Hoi and Jeff discuss living dungeons, world building, and using evocative setting descriptions at the table in Clark Ashton Smith’s “Hyperborea” with special guest Jeffrey Talanian.

Hoi and Jeff discuss living dungeons, world building, and using evocative setting descriptions at the table in Clark Ashton Smith’s “Hyperborea” with special guest Jeffrey Talanian.

Hoi and Jeff discuss fungus, hallunications, dream logic, dungeons levels, and hippie culture in Margaret St. Clair’s “Sign of the Labrys” with special guest Katie Shrieves.

Hoi and Jeff discuss impossible-to-kill enemies, player agency, and unsolvable puzzles in Fredric Brown’s “Martians, Go Home” with special guest Sean Kelley.

Hoi and Jeff discuss vampires, hunting, the beauty defense, and truly alien aliens in Stanley G. Weinbaum’s “A Martian Odyssey” with special guest Brett Bloczynski.

Hoi and Jeff discuss lost worlds, adventuring parties, and Lovecraftian gaming in A. Merritt’s “The Moon Pool” with special guest Joseph Goodman.

Hoi and Jeff discuss discuss welfare states, decadent elites, and hopeless puppets in Jack Vance’s “Emphyrio” with special guest Fiona Maeve Geist!

On Episode 44 of the Appendix N Book Club, we have Fiona Maeve Geist on the show. After finishing our awesome conversation, we discovered that her audio was distractiongly crackly. We edited it as best we could, and posted the episode to our Patreon feed a few weeks before the offical drop date (tomorrow).
Today we invested some of the money we raised from our first month on Patreon in audio repair software (Isotope RX7 Standard) and because of this we were able to VASTLY improve her track… the day before it goes public. If you listened to it on the Patreon feed, the one being released tomorrow sounds so much better.
Please listen to the attached BEFORE and AFTER audio to hear for yourself.
Becuase of your support, our past and future episodes are going to sound even better. As time permits, we plan to go back and fix the audio on some of our previous episodes (we had the same issue with Episode 32 – Philip José Farmer’s “The Gates of Creation”).
We couldn’t have done this without your support!
If you aren’t a patron but would like to be, you can read more about it here: https://www.patreon.com/appendixnbookclub
Hoi and Jeff discuss Fritz Leiber’s “Swords Against Wizardry” with special guest Josh from the Cromcast.

Hoi and Jeff discuss Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp, & Lin Carter’s “Conan the Wanderer” with special guest Jon from the Cromcast.
