Episodes
Thursday Nov 29, 2018
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 122.1: Counter Clock World, Part 1
Thursday Nov 29, 2018
Thursday Nov 29, 2018
In "Counter Clock World", Philip K. Dick takes us to an Earth where time moves backward, knowledge must be destroyed, and the dead come back to life. At least these is still money to be made digging up graves. Beware the library.
Thursday Nov 29, 2018
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 121.4: The Zap Gun, Part 4
Thursday Nov 29, 2018
Thursday Nov 29, 2018
The final part of my review of "The Zap Gun" by Philip K. Dick. Is it possible that a toy can stop an alien invasion?
Thursday Nov 29, 2018
Episode 274: Charles Brockden Brown: Edgar Huntly, Part 2
Thursday Nov 29, 2018
Thursday Nov 29, 2018
In the second half of Charles Brockden Brown's "Edgar Huntly" we enter a world of brutal frontier violence as our hero finds out how easy it is to kill. It is one of the darker visions of the American frontier.
Monday Nov 26, 2018
Episode 273: Charles Brockden Brown: Edgar Huntly, Part 1
Monday Nov 26, 2018
Monday Nov 26, 2018
Things get even stranger in Charles Brockden Brown's "Edgar Huntly", a novel of frontier violence, sleepwalking, Indian isolates, and global adventurers.
Monday Nov 26, 2018
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 121.3: The Zap Gun, Part 3
Monday Nov 26, 2018
Monday Nov 26, 2018
Comic book weapons, alien slavers, and time traveling androids complicate the live of our hero Lars Powderdry in part three of my review of Philip K. Dick's "The Zap Gun".
Thursday Nov 22, 2018
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 121.2: The Zap Gun, Part 2
Thursday Nov 22, 2018
Thursday Nov 22, 2018
In this part of the Zap Gun, we continue to follow Lars Powderdry's depression, but learn that maybe there is a way about by taking the manufacturing of weapons a bit more serious. And it just may be important.
Thursday Nov 22, 2018
Episode 272: Charles Brockden Brown: Arthur Mervyn, Part 4
Thursday Nov 22, 2018
Thursday Nov 22, 2018
The conclusion of my review of Charles Broxden Brown's "Arthur Mervyn".
Sunday Nov 18, 2018
Episode 271: Charles Brockden Brown: Arthur Mervyn, Part 3
Sunday Nov 18, 2018
Sunday Nov 18, 2018
The second half of Charlie Brown's "Arthur Mervyn" drags a bit in my view, but there is still some nice moments and we can start to see the possibilities of a feminist interpretation of early American history in Brown's writing.
Sunday Nov 18, 2018
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 121: The Zap Gun, Part 1
Sunday Nov 18, 2018
Sunday Nov 18, 2018
My review of the opening chapters of "The Zap Gun" by Philip K. Dick. An interesting novel exploring the relationship between the military-industrial complex and a consumer economy. In this part of the novel we meet our depressed hero with an explosive name, Lars Powderdry.
Friday Nov 16, 2018
Episode 270: Charles Brockden Brown: Arthur Mervyn, Part 2
Friday Nov 16, 2018
Friday Nov 16, 2018
Part 2 of my review of Charles Brockden Brown's novel "Arthur Mervyn". In this section we experience the yellow fever epidemic of 1793 in stunning brutal detail.
Friday Nov 16, 2018
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 120: Your Appointment Will be Yesterday
Friday Nov 16, 2018
Friday Nov 16, 2018
A preview of his novel "Counter-Clock World", "Your Appointment Will be Here Yesterday" introduces us to the Hobart phase and the consequences of the rising dead.
Sunday Nov 11, 2018
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 119: Holy Quarrel
Sunday Nov 11, 2018
Sunday Nov 11, 2018
In "Holy Quarrel", Philip K. Dick takes on big data....again. A really good story and more relevant than ever.
Sunday Nov 11, 2018
Episode 269: Charles Brockden Brown: Arthur Mervyn, Part 1
Sunday Nov 11, 2018
Sunday Nov 11, 2018
"Arthur Mervyn" is another strange tale by Charles Brockden Brown, although this one is a bit more down to earth. It tells the story of a young man who falls into a criminal network when he tries to go from the farm to the city. How will he end up?
Saturday Nov 10, 2018
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 118: We Can Remember It for You Wholesale
Saturday Nov 10, 2018
Saturday Nov 10, 2018
In this episode I take on the 1966 short story by Philip K. Dick "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale". It has spies, aliens, and world-saving empathy.
Wednesday Nov 07, 2018
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 117.4: Now Wait for Last Year (4)
Wednesday Nov 07, 2018
Wednesday Nov 07, 2018
The final episode containing my thoughts on Philip K. Dick's "Now Wait for Last Year". This novel has one of the best endings in a Philip K. Dick novel. Marriage still sucks, but maybe we need to stick with it because it is one of the areas where we can find institutionalized solidarity.
Wednesday Nov 07, 2018
Episode 268: Charles B. Brown, Wieland (2)
Wednesday Nov 07, 2018
Wednesday Nov 07, 2018
The finale of this short series on "Wieland" by Charles B. Brown. Madness or the supernatural or the machinations or a trickster?
Thursday Nov 01, 2018
Episode 267: Charles B. Brown, Wieland (1)
Thursday Nov 01, 2018
Thursday Nov 01, 2018
A new series on Charles Brockden Brown. We will start with "Wieland", one of independent America's first novels, a strange story of ancestry and insanity.
Thursday Nov 01, 2018
Philip K. Dick Book Club: Episode 117.3: Now Wait for Last Year (3)
Thursday Nov 01, 2018
Thursday Nov 01, 2018
This novel, "Now Wait for Last Year" by Philip K. Dick, starts to get weird in part 3 of my review.