Tag: satire

Episode 58: Yellowface

View on Zencastr Editor and writer Robert Runte joins Mark and Joe on the podcast to encourage everyone to read R. F. Kuang’s satire of the publishing industry, Yellowface. Robert is a long-term science fiction reader and for many years a reviewer and critic. That turned into a new role when one of the small…

October 15, 2024

Books, Episode

canada, canadian science fiction, chicago manual of style, dave duncan, editing, editorial, humor, humour, r.f.kuang, robert runte, satire, science fiction, style guide, yellowface
Episode 6: O Lucky Man!

View on Zencastr Mark and Joe talk to author and former Amazing Stories editor Ira Nayman. The three have a wide-ranging and mind-bending conversation about the multiverse, theories of time travel, the nature of satire, and, of course, cannibalism. Nayman considers O Lucky Man! a “cinematic version of Candide.” Directed by Lindsay Anderson, and starring…

April 19, 2023

Episode, Films

a modest proposal, britannia hospital, candide, humor, humour, if, ira, ira nayman, jonathan swift, les pages aux folles, lindsay anderson, malcolm mcdowell, multiverse, nayman, o lucky man, satire, satirical, science fiction, swift, time travel, voltaire