Wheel of Genre
Wheel of Genre
We Read Adventure, Romance, Mystery, SF, Horror, and Westerns
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Episodes
Mentioned books
May 6, 2026 • 57min
Philip K. Dick's "The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick"
This month, we read Gnostic Fiction. • The Weird (ed. Ann & Jeff VanderMeer)• Dangerous Visions (ed. Harlan Ellison) • The Complete John Silence (by Algernon Blackwood) • Patreon (Free Bonus Episodes) • Email us at genrepodcast@gmail.com
Apr 15, 2026 • 46min
Philip K. Dick's "The Transmigration of Timothy Archer"
This month, we read Gnostic Fiction. • The Weird (ed. Ann & Jeff VanderMeer)• Dangerous Visions (ed. Harlan Ellison) • The Complete John Silence (by Algernon Blackwood) • Patreon (Free Bonus Episodes) • Email us at genrepodcast@gmail.com
Apr 8, 2026 • 43min
Philip K. Dick's "The Divine Invasion"
This month, we read Gnostic Fiction. • The Weird (ed. Ann & Jeff VanderMeer)• Dangerous Visions (ed. Harlan Ellison) • The Complete John Silence (by Algernon Blackwood) • Patreon (Free Bonus Episodes) • Email us at genrepodcast@gmail.com
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Apr 1, 2026 • 48min
Philip K. Dick's "VALIS"
Conversation about Philip K. Dick's VALIS and its Gnostic influences. They unpack the novel's fractured identities and autofictional splitting. Discussion touches on AI and living information metaphors. Tech parallels like satellites and neural implants come up. They also highlight the book's raw, essayistic voice and messianic mysteries.
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Mar 25, 2026 • 1h 4min
Philip K. Dick's "Radio Free Albemuth"
They dig into PKD's strange Gnostic themes, from Valis as a possible AI-god to prophetic obligations and time frozen at AD 70. Conspiracy layering, programmed minds, and the tension between revelation and trickery get sharp attention. They debate Jungian individuation, hive-mind dangers, and whether techno-salvation corrupts or redeems humanity.
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Mar 19, 2026 • 1h 3min
Philip K. Dick's "Ubik"
They dive into Philip K. Dick's Ubik through themes like mock-advertisements that treat a product as divine. The conversation explores Gnostic and Jungian echoes, prophetic impulses, and reality unraveling via half-life and corporate telepathy. They debate moral risks of treating people as NPCs, time as collapsing or cyclical, and how aporia and satire shape Dick’s strange, idea-dense storytelling.
Mar 13, 2026 • 47min
Philip K. Dick's "Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch"
This month, we read Gnostic Fiction. • The Weird (ed. Ann & Jeff VanderMeer)• Dangerous Visions (ed. Harlan Ellison) • The Complete John Silence (by Algernon Blackwood) • Patreon (Free Bonus Episodes) • Email us at genrepodcast@gmail.com
Mar 4, 2026 • 43min
Yukio Mishima's "Runaway Horses" (Sea of Fertility #2)
We are reading the Sea of Fertility tetrology in conjunction with Liminal Spaces and Another Bibliophile Reads. We will upload a new video in the series at the end of January, February, March, and April 2026.Another Bibliophile Reads' Discord: https://discord.com/invite/DQbq5TNWPA• The Weird (ed. Ann & Jeff VanderMeer)• Dangerous Visions (ed. Harlan Ellison) • The Complete John Silence (by Algernon Blackwood) • Patreon (Free Bonus Episodes) • Email us at genrepodcast@gmail.com
Feb 11, 2026 • 41min
Adolfo Bioy Casares' "The Invention of Morel"
This month, we read Gnostic Fiction. • The Weird (ed. Ann & Jeff VanderMeer)• Dangerous Visions (ed. Harlan Ellison) • The Complete John Silence (by Algernon Blackwood) • Patreon (Free Bonus Episodes) • Email us at genrepodcast@gmail.com
Feb 4, 2026 • 40min
Jorge Luis Borges' "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius"
Links:• Kerri Pierce "An Unnatural History: Borges, Tlön, and the Myth of Self": https://journals.openedition.org/trans/675• Alejandro Riberi "Tlon and the Philosophy of “As If”: https://www.borges.pitt.edu/sites/default/files/1510.pdfThis month, we read Gnostic Fiction. • The Weird (ed. Ann & Jeff VanderMeer)• Dangerous Visions (ed. Harlan Ellison) • The Complete John Silence (by Algernon Blackwood) • Patreon (Free Bonus Episodes) • Email us at genrepodcast@gmail.com
