/scifi author Jeffrey Thomas. Thomas was a finalist for both the Bram Stoker Award and the John W. Campbell Award.We discuss how he became an author and what draws him to the genres of horror, science fiction, and Lovecraftian fiction. We also talk about the origins of his Punktown setting, the Kickstarter for a Punktown comic book anthology, the Punktown roleplaying game, tips for writing, and much more.GenreTainment is where we talk about what is happening in the world of film, TV and web series. We give you interviews with writers, directors, producers and actors in both independent and not-so-independent creations.Links:Jeffrey Thomas on FacebookJeffrey Thomas on AmazonKickstarter for “Visions from Punktown”Jeffrey Thomas on Twitter: @PunktownerGenreTainment on FacebookTelevision on the Wild Wild Web: How To Blaze Your Own TrailMarx on Twitter: @MrMarx See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
It's episode 108 and we go a little dark and scary with prolific horror/scifi author Jeffrey Thomas. Thomas was a finalist for both the Bram Stoker Award and the John W. Campbell Award. We discuss how he became an author and what draws him to the genres of horror, science fiction, and Lovecraftian fiction. We also talk about the origins of his Punktown setting, the Kickstarter for a Punktown comic book anthology, the Punktown roleplaying game, tips for writing, and much more. GenreTainment is where we talk about what is happening in the world of film, TV and web series. We give you interviews with writers, directors, producers and actors in both independent and not-so-independent creations. Links:Jeffrey Thomas on Facebook Jeffrey Thomas on Amazon Kickstarter for "Visions from Punktown"Jeffrey Thomas on Twitter: @PunktownerGenreTainment on FacebookTelevision on the Wild Wild Web: How To Blaze Your Own TrailLeague of GeeksMarx on Twitter: @MrMarx See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.