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The Pavement Pounders discuss adapted science fiction, generally well-known films derived from written works. They read the book, watch the movie, watch remakes, reboots, re-adaptations, and give it all a good mulling over.

  1. SEP 27

    Assistant *to* the Regional Major (The Long Walk, by Stephen King)

    Seth was under the weather after returning from doing the Cotswold Way hike in England, so to protect the other guys from germs, this was recorded on his backyard patio, so please forgive the neighbor dog’s squeaky toy accompaniment. Rankings! Colin: movie/book James: book/movie Seth: movie/book Post-credits scenes for this episode include some discussion of … Continue reading Assistant *to* the Regional Major (The Long Walk, by Stephen King) →

    1h 6m

  2. AUG 30

    “Supertoys Last all Summer Long,” by Brian Aldiss (A.I. Artificial Intelligence)

    Wrapping up (for now) the informal Robot series we’ve been doing, we discuss Brian Aldiss’s short story “Supertoys Last All Summer Long,” adapted (loosely) to A.I. Artificial Intelligence. Rankings! Colin/James/Seth: Film Short Story Notes: https://brianaldiss.co.uk/writing/story-collections/collections-r-z/supertoys-last-all-summer-long/

    51 min

  3. JUL 26

    Murderbot (S1:E7-10) “We can rank about it.”

    We discuss the final four episodes of Season One of Murderbot, then discuss the season as a whole, and then have a long post-script about what project to undertake after we cover one more robot story. (Hint: both possibilities begin with the letter S.)

    45 min

  4. JUN 21

    Murderbot (S1:E3-6) “I wanted elliptical travel!”

    Our continuing coverage of Murderbot, er, continues. We spend a bit of time discussing the pacing of the series. What do you think?

    30 min

  5. MAY 21

    Murderbot (S1:E1-2)

    We’re doing a Murderbot series! We reacted to the trailer, and now we’re covering the first two episodes. We’ll do at least two more of these to cover the full season. If you’re listening on the website because your podcast player feed has gone dead, please update it to the RSS feed below: https://pavementpodcast.com/feed/podcast/tmtyr/

    34 min

  6. MAY 5

    Murderbot Trailer discussion/reaction

    We recorded some quick thoughts that ironically take a while to get to about the Murderbot trailer and what we hope to see in the series. Happy May the Fourth! Murderbot is a droid, so it’s clearly canon.

    15 min

  7. APR 29

    TMTYR: The Wild Robot, by Peter Brown (feat. Peter Kuskie)

    We got to go see The Wild Robot at our local SF Film Festival, so we figured it was high time we covered this terrific movie, and we were joined by Colin’s elder son, Peter. Rankings: Peter/Colin/James/Seth: Movie/Book

    44 min

  8. APR 12

    Interview with Edward Ashton, author of Mickey7

    We had a great conversation with Ed Ashton about his background in engineering and medical research, how he finds the time to write a novel every year, and how Mickey7 and Mickey-17 came to be. Edward’s website: https://www.edwardashton.com/

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The Pavement Pounders discuss adapted science fiction, generally well-known films derived from written works. They read the book, watch the movie, watch remakes, reboots, re-adaptations, and give it all a good mulling over.

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  • Years Active
    2014 - 2025
  • Episodes
    165
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © 2014 Take Me To Your Reader - a Pavement Pounders Podcast
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