Official Ols Episodes One Last Sketch

A short, impromptu review of The Witches of Lublin, the holiday radio play “by Ellen Kushner and a bunch of other people in the cast.” Download the Podcast (archive.org page) Marie’s blog The Witches of Lublin website  

After suffering through TSR’s gamebooks, we decide to try one that’s actually good: Ring of Thieves by S. John Ross. Dice will be rolled! Blood will spilled! Genies will be petulant! Download the Podcast (archive.org page) Get Ring of Thieves for free! Risus: The Anything RPG Incidental Music: Danse Macabre – Big Hit 1 Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: […]

The Dungeoneering Edition™ reaches its conclusion (Thank God) with Circus of Fear, and there is much rejoicing. Download the Podcast (archive.org page) Marie’s blog Theme song: Five Armies by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0.

Our ill-advised experiment drags on as we play our way through Revolt of the Dwarves and The Dragon’s Ransom. Despite covering two books, this might well be our shortest episode yet. Only one more book remains before this series draws to a definite and unavoidable close. Apologies for the intermittent background noise! Download the Podcast (archive.org page) Marie’s blog Theme […]

The Dungeoneering Edition™ of the podcast continues with Light on Quests Mountain. (We’re sorry. We’re so, so sorry.) Download the Podcast (archive.org page) Marie’s blog Theme song: Five Armies by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0.

I found a stack of TSR Endless Quest Books at the dump. After that, this podcast was inevitable. Download the Podcast (archive.org page) Marie’s blog Theme song: Five Armies by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0.

Young Adult literature is a Thing now, but it wasn’t when Marie and I grew up! Join as as we talk about the books we read as teenagers and realize with dawning horror that we had terrible, terrible taste. Warning folks, this one’s a long one. Download the Podcast (archive.org page) Marie’s blog Blog post: Underground […]

Cross-posted with Iatropexy. Thus the dueling theme songs. We watch Doc Zone’s last documentary, Volunteers Unleashed. Then…we rant. Download the Podcast (archive.org page) The documentary! (Video available for Canadians only) Pippa Biddle’s blog post: “The Problem with Little White Girls (And Boys): Why I stopped being a Voluntourist” Source of my theme song Source of Marie’s theme song

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 – The Man in the Pod Castle

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 Disappointing Evening

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 – Battle Hatchers of Dragonland

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 New Sun

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 11 – Nursery Crimes

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