Appendix N Book Club

Jeff Goad, Ngo Vinh-Hoi, and special guests
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Jeff, Hoi, and a rotating roster of special guests discuss the adventure, fantasy, horror, science fiction, and weird fiction that inspires our gaming

  1. Lloyd Alexander's "The Black Cauldron"

    2 FEB

    Lloyd Alexander's "The Black Cauldron"

    Our Patron Book Club joins us to discuss Lloyd Alexander's "The Black Cauldron", the case of Joseph's unreturned hardback, the unsuccessful animated adaptation, the advantage of nostalgia, complaining about invisibility, the butchering of the Welsh language, annoying anatogonists, a horse's suicide, Thor's hammer, bringing relatively low-level characters into a big epic continent-spanning war, contacting the Alexander estate, and much more!

    1 h y 1 min
  2. Karl Edward Wagner's "Dark Crusade"

    19 ENE

    Karl Edward Wagner's "Dark Crusade"

    Our Patron Book Club joins us to discuss Karl Edward Wagner's "Dark Crusade", French military lingo, eruptions of chaos and evil, trying to fight the entire world, editorial meddling, fantasy drug use, domain-building, using war game rules for larger battles, Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, the grandeur of Wagner's stories, bullywugs, the Chronicles of the Kencyrath, and much more!

    1 h
  3. Roger Zelazny's "Lord of Light"

    03/11/2025

    Roger Zelazny's "Lord of Light"

    Roger Zelazny's "Lord of Light" by Jeff Goad, Ngo Vinh-Hoi, and special guests

    1 h
  4. C.J. Cherryh's "Gate of Ivrel"

    22/09/2025

    C.J. Cherryh's "Gate of Ivrel"

    Our Patron Book Club joins us to discuss C.J. Cherryh's "Gate of Ivrel", healing salves, claustrophobic third-person narratives, planetary-scale, parallels to Elric and Birthgrave, focusing on interiority over physical descriptions, precise and consistent language choices, endings that work, the Glorantha setting in Runequest, moving campaigns to different settings, hunger as a riveting threat, Night of the Leepus, and much more!

    59 min
  5. H.P. Lovecraft's "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath"

    08/09/2025

    H.P. Lovecraft's "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath"

    Our Patron Book Club joins us to discuss H.P. Lovecraft's "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath", independent presses, Victorian architecture, one-thing-after-another type of books, Edgar Rice Burroughs's Barsoom books, Edgar Allan Poe horror stories, graphic novel adapatations, recurring dreams and locations, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, weird townsfolk, barrel monsters, the Hexcrawl of Unknown Kadath, Gene Wolf and the Book of the New Sun, and much more!

    1 h y 4 min
  6. Howard Andrew Jones's "The Desert of Souls"

    25/08/2025

    Howard Andrew Jones's "The Desert of Souls"

    Our Patron Book Club joins us to discuss Howard Andrew Jones's "The Desert of Souls", Hannibal from Carthage, first-person narratives, medieval Baghdad, Harold Lamb, the outsider vs the insider as the protagonist, making prayers at the proper times, fire magic, Oriental Adventures, historically-grounded fantasy, using perspective to spice up situations, Sign of the Labrys, and much more!

    56 min
  7. Jack Vance's "Lyonesse: Suldrun's Garden"

    09/06/2025

    Jack Vance's "Lyonesse: Suldrun's Garden"

    Our Patron Book Club joins us to discuss Jack Vance's "Lyonesse: Suldrun's Garden", incorrect uses of words or advanced neologisms, having less reading time in our adult lives, feeling like anything can happen, the Brothers Grimm, worlds where horrific things happen, toxic masculinity, Tolkien's influence, creating a sense of peril in combat, attacking the character sheet, the Dying Earth setting, proto-Arthurian stories, and much more!

    1 h y 1 min
  8. L. Sprague de Camp's "The Fallible Fiend"

    26/05/2025

    L. Sprague de Camp's "The Fallible Fiend"

    Our Patron Book Club joins us to discuss L. Sprague de Camp's "The Fallible Fiend", futtering spouses, the maps in front of fantasy novels, fleshed-out characters, missile weapons, Dave Arneson's rules, picking spells other than Fireball, flavorful book titles, historical fiction with magic, older styles of writing, fantasy novels as reflections of their time, and much more!

    55 min
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Jeff, Hoi, and a rotating roster of special guests discuss the adventure, fantasy, horror, science fiction, and weird fiction that inspires our gaming

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    Jeff Goad, Ngo Vinh-Hoi, and special guests
  • Años de actividad
    2017 - 2026
  • Episodios
    173
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