SF Crossing the Gulf (Episode 16c): Discussing Cordwainer Smith with Gary K. Wolfe
In this much-too-long-delayed episode of SF Crossing the Gulf, we revisit stories from Cordwainer Smith’s The Rediscovery of Man, with especial focus on “Alpha [...]
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SF Crossing the Gulf (Episode 18): Season 2 Re-Cap
In this episode of SF Crossing the Gulf, we revisit Season 2. There’s general consensus that our podcasts on Jagannath and Distances are among our favorites ever, and [...]
SF Crossing the Gulf (Episode 16b): Rediscovery of Man by Cordwainer Smith
In this episode of SF Crossing the Gulf, we tackle two more short stories from The Rediscovery of Man, the complete collection of the short fiction of Cordwainer Smith from [...]
SF Crossing the Gulf (Episode 16a): Rediscovery of Man by Cordwainer Smith
In this episode of SF Crossing the Gulf, we tackle two short stories from The Rediscovery of Man, the complete collection of the short fiction of Cordwainer Smith from NESFA [...]
SF Crossing the Gulf (Episode 15) — “Flatland” by Edwin Abbott and “Shadow Postulates” by Yoon Ha Lee
In this episode of SF Crossing the Gulf, we tackle Flatland (1884) by Edwin A. Abbott and “The Shadow Postulates” from Yoon Ha Lee’s debut collection, [...]
SF Crossing the Gulf (Episode 14): NAPIER’S BONES by Derryl Murphy
In this episode of SF Crossing the Gulf, we tackle Napier’s Bones by Derryl Murphy. Murphy introduces some fascinating ideas, but undercuts them with info-dumping and a [...]
SF Crossing the Gulf (Episode 13): “Shadow of the Torturer” by Gene Wolfe
In this episode of SF Crossing the Gulf, we tackle Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe, the first volume of the Book of the New Sun quartet, published in 1980. This is the [...]
SF Crossing the Gulf (Episode 11): “Star Maker” by Olaf Stapledon
In this episode of SF Crossing the Gulf, we tackle Star Maker, the 1939 classic by Olaf Stapledon. One moment a man sits on a suburban hill, gazing curiously at the stars. [...]
SF Crossing the Gulf (Episode 09): Children of God
Welcome back for Season 2, Part 1 of SF Crossing the Gulf! Here’s our notional reading list for the coming [...]
SF Crossing the Gulf (Episode 08): Season 1 Wrap Up
In this episode, we (fondly, sadly) wrap up the first season of SF Crossing the Gulf. We reflect on what we’ve read so far, with discussions of POV, hard sf, immigrant [...]
SF Crossing the Gulf (Episode 07): Discussion of Curdella Forbes’s “Ghosts”
In this episode we discuss Ghosts, a family drama set in the near future by Jamaican author Curdella Forbes. We talk about unreliable narrators, culture, symbolism, and [...]
SF Crossing the Gulf (Episode 06): Discussion of Mary Doria Russell’s “The Sparrow”
This week the two Karens squee mightily about 1998’s The Sparrow–and then get down to the nitty gritty of characterization, structure, theology, colonialism and [...]
SF Crossing the Gulf (Episode 05): Discussion of Greg Egan’s “The Plank Dive” and Others
This is THE Greg Egan podcast. In this episode we cover Egan’s stories “The Planck Dive,” “Glory,” “Singleton,” [...]
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