SFUltra

Nov 14 2024 194 ep. 55 mins 209

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Brainwashing myself into loving science fiction, one book at a time.

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SFULTRA #33 - UXA.GOV - Blake Butler

Nov 14 2024 87 mins

"The Stumbling Block is an ark of extinction. A bouillon hive of the murdered past, frozen dry to a mass. Something has warmed its corner, the oxoed grit bleeds a vein of contagion, virulent in its passion to embrace and swim in human tides" - Brian Catling, The Stumbling Block

SFULTRA #32 - The Third Policeman - Flann O'Brien

Oct 26 2024 112 mins

"Cough up a pointless lecture Does it matter? Vomit me more conjecture Doesn't matter Argue till your left brain dies Does it matter? Presume to abuse my time Doesn't matter Let me paint a perfect picture Let it read like a holy scripture The words that leave my mouth Are just words you can live without Found community a struggle for me It's a collision: clash and grieve Nonsense s

SFULTRA #31 - The Cipher - Kathe Koja

Oct 10 2024 53 mins

"...okay, that's life, that's what I was told anyway And picking your feet till they bleed may be the half of it If every fourth animal in the world is a beetle Maybe every fourth person is a dumb fuck Listen, listen carefully now: here's the answer It rhymes with axe Why it's those personal acts, of course Those personal acts Those suicide pacts Those carelessly stored razorblades

SFULTRA #30 - Rammellzee - Racing For Thunder

Sep 26 2024 78 mins

"BE WHO YOU ARE, WRECK THEM, AND THEN DIE" - Rammellzee

Explanatory Collapse #20 - On The Beach: Empty Space

Sep 09 2024 127 mins

"There are no castles without ghosts And no spirits without hope But nobody passes the test of time I do not fear the buried sounds Of words that echo underground A memory is a loaded gun And I remember everyone I remember everyone I remember you" - Ghosts, Nomeansno

Explanatory Collapse #19 - On The Beach: Nova Swing

Sep 02 2024 116 mins

"For every detective novel, regardless of its story, is for every reader, above all, a novel about himself: about what happened to the reader as a human individual in general, as an individual developing from a child into an adult; as a living being who experiences continuous transitions there and back, from layer to layer of consciousness..." - On The Detective Story, Sergei Eisen

Explanatory Collapse #17 - On The Beach: Light

Aug 25 2024 160 mins

"Some roads are only seen at night Ghost roads, nothing but neon signs But some nights, the neon gas gets free And turns into walking dead like me And I've been making promises I know I'll never keep One of these days, I'm gonna leave you in your sleep I'll have to go when the whistle blows, the whistle knows my name Baby, I was born on a train" - Born On A Train, Magnetic Fields

Explanatory Collapse #9 - Viriconium Pt 3

Jul 06 2024 179 mins

patreon.com/sfultra "...'For I aint, you must know,' said Betty, 'much of a hand at reading writing-hand, though I can read my Bible and most print. And I do love a newspaper. You mightn't think it, but Sloppy is a beautiful reader of a newspaper. He do the Police in different voices." - Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens

Explanatory Collapse #8 - Viriconium Pt 2

Jun 30 2024 178 mins

"The fire of wild abandon burns so beautiful and bright The ashes fade away after consuming all the light The fire of wild abandon burns so beautiful and hot I used to know the way back home but somehow I forgot Through all the smoke I can’t see you What’s the thing you been turned into? Something fun, or someone new The fire of wild abandon Feel the lie becoming true Whose e

Explanatory Collapse #7 - Viriconium Pt 1

Jun 22 2024 115 mins

“I have said before that the music is the words and the words are the music. It is all there for you to understand if you can and for you to feel, regardless.” - Sun Ra, This Planet is Doomed patreon.com/sfultra