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Average audio length:
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English
United Kingdom
72 episodes
since Feb. 1, 2022
episodic

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Put on your best sleeve and join us for part 2 of our interview with the legendary Richard K Morgan, author of Altered Carbon as well as a HOST (see what we did there) of other brilliant books! In episode 2 we talk more about Richard's work, as well as the writing and ideation process (and how…

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It isn't often you get to interview a person that meets the following criteria: i)  Is a literary hero and writer of some of the best books ever ii)  Is cyberpunk royalty iii)  Is a fascinating interviewee iv)  Is a lovely bloke ... but in Richard K Morgan, we have managed to achieve this impl…

Fallout (season 2)

The last time we talked about Fallout, we crammed in the entire video game series, some spinoffs, and of course the first season of the hugely popular Amazon Prime TV series!! This time we're focusing (ish) solely on season 2 of the latter, which was bigger, more ambitious, and potentially a b…
Who could be more cyberpunk than the man who wrote Blade Runner (aka Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?), Total Recall (aka We Can Remember It For You Wholesale), Minority Report and a host of other revered books, short stories and future movie adaptations?? The answer, actually, is multi-award-w…
You've probably heard Jon talk about Robocop about five million times, because he loves the film so much he's probably seen it about that many times... but you'll rarely have heard him mention the largely forgotten 2014 remake, because until now he's never seen it! Tune in to fi…
We are honoured and delighted to welcome another big-hitting literary guest to our humble show, this time celebrated British sci-fi and fantasy writer Adrian Tchaikovsky! Famed for writing about non-human intelligences, Adrian also makes some fascinating predictions about future technological advan…

Streets of Rage

Not cyberpunk?? Pffffffft we'll be the judges of that! And anyway, who can begrudge us an episode to enthuse about arguably the greatest beat-em-up of all time... just watch out for bin chickens!
The term 'legend' gets bandied about... but today's guest absolutely 100% meets the necessary criteria, having invented the word 'cyberpunk' as the title of his seminal 1980 short story!! We are honoured, delighted, starstruck and did we mention honoured to welcome Bruce Be…

Mad Max

The lads are back, this time to chat about George Miller's iconic Mad Max movies!! Get ready for a guzzoline-soaked race through a wasteland that's anything but MEDIOCRE!!!!!
No daft puns this time: it's an interview with Hugh Howey, the phenomenally talented, staggeringly successful, and astoundingly likeable writer, known primarily for his smash hit Silo novels, which went from self-published short pieces to internationally acclaimed novels and more recently an A…
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