GENRE STOP! Podcast
1) Episode 16: ‘Lagoon’ by Nnedi Okorafor
This is the “show notes” section for the podcast Genre Stop! The goal of the show note is to provide a concise textual description of the audio content of the attached podcast, as podcasts are an aura...Show More
2) Episode 15: ‘American Gods’ by Neil Gaiman
Hello. This is the “show notes” section for the podcast Genre Stop! The goal of the show note is to provide a concise textual description of the audio content of the attached podcast, as podcasts are ...Show More
3) Episode 14: ‘City of Bones’ by Cassandra Clare
I never could sleep growing up. A lot can go through a kid’s mind laying there, waiting for papa to drag his bum foot across my dirty bedroom floor. Mama’d wasn’t much of a cleaner. Two years a ...Show More
4) Episode 13: ‘Mythago Wood’ by Robert Holdstock
Ah, who doesn’t love camping? The smell of the grass. Relaxing with friends. Eating sunflower seeds and cotton candy. Watching your favorite player hit a home run. Driving home in your car after the e...Show More
5) Episode 12: ‘Dawn’ by Octavia Butler
Ted was going to end it all. He took $400 out of an ATM and started walking toward the gorge. He passed a video store on the way. He realized that he hadn’t seen Tank Girl in a couple decades. They ha...Show More
6) Episode 11: ‘Cold Magic’ by Kate Elliott
This is a true story. In the ‘20’s I ran rum for some unsavory characters. I rode a bit too high on what Abigail Adams dubbed the ‘petrol pony.’ Fast cars. Fast girls. Fast times. Turns out, I’d borro...Show More
7) Episode 10: ‘The Martian’ by Andy Weir
Nothing like a good human v. nature novel to get the blood flowin.’ And, oh-wee boy, have we got a good one for you in Andy Weir’s debut novel! He starts from a simple premise: how long could you surv...Show More
8) Episode 9: ‘Purple and Black’ by K.J. Parker
We needed something special this week. Not just your run-of-the-mill epic, with the same bland political intrigue, the same conniving highborn jetsetters, and the same Clausewitzian martial maneuverin...Show More
9) Episode 8: ‘Assassin’s Apprentice’ by Robin Hobb
An energetic youth finds himself in a new home. His old family, it seems, does not want him. No matter—there are new and exciting animals to play with here! Uh-oh, why does my dad keep leaving me? Loo...Show More
10) Episode 7: ‘Blindsight’ by Peter Watts
What has numerous squid-like appendages, a blind devotion to satiating its evolutionary needs, and negligible levels of sentience? If you said Stephen Markley, Genre Stop!’s first-ever guest host, you...Show More