Official OLS Episodes – One Last Sketch

It’s 1962. Marijuana is legal in California, massive amounts of farmland was recently recovered from the Mediterranean, and human colonization of the Solar System has begun. Everything seems just peachy, if it wasn’t for the pesky fact that the Third Reich and Imperial Japan won the Second World War… A discussion of Philip K. Dick’s The … Continue reading Episode 19 &...

Frank Hebert’s Dune is one of the most influential science fiction novels of all time. Naturally, we have a lot to say about it. Download the Podcast (35 MB, right-click to save) Source of our theme song Marie’s blog

Science! Religion! History! A far-ranging discussion of Walter M. Miller, Jr.’s epic post-apocalyptic Catholic-monks-in-Utah novel A Canticle for Leibowitz. Download the Podcast (30 MB, right-click to save) Source of our theme song Marie’s blog

We watched Dracula Untold, then tried to salvage the utterly ruined evening by recording a podcast wherein I mispronounce “caricature”, Marie talks about bad anime shows, and Cory is confused. Our verdict on the film? Go read The Stress of her Regard by Tim Powers instead!   Download the Podcast (27 MB, right-click to save) Marie’s blog

We spent the last few weeks experiencing what Canadian cinema has to offer. This was the result: Download the Podcast (30 MB, right-click to save) Marie’s blog Films discussed: Ticket to Heaven Porky’s Quest for Fire The Bear Dance Me Outside Rock and Rule Heavy Metal Maelstrom A Dangerous Method Take this Waltz Edwin Boyd: … Continue reading Episode 16 – A Very Disappointi...

We talk about an obscure 13th-century French verse romance you’ve probably never heard of: The Romance of Eustace the Monk. Download the Podcast (24 MB, right-click to save) Source of our theme song Leah Shopkow’s prose translation of Eustace the Monk

Alternative Title: The Episode with Dragons in It. Marie and I survey classic (and not-so-classic) Middle Grade and YA literature that include dragons. Special mention goes to Patricia C. Wrede’s Dealing with Dragons, and we also brainstorm the next YA dragon epic that is sure to be a mega-bestseller. Download the Podcast Source of our theme song … Continue reading Episode 14 – B...

We discuss Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson (which I already reviewed here), then get caught up in a discussion about Canada Reads and CanLit. Download the Podcast Source of our theme song Canada Reads 2008

To no one’s surprise, the blog of the New Sun posts a podcast about The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe. Under discussion: The Shadow of the Torturer, The Claw of the Conciliator, The Sword of the Lictor and The Citadel of the Autarch, with some references to The Urth of the New Sun as well. Download the Podcast Marie’s … Continue reading Episode 12 – The Podcast of the N...

Three friends discuss “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury, a creepy story about shockingly creepy children and their even more shockingly useless parents. Plus lions. Download the Podcast The story itself, as read by Leonard Nemoy Marie’s Blog Source of our theme song A very timely Wired article: “Don’t Blame Social Media if Your Teen Is Unsocial. … Continue reading Episode 1...

One year after the initially-planned recording date, we finally get around to talking about the works of Ursula K. Le Guin–specifically, The Left Hand of Darkness and The Word for World is Forest. Download the Podcast Marie’s Blog Source of our theme song

Two podcasters enter.  One podcaster leaves. In this eleventh episode, we discuss Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games trilogy, and ponder over the oddity of the Capitol’s urban planning. Download the Podcast Marie’s Blog Source of our Theme Song

The Lizzie Bennet Diaries concluded this past Thursday, so naturally, Marie & I decided to babble about it.   How can two people who care not a whit for Jane Austen come to enjoy an adaptation of Pride and Prejudice so much?  Listen to find out! Download the Podcast Marie’s Blog Source of our Theme Song

A three-way discussion of Roger Zelazny’s Lord of Light, in which the fit really hits the Shan (tee hee hee). Download the Podcast Marie’s Blog Source of the incidental music

What, THIS scenario again? And we complete our saga, by talking about Nazis, trench warfare, and the stupidity of some reptilian space invaders. Download the Podcast Alasdair’s Ferretbrain Contributor Page Source of the incidental music

And off we go, into the wild blue yonder… Today I’m joined by a special guest, Alasdair Czyrnyj.  Join us as we take to the skies on the back of a hydrogen-filled whale to discuss the perils of the steampunk genre. Download the Podcast Alasdair’s Ferretbrain Contributor Page Source of our Theme Song

A few days (and drinks) later, Marie & I return to enthuse about Jane Yolen’s Pit Dragon Chronicles. In summary: like Pokemon, if Pokemon was good. Download the Podcast Marie’s Youtube Channel Source of our Theme Song

In an amazing turn of events, Marie & I are in the same place together, and although slightly buzzed, still manage to babble about Jo Walton’s Tooth and Claw. Download the Podcast Marie’s Youtube Channel Source of our Theme Song (“It’s Dragon Tales” by Butterfly Tea.  Rather fitting this time, don’t you think?)

What?  Another podcast, you say? This time Marie and I talk about one of our favourite book series from the Newbery Era, Lloyd Alexander’s The Chronicles of Prydain. Apologies for the audio quality.  My current laptop has less-than-ideal speakers, so Marie has been recording the podcasts on her end, then sending the files to me for … Continue reading Episode 2 – The Chronicles of...

Marie returns to converse with me about Watership Down in all its forms.  Correction: to converse rather exhaustively about Watership Down in all its forms. You have been warned. Download the podcast Marie’s Youtube Channel

The first ever One Last Sketch podcast!  Which was never actually intended to be a podcast!  In which my friend Marie and I talk about the plight of plague doctors.  And other things. If you’re wondering, the picture we’re discussing at one point is this one: The video referenced in said podcast will be out shortly. … Continue reading Episode 0 – Introduction to Medieval&#1...