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SFUltra

Sean McTiernan

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

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  • August 17 · 4 hr 48 min

    Me Here To Do The Thinking #2 - 76 - 88

    "People write in magazines that I make different kinds of records just to draw attention to myself. If I ever saw the little wimps that were saying that, then I'm sure that I'd have to fucking kill them … There's many better ways to draw attention to myself. I could kill music critics if I wanted to … I could burn down Geffen Records … I could burn myself down in public if I wanted to—that would get a lot of attention, right?" - Neil Young On this series, I am joined by Cameron Kunzelman so we can listen to the work of Neil Young in roughly chronological order and then talk about it. On this episode: Long May You Run Decade American Stars 'n Bars Comes a Time Rust Never Sleeps Live Rust Hawks & Doves Re·ac·tor Trans Everybody's Rockin' Old Ways Landing on Water Life This Note's for You American Dream and, somehow, more. Here's the YouTube music playlist I used to prepare for the episode: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnq_kwIKDYN_V46nVwrshGdi8zoP8IdKT&si=RK14fXUf_JiAfdQ7 Logo by Charles Forsman Theme by John from Vsevolod Plotkin

  • July 7 · 5 hr 30 min

    Me Here To Do The Thinking #1 - 63 - 75

    "Volume's not really that important. It's the size of the room and the relationship of the sound to the enclosure it's in that makes a difference." - Neil Young On this series, I am joined by Cameron Kunzelman so we can listen to the work of Neil Young in roughly chronological order and then talk about it. On this episode: Neil Young Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere After the Gold Rush Harvest Time Fades Away Tonight's the Night On the Beach Homegrown Zuma and, somehow, more. Logo by Charles Forsman Theme by John from Vsevolod Plotkin

  • April 13 · 1 hr 20 min

    SFULTRA #40 - Dai Dark - Q Hayashida

    "Many are transforming in that glorious condition normally described as decay. Transforming through splinter and chemical imbalance. By fading and forgetfulness." - Brian Catling, Lantern Slides, Several Clouds Colliding

  • March 1 · 1 hr 28 min

    SFULTRA #39 - His Master's Voice - Stanislaw Lem

    "So I think when I'm looking at you, I see you there. But I can't just explain what you are. I see you there and you could be photographed, but then after you'd been photographed, one still wouldn't know what your realism was. You'd have to find a technique by which you can give over all the pulsations of a realism of a person… I'm talking bollocks…" - Francis Bacon, The Brutality Of Fact

  • Nov 21, 2025 · 2 hr 44 min

    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 fucking 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

  • Sep 28, 2025 · 1 hr 7 min

    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

  • Jun 13, 2025 · 1 hr 20 min

    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

  • May 19, 2025 · 2 hr 3 min

    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

  • May 8, 2025 · 1 hr 28 min

    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

  • Apr 4, 2025 · 2 hr 14 min

    Deep Territory #12 - Front Toward Enemy

    "Thank god skin-patch is nearly gone And the impress of fingers dead Have disappeared and left me alone That one night I did not put jackboots on Don't want to end Reflection It's still there, though I am gone" - The Fall, Bremen Nacht

  • Mar 1, 2025 · 6 hr 36 min

    Deep Territory #9 - Lanark - Alasdair Gray

    "My friends, you should not live like this." - Chekhov, when asked what his plays were supposed to convey. "For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." - II Corinthians, 5:1 NKJV

  • Feb 8, 2025 · 1 hr 27 min

    Deep Territory #8 - The Erstwhile - Brian Catling

    'Blake is always unexpected. If you think you know all the works, you're wrong. There's always something that comes up; if it's not a new work, then an old work will appear in a different kind of way. There are certain works I'm completely obsessed by and I don't know how he made them. I don't know how he made them at that time because there's nothing like them: they're completely original. I think his thing was originality.' - Brian Catling

  • Dec 27, 2024 · 5 hr 15 min

    Deep Territory #5 - Crash - J.G. Ballard

    "So many great books have drowned in respect" - Iain Sinclair, Crash "Vaughn never been a duck-and-diver He spit on the mic, yuck, saliva Hold it like a truck driver hold a CB on a sharp turn Still clutchin' his chest from the heartburn…" - Viktor Vaughn, Saliva "Into the thundering cannon and into the murdering gun" - William Blake, Jerusalem

  • Dec 19, 2024 · 3 hr 1 min

    Deep Territory #4 - Passion Of New Eve - Angela Carter

    "And in Hell beneath & a mighty & awful change threatend the Earth. The American War began. All its dark horrors passed before my face..." - William Blake, Letter to John Flaxman September 12 1800 I'm joined on this episode by fellow Live At The Death Factory host and writer Astrid Rose, whose work you can find here: https://astridannerose.gumroad.com/

  • Nov 29, 2024 · 2 hr 34 min

    Deep Territory #2 - The Vorrh - B Catling

    "...writing could provide me with the means of so radically outwitting myself that I could bring my hidden experiences, my unadmitted self into view." - Raymond Roussel

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