SFUltra

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

  1. JAN 31

    SFULTRA #38 - Stars In My Pocket Like Grains Of Sand - Samuel R. Delany

    "If you can talk about it, why paint it?" - Francis Bacon

    2h 20m
  2. SFULTRA #37 - Red Hook Variations

    11/21/2025

    SFULTRA #37 - Red Hook Variations

    Main works discussed: The Horror at Red Hook - H. P. Lovecraft The Ballad of Black Tom - Victor LaValle The Courtyard - Alan Moore Neonomicon - Alan Moore Providence - Alan Moore "So you think you know what terror is As it stares from the newspaper page Yeah of course you all know what horror is It's the rage of the age Well, intimidation doesn't have a focus It oozes from every pore Murder doesn't bother to whisper In this f*****g town it roars" - The Badge Means You Suck, AK-47 "Old time, something come back again If you have a start, then you must have an end None of them ever could've test with the pen My pen's the equivalent to the leng" - Bad Like We, Wiley Featuring a guest appearance by non-euclidian, cacodaemoniacal podcast entity and academic Cameron Kunzleman, author of the recently published Everything Is Permitted and cohost of many podcasts on the Ranged Touch network including Just King Things and Shelved By Genre.  Interlude by the great Evil Sword. patreon.com/sfultra

    2h 45m
  3. SFULTRA #36 - Vurt - Jeff Noon

    09/28/2025

    SFULTRA #36 - Vurt - Jeff Noon

    "Tell me what you know about a man's affliction PC plod talk pure science fiction" - Cowboy Dave, Happy Mondays

    1h 8m

  4. 07/25/2025

    Right Where You Are Sitting Now #2 - Routine Excercise

    "You can't have feelings alone" - William Burroughs, Naked Lunch

  5. 07/05/2025

    Right Where You Are Sitting Now #1 - My Past, Like A Terrible River

    Works covered: And The Hippos Were Boiled In Their Tanks Junky: The Definitve Text Of Junk Queer Yage Redux

    3h 44m

  6. 06/13/2025

    SFULTRA #35 - Beasts - John Crowley

    "The elementary unit of language — the statement — is the order-word. Rather than common sense, a faculty for the centralization of information, we must define an abominable faculty consisting in emitting, receiving, and transmitting order-words. Language is made not to be believed but to be obeyed, and to compel obedience...Words are not tools, but we give children language, pens, and notebooks as we give workers shovels and pickaxes. A rule of grammar is a power marker before it is a syntactical marker. The order does not refer to prior significations or to a prior organization of distinctive units. Quite the opposite. Information is only the strict minimum necessary for the emission, transmission, and observation of orders as commands...Language is not life; it gives life orders. Life does not speak; it listens and waits." - A Thousand Plateaus, Gilles Deleuze Felix Guattari I'm happy to welcome the Booktube's best critic and only tasteful video editor Matt Bookpilled back on the show. Matt's channel is one of the main inspirations behind SFUltra and his engaging, thoughtful approach to reading means his patreon is worth it and then some. Matt's channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Bookpilled  Matt's patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Bookpilled

    1h 20m

  7. 05/19/2025

    The Black Pool with Tim MacGabhann

    To celebrate the release of his memoir The Black Pool on May 22nd, I spent 2 hours boring my close friend Tim MacGabhann into unconsciousness. Book launch details: 6pm, May 22nd in Hodges Figgis Dublin. Click here to read an extract that became the opening chapter: https://thedublinreview.com/article/the-black-pool/ Link to preorder or buy The Black Pool: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Black-Pool-by-Tim-MacGabhann/9781399728232

    2h 3m
  8. SFULTRA #34 - Holy Lacrimony - Michael DeForge

    05/08/2025

    SFULTRA #34 - Holy Lacrimony - Michael DeForge

    "You get under my skin I don't find it irritating, You always play to win but I won't need rehabilitating  oh no" - Another Girl Another Planet, The Only Ones

    1h 29m
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Brainwashing myself into loving science fiction, one book at a time.

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  • Creator
    Sean McTiernan
  • Years Active
    2017 - 2026
  • Episodes
    209
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Show Website
    SFUltra

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