This week James and Shade bring back their fellow Mid-World Arts writers Stephan Michael Loy and Dick Thomas to talk about religion in genre fiction. Our apologies for the crappy sound in this episode.
People and things mentioned in the show
George R.R. Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire, and the show Game of Thrones
Supernatural and Buffy the Vampire Slayer
The comics and movies Thor and The Avengers
Dune by Frank Herbert
Stephan Loy’s books Last Days and Times, Shining Star, and Isis Wept
Learn about the religion Thelema
The Conan series by Robert E. Howard
Rose of the Prophet series by Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman
If you read anything we recommend, read The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
The Left Behind series
When Gravity Fails by George Alec Effinger
Announcements
Dick Thomas has released the first part of his epic horror novel. Ghostvision – Book One: The Legend is now available on Amazon Kindle and will soon be in print.
You can now download My Babylon – Book One: Body for free at Smashwords, Barnes & Noble, Apple, Kobo, Scribd, and via Bittorrent. Please let Amazon know that you found it free at those other websites.
James has released the My Babylon Complete Edition containing all five novellas. You can buy it in on Amazon both as a Kindle ebook and in paperback.
Chasing the Wyrm: A Christopher Yan OAA Novel, and Paul Vs. The Vampire are coming soon.
Check out more great books by Mid-World Arts at our website and on tumblr and facebook.
GOAD has a tumblr blog geeksoutafterdark.tumblr.com
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Connect with Stephan Michael Loy on twitter and at stephanloy.com
Connect with Shade OfRoses at shadeofroses.tumblr.com and http://moroluvssttboys.tumblr.com
Connect with James at, jameslwilber.com, Facebook, Twitter, and tumblr. His blogs about magick are scrollofthoth.com and scrollofthoth.tumblr.com.
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Our new music is graciously provided by Shoeboxx Recordings. Check out their music on Soundcloud and like them on Facebook. The intro is a selection from Boof (Roboclip Remix) by Real Cosby. Come hangout with the artists and producers of Shoeboxx recordings (and us), at turntable.fm for Fresh Produce Fridays. The end music is Lesser Flamingos by Real Cosby.
