SFUltra

Mar 01 2025 199 ep. 59 mins 226

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

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Deep Territory #9 - Lanark - Alasdair Gray

Mar 01 2025 396 mins

"My friends, you should not live like this." - Chekhov, when asked what his plays were supposed to convey. "For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." - II Corinthians, 5:1 NKJV

Deep Territory #8 - The Erstwhile - Brian Catling

Feb 08 2025 87 mins

‘Blake is always unexpected. If you think you know all the works, you’re wrong. There’s always something that comes up; if it’s not a new work, then an old work will appear in a different kind of way. There are certain works I’m completely obsessed by and I don’t know how he made them. I don’t know how he made them at that time because there’s nothing like them: the

Deep Territory #5 - Crash - J.G. Ballard

Dec 26 2024 315 mins

“So many great books have drowned in respect” - Iain Sinclair, Crash “Vaughn never been a duck-and-diver He spit on the mic, yuck, saliva Hold it like a truck driver hold a CB on a sharp turn Still clutchin' his chest from the heartburn…” - Viktor Vaughn, Saliva "Into the thundering cannon and into the murdering gun" - William Blake, Jerusalem

Deep Territory #4 - Passion Of New Eve - Angela Carter

Dec 19 2024 181 mins

"And in Hell beneath & a mighty & awful change threatend the Earth. The American War began. All its dark horrors passed before my face..." - William Blake, Letter to John Flaxman September 12 1800 I'm joined on this episode by fellow Live At The Death Factory host and writer Astrid Rose, whose work you can find here: https://astridannerose.gumroad.com/

Deep Territory #2 - The Vorrh - B Catling

Nov 29 2024 154 mins

"...writing could provide me with the means of so radically outwitting myself that I could bring my hidden experiences, my unadmitted self into view." - Raymond Roussel

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