In this science fiction novel, translated from the French, dreamers “dive” into their own subconscious and return with mysterious & valuable objects. Translator, author, & scholar Alexander Dickow joins to discuss Francophone SF, weird fiction, and artistic allegories & analogies.

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• Guest: Alexander Dickow
• Title: The Deep-Sea Diver’s Syndrome by Serge Brussolo, translated by Edward Gauvin
• Host:Jake Casella Brookins
• Music byGiselle Gabrielle Garcia
• Artwork byRob Patterson
• Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough

References:

• Nominate for the Hugos (if you’re eligible to)
• Nominate for the Le Guin prize (open to all!)
• The Translated Hugo Initiative
• Alexander’s Strange Horizons article on Francophone SF
• China Miéville
• Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation
• Poets Skip Fox & Ian Seeds
• Emil Petaja’s The Nets of Space
• Philippe Curval
• Kilgore Trout
• Alfred Jarry & ‘Pataphysics
• Ivan Goncharov’s Oblomov
• Edgar Rice Burrough’s Tarzan
• Philip K. Dick
• Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?/Bladerunner
• PKD’s The Galactic Pot Healer, Confessions of a Crap Artist, Ubik
• Nathalie Sarraute’s work on Proust (possibly in The Age of Suspicion)
• Tolkien's “Leaf By Niggle”
• Harrison's Clomping Foot of Nerdism
• C.J. Cherryh's Wave Without A Shore
• Samuel Richardson
• Walter Scott
• Keats’ letter to Woodhouse: “A Poet is the most unpoetical of any thing in existence.”
• PKD’s A Scanner Darkly
• “Smellevision replaces television”
• Zachary Gillan’s work on the "Weird Art Story"
• Richard Gavin
• Alexander’s “The Weird and the Fantastic: Genre in Theory and Genre as History”
• Laurent Genefort
• Nnedi Okorafor's Death of the Author
• Honoré de Balzac
• Samatar's Olondriannovels
• Ray Bradbury's "The Jar"
• Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun
• "Anti-fantasy"
• Christopher Nolan's Inception
• JJ Abram's “Mystery Box” (blech boo hiss)
• Clive Barker's The Hellbound Heart
• Alexander's Linktree
• Alain Damasio’s The Horde of the Counterwind