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Philip K. Dick's "The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick"

Philip K. Dick's "The Transmigration of Timothy Archer"

Philip K. Dick's "The Divine Invasion"

Philip K. Dick's "VALIS"

Philip K. Dick's "Radio Free Albemuth"

Philip K. Dick's "Ubik"

Philip K. Dick's "Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch"

Yukio Mishima's "Runaway Horses" (Sea of Fertility #2)

Adolfo Bioy Casares' "The Invention of Morel"

Jorge Luis Borges' "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius"

Yukio Mishima's "Spring Snow" (Sea of Fertility #1)

Harold Bloom's "The Flight to Lucifer"

David Lindsay's "A Voyage to Arcturus"

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Philip K. Dick's "The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick" (Featuring Speculative Reader)

What Can Science Fiction Teach Us About AI?

Rie Qudan's "Sympathy Tower Tokyo"

Ted Chiang's "The Lifecycle of Software Objects"

Kazuo Ishiguro's "Klara and the Sun" (Featuring Chris from Liminal Spaces)

Neal Stephenson's "The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer"

Philip K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"

Let’s Read Science Fiction About AI

The Occult Philosophy of Algernon Blackwood

Algernon Blackwood's "A Victim of Higher Space"

Algernon Blackwood's "The Camp of the Dog"

Algernon Blackwood's "The Nemesis of Fire" — Occult Detective-Work That Brings The Heat

Algernon Blackwood's "Ancient Sorceries" — A Tale of Feline Fear! And Lust...?

Algernon Blackwood's "A Psychical Invasion" — A Haunted Humorist Who Can No Longer Laugh?

Announcing Occult Detective October, Algernon Blackwood Edition

We Read Five SF Books About Immortality, Here's What We Learned

Robert A. Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love" Hurt Our Souls, But We Should Talk About It Anyways

Jorge Luis Borges' "The Immortal" — Deathless Among The Greats

Philip K. Dick's Dr. Futurity: A Future Trying To Destroy Its Past

Poul Anderson's The Boat of a Million Years — Humanity’s Entire Story in One Novel

Robert Silverberg's The Book of Skulls (Featuring Speculative Reader)

Our Next Five Stories Explore Immortality

Ep. 169: Baudolino by Umberto Eco (Historical Fiction #8)

Ep. 168: A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee (Historical Fiction #7)

Ep. 167: The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene (Historical Fiction #6)

Ep. 166: Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (Historical Fiction #5)

Here's Our Next Four Historical Fiction Reads

Ep. 165: Absolution by Jeff VanderMeer (Horror #22)

Ep. 164: Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer (Horror #21)

Listener Q&A #1

Ep. 163: Authority by Jeff VanderMeer (Horror #20)

Ep. 162: Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer (Horror #19)

Ep. 161: Diamonds Are Forever by Ian Fleming (Spies #19)

Ep. 160: The Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett (Spies #18)

Ep. 159: The Miernik Dossier by Charles McCarry (Spies #17)

Ep. 158: The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton (Spies #16)

Ep. 157: The Looking Glass War by John le Carré (Spies #15)

Ep. 156: A Murder of Quality by John le Carré (Mysteries #17)

Ep. 155: Vengeance Is Mine by Mickey Spillane (Mysteries #16)

Ep. 154: Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler (Mysteries #15)

Ep. 153: The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (Mysteries #14)

Ep. 152: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie (Mysteries #13)

Ep. 151: The End of the Affair by Graham Greene (Romance #14)

Ep. 150: The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood (Romance #13)

Ep. 149: Betrayal by Danielle Steel (Romance #12)

Ep. 148: Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (Romance #11)

Ep. 147: Lost and Lassoed by Lyla Sage (Romance #10)

Ep. 146: The Tower of the Elephant by Robert E. Howard (Fantasy #10)

Ep. 145: The Scarlet Citadel by Robert E. Howard (Fantasy #9)

Ep. 144: The Hyborian Age by Robert E. Howard (Fantasy #8)

Ep. 143: Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny (Fantasy #7)

Ep. 142: Shogun by James Clavell (Historical Fiction #4)

Ep. 141: Silence by Shusaku Endo (Historical Fiction #3)

Ep. 140: Augustus by John Williams (Historical Fiction #2)

Ep. 139: Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (Historical Fiction #1)

Ep 138: Song of Kali by Dan Simmons (Horror #18)

Ep. 137: Faust pt. 2 by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Horror #17)

Ep. 136: Faust pt. 1 by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Horror #16)

Ep. 135: Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu w/ Barbie Peng (Horror #15)

Ep. 134: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (Horror #14)

Ep. 133: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (Horror #13)

PATREON UNLOCKED: Henry V by William Shakespeare (Shakespeare #19)

PATREON UNLOCKED: Henry IV Part 2 by William Shakespeare (Shakespeare #18)

PATREON UNLOCKED: Henry IV Part 1 by William Shakespeare (Shakespeare #17)

PATREON UNLOCKED: Richard II by William Shakespeare (Shakespeare #16)

PATREON UNLOCKED: Shakespeare: The World As Stage by Bill Bryson

Ep. 132: No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy (Westerns #16)

Ep. 131: The Daybreakers by Louis L'Amour (Westerns #15)

Ep. 130: Butcher's Crossing by John Williams (Westerns #14)

Patreon Preview: The Searchers (1956) directed by John Ford

Ep. 129: The Searchers by Alan Le May (Westerns #13)

Ep. 128: The Virginian by Owen Wister (Westerns #12)

Ep. 127: Solaris by Stanislaw Lem (SF #23)

Ep. 126: Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke (SF #22)

Patreon Preview: Past Lives (2023) directed by Celine Song (Romance)

Ep. 125: Zardoz (1974) directed by John Boorman (SF #21)

Ep. 124: The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester ft. Cody Troyer of The Hugonauts (SF #20)

Ep. 123: Foundation by Isaac Asimov ft. Brent Gaisford of The Hugonauts (SF #19)

Ep. 122: Twilight by Stephanie Meyer w/ Twilight Phase (Romance #9)

Ep. 121: Helen O'Loy by Lester del Ray (Romance #8)

Ep. 120: Beach Read by Emily Henry (Romance #7)

Patreon Preview: The Notebook (2004) directed by Nick Cassavetes

Ep. 119: The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks w/ The Witty Banter Book Club (Romance #6)

Ep. 118: The Promise by Danielle Steel (Romance #5)

Interview: Dr Gregory Martin Moore on Shakespeare, Johann Gottfried Herder, and German Romanticism

Patreon Unlocked: The Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare (Shakespeare #2)

Patreon Unlocked: The Tempest by William Shakespeare (Shakespeare #1)

Interview: Ryan Britt on Frank Herbert's Dune, 'The Spice Must Flow', and the Denis Villeneuve Films

Ep. 117: The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkein (Fantasy # 6)

Ep. 116: Return of the King by J.R.R Tolkien (Fantasy #5)

Ep. 115: The Two Towers by J.R.R Tolkien (Fantasy #4)

Ep. 114: The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R Tolkien (Fantasy #3)

Patreon Preview: On Fairy-Stories by J. R. R. Tolkien

Ep. 113: The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (Fantasy #2)

Ep. 112: The Big Clock by Kenneth Fearing (Mysteries #12)

Patreon Preview: The Simple Art of Murder by Raymond Chandler

Ep. 111: The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson (Mysteries #11)

Ep. 110: The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (Mysteries #10)

Ep. 109: Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith (Mysteries #9)

Patreon Preview: Four Mystery, Noir, and Crime Films

Ep. 108: The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain (Mysteries #8)

Ep. 107: Rise of Endymion by Dan Simmons (SF #18)

Patreon Preview: The Cyborg Manifesto by Donna Haraway

Ep. 106: Endymion by Dan Simmons (SF #17)

Ep. 105: Fall of Hyperion pt. 2 by Dan Simmons (SF #16)

Ep. 104: Fall of Hyperion pt. 1 by Dan Simmons (SF #15)

Ep. 103: Hyperion 6: The Consul's Tale by Dan Simmons (SF #14)

Ep. 102: Hyperion 5: The Detective's Tale by Dan Simmons (SF #13)

Patreon Preview: "Shapeshifters and Skinwalkers: the Writer's Curse of Negative Capability" by Dan Simmons

Ep. 101: Hyperion 4: The Scholar's Tale by Dan Simmons (SF #12)

Ep. 100: Hyperion 3: The Poet's Tale by Dan Simmons (SF #11)

Ep. 99: Hyperion 2: The Soldier's Tale by Dan Simmons (SF #10)

Ep. 98: Hyperion 1: The Priest's Tale by Dan Simmons (SF #9)

Patreon Preview: Four Dracula Films

Ep. 97: The Dunwich Horror by H.P. Lovecraft (Horror #12)

Ep. 96: The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney (Horror #11)

Ep. 95: Lot No. 249 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Horror #10)

Ep. 94: Dracula by Bram Stoker (Horror #9)

Patreon Preview: Boy by Roald Dahl

Ep. 93: The First Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (Children's Stories #6)

Ep. 92: Matilda by Roald Dahl (Children's Stories #5)

Ep. 91: Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Children's Stories #4)

Ep. 90: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl (Children's Stories #3)

Ep. 89: Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie (Children's Stories #2)

Ep. 88: The Iron Heel by Jack London (Dystopian #8)

Ep. 87: When the Sleeper Wakes by H.G. Wells (Dystopian #7)

Ep. 86: Lord of the Flies by William Golding (Dystopian #6)

Announcement: Wheel of Genre

Ep. 85: The Giver by Lois Lowry (Dystopian #5)

Ep. 84: The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Spies #14)

Ep. 83: House of Fear by Ibn-e-Safi (Spies #13)

Ep. 82: Moonraker by Ian Fleming (Spies #12)

Ep. 81: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré (Spies #11)

Ep. 80: Lust, Caution (色戒) by Eileen Chang (張愛玲) (Romance #4)

Ep. 79: Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (Romance #3)

Ep. 78: Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (Romance #2)

Ep. 77: Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (Romance #1)

Ep. 76: Chapterhouse: Dune by Frank Herbert (SF#8)

Ep. 75: Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert (SF#7)

Ep. 74: God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert (SF#6)

Ep. 73: Children of Dune by Frank Herbert (SF#5)

Ep. 72: Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert (SF#4)

Ep. 71: Dune by Frank Herbert (SF#3)

Ep. 70: Muppet Treasure Island (1996) directed by Brian Henson (Nautical Fiction #4)

Ep. 69: "Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson (Nautical Fiction #3)

Ep. 68: "Sea Curse" by Robert E. Howard (Nautical Fiction #2)

Ep. 67: "The Lighthouse" by Edgar Allan Poe (Nautical Fiction #1)

Ep. 66: I Shot Jesse James (1949) directed by Samuel Fuller (Westerns #11)

Ep 65: Red River (1948) directed by Howard Hawks (Westerns #10)

Ep. 64: My Darling Clementine (1946) directed by John Ford (Westerns #9)

Ep. 63: Destry Rides Again (1939) directed by George Marshall (Westerns #8)

Ep. 62: Stagecoach (1939) directed by John Ford (Westerns #7)

Ep. 61: Neuromancer by William Gibson (Cyberpunk #4)

Ep 60: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick (Cyberpunk #3)

Ep. 59: Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (Cyberpunk #2)

TRAILER: Film Friends #141: Robert Pattinson

Ep. 58: Cyberpunk by Bruce Bethke (Cyberpunk #1)

Ep. 57: The Mask of Dimitrios by Eric Ambler (Spies #10)

Ep 56: Call for the Dead by John Le Carré (Spies #9)

Ep 55: Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene (Spies #8)

Ep 54: The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan (Spies #7)

Ep. 53: Live and Let Die by Ian Fleming (Spies #6)

Ep 52: King Solomon's Mines by Sir H. Rider Haggard (Lost Worlds #4)

Ep 51: At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft (Lost Worlds #3)

Ep. 50: Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne (Lost Worlds #2)

Ep 49: The Land That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Lost Worlds #1)

Ep. 48: Le Morte d'Arthur Book 1 by Sir Thomas Malory (Arthurian #4)

Ep. 47: Le Morte d'Arthur in Alliterative Verse (AMA) trans. by Simon Armitage (Arthurian #3)

Ep 46: Perceval, the Story of the Grail by Chrétien de Troyes (Arthurian #2)

Ep 45: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight translated by J. R. R. Tolkien (Arthurian #1)

Ep. 44: Three Ten to Yuma by Elmore Leonard (Westerns #6)

Ep 43: Hondo by Louis L'Amour (Westerns #5)

Ep 42: The Shootist by Glendon Swarthout (Westerns #4)

Ep. 41: True Grit by Charles Portis (Westerns #3)

Ep 40: When The People Fell by Cordwainer Smith (Post-Apocalyptic #5)

Ep 39: The Chrysalids by John Wyndham (Post-Apocalyptic #4)

Ep. 38: Speech Sounds by Octavia Butler (Post-Apocalyptic #3)

Ep 37: Deus Irae by Philip K. Dick and Roger Zelazny (Post-Apocalyptic #2)

Ep 36: I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison (Post-Apocalyptic #1)

Ep 35: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin (Dystopian #4)

Ep. 34: The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K Le Guin (Dystopian #3)

Ep. 33: Cat Country by Lao She (Dystopian #2)

Ep 32: 'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman by Harlan Ellison (Dystopian #1)

Ep 31: Erewhon by Samuel Butler (Utopian #4)

Ep 30: Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Utopian #3)

Ep 29: Red Star by Alexander Bogdanov (Utopian #2)

Ep. 28: Utopia by Sir Thomas More (Utopian #1)

Ep 27: The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle (Mysteries #7)

Ep. 26: The Blue Cross by G.K. Chesterton (Mysteries #6)

Ep. 25: The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie (Mysteries #5)

Ep. 24: My Gun is Quick by Mickey Spillane (Mysteries #4)

Ep. 23: The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe (Mysteries #3)

Ep.22: The Quiet American by Graham Greene (Spies #5)

Ep 21: Epitaph For A Spy by Eric Ambler (Spies #4)

Ep 20: Casino Royale by Ian Fleming (Spies #3)

Ep. 19: Kim by Rudyard Kipling (Spies #2)

Ep. 18: The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft (Horror #8)

Ep. 17: The Vampyre by John William Polidori (Horror #7)

Ep. 16: The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole (Horror #6)

Ep. 15: Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula by Loren D. Estleman (Horror #5)

Ep. 14: Vikram and the Vampire translated by Sir Richard Francis Burton (Horror #4)

Ep 13: I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (Horror #3)

Ep. 12: Herbert West -- Reanimator by H.P. Lovecraft (Horror #2)

Ep 11: The Phoenix on the Sword, a Conan the Barbarian story by Robert E Howard (Fantasy #1)

Ep. 10: The Naked Sun by Isaac Asimov (SF #2)

Ep. 9: A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Mysteries #2)

Ep. 8: Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey (Westerns #2)

Ep. 7: Isle of the Undead by Lloyd Arthur Eshbach (Horror #1)

Ep. 6: Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov (SF #1)

Ep. 5: I, The Jury by Mickey Spillane (Mysteries #1)

Ep. 4: Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi (Children's Stories #1)

Ep. 3: The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad (Spies #1)

Ep. 2: Shane by Jack Schaefer (Westerns #1)

Ep. 1: The Call of the Wild by Jack London (Adventure Stories #1)