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Chronscast - The Fantasy, Science Fiction & Horror Podcast

Dan Jones, Christopher Bean, Peat Long, Damaris Browne, Brian Sexton

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Welcome to Chronscast! We are the official podcast of SFF Chronicles, the world's largest science-fiction and fantasy community. Each episode your hosts Dan Jones, Christopher Bean, and Peat Long will take a deep dive into some classic science-fiction, fantasy, and horror with a special guest. We'll also discuss the challenges of writing and publishing SFF, and our guests' experiences. Episodes feature specialist advice on writing and publishing from our resident legal beagle Damaris Browne ...
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We're joined once more by filmmakers Gregg Hale and Eduardo Sanchez, the brains behind The Blair Witch Project, V/H/S, Lovely Molly, and many more. Gregg and Hale talk to us about their new podcast-based audio drama Black Velvet Fairies. It's a tour de force meta narrative that plays with the found footage medium that gave them their big break, but…
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You might be forgiven for thinking that us saying we had two of the horror genre's most distinguished filmmakers on the show would be an April Fool's joke, but you should know by now we never, ever joke about our guests (except for RJ Barker, who will forever be known as the Goth King of Leeds). Today we're joined by Gregg Hale and Eduardo Sanchez,…
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Christopher and Dan are joined by horror writer John Langan, whose great horror novel The Fisherman finally is out now in the UK, an inexplicable seven years after being first published in most other territories. John talks to us about the health and wellbeing of Laird Barron, one of the other members of the modern horror brat pack, who suffered re…
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A true story. This is really only a script for an audio drama. I have an actor willing to play Dr.X, just need a Guard and a very silly Special Agent Black Socks. (apologies if the recording is not up to scratch -let me know below and I'll sort/ delete as necessary) Nancy Goodaim will be back mid January ...trying to make the story a bit like 'The …
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Ahoy ahoy! When the Beanstalker and I were drawing up our wish list for guests on the podcast, there was one name that @Phyrebrat was adamant that we try and get. That was the American author John Langan, who joins us for this episode. John is one of the masters of modern horror and whose seminal book The Fisherman, an exploration of guilt, diaspor…
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Thanks to Jeremy Saje from Madison on the Air for tuning in and giving the story a go -which is a source of pride, and a recommendation if ever there was. The twenty-fourth episode of an audio space adventure book. Anthony McGinley was ten years old when his mother died. She was given full honours at a state funeral, but after that life in the McGi…
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The twentythird episode of an audio space adventure book. Anthony McGinley was ten years old when his mother died. She was given full honours at a state funeral, but after that life in the McGinley household began to slowly fall apart. Untill Anthony found an unfinished novel among his mother's things. It described an allegory for a flawed antihero…
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The twentysecond episode of an audio space adventure book. Anthony McGinley was ten years old when his mother died. She was given full honours at a state funeral, but after that life in the McGinley household began to slowly fall apart. Untill Anthony found an unfinished novel among his mother's things. It described an allegory for a flawed antiher…
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A ten minute space adventure to fill the gap to the next Nancy Goodaim episode (out tomorrow). This one dates back to the first lockdown of the Coraonavirus pandemic. It focuses on the social isolation of the elderly during that time. Specifically one sheep farmer I met who was biking into town and was not really aware of what was happening -he ina…
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Peat and Dan are joined by Anne Perry, publishing director at Jo Fletcher Books. Anne talks with us about the state of the publishing market in 2023, and what authors ought to consider when positioning their book in the market. We talk about the rising prices of books, the price differential between different regions, subscription-based business mo…
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The twentyfirst episode of an audio space adventure book. Anthony McGinley was ten years old when his mother died. She was given full honours at a state funeral, but after that life in the McGinley household began to slowly fall apart. Untill Anthony found an unfinished novel among his mother's things. It described an allegory for a flawed antihero…
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We're back after the summer break, and are joined by Anne Perry, the publishing director at Jo Fletcher Books, to talk about Naomi Novik's 2015 fantasy bestseller, Uprooted. Based upon aspects of rural Polish folklore, Uprooted follows Agnieszka, a plain village girl who is shocked to learn that she is to be taken away to live with The Dragon, a po…
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The twentieth episode of an audio space adventure book. Anthony McGinley was ten years old when his mother died. She was given full honours at a state funeral, but after that life in the McGinley household began to slowly fall apart. Untill Anthony found an unfinished novel among his mother's things. It described an allegory for a flawed antihero. …
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Chapter 20 of Nancy Goodaim, the Space Ranger will be out at the end of the week, but in the meantime here are three very short one minute stories …one set on a space station about perspective called ‘The view between wake and sleep’. One set on Mars about AI called ‘The mechanical parable of Flumberdink Unterwhackle’. And finall a romantic story t…
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The nineteenth episode of an audio space adventure book. Anthony McGinley was ten years old when his mother died. She was given full honours at a state funeral, but after that life in the McGinley household began to slowly fall apart. Untill Anthony found an unfinished novel among his mother's things. It described an allegory for a flawed antihero.…
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The eighteenth episode of an audio space adventure book. Anthony McGinley was ten years old when his mother died. She was given full honours at a state funeral, but after that life in the McGinley household began to slowly fall apart. Untill Anthony found an unfinished novel among his mother's things. It described an allegory for a flawed antihero.…
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