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In his final episode as host of the podcast, Oliver chats with author Kim Stanley Robinson about Climate Fiction.KimStanleyRobinson.info
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The Merril Collection!
Friends of Merril (Facebook & Twitter)
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Oliver talks with Norman Perrin about folklore in general, and Norman's unique, privately owned, publicly accessible archive of folklore knowledge he’s run from his Toronto apartment since 1990.The Four Winds Storytellers Library on Facebook
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The Merril Collection!
Friends of Merril (Facebook & Twitter)
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Oliver talks with Scott Dorward about H.P. Lovecraft, how his legacy has been built on, and how writers might take things even further.The Good Friends of Jackson Elias, a Lovecraft & gaming podcast Scott co-hosts (Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Discord)Scott’s Twitter
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The Merril Collection!
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Oliver talks with the man behind Beguiling Comics, Peter Birkemoe, about graphic novels.The Beguiling (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram)Little Island Comics
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The Merril Collection!
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Oliver talks with author Gideon Marcus about alternate history speculative fiction.Gideon Marcus (Twitter)Galactic Journey (Twitter, Facebook)
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The Merril Collection!
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Oliver discusses Norse mythology, and its influence on speculative fiction, with Senior Department Head of both the Merril and Osborne Collections, Sephora Henderson.
The Merril Collection!
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Oliver talks with author Gemma Files about haunted house stories.Gemma’s Website (Twitter, Facebook, Goodreads)
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The Merril Collection!
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Oliver talks with Trever Quachri, head editor at Analog magazine, about scifi digest magazines.
Analog Magazine’s Website (Twitter, Facebook)
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The Merril Collection!
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Oliver talks with Brain Murphy, author of Flame & Crimson: A history of Sword & Sorcery, about the mighty thewed fantasy sub-genre birthed by Robert E Howard when he created Conan the Barbarian.The Silver Key, Brian’s Sword & Sorcery BlogBuy Flame & Crimson!Merril Links
The Merril Collection!
Friends of Merril (Facebook & Twitter)
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Host Oliver Brackenbury examines the evolution of Afrofuturism in speculative fiction with writer and educator Quentin VerCetty Lindsay.
Links to some of the things mentioned in this episode:
BSAM
Quentin VerCetty
“Afrofuturism Rising: The Literary Prehistory of a Movement” by Isiah Lavender III
“Parable of the Sower” by Octavia Butler
“Black to the Future” essay by Mark Dery
Samuel R. Delaney
“The Famished Road” by Ben Okri
Sun Ra
June Jordan
Nnedi Okorafor
Nollywood
“Brown Girl Begins” Dir by Sharon Lewis, based on the book “Brown Girl in the Ring” by Nalo Hopkins.
“Kindred” by Octavia Butler
See You Yesterday
N.K. Jemisen
“Black Leopard, Red Wolf” by Marlon James
The Last Angel of History
Crumbs
“Dirty Computer” & “Archandroid” by Janelle Monae
Sophia Stewart
Black Kirby
Umbrella Academy
John Jenning's graphic novel adaptation of Parable of the Sower
“How Long 'til Black Future Month?” by N.K. Jemisen
“Cosmic Underground: Northside” by Quentin Vercetty
“The Comet” by W.E.B. Dubois, and his essay on double consciousness.
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Host Oliver Brackenbury explores the world of sci-fi/ fantasy bookshops with Chris Szego, former manager of Bakka Phoenix Books, the oldest extant science fiction bookstore in North America.
Links to some of the things mentioned in this episode:
Bakka-Phoenex Bookstore
The story of the LOTR Paperback Copyright Controversy
“This Body's Not Big Enough for the Both of Us” & “Meddling Kids” by Edgar Cantero
“The Lies of Locke Lamora” by Scott Lynch
“Fly By Night” by Francis Hardinge
Lois McMaster Bujold
“The Quantum Magician” by Derek Künsken
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York University's Professor Allan Weiss joins host Oliver Brackenbury for a discussion on the history of utopian and dystopian speculative fiction.
Links to some of the things mentioned in this episode:
Allan Weiss (http://www.yorku.ca/aweiss/)
Thomas More's “Utopia”
Platos “The Republic”
H.G. Wells “The Time Machine”
“The Machine Stops” by E. M. Forster
“Hard Times” by Dickens
Problem Novels
“We” by Yevgeny Zamyatin
“Moon of the Crusted Snow” by Waubgeshig Rice
Drew Hayden Taylor
Neal Stephenson's “The Hieroglyph Project”
MIT Twelve Tomorrows Series
Nalo Hopkinson
The Mutopian Manifesto
“A Modern Utopia” and “The Sleeper Awakes” by H.G. Wells
“Herland” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Protopia
“Other Covenants: Alternate Histories of the Jewish People” by Mark Shainblum & Andrea D. Lobel
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Toronto-born speculative writer Cory Doctorow talks with host Oliver Brackenbury about Canadian sci-fi, his mentors in the genre, and his current experiences as an ex-pat author living in America.
Links to some of the things mentioned in this episode:
Cory Doctorow
BoingBoing
Harold and the Purple Crayon
Judith Merril
Bakka-Phoenix Books
Futurian House
Prisoners of Gravity
Tim O' Reilly & Web 2.0
Tor.com
“Tolerable Levels of Violence” by Robert G Collins
Charles De Lint
License Expired: The Unauthorized James Bond Anthology
Madeline Ashby
“Stealing Worlds” by Karl Schroeder
“Radicalized” by Cory Doctorow
“Posey the Monster Slayer”
“Little Brother Omnibus”
“Attack Surface”
“The Lost Cause” Opening chapter posted by Cory.
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Neil Mechem, co-founder of Toronto's Fantastic Pulp Show takes host Oliver Brackenbury on a journey into the world of classic pulp magazines – a major source of inspiration for modern horror, science fiction, fantasy, comics, film & TV, and more!
Links to some of the things mentioned in this episode:
Too many titles mentioned to list, but we encourage you to check out the Merril Collection...
George Rozen's The Shadow Covers
Galactic Central
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Host Oliver Brackenbury explores the world of role playing games and the Appendix N reading list that inspired them with master gamer and commentator Jeff Goad.
Links to some of the things mentioned in this episode:
Spellburn
Appendix N
Cleave-Land Podcast
The Appendix N Reading List
Dungeon Crawl Classic
Call of Cthulhu
Monster Hearts RPG
Vampire: The Masquerade
Wizards of the Coast
Mechwarrior
Shadowrun
Beyond the Wall
A great, free booklet on what OSR gaming is
Traveller
B/X Basic D&D Set / Moldvay
Legends of the Flame Princess
Dungeon World
Dungeons & Drag Queens
Gencon & Garycon
Goodman Games Forum
D&D Gamefinder Forum
Jack Vance's The Dying Earth Series
“Imaro” by Charles Saunders
Critical Role w/ Matt Mercer
Adventure Zone Podcast
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Host Oliver Brackenbury discusses queer sci-fi with Nebula Award-winning author Kelly Robson.
Links to some of the things mentioned in this episode:
Kelly Robinson
Barrel Racing
The Ozark Trilogy by Suzette Haden Elgin
Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge PIercy
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin
“The Female Man” by Joanna Russ
James Tiptree
Connie Willis
“No Enemy but Time”, “The City and the Signets”, and “Brittle Innings” by Michael Bishop (Author)
The Coode Street Podcast
Gary K. Wolfe Scifi Best of the Decade
“Docile” by K.M. Szpara
Samuel Delaney
“Gideon the Ninth” by Tamsyn Muir
“Game Changer” by L.X. Beckett
“So You Want to be a Honeypot”, a short story by Kelly Robson
“Alias Space and Other Stories” by Kelly Robson is her upcoming collection of short stories
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In this episode, host Oliver Brackenbury wanders the stacks of the Merril Collection with Services Specialist Annette Mocek and learns how acclaimed sci-fi writer Judith Merril transformed a small "Spaced Out Library" into one of the world's largest collections of genre fiction.Links to some of the things mentioned in this episode:
The Merril Collection!
Friends of Merril (Facebook & Twitter)
Merril Collection at 50: Stories from the Spaced Out Library
The Works of Cyril Judd, Judith's Nom De Plume
Shadow on the Hearth by Judith Merril
Pulp artist Virgil Finley
The Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books
Friends of the Osborne Collection
Lillian H. Smith Library
Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy
Phyllis Gotlieb
The Little Green Man
Sept 1954 issue of Astounding
Martians Go Home by Frederick Brown
Frank Kelly Freas
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A tiny trailer for Unknown Worlds of the Merril Collection, where host Oliver Brackenbury interviews special guests about notable history and new frontiers in the worlds of science fiction, fantasy and horror as found in Toronto's Merril Collection, the Western Hemisphere's largest publicly accessible archive of genre materials.Produced by Chris Dickie. Interviews have been edited for length and content.
