A Meal of Thorns 58- LACON V

Worldcon episode time: we’ve got interviews, we’ve got a coffee report, we’ve got an only-mildly chaotic group podcast attempt!

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• Guests & Collaborators:
  • Thomas Ha
  • Alex Kingsley
  • Frauke Uhlenbruch
  • Marshall Ryan Maresca & Cass Morris of Worldbuilding for Masochists
  • Kevin Anderson & Lori Anderson of Hugo, Girl!
  • John Coxon of Octothorpe
  • Helen Montgomery
  • Sam Kim of Kumquat
• Host: Jake Casella Brookins
• Music by Giselle Gabrielle Garcia
• Additional sounds & music:
  • The Los Angeles Metro
  • “Surf Shimmy” by Kevin Macleod
  • “Through the Woods We Ran” by Vindsvept
  • And the cool theremin sounds Kevin made for Hugo, Girl!
• Artwork by Rob Patterson
• Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough

References:

• Thomas Ha’s Uncertain Sons
• The Best of Jeffrey Ford and Pandemonium Waltz
• Steve Rasnic Tem & Brian Evenson
• Michel Siffre, French cave-and-sleep explorer
• J.S. Fields
• Zoe Franznick
• DePaul Pop Culture Conference
• Sabrina Mittermeier: The Routledge Handbook of Star Trek and Fighting For The Future
• Alien vs. Predator, Hellraiser, Dogma
• The Bible in Motion, edited by Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch
• Memory Alpha
• Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park
• Chuck, Earth: Final Conflict, Scavengers Reign, Battleship
• The Speculative Literature Foundation and their Deep Dish reading series
• HWA (Horror Writers Association)
• Playground Chicago
• Strong Branch
• SFWA (Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association)
• Goblin Market
• Mary Robinette Kowal, Curtis Chen
• Alexy on Bluesky & Instagram
• Space Wizard publishing
• Loquat coffee
• Artist Devon Sinead
• Arboretum and Botanical Garden at Cal State Fullerton
• E.G. Condé
• Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
• Uketsu’s Strange Houses, Strange Pictures,Strange Buildings, translated by Jim Rion
• Jo Walton
• Lightspeed and Reactor
• Alasdair Stuart & Marguerite Kenner (of projects like The Full Lid and Escape Artists)
• Liza Groen Trombi of Locus Magazine
• Cube
• Gene Wolfe
• The Prestige by Christopher Priest
• The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov
• Green Marsby Kim Stanley Robinson
• Widow’s Bay
• Fonda Lee, Shannon Chakraborty, Gabriella Buba
• SFF Addicts
• Robert Shearman’s Tiny Deaths, Ian Mond’s pick for a recent episode
• Nerds of a Feather