The Incompetent Crew is joined by special guest Josh Olson to talk about famed SF author Harlan Ellison's collection of television criticism, The Glass Teat . Special Guest: Josh Olson Works Cited Harlan Ellison Ellison YouTube The Glass Teat Radio Playlist They Might Be Giants - Purple Toupee Tom Paxton - What Did You Learn In School Today Earle H…

The Incompetent Crew are joined by guest L.M. Bogad to get weird on China Miéville's Bas-Lag triology. Special Guest: L.M. Bogad Works Cited China Miéville China Miéville Website Bas-Lag Perdido Street Station The Scar Iron Council Radio Playlist Flat Earth Society - Perdido Street Blues The Death Of Anna Karina - Every Revolution Is A Throw Of Dic…

The Incompetent Crew shill for big community radio. Works Cited Americathon Zap Comix Transmetropolitan Transhumanism Alan Moore From Hell From Hell Letter 100 Great Short Stories The World Treasury of Science Fiction The New Prehistory Blindsight Orphan Black The Glass Bead Game Radio Playlist Deerhoof - Come See the Duck The Mothers of Invention …

I guess this is all a big joke to you?!?! Special Guest: S.K. Meyer Works Cited List of Science Fiction Comedy Films Largely Forgotten UK Sci-Fi Sitcoms Science Fiction Comedy Radio Playlist Lazy Magnet - Masters Of Science Fiction The Focus Group - The Moon Ladder Douglas Adams - Fit The Second - The Encyclopaedia Galactica Brian Hodgson - "The Sa…

The Incompetent Crew wonders what a world where Ronnie Rocket was made would look like. Works Cited Jodorowsky’s Dune The Incal Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr. Moreau William Gibson Alien III Audio Drama William Gibson Alien III Script Ronnie Rocket Script David Lynch, Ronnie Rocket Radio Playlist Brian Eno - Tutti …

The Incompetent Crew are joined by guest Prof. N. Hubble to talk about the intertwined histories of speculative fiction and socialism. Special Guest: Professor Nick Hubble Works Cited How Sci-Fi Shaped Socialism, Nick Hubble Unearthing the Music 50 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books Every Socialist Should Read, China Miéville Political Futurists and Radical …

The Incompetent Crew surrender to the ray. Special Guest: Jennifer Juniper Stratford Works Cited TeleFantasy Studios Shredder Orpheus Soundtrack Cathode TV Mondo Video, The Colonel Remote Control Shredder Orpheus I Was A Teenage TV Terrorist Rollerblade The Icicle Thief Liquid Dreams Split Dr. M Radio Playlist Frank Zappa & The Mothers - I'm The Sl…

The Incompetent Crew commit bug-genocide in the name of freedom. Special Guest: S.K. Meyer Works Cited Space Marines Robert A Heinlein Starship Troopers (novel) Starship Troopers (film) Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Paul Verhoeven Powered Exoskeletons Armor, John Steakley Armor 2, excerpt Aliens (film) Screamers (film) Second Variety Edge of Tomo…

The Incompetent Crew ride horses through outer-space. Yeehaw! Boy, Howdy! Special Guest: S.K. Meyer Works Cited Jizz Legends Space Westerns Outland WestWorld (film) Mad Max: Fury Road Totem Transfer Narratives The Expanse The Mandalorian WestWorld (tv series) Cowboys and Aliens Wild Wild West Radio Playlist Zun Zun Egui - Cowboy Woody Guthrie - My …

The Incompetent Crew have visions of energy crisis (and utopia). Special Guest: A.B. Bertagnini IV Works Cited Traditional Appalachian Coal Mining Music This insane genre of music curated for men working on oil rigs… worth a perusal… Ecotopia Ecotopia Emerging Ernest Callenbach The Cool War Frederik Pohl The Gods Themselves Energized Edward M Lerne…

The Incompetent Crew play some games. Special Guests: DM Liz Neu & Jamie Tao Works Cited Video Game Music List #1 Video Game Music List #2 Video Game Music List #3 Video Game Music List #4 Cyberpunk 2077 eXistenZ Rollerball The 10th Victim Tron War Games The Player of Games Ready Player One Bread and Circuses Radio Playlist Ultrademon - Incoming Ga…

The Incompetent Crew release a Greatest Hits record. Works Cited Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions Videodrome Long Live the New Flesh House of Leaves Interview Ann Leckie Interview Radio Playlist Dani - La machine The Joggers - Back To The Future LITE - Time Machine Jérôme Minière - Petit Cosmonaute L'Impératrice - Erreur 404 The Advisory Circ…

The Incompetent Crew engage in some political intrigue and praise Eddie Redmayne’s performance as a baddie. Works Cited Space Opera List of Space Opera Media 55 Essential Space Operas Vorkosigan Saga Reading Order Lois McMaster Bujold Website Lois McMaster Bujold The Vorkosiverse Ancillary Justice Ancillary Sword Ancillary Mercy Ann Leckie Jupiter …

The Incompetent Crew spend an obnoxious amount of time trying to define “camp.” Featuring Cinema Consultant: B.P. Lucas Works Cited Susan Sontag, Notes on Camp Bruce LaBruce, Anti-Camp Ann Pellegrini, Future Notes on Camp Sins of the Fleshapoids Barbarella Flash Gordon Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow Radio Playlist Patrick Cowley - Teen Plane…

The Incompetent Crew crew put on lace-fronts and try and ignore their meaty tucks: the rest is drag. Special Guests: Xelda (with and x) Works Cited Queer Sci-Fi Doris Fish The Making of Vegas in Space Vegas in Space Dorian Gray and the Mirror of the Yellow Press Ulrike Ottinger “Sci-Fi” Drag Race Episodes: Queens in Space, s3e3 Rupocalypse Now, s4e…

The Incompetent Crew make terrible math puns. Special Guests: E.M. Buffington Works Cited Thumbs Up Fractal Burning Ship Fractal Math Songs Flatland: A Romance in Many Dimensions Flatland, short film Rudy Rucker, author Rudy Rucker, complete stories The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics The Dot and the Line, short film Asimov, The Fe…

The Incompetent Crew find God. Works Cited A Canticle for Leibowitz The Sparrow Mary Doria Russell Pi The Abominable Dr. Phibes Radio Playlist Ezra Furman - And Maybe God Is a Train Bessie Jones with the Georgia Sea Island Singers -Moses Don't Get Lost Super Furry Animals - God! Show Me Magic Jerry Paper - My God Swan's Silvertone Singers - Jesus I…

The Incompetent Crew celebrate the season of spooks. Special Guests: S.W. Raaka Works Cited Haunted Poe Halloween Playlist #1 Halloween Playlist #2 A Thank You Would Be Nice The Worst Witch Tetsuo The Iron Man Shinya Tsukamoto Long Live the New Flesh Videodrome Scanners Mindwarp House of Leaves Radio Playlist Restiform Bodies - Interactive Hallowee…

The Incompetent Crew do some terrible French accents. Works Cited The Doors End of the Night La Voyage dans la lune by Air Fantastic Planet’s Film Score A Voyage to the Moon on YouTube Voyage to the Moon (1902) Alphaville (1965) Lem, Memoirs Found in a Bathtub Fantastic Planet La Jetée (1962) Radio Playlist DAT Politics - My Toshiba Is Alive Herman…

The Incompetent Crew get stuck in a time loop! Works Cited HG Wells The Time Machine George Pal The Time Machine (film) Time After Time Charles Yu How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe Bill and Ted Face the Music Time Travel The Real History of Science Fiction, Time Travel Libet’s Experiment Radio Playlist Here We Go Magic - Backwards …

The Incompetent Crew release a best of album. Works Cited Descartes Meditations on First Philosophy Kim Stanley Robinson talking about Aurora How to Survive a Robot Uprising with Daniel H Wilson Haruki Murakami Interview Kurt Vonnegut’s Uncle Kurt Vonnegut on Man-Eating Lampreys Sue Burke reading Radio Playlist Com Truise - Futureworld (3:09) A Tri…

It came from the Incompetent Crew! Flying Saucers, communist jello monsters, and apologies over sandwiches. The Incompetent Crew does 1950s Sci-Fi films. Works Cited Beware of the Blob The Thing From Another World The Fly The Breast The Blob The Metamorphosis Radio Playlist Dinah Washington - Destination Moon Otto Luening - Fantasy in Space The Dic…

The Incompetent Crew escape being eaten by giant tripodal plants and wonder what it means to be intelligent. Special Guests: M.T. Wilson Works Cited Music for plants to listen to The Day of the Triffids The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill Semiosis Duology Little Joe The Intelligent Plant Killer Plant Films Radio Playlist The Hot Toddies - Photosynt…

The Incompetent Crew become comrades. Special Guests: B.P. Lucas Works Cited Stanislaw Lem Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reaction Trurl’s Machine’s Poetry Stanislaw Lem: In Translation by Joseph Liro Solaris Stalker O-bi O-ba: The End of Civilization Radio Playlist Kombi - Cyfrowa gra Edward Artemiev - Solaris - Station Kapitan Nemo - Elektroniczna cywiliza…

The Incompetent Crew achieve maximum Vonnegut. Works Cited Kurt Vonnegut on the Future of the United States Kurt Vonnegut on the Shape of Stories Kurt Vonnegut How to Write a Short Story Welcome to the Monkey House BBC Interview 1972 Playboy Interview 1973 A Brief Biography-Kurt Vonnegut Library Harrison Bergeron film Kilgore Trout Thorium Based Nu…

The Incompetent Crew does some David Lynch Impressions, imagines what it would be like if Haruki Murakami and David Byrne were friends, and delves into some Japanese Sci-Fi. Special Guests: T.R. Stead Works Cited The Evolution of Japanese Sci-Fi SF Encyclopedia, Japan The New Face of Japanese Sci-Fi Memory Police, New Yorker Haruki Murakami, New Yo…

The Incompetent Crew talks viral plagues and Moses gets eaten by zombies. Works Cited Black Death Music Parties Mike Davis, The Coronavirus Crisis is a Monster Fueled by Capitalism Pandemic Fear and Literature: Observation’s From Jack London’s The Scarlet Plague History of Zombies Max Brooks Contagion The Andromeda Strain The Omega Man Virus, Day o…

The Incompetent Crew talks machine learning, discusses some robot laws, and reaches the singularity. Special Guests: C.C. Dewar Works Cited Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics Asimov’s Laws, Scientific American Do We Need Asimov’s Laws, MIT Technology Review Aurora, Kim Stanley Robinson Robopocalypse, Daniel H Wilson How Frightened Should we be o…

The Incompetent Crew plays some music, dives into some move clips, makes some recommendations, muses on the past seven weeks, and does a compilation episode. Some YouTube Clips… Ian M Banks reading from Player of Games Ursula K LeGuin talking about her writing It’s pronounced, Boh-dai Graham Chapman reviews Britannia Hospital I need a computer! An …

The Incompetent Crew does Zardoz. Special Guests: B.P. Lucas Works Cited Zardoz John Boorman Logan’s Run Britannia Hospital The Final Programme The Golden Record David Munrow Beethoven’s Symphony Number 7 Radio Playlist Marnie Stern - Immortals The Heliocentrics - Into the Vortex The Beach Boys - Transcendental Meditation Frank Zappa & Mothers of I…

The Incompetent crew makes space for some special guests to talk representations of marginalized communities in Science Fiction. Special Guests: B.T. Givens and S. Marks Works Cited DUST Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora The Lost Races of Science Fiction, Octavia Butler Five Indigenous Speculative Fiction Autho…

The Incompetent Crew discuss the utopian feminist novel Herland, Joanna Russ's experimental The Female Man , and the zero-budget political film Born in Flames. Works Cited Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Female Man by Joanna Russ Born in Flames by Lizzie Borden Songs of the Suffragettes Olivia Records Radio Playli…

The Incompetent Crew wonders how science can save us all, discusses The Three Body Problem, and wonders what life would be like in The Culture. Special Guest: B.J. McBryan Works Cited: Remembrance of Earth’s Past aka The Three Body Problem Interview with Liu Cixin The Three Body Problem explained The Culture Series Iain M Banks Something Real, A Cu…

The Incompetent Crew take on climate fiction, melting ice-caps, and a warm earth. Special Guest: M.T. Wilson Works Cited: The Drowned World, JG Ballard The Fifth Season, NK Jemisin Gerry Canavan - Après Nous, le Déluge (On climate fiction) Mike Davis - The Coming Desert Mike Davis - El Diablo in Wine Country Waterworld Solarbabies Radio Playlist: C…

The Incompetent Crew Fan Girls and Boyls all over the works, worlds, and words of Ursula K Le Guin. Works Cited: Ursula K Le Guin Worlds of Ursula K LeGuin: PBS Documentary National Book Award Speech Take Down of the Publishing Industry by LeGuin The Lathe of Heaven Film on YouTube Lathe of Heaven Earthsea Novels of the Ekumen (re: Left Hand of Dar…

The Incompetent Crew discusses some sci-fi works of the past set in and around our present and listens to some tunes from their eras. Works Cited: Parable of the Sower, by Octavia Butler Butler's essay A Few Rules For Predicting The Future Jeff Menne's essay I Live In This World, Too about the realism of Parable of the Sower Do Androids Dream of El…