All Things To All People
The changing of the guard in the early 2000s and the euthanization of the reactionary Sad Puppy movement in the early 2010s should have ushered in a new era of speculative fiction, an era of creative freedom and experimentation.
In this very serious episode, we honor the most important writer of the 20th century, a man forty years ahead of his time: author, visionary, dreamweaver plus actor, Garth Marenghi.
“Here’s my new novel, A Groan of Stone and Bone. It has enemies to lovers, a chaotic bisexual, BIPOC representation, elemental magic, and tons of ‘Buffy’ references!”
Because ‘squeecore’ got so big, we decided to revisit it to address some of the discourse it generated—the good, the bad, and the ugly.
It is time to talk about Bear, Marian Engel’s 1976 Canadian novel about a mousy librarian who falls in love with a bear.
Thanks to Rite Gud listener @gynoidgearhead, we now have a “Guide to Squeecore” transcript—read along with the audio!
What is squeecore? You’re soaking in it! Squeecore is the dominant literary movement in contemporary SFF, a movement so ubiquitous it’s nearly invisible.
Jeremiah Aulwurm talks to Albert Birney and Gabriel Koenig, the creators of the Tux and Fanny Video Game (Kittysneezes 2021 Game of the Year).
Leo “LaserFrog” Wichtoski is currently streaming Tuesdays and Thursdays at 8pm GMT. Previously he created the “Leo Takes A Look” series for the video game website kotaku.com and the video poetry series “Run, Play, Think!” on Youtube.
Edward Ka-Spel’s brilliance with The Legendary Pink Dots is to introduce us to isolated characters and then immerse us in their world-view through expansive and mysterious soundscapes. He begins with the most restricted, infinitesimal point of consciousness and then slowly expands it…