Academic, critic, and prolific podcaster Cameron Kunzelman joins for a far-ranging discussion about how climate fiction, science fiction, and personal and political connections to the environment intersect. Bonus hog sighting.

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• Guest: Cameron Kunzelman
• Title: Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman
• Host:Jake Casella Brookins
• Music byGiselle Gabrielle Garcia
• Artwork byRob Patterson
• Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough
• Transcribers: Kate Dollarhyde and John WM Thompson

References:

• Ranged Touch podcasts
• The World is Born From Zero & Everything is Permitted
• Sean McTiernan’s SFUltra (Sean was the guest for our Dreams of Amputation episode)
• From Hell by Alan Moore & Eddie Campbell
• Steve Moore's Somnium
• Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism
• Christopher Brown's A Natural History of Empty Lots
• Bill Bryson
• Abigail Nussbaum
• Vajra Chandrasekera's Rakesfall
• Michael Crichton
• Donna J. Haraway’s Staying With The Trouble
• Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future & Aurora (episode on the latter with Hilary Strang)
• Neal Stephenson's Termination Shock, Seveneves, & Anathem
• Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven
• Nicholas Meyer’s film The Day After
• Nevil Shute's On the Beach
• Adam McKay’s film Don't Look Up
• Timothy Morton’s Hyperobjects
• Trinitite
• Edward Abbey’s The Monkey Wrench Gang
• Bruce Sterling, William Gibson, Pat Cadigan
• “30-50 Feral Hogs”
• Clock of the Long Now
• Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass
• John Christopher’s The Death of Grass / No Blade of Grass
• Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa
• Describe World
• Flannery O'Connor
• Deep ecology
• Arne Næss
• Ted Kaczynski
• #NoDAPL (Dakota Access Pipeline)
• Bruce Sterling's Islands in the Net
• Patrick Wright’s The Village That Died For England
• Centralia coal-seam fire in Pennsylvania
• Keiichiro Toyama’s Silent Hill & Christophe Gans’ film adaptation
• Cameron's Bluesky
• The Assassin's Creed franchise
• Immanuel Velikovsky
• Erich von Däniken’s Chariots of the Gods