Podcasts by Appendix N Book Club
Jeff, Hoi, and a rotating roster of special guests discuss the adventure, fantasy, horror, science fiction, and weird fiction that inspires our gaming
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Episode 112 – William Hope Hodgson's "The House on the Borderland” with special guest Lucas Zellars from 2022-03-05T00:00
Lucas Zellars joins us to discuss William Hope Hodgson's "The House on the Borderland”, natural history as a science, out of body experiences, b-movie monsters, horse pistols, geological time, unre...
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Episode 113 – Michael Moorcock's "The Jewel in the Skull” with special guest Menion (AKA Rob) from 2022-02-21T00:00
Menion (AKA Rob) joins us to discuss Michael Moorcock's "The Jewel in the Skull”, the Lord of the Rings trilogy, the influence of Burroughs on Moorcock, the initial emptiness and passivity of Hawkm...
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Episode 111 – Glen Cook's "The Black Company” with special guest Jason Lutes from 2022-01-24T00:00
Jason Lutes joins us to discuss Glen Cook's "The Black Company”, Dungeon World, Ursula K. Le Guin, conquistador helmets, swords-for-hire, what makes a villain, grim dark's celebration of the darkes...
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Episode 110 – Fred Saberhagen's "Changeling Earth” with special guest Rev. Dak Ultimak from 2022-01-10T00:00
Rev. Dak Ultimak joins us to discuss Fred Saberhagen's "Changeling Earth”, the DCC RPG zine scene, reclaiming H.P. Lovecraft, tanks and UFOs in fantasy fiction, the paperback culture of the 1970s, ...
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Episode 109 – Ursula K. Le Guin's "A Wizard of Earthsea” with special guest Ellen Kushner from 2021-12-27T00:00
Ellen Kushner joins us to discuss Ursula K. Le Guin's "A Wizard of Earthsea”, Choose Your Own Adventure books, the explosion of Tolkien's popularity, the feminist revision of Earthsea, wizarding sc...
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Episode 108 – Gene Wolfe's "The Shadow of the Torturer” with special guest Moss Bosch from 2021-11-28T00:00
Moss Bosch joins us to discuss Gene Wolfe's "The Shadow of the Torturer”, socially intimate games, tasty and tender world building, reading a book without realizing it is the first in a series, rid...
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Patron Book Club 107 – Ellen Kushner’s “Swordspoint” with our Patron Book Club from 2021-11-28T00:00
Our Patron Book Club joins us to discuss Ellen Kushner's "Swordspoint", typing up D&D character sheets on a typewriter, normalized gay content, the 80s crack epidemic, double- and triple-crosses, c...
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Episode 107 – Ellen Kushner's "Swordspoint” with special guest Angela Lemus-Mogrovejo from 2021-11-14T00:00
Angela Lemus-Mogrovejo joins us to discuss Ellen Kushner's "Swordspoint”, the indie tabletop roleplaying game scene, questioning why fantasy is wedded to the European medieval era, our patron polls...
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Episode 106 – C.L. Moore's "Jirel of Joiry” with special guest Cora Buhlert from 2021-11-01T00:00
Cora Buhlert joins us to discuss C.L. Moore's "Jirel of Joiry”, used book store finds, kisses as stand-ins for sex, the appropriateness of using genre to explore our fear of sexual violence, cozy s...
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Episode 105 – G.K. Chesterton's "The Man Who Was Thursday” with special guest Megan Connell from 2021-10-18T12:08
Megan Connell joins us to discuss G.K. Chesterton's "The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare”, chocolate-covered raisin trees, satire we don't understand, club infiltration, anarchist elections and b...
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Episode 104 – Clive Barker's "Books of Blood, Volume 1" with special guest Brendan LaSalle from 2021-10-04T00:00
Brendan LaSalle joins us to discuss Clive Barker's "Books of Blood, Volume 1", our listeners 100 years from now, ghosts taking over theaters, Barker's literary beginnings, relatable characters, "Ma...
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Episode 103 – Mervyn Peake's "Titus Groan” with special guest Patrick Stuart from 2021-09-13T00:00
Patrick Stuart joins us to discuss Mervyn Peake's "Titus Groan”, oral traditions, lush prose, taking pride in working as a servant, the sun as an old cake bun, Peake's popularity, Cormac McCarthy, ...
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Episode 102 from 2021-08-23T00:00
Sarah Doom joins us to discuss Michael Shea's "Nifft the Lean”, Vampire: The Masquerade, horror stories set in the Deep South, "big guava breasts", matching prose style to genre, which came first: ...
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Episode 102 – Michael Shea’s “Nifft the Lean” with special guest Sarah Doom from 2021-08-22T00:00
Sarah Doom joins us to discuss Michael Shea's "Nifft the Lean”, Vampire: The Masquerade, horror stories set in the Deep South, "big guava breasts", matching prose style to genre, which came first: ...
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Episode 101 – Charles R. Saunders's "Imaro” with special guest Pete Petrusha from 2021-08-09T00:00
Pete Petrusha joins us to discuss Charles R. Saunders's "Imaro”, developing management skills through game mastering, how map projections shrink Africa, flipping the script, Charles R. Saunders's l...
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Episode 100 – Edgar Rice Burroughs's "Land of Terror" with special guest Martian Kat from 2021-07-25T00:00
Martian Kat joins us to discuss Edgar Rice Burroughs's "Land of Terror", Star Wars, reading something you wouldn't normally read on your own, effective uses of satire, bearded women, evolving perce...
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Episode 99 – Lord Dunsany's "Don Rodriguez" with special guest Alyssa Faden from 2021-07-11T00:00
Alyssa Faden joins us to discuss Lord Dunsany's "Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley", the Tegel Manor map, ancient history as gaming inspiration, the Wheel of Time series, singing blades, D...
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Episode 98 - Andre Norton's "Three Against the Witch World" with special guest Little Red Dot from 2021-06-27T00:00
Little Red Dot joins us to discuss Andre Norton's "Three Against the Witch World", Fate RPG, reading comics in the barber shop, Mars as Australia, Mercedes Lackey, the division between science fict...
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Episode 97 - Clark Ashton Smith's "Xiccarph" with special guest Cora Buhlert from 2021-06-13T00:00
Cora Buhlert joins us to discuss Clark Ashton Smith's "Xiccarph", German science fiction, pulp magazines, morbid beauty, vampire flower women, Jirel of Joiry, the Dark Eye, foreshadowing, Gary Gyga...
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Episode 96 - August Derleth's "The Mask of Cthulhu" with special guest Oliver Brackenbury from 2021-05-29T00:00
Oliver Brackenbury joins us to discuss August Derleth's "The Mask of Cthulhu", the Lin Carter Conan stories, competing Appendix N Book Club listener complaints, writing in another author's IP, dem ...
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Episode 95 – Fredric Brown's "What Mad Universe” with special guest Angeline B. Adams from 2021-05-16T00:00
Angeline B. Adams joins us to discuss Fredric Brown's "What Mad Universe”, psychogeography, toxic fandom, fictionalizing the writer's process, near-future sci-fi, the Troubles conflict in Northern ...
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Episode 94 – Stanley G. Weinbaum's "The Best of Stanley G. Weinbaum" with special guest Newton Nitro from 2021-05-01T00:00
Newton Nitro joins us to discuss Stanley G. Weinbaum's "The Best of Stanley G. Weinbaum", Brazilian speculative fiction, Malazan Book of the Fallen, celebrations of the heterosexual white male, com...
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Episode 93 – Michael Moorcock's "Elric of Melniboné" with special guest Peter Bebergal from 2021-04-18T00:00
Peter Bebergal joins us to discuss Michael Moorcock's "Elric of Melniboné", gaming stores, Gygax's love of pulp, meta-levels inside of dungeons, grimoires IRL, Elric's rotating sidekicks, the limit...
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Episode 92 – Roger Zelazny's "The Hand of Oberon" with special guest Shauntelle Benjamin from 2021-04-04T00:00
Shauntelle Benjamin joins us to discuss Roger Zelazny's "The Hand of Oberon", TTRPG Twitch streaming, the protagonist's internal experience, similiar sounding names, casual incest, combat mechanics...
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Episode 91 - Philip José Farmer's "The Lavalite World" with special guest Kienna Shaw from 2021-03-20T00:00
Kienna Shaw joins us to discuss Philip José Farmer's "The Lavalite World", using present-day religious texts as mythology, literary info dumps, the petty egos of immortals, making moral choices whe...
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Episode 90 - Fletcher Pratt's "Invaders from Rigel" with special guest Ginny Loveday from 2021-03-07T00:00
Ginny Loveday joins us to discuss Fletcher Pratt's "Invaders from Rigel", small books with even smaller fonts, colonialism, space travellers who don't understand combustibles, goofily over-capable ...
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Episode 89 - Jack Vance's "The Killing Machine" with special guest Paige Leitman from 2021-02-22T13:00:08
Paige Leitman joins us to discuss Jack Vance's "The Killing Machine", Alexandre Dumas, sexism, interplanetary skin tones, examples of successful worldbuilding, D&D as a western, roleplaying vs roll...
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Episode 88 - Fritz Leiber's "The Big Time" with special guest Jason Ray Carney from 2021-02-07T00:00
Jason Ray Carney joins us to discuss Fritz Leiber's "The Big Time", urban modernism, Lovecraft's fear of the other, period slang, the time travel genre, deeply traumatized protagonists, Leiber's un...
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Episode 87 - Robert E. Howard's "Conan the Usurper" with special guest Nicole Emmelhainz-Carney from 2021-01-24T00:00
Nicole Emmelhainz-Carney joins us to discuss Robert E. Howard & L. Sprague de Camp's "Conan the Usurper", body horror, de Camp's heavy-handed editing, offensive physical descriptions of black chara...
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Episode 86 - Lin Carter's "The Immortal of World's End" with special guest Kira Magrann from 2021-01-10T00:00
Kira Magrann joins us to discuss Lin Carter's "The Immortal of World's End", LARPing as an awkward teenager, goth teenage years, blending sci-fi and fantasy, tonal shifts, strange metaphors, the co...
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Episode 85 - Fred Saberhagen's "The Black Mountains" with special guest Jason Vey from 2020-12-27T00:00
Jason Vey joins us to discuss Fred Saberhagen's "The Black Mountains", owlbears, waiting for the fun evil parts, the Swords trilogy, cold war themes in a post-apocalyptic world, wizards with swords...
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Episode 84 - Gardner F. Fox's "Kothar and the Conjurer's Curse" with special guest Clio Yun-su Davis from 2020-12-13T00:00
Clio Yun-su Davis joins us to discuss Gardner F. Fox's "Kothar and the Conjurer's Curse", sexual violence, sword and sorcery LARP ideas, non-stop magical hijinx, video game boob physics, the journe...
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Episode 83 – Jack Williamson's "The Humanoids” with special guest Misha B from 2020-11-30T13:00:02
Misha B joins us to discuss Jack Williamson's "The Humanoids”, relatable yet opposing idealogies, babies kept in cribs too long, the value of degenerates, the character arch of authors within their...
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Episode 82 – Manly Wade Wellman's "Sherlock Holmes's War of the Worlds" with our Patron Book Club from 2020-11-16T13:00:01
Our Patron Book Club joins us to discuss Manly Wade Wellman's "Sherlock Holmes's War of the Worlds", classic Sherlock, the Professor Challenger stories, sycophantic women, the differing moral compa...
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Episode 81 – H.P. Lovecraft's "The Dunwich Horror and Others” with our Patron Book Club from 2020-11-01T00:00
Our Patron Book Club joins us to discuss H.P. Lovecraft's "The Dunwich Horror and Others”, setting construction, Lovecraftian punchlines, Robert Bloch, character development, ancient castles, inesc...
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Episode 80 – Edgar Rice Burroughs's "Back to the Stone Age” with special guest Vicki Lalonde from 2020-10-18T00:00
Vicki Lalonde joins us to discuss Edgar Rice Burroughs's "Back to the Stone Age”, damsels in distress, messages of empathy, shedding the bonds of the civilized world, the power of friendship, Barso...
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Episode 79 - A. Merritt's "The Ship of Ishtar" with special guest Chris Wolf from 2020-10-04T00:00
Chris Wolf joins us to discuss A. Merritt's "The Ship of Ishtar", slaves in pulp fiction, magic hair-growing shrubs, film noir femme fatales, early wargaming, magic compasses, epic death as a story...
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Episode 78 – Robert E. Howard's "Conan the Warrior" with our Patron Book Club from 2020-09-20T00:00
Members of our Patron Book Club (Jeremy Harper, Christopher Murrie, and Adam Styers) join us to discuss Robert E. Howard's "Conan the Warrior", the Conan paperback publication history, Conan's rape...
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Episode 77 - L. Sprague de Camp's "The Clocks of Iraz" with special guest Sharang Biswas from 2020-09-06T00:00
Sharang Biswas joins us to discuss L. Sprague de Camp's "The Clocks of Iraz", Indian classics, wights, internal logic, stories within stories, female characters who entirely exist as sex objects, q...
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Episode 76 - Michael Moorcock's "The Vanishing Tower" with special guest Jerry D. Grayson from 2020-08-23T00:00
Jerry D. Grayson joins us to discuss Michael Moorcock's "The Vanishing Tower", discovering gaming as a kid, fantasy reading as a kid, comics, looking for representation, Elric as pulp, the grab-bag...
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Episode 75 - Roger Zelazny's "Sign of the Unicorn" with special guest Becky Annison from 2020-08-09T00:00
Becky Annison joins us to discuss Roger Zelazny's "Sign of the Unicorn", female authors, murder-mysteries, audiobooks, characters with godlike powers, world-building, rooting games in a setting, on...
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Episode 74 – Andrew J. Offutt's "Swords Against Darkness" with special guest Brian Murphy from 2020-07-25T00:00
Brian Murphy joins us to discuss Andrew J. Offutt's "Swords Against Darkness", reading fantasy fiction as a kid, writing about swords and sorcery, second generation sword and sorcery authors, the u...
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Episode 73 – Philip José Farmer's "Behind the Walls of Terra” with special guest Jamila R. Nedjadi from 2020-07-11T00:00
Jamila R. Nedjadi joins us to discuss Philip José Farmer's "Behind the Walls of Terra”, World of Darkness games, the false divide between the OSR and indie games, simulacrums, motorcycle gangs, one...
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An Interview with Tim Kask from 2020-06-28T00:00
Hoi and Jeff interview Tim Kask, the co-compiler of the Appendix N list, who gives us some interesting insight into its history!
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Episode 72 – Leigh Brackett's "The Best of Leigh Brackett" with special guest Stacy Dellorfano from 2020-06-14T00:00
Stacy Dellorfano joins us to discuss Leigh Brackett's "The Best of Leigh Brackett", the OSR, Boris Vallejo, women writing for male audiences, early antiheros, Eric John Stark as the outsider, Pocah...
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Episode 71 – Clark Ashton Smith's "Poseidonis" with special guest Evey Lockhart from 2020-05-30T00:00
Evey Lockhart joins us to discuss Clark Ashton Smith's "Poseidonis", dark + quirk, Northern California as Mythic Greece, pulp colonialism, circus folk, horny 15 year olds, Irony as a rollable stat,...
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Episode 70 – Jack Vance's "Star King" with special guest Sean McCoy from 2020-05-17T00:00
Sean McCoy joins us to discuss Jack Vance's "Star King", police violence, pulp crime, spaghetti westerns, sci-fi RPGs, Intelligence vs. Wisdom, a future controlled by corporations, off-screen sexua...
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Episode 69 – Fritz Leiber's "Swords and Ice Magic" with special guest Angela Murray from 2020-05-04T12:00:09
Angela Murray joins us to discuss Fritz Leiber's "Swords and Ice Magic", avoiding the GM system mastery trap, unlikable protangonists, women as sex objects, learning more about characters than just...
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Episode 68 - L. Sprague de Camp's "Conan the Buccaneer" with special guest Carmin Vance from 2020-04-19T00:00
Carmin Vance joins us to discuss L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter's "Conan the Buccaneer", barriers for entry into the hobby, weird descriptions of breasts, sword and sorcery as escapism, black am...
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Episode 67 – Edgar Rice Burroughs's "Tarzan at the Earth's Core" with special guest Chris Holmes from 2020-04-05T00:00
Chris Holmes joins us to discuss Edgar Rice Burroughs's "Tarzan at the Earth's Core", contemporary fantasy fiction, the Holmes Basic set, the varying levels of dignity given to the black characters...
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Episode 66 – Lord Dunsany's "The Charwoman's Shadow” with special guest Shanna Germain from 2020-03-22T00:00
Shanna Germain joins us to discuss Lord Dunsany's "The Charwoman's Shadow", Dunsany's evocative prose, shadow magic, fairy tales, the impetuousness of youth, walking 25 miles in a day, love potions...
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Patron Book Club 65 - Andre Norton's "Web of the Witch World" from 2020-03-15T00:00
Thanks to Noah Green and Adam Styers for joining our Patron Book Club to discuss Andre Norton's "Web of the Witch World"!
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Episode 65 – Andre Norton's "Web of the Witch World" with special guest Humza Kazmi from 2020-03-08T00:00
Humza Kazmi joins us to discuss Andre Norton's "Web of the Witch World", elven fighters, mind reading, the power of love, reclaiming lost power, the culture of Estcarp, domain game play, internal c...
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Episode 64 - J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Return of the King" with returning guest Daniel J. Bishop from 2020-02-23T00:00
Daniel J. Bishop joins us to discuss J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Return of the King", the fundamental misunderstandings of the Peter Jackson movies, Tolkien's Christianity, Frodo and Sam's gay love, the ...
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Episode 63 - Lin Carter's "The Enchantress of World's End" with special guest Todd Bunn from 2020-02-08T00:00
Hoi and Jeff chat with Todd Bunn about Lin Carter's "The Enchantress of World's End", flipping expectations, one-shot adventures, sphinxes, and introductory RPG systems!
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Episode 62 - Gardner Fox's "Kothar and the Demon Queen" with special guest Elizabeth Chaipraditkul from 2020-01-24T00:00
Hoi and Jeff chat with Elizabeth Chaipraditkul about Gardner F. Fox's "Kothar and the Demon Queen", demon summoning, cheesy erotica, sword and sorcery traditions, and much more!
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Episode 61 - A. Merritt's "Dwellers in the Mirage" with special guest Jeannette Ng from 2020-01-12T00:00
Episode 61 - A. Merritt's "Dwellers in the Mirage" with special guest Jeannette Ng
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Episode 60 - Fritz Leiber's "The Swords of Lankhmar" with special guest Jen Brinkman from 2019-12-30T13:00:03
Hoi and Jeff chat with Jen Brinkman about Fritz Leiber's "The Swords of Lankhmar" and get a behind-the-scenes look at DCC Lankhmar.
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Episode 59 - Robert E. Howard's "Conan the Adventurer" with special guest Agatha Cheng from 2019-12-16T13:00:03
Hoi and Jeff chat with Agatha Cheng about Robert E. Howard's "Conan the Adventurer", orientalism, past life regression, and slavery in RPGs.
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An Interview with Michael Moorcock from 2019-12-02T13:00:43
Hoi and Jeff have the supreme pleasure of interviewing Michael Moorcock, author of the Elric and Hawkmoon stories among many others, and the youngest and only living author from the Appendix N list...
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Episode 58 - Michael Moorcock's "The Singing Citadel" with special guest Dirk the Dice from 2019-11-18T13:00:03
Hoi and Jeff chat with Dirk the Dice about the multiverse, Stormbringer RPG, Law vs Chaos, and Michael Moorcock's "The Singing Citadel"!
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Episode 57 - Roger Zelazny's "The Guns of Avalon" with special guest Ethan Schoonover from 2019-11-04T13:00:03
Hoi and Jeff discuss PVP gaming, turning classic troupes on their head, and the act of imagination and its limits in Roger Zelazny's "The Guns of Avalon" with special guest Ethan Schoonover!
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Episode 56 - Poul Anderson's "The Broken Sword" with special guest Tim Deschene from 2019-10-21T12:00:02
Hoi and Jeff discuss nature versus nurture, invoking Satan, and skin changing in Poul Anderson's "The Broken Sword" with special guest Tim Deschene!
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Episode 55 - Philip José Farmer's "A Private Cosmos" with special guest Eric Daum from 2019-10-07T12:00:14
Hoi and Jeff discuss character morality, action scequences, and female sexuality in Philip José Farmer's "A Private Cosmos" with special guest Eric Daum!
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Episode 54 - Fletcher Pratt's "The Well of the Unicorn" with special guest Strix Beltrán from 2019-09-23T12:00:06
Hoi and Jeff discuss liminal spaces, war, peace, and fear of masculine vulnerability in Fletcher Pratt's "The Well of the Unicorn" with special guest Strix Beltrán!
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Episode 53 - H.P. Lovecraft's "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" with special guest David Baity from 2019-09-09T12:00:06
Hoi and Jeff discuss multiple timelines, necromantic reincarnation, and sanity checks in H.P. Lovecraft's "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" with special guest David Baity
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Episode 52 - Edgar Rice Burroughs's "Tanar of Pellucidar" with special guest Noah Green from 2019-08-26T12:00:06
Hoi and Jeff discuss race coding, the laws of gravity, and monogamy in Edgar Rice Burroughs's "Tanar of Pellucidar" with special guest Noah Green.
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Episode 51.5 - J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Two Towers" with returning guest Daniel Bishop from 2019-08-12T12:00:47
Yes, for the Two Towers, we're doing Two Episodes! For Round 2, Hoi and Jeff discuss character fame, the halfling class, and foreshadowing in J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Two Towers" with returning guest ...
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Episode 51 - J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Two Towers" with special guest Anna B. Meyer from 2019-07-29T12:00:05
Hoi and Jeff discuss demagogues, war, elves, dwarves, and wizards in J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Two Towers" with special guest Anna B. Meyer.
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Episode 50 - Extra Credit - Clark Ashton Smith's "Hyperborea" with special guest Jeffrey Talanian from 2019-07-15T12:00:04
Hoi and Jeff discuss living dungeons, world building, and using evocative setting descriptions at the table in Clark Ashton Smith's "Hyperborea" with special guest Jeffrey Talanian.
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Episode 49 - Margaret St. Clair's "Sign of the Labrys" with special guest Katie Shrieves from 2019-07-01T12:00
Hoi and Jeff discuss fungus, hallunications, dream logic, dungeons levels, and hippie culture in Margaret St. Clair's "Sign of the Labrys" with special guest Katie Shrieves.
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Episode 48 - August Derleth's "The Lurker at the Threshold" with special guest Jon Hook from 2019-06-17T11:59:59
Hoi and Jeff discuss Elder Signs, Lovecraftian gaming, and summoning spells in August Derleth's "The Lurker at the Threshold" with special guest Jon Hook.
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Episode 47 - Fredric Brown's "Martians, Go Home" with special guest Sean Kelley from 2019-06-03T12:00:07
Hoi and Jeff discuss impossible-to-kill enemies, player agency, and unsolvable puzzles in Fredric Brown's "Martians, Go Home" with special guest Sean Kelley.
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Episode 46 - Stanley G. Weinbaum's "A Martian Odyssey" with special guest Brett Bloczynski from 2019-05-20T12:00:09
Hoi and Jeff discuss vampires, hunting, the beauty defense, and truly alien aliens in Stanley G. Weinbaum's "A Martian Odyssey" with special guest Brett Bloczynski.
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Episode 45 - A. Merritt's "The Moon Pool" with special guest Joseph Goodman from 2019-05-06T12:00:09
Hoi and Jeff discuss lost worlds, adventuring parties, and Lovecraftian gaming in A. Merritt's "The Moon Pool" with special guest Joseph Goodman
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Episode 44 – Jack Vance’s “Emphyrio” with special guest Fiona Maeve Geist from 2019-04-22T12:00:04
Hoi and Jeff discuss welfare states, decadent elites, and hopeless puppets in Jack Vance’s “Emphyrio” with special guest FIONA MAEVE GEIST!
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Episode 43 - Fritz Leiber's "Swords Against Wizardry" with special guest Josh from the Cromcast from 2019-04-08T12:00:02
Hoi and Jeff discuss Fritz Leiber's "Swords Against Wizardry" with special guest Josh from the Cromcast
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Episode 42 - Robert E. Howard’s “Conan the Wanderer” with special guest Jon from the Cromcast from 2019-03-25T12:00:09
Hoi and Jeff discuss Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp, & Lin Carter’s “Conan the Wanderer” with special guest Jon from the Cromcast.
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Episode 41 - L. Sprague de Camp's "The Goblin Tower" with special guest Luke from the Cromcast from 2019-03-11T12:00:08
Hoi and Jeff discuss L. Sprague de Camp's "The Goblin Tower" with special guest Luke from the Cromcast
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Episode 40 - Lin Carter's "The Warrior of World's End" with special guest Howard Andrew Jones from 2019-02-25T13:00:07
Hoi and Jeff discuss Lin Carter's "The Warrior of World's End" with special guest Howard Andrew Jones.
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Episode 39 - Fred Saberhagen's "The Broken Lands" with special guest Jason Hobbs from 2019-02-11T13:00:05
Hoi and Jeff discuss Fred Saberhagen's "The Broken Lands" with special guest Jason Hobbs.
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Episode 38 - Gardner F. Fox's "Kothar of the Magic Sword!" with special guest Liz Stewart from 2019-01-28T13:00:03
Hoi and Jeff discuss Gardner F. Fox's "Kothar of the Magic Sword!" with special guest Liz Stewart.
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Episode 37 - Jack Williamson's "Darker Than You Think" with special guest Dani Neary from 2019-01-14T13:00:06
Hoi and Jeff discuss Jack Williamson's "Darker Than You Think" with special guest Dani Neary.
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Episode 36 - Manly Wade Wellman's "Who Fears the Devil?" with special guest Michael Curtis from 2018-12-31T13:00:05
Hoi and Jeff discuss Manly Wade Wellman's "Who Fears the Devil?" with special guest Michael Curtis.
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Episode 35 - Michael Moorcock's "Stormbringer" with special guest Terry Olson from 2018-12-17T13:00:26
Hoi and Jeff discuss Michael Moorcock's "Stormbringer" with special guest Terry Olson
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Episode 34 - Roger Zelazny's "Nine Princes in Amber" with special guest Marc Bruner from 2018-11-05T21:49:46
Hoi and Jeff discuss Roger Zelazny's "Nine Princes in Amber" with special guest Marc Bruner.
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Episode 33 - Poul Anderson's "The High Crusade" with special guest Jeremy Farkas from 2018-10-09T01:24:34
Hoi and Jeff discuss Poul Anderson's "The High Crusade" with special guest Jeremy Farkas.
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Episode 32 - Philip José Farmer's "The Gates of Creation" with special guest Christopher Paul Carey from 2018-09-24T22:06:46
Hoi and Jeff discuss Philip José Farmer's "The Gates of Creation" with special guest Christopher Paul Carey.
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Episode 31 - Leigh Brackett's "The Halfling and Other Stories" with special guest Paolo Greco from 2018-09-11T00:19:24
Hoi and Jeff discuss Leigh Brackett's "The Halfling and Other Stories" with special guest Paolo Greco.
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Episode 30 - A. Merritt's "Creep, Shadow Creep!" with special guest Edgar Johnson from 2018-08-27T18:11:57
Hoi and Jeff discuss A. Merritt's "Creep, Shadow Creep!" with special guest Edgar Johnson.
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Episode 29 - Fritz Leiber's "Swords in the Mist" with special guest Joey Royale from 2018-07-23T18:27:37
Special guest Joey Royale of Drinking & Dragons joins us to discuss Fritz Leiber’s Swords in the Mist!
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Episode 28 - Robert E. Howard's "Conan the Freebooter" with special guest Diogo Nogueira from 2018-06-11T21:47:15
Conan the Freebooter (Lancer Books, 1968) by Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp, was part of the first comprehensive paperback edition of the Conan saga. Conan the Freebooter was the eighth v...
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Episode 27 - Edgar Rice Burroughs' "Pellucidar" with special guest Harley Stroh from 2018-05-28T21:13:13
Hoi and Jeff discuss Edgar Rice Burroughs' "Pellucidar" with special guest Harley Stroh.
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Episode 26 - Lord Dunsany's "The King of Elfland's Daughter" with special guest Andrew Sternick from 2018-05-07T15:37:09
Hoi and Jeff discuss Lord Dunsany's "The King of Elfland's Daughter" with special guest Andrew Sternick.
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Episode 25 - Andre Norton's "Witch World" with special guest Fletcher Vredenburgh from 2018-04-02T19:12:55
Hoi and Jeff discuss Andre Norton's "Witch World" with special guest Fletcher Vredenburgh.
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Episode 24 - J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Fellowship of the Ring" with special guest Daniel J. Bishop from 2018-03-19T19:08:45
Hoi and Jeff discuss J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Fellowship of the Ring" with special guest Daniel J. Bishop.
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Episode 23 - H.P. Lovecraft's "At the Mountains of Madness" with special guest Bob Brinkman from 2018-03-05T15:05:31
Hoi and Jeff discuss H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness & Other Tales of Terror with special guest Bob “The Voice” Brinkman!
Given H.P. Lovecraft’s omnipresence today, it’s easy ...
Episode 22 – Extra Credit - Clark Ashton Smith's "Zothique" with special guest Andy Markham from 2018-02-12T13:10:10
Hoi and Jeff discuss Clark Ashton Smith's "Zothique" with special guest Andy Markham.
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Episode 21 - Margaret St. Clair's "The Shadow People" with special guest Julian Bernick from 2018-01-23T03:59:59
Hoi and Jeff discuss Margaret St. Clair's "The Shadow People" with special guest Julian Bernick.
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Episode 20 - A. Merritt's "Burn Witch, Burn!" with special guest Stephen Newton from 2018-01-08T13:36:23
Abraham Grace Merritt (better known by his byline A. Merritt) has the odd distinction of being perhaps second only to Edgar Rice Burroughs in popularity as a writer of fantastic fiction during the ...
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Episode 19 - Jack Vance's "The Eyes of the Overworld" with special guest David Hoskins from 2017-12-25T15:57:57
The Eyes of the Overworld (Ace Books, 1966) marks Jack Vance’s return to the Dying Earth setting after a break of 15 years. The book is a fix-up of the stories “The Overworld”, “The Mountains of Ma...
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Episode 18 - Fritz Leiber's "Swords Against Death" with special guest Jen Brinkman from 2017-12-18T17:36:17
Swords Against Death (Ace Books, 1970) by Fritz Leiber was originally published in paperback as part of Ace Books’ complete seven volume saga of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. Although Swords Against ...
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Episode 17 - Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp, & Lin Carter’s “Conan of Cimmeria” from 2017-12-04T15:22:46
Conan of Cimmeria (Lancer Books, 1969) by Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp, and Lin Carter was part of first comprehensive paperback edition of the Conan saga. Conan of Cimmeria was the sevent...
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Episode 16 - L. Sprague de Camp's "Lest Darkness Fall" from 2017-11-27T16:04:18
L. Sprague de Camp’s Lest Darkness Fall first saw light as a short story in the December 1939 issue of Unknown magazine before being expanded into a full novel for hardcover publication by Henry Ho...
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Episode 15 - Lin Carter's "Giant of World's End" from 2017-11-20T18:54:47
Lin Carter has a multi-faceted reputation in the world of fantastic fiction. As an editor and critic, he is virtually indispensable, most notably for his role in editing the landmark Ballantine Adu...
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Episode 14 - Sterling E. Lanier's "Hiero's Journey" from 2017-11-13T18:35:08
There’s surprisingly little reliable biographical information about Sterling E. Lanier, but like many Appendix N authors he does seem to have been a man of many parts. Most accounts of Lanier’s lif...
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Episode 13 - Gardner F. Fox's "Kothar: Barbarian Swordsman" from 2017-11-06T22:39:48
J.R.R. Tolkien and perhaps Robert E. Howard aside, no Appendix N author has had as a large a pop culture footprint as Gardner F. Fox, but not for any of the works cited by Gary Gygax. Although hard...
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Episode 12 - Michael Moorcock's "The Stealer of Souls" from 2017-10-30T17:42:38
Michael Moorcock’s first five Elric of Melniboné stories appeared in the British magazine Science Fantasy in 1962 and were collected in hardcover the next year as The Stealer of Souls, followed by ...
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Episode 11 - John Bellairs's "The Face in the Frost" from 2017-10-16T23:28:29
At first glance John Bellairs’s The Face in the Frost is a bit of an anomaly, both in his own body of work and in Appendix N. It is the only Bellairs work cited by Gary Gygax in Appendix N, and end...
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Episode 10 - Roger Zelazny's "Jack of Shadows" from 2017-10-02T15:54:21
Roger Zelazny stated that he wrote Jack of Shadows as a “first draft, no rewrite”, which might account for the occasionally elliptical nature of the narrative. Any lack of cohesion in the plotting ...
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Episode 9 - Poul Anderson's Three Hearts and Three Lions from 2017-09-25T17:55:17
Poul Anderson’s Three Hearts and Three Lions was originally serialized in 1953 in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction--eight years later a revised and expanded version of the tale would see...
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Episode 8 - Philip José Farmer's "The Maker of Universes" from 2017-09-18T16:51:12
In retrospect, the publication of Philip José Farmer’s The Maker of Universes (Ace Books, 1965) marks the beginning of the most productive and rewarding phase of Farmer’s writing career. It can har...
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Episode 7 – Fletcher Pratt's "The Blue Star" from 2017-09-04T13:11:38
Fletcher Pratt’s The Blue Star first saw print in the hardcover anthology Witches Three (Twayne Publishers, 1952), which also included Fritz Leiber’s Conjure Wife and James Blish’s “There Shall be ...
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Episode 6 – Edgar Rice Burroughs' "At the Earth's Core" from 2017-08-21T21:00:45
Edgar Rice Burroughs’ first Pellucidar book At the Earth’s Core was part of the supernova period at the beginning of his writing career, wherein he managed to write 25 novels between 1911-1915! The...
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Episode 5 – J.R.R. Tolkien's “The Hobbit" from 2017-08-07T13:12:03
The Hobbit first came to Oxford University professor J.R.R. Tolkien when he was grading papers in the early 1930s. Coming upon a blank page in an exam book, he suddenly wrote “In a hole in the grou...
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Episode 4 - Jack Vance's "The Dying Earth" with special guest Gavin Norman from 2017-07-31T15:04:45
Special guest Gavin Norman (author of The Complete Vivimancer and Theorems & Thaumaturgy) joins us to discuss Jack Vance‘s The Dying Earth!
Jack Vance originally wrote the loosely connecte...
Episode 3 - Fritz Leiber's "Swords and Deviltry" from 2017-07-24T03:23:48
Swords and Deviltry (Ace Books, 1970) by Fritz Leiber was originally published in paperback as part of Ace Books’ complete seven volume saga of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. Although Swords and Devil...
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Episode 2 – Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp, & Lin Carter's "Conan" from 2017-07-14T13:59:51
Conan (Lancer Books, 1967) by Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp, and Lin Carter was part of first comprehensive paperback edition of the Conan saga. Conan was the fifth volume published, althoug...
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Episode 1 - L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt's "The Compleat Enchanter" from 2017-07-04T05:04:47
The Compleat Enchanter by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt is a compilation of the first three novellas in the Harold Shea/Enchanter series, “The Roaring Trumpet” (1940), “The Mathematics of M...
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Episode 0 - The Appendix N (and why we care) from 2017-06-29T19:30:36
Hoi and Jeff explain what the Appendix N is and why they care.
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