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SFULTRA #27 - Monarch - Candice Wuehle

April 21, 2024 14:02 - 1 hour - 133 MB

“...Thank God you let me crash on your couch Who's my God that I’m prayin' to now? … Made her go home, felt the virus Web of life is my weed, false dreams stripped by silence … Deals they had us sign, for years, it had mе blind Think I had to hit rewind and think about why I do shine … My whole family cursed, now get the fuck out my ride … Nothin', nothin', nothin', nothin', nothin' … If a killer say shit, then get these motherfuckers ... Get the fuck out” - Buz...

SFULTRA #26 - Radiant Terminus - Antoine Volodine

April 03, 2024 18:45 - 1 hour - 90.1 MB

"You lie in the graveyard Well you're rotting away When I talk to you daily You've got nothing to say You lie in the graveyard Well you are down making plans Well you control all my thoughts Well you make dust fall" - Graveyard , Butthole Surfers

SFULTRA #25 - Mumbo Jumbo - Ishmael Reed

March 16, 2024 22:37 - 1 hour - 150 MB

"Fear stalks the land. (As usual; so what else is new?)" - Ishmael Reed, Mumbo Jumbo

SFULTRA #24 - Blue Lard - Vladimir Sorokin

March 02, 2024 20:12 - 2 hours - 184 MB

"He looked round her drawing-room and marvelled how he, who prided himself on not being able to endure any-thing in bad taste, could tolerate this chamber of horrors. Everything, he mused, was beautified by his passion.." - Laughter In The Dark, Vladimir Nabokov One year anniversary blog: https://www.patreon.com/posts/sfultra-year-1-99301744

WDYTYA?IA #5 - The Fifth Wound - Aurora Mattia

February 22, 2024 00:21 - 1 hour - 102 MB

Who Do You Think You Are? I Am. is a Perfect Taste Forever series about memoir and biography. PFT is usually patreon exclusive but this episode is free for everyone. patreon.com/sfultra I'm joined on this episode by Jolene, the host of the podcast When A Guy Has. We talk about The Fifth Wound by Aurora Mattia.

SFULTRA #23 - How I Killed The Universal Man - Thomas Kendall

February 18, 2024 16:03 - 1 hour - 89.4 MB

"I'm living a fake, People say "You are entitled to and great" But I haven't wrote for 90 days, I'll get a good deal and I'll go away, Away from the empty brains that ask" - How I Wrote Elastic Man, The Fall

SFULTRA #22 - An Exchange Of Hostages - Susan R. Matthews

January 31, 2024 23:15 - 1 hour - 112 MB

"I do not deny that, among an infinite number of acts of violence and folly, some good may have been done. They who destroy everything certainly will remove some grievance." - Edmund Burke

SFULTRA #21 - The Physiognomy -Jeffery Ford

January 20, 2024 12:01 - 55 minutes - 78.1 MB

"...when I put on my holster, I put God out of my mind" - Cop

SFULTRA #20 - The Warren - Brian Evenson

January 05, 2024 20:59 - 53 minutes - 75.4 MB

"He did not work for posterity, nor did he work for God, whose literary preferences were largely unknown to him." - The Secret Miracle, Jorge Louis Borges

SFULTRA #19 - Overlay - Barry Malzberg

December 19, 2023 23:03 - 1 hour - 85 MB

"Delight dwindles. Blame stays the same." - Briggflatts: An Autobiography, Basil Bunting I'm happy to welcome Matt on this last episode of SFUltra for 2023. Matt's youtube channel Bookpilled is one of the main inspirations behind SFUltra and his engaging, thoughtful reviews of books exactly like the one we're covering this week are precisely what makes him the best book reviewer on YouTube. Matt's channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Bookpilled Matt's patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Bookpilled

SFULTRA #18 - Ruination - Katie Jean Shinkle

December 06, 2023 22:53 - 47 minutes - 67.3 MB

"At the top of the hill You watch the world below Writhing with life You have two heads You feel one pushing out Trying to see Seeds Are planted In your mouth Whеn they bloom They burst from you Face Yoursеlf Your new Self" - Fawn, Body Void

SFULTRA #17 - Sweet Blood/The Birth Machine - Elizabeth Baines

November 30, 2023 00:41 - 42 minutes - 60 MB

"Sometimes when I get up and emerge from the mists of slumber, my whole room hurts, my whole bedroom, the view from the window hurts, kids go to school, people go shopping, everybody knows where to go, only I don't know where I want to go..." - Bohumil Hrabal, Total Fears: Selected Letters to Dubenka

SFULTRA #16 - Revival - Stephen King

November 07, 2023 22:18 - 53 minutes - 74.8 MB

"Death's meaning I cannot read. To me death is above all things a smell, a very bad smell, and that, like the skeletons which terrify children, is not death at all. If I had to smell it more often, if I had to work in the catacombs, I would think nothing of it. And a few years or decades from now, I will think nothing about everything." - William T. Vollmann, Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means

SKULL FRICTION ULTRA - The Magician - Christopher Zeischegg

October 30, 2023 12:15 - 1 hour - 85 MB

"The relation between God and human beings is often mediated by the sign of the weapon" - Elaine Scarry

SFULTRA #15 - The Anubis Gates - Tim Powers

October 12, 2023 16:46 - 47 minutes - 66.8 MB

"All alone at the '64 World's Fair Eighty dolls yelling "Small girl after all" Who was at the DuPont Pavilion? Why was the bench still warm? Who had been there?" - They Might Be Giants, Ana Ng

SFULTRA #14 - I Who Have Never Known Men - Jacqueline Harpman

September 28, 2023 22:47 - 55 minutes - 77.6 MB

"Being empty, not being a complete, separate being, having no self to groove on and needing to be constantly in female company, he sees nothing at all wrong in intruding himself on any woman's thoughts, even a total stranger's, anywhere at any time, but rather feels indignant and insulted when put down for doing so, as well as confused -- he can't, for the life of him, understand why anyone would prefer so much as one minute of solitude to the company of any creep around." - Valerie Solanas,...

SFULTRA #13 - Memoirs Found in a Bathtub - Stanisław Lem

September 16, 2023 23:35 - 58 minutes - 81.1 MB

There’s something they aren’t telling us. Something we don’t know about. There’s more to it. There’s always more to it. This is what history consists of. It’s the sum total of all the things they aren’t telling us. –David Ferrie in Don DeLillo’s Libra (1988)

Murder House Sold #5 - The larger the prisoner’s pain, the larger the torturer’s world.

September 06, 2023 11:14 - 2 hours - 174 MB

I'm happy to welcome Astrid Rose on this fifth episode of Murder House Sold, a Perfect Taste Forever miniseries about True Crime. We talk about Gordon Burn's Happy Like Murderers, a book about Fred and Rose West. Annoyingly, Astrid is an amazing writer of both horror fiction and criticism. She is also the co-host of Live At The Death Factory, the only perfect podcast ever to exist. Most recently, she was one of the writers of this video game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/...

SFULTRA #12 - The Employees - Olga Ravn

September 01, 2023 19:09 - 38 minutes - 54.5 MB

"Art is creation in response to lack. Quite different from a stand-in for the archetype, which must be there, somewhere, the art object is a kind of fetish, a replacement for some real thing that is missing." - Mike Kelley

SFULTRA #11 - Cleansed - Sarah Kane

August 17, 2023 22:41 - 1 hour - 119 MB

"Rattled by and by As if someone was right Drawn and downed Indifference stands But a light from deep It glows They must have seen it too Rattled" - Scald Scar of Water, Altar of Plagues

Murder House Sold #2 - "...in cold blood with not a bother on him"

August 10, 2023 21:27 - 1 hour - 140 MB

I'm happy to welcome Mark O'Connell on this second episode of Murder House Sold, a Perfect Taste Forever miniseries about True Crime, to talk about his new book A Thread Of Violence. Mark's a fantastic author and journalist whose previous books To Be a Machine and Notes From The Apocalypse are both remarkable examinations of grim insistence entropy can be defied. Ultimately along the same lines, his new work A Thread Of Violence is recounts extended conversations Mark had with one of Irela...

SFULTRA #10 - Ice - Anna Kavan

August 06, 2023 21:15 - 1 hour - 119 MB

"I know that. The difference between male and female perversion. The action of the man is directed toward a symbol, not himself. The woman acts against herself." - In the Cut, Susanne Moore

OhleFans - The Age Of Sinatra - David Ohle

July 21, 2023 22:35 - 44 minutes - 61.9 MB

"Ok, that's life, that's what I was told anyway And picking your feet till they bleed may only be the half of it If every fourth animal in the world is a beetle Perhaps 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 in the hands of small children... It's my face smeared on the pavement" - Every Day I Start To Oo...

Ohle? Olé Olé - Motorman - David Ohle

July 04, 2023 23:09 - 49 minutes - 69.5 MB

"Well, they called me a little so and so and so Yeah? Now they're hummin' a different tune Oh, this is a job for a stupid man Smoke it down to the filter and put it out on your hand" - Glamorous, Jesus Lizard

SFULTRA #9 - We Who Are About To... - Joanna Russ

June 21, 2023 22:55 - 51 minutes - 71.7 MB

"The streets were empty as I drove home, the air was cool and the sky was dark Streetlamps cast their mockery of light over ghostly shapes in an empty night Should I believe in the things I see? Am I in you, are you in me? What should I believe? Tell me, what should I believe? At home, on the porch, the wind in the trees murmured a background for my waking dream Where I drive through a city with labyrinth streets, where no one walks, where no voices speak Where empty towers above me rise...

SFULTRA #8 - I, Vampire - Jody Scott

June 07, 2023 20:43 - 50 minutes - 70.9 MB

"Besides myself, the basement is totally empty. It is dark and musty. It serves no purpose. And yet the entire world is down here, the whole universe" - Down Here, Bosse-De-Nage

SFULTRA #7 - Babel-17 - Samuel R Delany

May 25, 2023 19:18 - 53 minutes - 74.5 MB

"If I'm the talker, here's the thing Just who the hell is listening? And if I am not tongue but ears Then whose voice is it that I hear? I swallow, choke, and clear my throat Here comes another anecdote A narrative of restlessness Of what's been done and what is next Does it love me, does it not? Will this seduction never stop? Hear the clacking parrot's beak That speaks and speaks and speaks and speaks Speaks and speaks and speaks and speaks Speaks and speaks and speaks and spe...

SFULTRA #6 - The Dispossessed - Ursula K Le Guin

May 10, 2023 19:26 - 1 hour - 119 MB

"Well, is it true what they say about it? You oughta do what I do and doubt it He won and now he's gonna do something about it Ain't it sad? And if you don't wanna feel like a putz Collect the clues and connect the dots You'll see the pattern that is bursting your bubble And it's bad See the idiot walk See the idiot talk See the idiot chalk up his name on the blackboard They say, "this is all i need to get by" The truth is, baby, it's a lie It's a... It's a lie (T...

SFULTRA #5 - Camp Concentration - Thomas M Disch

April 26, 2023 17:12 - 1 hour - 115 MB

"A group of us, just strangers, got together and we formed a committee to discuss the problem, We talked about things like assured mutual destruction and emotional responsibility, I couldn't remember my name, so I called myself Bob, It's weird being a Bob, but i'll get used to it, I guess I'll fucking have to" - The Day Everything Became Nothing, Nomeansno

SFULTRA #4 - Rogue Moon - Algis Budrys

April 12, 2023 18:13 - 50 minutes - 70.9 MB

"And I keep on losing count, I'm the dumbest girl alive And I'm picking up the pacе, I'm so happy, I could die Put emojis on my grave, I'm thе dumbest girl alive And I feel so dangerous, but you say I'm doin' fine now Guess that's how it goes, I'm the dumbest girl alive" - Dumbest Girl Alive, 100 Gecs

SFULTRA #3 - Electric Forest - Tanith Lee

March 29, 2023 19:31 - 40 minutes - 56.9 MB

“The goal of the torturer is to make the one, the body, emphatically and crushingly present by destroying it, and to make the other, the voice, absent by destroying it.” - Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World

SFULTRA #2 - Doloriad - Missouri Williams

March 15, 2023 13:28 - 50 minutes - 70.1 MB

"Blood essence Order in the world now Possessions, a bow tied around the hair You let me cut, you let me cut Delusions, black out Arrogance, black out Delusions, watercolor Arrogance, blue skin" - Inner Controller (Lucid Running Home), Cloud Rat

SFULTRA #1 - High Rise - JG Ballard

March 01, 2023 20:29 - 37 minutes - 53 MB

"Thus science marches on blindly, without regard to the real welfare of the human race or to any other standard, obedient only to the psychological needs of the scientists and of the government officials and corporation executives who provide the funds for research. " - Industrial Society And Its Future, Ted Kaczynski

SFULTRA #0 - Why Science Fiction?

March 01, 2023 20:27 - 28 minutes - 22.9 MB

I try to explain why I've embarked on this project.

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March 25, 2022 22:45 - 4 minutes - 6.29 MB

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