Wheel of Genre

Arts EN ↓ 230 episodes

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Wheel of Genre

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Ep 55: Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene (Spies #8) 22.10.2021 40:11

I think half of my heart is in Havana (ooh na na, heyyy). • Explore our Patreon at ⁠⁠patreon.com/wheelofgenre⁠⁠ • Email us at genrepodcast@gmail.com

Ep 54: The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan (Spies #7) 04.10.2021 38:22

Chased by airplanes, policemen, and Germans, our man Hanney chameleons his way into Scotland and (kinda) saves Europe from the brink. • Explore our Patreon at ⁠⁠patreon.com/wheelofgenre⁠⁠ • Email us at genrepodcast@gmail.com

Ep. 53: Live and Let Die by Ian Fleming (Spies #6) 23.09.2021 53:30

We go deep undercover in three American lands of death: New Orleans with Baron Samedi, Florida w/ oldies clacking false teeth, and an island in the Caymans haunted by Captain Morgan and Mr. Big. • Explore our Patreon at ⁠⁠patreon.com/wheelofgenre⁠⁠ • Email us at genrepodcast@gmail.com

Ep 52: King Solomon's Mines by Sir H. Rider Haggard (Lost Worlds #4) 10.09.2021 52:39

The best dentures in all of adventure fiction. • Explore our Patreon at ⁠⁠patreon.com/wheelofgenre⁠⁠ • Email us at genrepodcast@gmail.com

Ep 51: At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft (Lost Worlds #3) 30.08.2021 33:02

In one short novella, Lovecraft ruins penguins forever. • Explore our Patreon at ⁠⁠patreon.com/wheelofgenre⁠⁠ • Email us at genrepodcast@gmail.com

Ep. 50: Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne (Lost Worlds #2) 15.08.2021 38:21

Your three favorite boys step into darkness and come out riding dinosaurs. • Explore our Patreon at ⁠⁠patreon.com/wheelofgenre⁠⁠ • Email us at genrepodcast@gmail.com

Ep 49: The Land That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Lost Worlds #1) 06.08.2021 32:23

Imagine knowing jiu-jitsu and being trapped on an island filled with dinosaurs. • Explore our Patreon at ⁠⁠patreon.com/wheelofgenre⁠⁠ • Email us at genrepodcast@gmail.com

Ep. 48: Le Morte d'Arthur Book 1 by Sir Thomas Malory (Arthurian #4) 25.06.2021 33:57

Prison literature at its finest. • Explore our Patreon at ⁠⁠patreon.com/wheelofgenre⁠⁠ • Email us at genrepodcast@gmail.com

Ep. 47: Le Morte d'Arthur in Alliterative Verse (AMA) trans. by Simon Armitage (Arthurian #3) 18.06.2021 40:33

Alliterative Arthur on a rampage against Rome. • Explore our Patreon at ⁠⁠patreon.com/wheelofgenre⁠⁠ • Email us at genrepodcast@gmail.com

Ep 46: Perceval, the Story of the Grail by Chrétien de Troyes (Arthurian #2) 11.06.2021 38:16

So, that king with an open wound in his "thigh"? • Explore our Patreon at ⁠⁠patreon.com/wheelofgenre⁠⁠ • Email us at genrepodcast@gmail.com

Ep 45: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight translated by J. R. R. Tolkien (Arthurian #1) 04.06.2021 43:19

Let's play a game of headsy cutsy. • Explore our Patreon at ⁠⁠patreon.com/wheelofgenre⁠⁠ • Email us at genrepodcast@gmail.com

Ep. 44: Three Ten to Yuma by Elmore Leonard (Westerns #6) 28.05.2021 29:20

Fun as Hell. ⁠ • Explore our Patreon at ⁠⁠patreon.com/wheelofgenre⁠⁠ • Email us at genrepodcast@gmail.com

Ep 43: Hondo by Louis L'Amour (Westerns #5) 21.05.2021 46:27

One of the few film novelizations that rides on its own. • Explore our Patreon at ⁠⁠patreon.com/wheelofgenre⁠⁠ • Email us at genrepodcast@gmail.com

Ep 42: The Shootist by Glendon Swarthout (Westerns #4) 14.05.2021 52:20

When the old gunslinger gets terminal cancer, who of the many lil' pistol-whippers will get to him first? • Explore our Patreon at ⁠⁠patreon.com/wheelofgenre⁠⁠ • Email us at genrepodcast@gmail.com

Ep. 41: True Grit by Charles Portis (Westerns #3) 07.05.2021 47:12

Fighting rattlesnakes with nothing but a dead man's severed arm. • Explore our Patreon at ⁠⁠patreon.com/wheelofgenre⁠⁠ • Email us at genrepodcast@gmail.com

Ep 40: When The People Fell by Cordwainer Smith (Post-Apocalyptic #5) 30.04.2021 43:22

Does anyone still care about when the Chinese government colonized Venus? • Explore our Patreon at ⁠⁠patreon.com/wheelofgenre⁠⁠ • Email us at genrepodcast@gmail.com

Ep 39: The Chrysalids by John Wyndham (Post-Apocalyptic #4) 23.04.2021 42:17

Mutants, strange forms of Christianity, and psychic New Zealanders. • Explore our Patreon at ⁠⁠patreon.com/wheelofgenre⁠⁠ • Email us at genrepodcast@gmail.com

Ep. 38: Speech Sounds by Octavia Butler (Post-Apocalyptic #3) 16.04.2021 42:01

Grunting, nodding and gesturing through post-epidemic LA. • Explore our Patreon at ⁠⁠patreon.com/wheelofgenre⁠⁠ • Email us at genrepodcast@gmail.com

Ep 37: Deus Irae by Philip K. Dick and Roger Zelazny (Post-Apocalyptic #2) 09.04.2021 40:50

Screaming worms, a master painter with no arms or legs, and the god of wrath himself. • Explore our Patreon at ⁠⁠patreon.com/wheelofgenre⁠⁠ • Email us at genrepodcast@gmail.com

Ep 36: I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison (Post-Apocalyptic #1) 02.04.2021 35:32

I have no pod and I must cast. • Explore our Patreon at ⁠⁠patreon.com/wheelofgenre⁠⁠ • Email us at genrepodcast@gmail.com

Ep 35: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin (Dystopian #4) 26.03.2021 52:25

Pronoun problems. • Explore our Patreon at ⁠⁠patreon.com/wheelofgenre⁠⁠ • Email us at genrepodcast@gmail.com

Ep. 34: The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K Le Guin (Dystopian #3) 19.03.2021 42:06

I don't remember Salem, Oregon being this lit. • Explore our Patreon at ⁠⁠patreon.com/wheelofgenre⁠⁠ • Email us at genrepodcast@gmail.comt

Ep. 33: Cat Country by Lao She (Dystopian #2) 12.03.2021 40:55

Turning all the characters into cats makes it SF. • Explore our Patreon at ⁠⁠patreon.com/wheelofgenre⁠⁠ • Email us at genrepodcast@gmail.com

Ep 32: 'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman by Harlan Ellison (Dystopian #1) 05.03.2021 31:21

April Fools and Halloween all rolled into one. • Explore our Patreon at ⁠⁠patreon.com/wheelofgenre⁠⁠ • Email us at genrepodcast@gmail.com

Ep 31: Erewhon by Samuel Butler (Utopian #4) 26.02.2021 41:52

You can imagine Frank Herbert reading this and furiously scribbling notes... • Explore our Patreon at ⁠⁠patreon.com/wheelofgenre⁠⁠ • Email us at genrepodcast@gmail.com