Last Chance Salon Podcast

When we decided to put the podcast on hold there was always a hope that we would be able to start it up again. Well, that day has come. We are going to change the format up a bit, more details ...

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Luke here. This blog and the podcast that it exists to support are a labor of love. In a crazy week, sitting down and recording an episode or banging out some blog posts is one of the things I ...

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This week, Luke and Shiri take a ride in the Midnight Taxi Tango. Next, we journey into the television version of The Expanse. We conclude, as always, with the Grrrrr and the Arrrrrgh.

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57: Altered Procedurals This week, Luke and Shiri talk Vertigo’s Sheriff of Babylon. Next, we talk the new X-Files and Lucifer. We conclude, as always, with the Grrrrrr and Arrrrrrgh.

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This week, Luke and Shiri bid farewell to two legends, David Bowie and Alan Rickman. Next, we talk Quentin Tarantino’s Hateful Eight and Inglorious Basterds. We conclude, as always, with the Gr...

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This week, Luke and Shiri talk Conan Doyle’s original procedural superstar Sherlock Holmes. Next we enter the mind palace of The Abominable Bride. We conclude, as always, with the Grrrrrr and t...

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Episode 54: Staaaaaar Waaaaaars! (prepare for spoilers) This week, Luke and Shiri talk The Force Awakens. That is all. Lot’s to talk about. We conclude, as always, with the Grrrrrrr and the A...

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53: Us and Ms. Jones We had a whole fancy episode planned, but we end up mostly just talking about Jessica Jones and then end, as always, with the Grrrrr and the Arrrrrgggghhhhh.

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52: The Expanse and Flipside of Fairyland After a “What We’re Excited About” Lightening round, Luke and Shiri leap out into The Expanse to discuss Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey. Nex...

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Well, we have been running without a safety net around here for a bit. And, it has finally caught up with us. In the past we have kept a buffer. Just one or two episodes already recorded and read...

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Episode 51: The Best and the Word Barf After a lightening round of “What’s New in Our Pull Lists” delved into The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy (eds: LCSP favorites John Josep...

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Episode 50: Ancillaries vs Mirrors After a spooky Halloween lightening round of: what’s the scariest thing you’ve ever read, Luke and Shiri bring their two most anticipated releases of the ...

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49: Revenge is a Dish Best Served Decades Later After a lightening round of “What’s the Geekiest Thing You’ve Ever Done,” Luke and Shiri discuss The redemption of the Sith by Matthew Stov...

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48: Even the past is new again… After a quick LIGHTNING ROUND, we look at the past. Or at least alternative pasts. First, we discuss Nixon and CROOKED by AUSTIN GROSSMAN. (We might even have ...

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Our first interview episode, with Michael Underwood, went up last week, so no new podcast this week. But, if you have not had a chance, you should check that episode out. We think it is pretty go...

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47: AN HOUR WITH MIKE UNDERWOOD An Hour With MICHAEL R. UNDERWOOD.  He has two new books coming out this fall: HEXOMANCY, the third novel, and fourth entry, in the Ree Reyes Series (Sept 14th)...

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Episode 46: What the Hero? Luke and Shiri dig into the indie comics world to explore Black Mask’s We Can Never Go Home Again.  Next, finally, we chat about Shiri’s Hero Handlers.  We conc...

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Episode 45: Goblins and Rat Queens Like and Shiri gets lost in the intrigue and passageways of Katherine Addison’s The Goblin Emperor.   Next we strap in and jump into the roller coaster he...

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44: Gods and Monsters   Luke and Shiri toy with wildfire and revel in Chaos as they discuss Joanne Harris’ Gospel of Loki.  Next, we bow down to the concept, if not the execution, of Kier...

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43: Aw, Yeah, Bitches. Luke and Shiri reenter the Radach Dyson sphere with Breq to discuss Ann Lecke’s (legit) Hugo-nominated Ancillary Sword.  Next, we pulp it up and, contrary to the spiri...

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Luke and Shiri dive in to Ben Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London Series with Midnight Riot which proves, once again, that the Brits are Superior at all things literary.  Next, we do a flyby of fla...

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41: People who eat people are the luckiest people in the world… maybe?  Liv Morgan of iZombie fame would likely disagree, but Dr. Hannibal Lecter, well.  He’s been planning it all for years...

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Luke and Shiri attempt to dive into LIGHTSPEED: QUEERS DESTROY SCIENCE FICTION and end up toes only because the water is just too cold. Next, we discuss KAREN MEMORY by Elizabeth Bear, which does...

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We visit the original matrix and talk cyberpunk with NEUROMANCER (and a bit about Snow Crash). Then we discuss the Netflix Original DAREDEVIL (spoilers: we loved it.) And finally, as we always do...

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Luke and Shiri explore the depths of Lovecraftian Americana and are disappointed by the results vis a vis David Nickle’s: EUTOPIA: A NOVEL OF TERRIBLE OPTIMISM.  Next, we face down the juggern...

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Episode 37: The Sequel Episode!  Luke and Shiri talk about the morning… er… version after in the forms of Kameron Hurley’s Infidel (Book 2 of the Bel Dame Apocrypha and follow up to the re...

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Shiri and Luke delve into the award winning short fiction of Harlan Ellison with our review of Top of the Volcano. And then we approach the subject of this year's Hugo awards and the shenanigans ...

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We could probably go with PIRATES! and get out point quite well but, just in case you’d like more details: Luke and Shiri discuss their first communal ingestion of non-fiction, The Republic of ...

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Luke and Shiri continue their hike through the “canon”, stopping for a ROADSIDE PICNIC.  Next, we bust the shit out of a bunch of refrigerators and finally take on the issue of some assholes...

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Luke and Shiri reminisce about (as John Scalzi put it) Leonard Nimoy, every Geek’s favorite grandparent. Then, we dance through Daniel Jose Older’s Salsa Nocturna. Next, we discuss short stor...

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Reporting from Hoth and and the word outside the Snowpiercer respectively, Luke and Shiri examine the concept of narrative non-fiction through the lens of David Simon’s Homicide: A Year on the ...

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Luke and Shiri crawl up from under piles of snow to explore Revival by Tim Seely and Matt Norton.  Next, in honor of Oliver Queen’s return, we talk Coming Back from the Dead and its impact on ...

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Episode 30: It’s the Joe Hill appreciation half hour when Luke and Shiri open the Heart Shaped Box, sell you all a ghost, and run for cover. Next, we appreciate Agent Carter is all her glory. S...

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29: Love it, Hate it Here at the Last Chance Salon, we're chock full of surprises and this week, we're sharing them with you fine folks!  Luke and Shiri expected to love the film adaptation of...

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28. Mythology This week, Luke and Shiri delve into the mystery and magic of G. Willow Wilson’s Cairo, then spin off into the larger world of mythology and the writer’s responsibility not to...

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27: Happy 1st Birthday, LCSP Exactly one year ago yesterday, Luke and Shiri first posted the first episode of LCSP, replete with complete and utter bullshit they babbled at one another.  A yea...

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Episode 26: The DIY Episode! The Martian by Andy Weir (it started as DIY.  Honest!) Welcome to Nighvale and translating success from the other side.  Our writing topic: Self-Publishing: why it�...

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Episode 25: Greatcoats and Great TV This week, Luke and Shiri wander through the worlds of heroes and superheroes. First off, The Traitor's Blade, takes us to world of swords, sorcery, and coat...

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Episode 24: The Time Travel Episode This week, Luke and Shiri wander through time wander through time wander through time … sorry, got caught in a loop…  with Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s All Yo...

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23: Vanishing, Reappearing, and Why We Give a Crap This week, Luke and Shiri wander through the maze (or morass, depending on which one of us you’re talking to) of All The Vanished Engines by...

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This week, Luke and Shiri watch the end of the world of the approaching and figure out if we should still give crap with THE LAST POLICEMAN.  Next, buckle up, bitches, ‘cause we’re taking a ...

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Episode 21: Don’t Blink in the Mirror This week, Luke and Shiri fall through the alternate reality mirror and into THE MIRROR EMPIRE by Kameron Hurley.  Next, we snap our fingers and head in...

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Episode 20: YA, Why not? This week, Luke and Shiri open with some notes from the Last Chance Salon itself. Then, they discuss Uglies by Scott Westerfeld. Next they fly through the world of the ...

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Episode 19: THE BIG ASS SPACE SHIP SHOW This week, Luke and Shiri discuss the Arthur C. Clarke, Nebula, and Hugo Awards winning novel Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie.  Next, we jump on board w...

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Episode 18: Mayhem, Musketeers, and Machination This week, Luke and Shiri delve in to the mystery of Mayhem by Sarah Pinborough.  Next, we mill about BBC’s The Musketeers and it’s fulfillm...

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17: Redshirts, Retreads, and Reboots Luke and Shiri talk Redshirts by John Scalzi.  Next, we examine the Star Trek reboot and where it goes from here. Last, Remakes (and the fultility therof) ...

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Episode 16: Luke and Shiri feel the cold touch of the Dead Man’s Hand.  In a good way.  We go back and forth about X-Men: Days of Future Past.  Our writing topic is Short Stories.    �...

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Episode 15: Corpse Brides, Horny Mermaids, and Culture Get ready to rumble, folks, it’s our first real co-host smackdown over The Undertaking of Lily Chen by Danica Novgodoroff.  Black is th...

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Episode 18: Glamour, Ghouls, and Getting There Luke and Shiri glamour up a chat about Mary Robinette Kowal’s Shades of Milk and Honey.  Next, appropriately, we swoon over the second season o...

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  Episode 13: The Gotham Epsiode! Gotham Central!  Gotham: The TV Show (essentially an extended PREDICTION!) Our writing topic: how we would work in a world someone else has built! Good Thing...

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In which we dissect the monstrosities that are Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelly and THE STRANGE CASE OF DR JEKYLL AND MR Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson; and by dissect, we mea...

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For the second in our … (denomination) IN SPACE series, we crawl around with the bugs in God’s War by Kameron Hurley.  Next, we bitch and moan about The Wolverine, bemoaning the sad fall of ...

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Episode 10: We search for the “super” in Adam Christopher’s Empire State in more ways than one.  Next, we take a bite out of NBC’s killer drama Hannibal (see what I did there?  Damn, I�...

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  Episode 9: Jesuits in space!  No, we’re not being smart-asses, we’re discussing The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell.     Our writing topic is Villians: best, worst, what not to, what...

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Episode 8: Shiri and Luke freak themselves out with The Shining: both the glory that is the book and the compilation of boredom and giant teeth that is Stanley Kubrik’s film.  The fact Stephen...

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Shiri and Luke get wibbly wobbley and go way over timey whimey with Doctor Who’s 50th Anniversary Special and Christmas/Regeneration (?) Specials.  That’s actually pretty much it, though we ...

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EPISODE 6: Shiri and Luke pull up an Infinite improbability Drive and, armed with Pan-Galactic Gargle Blasters and their towels, discuss the various incarnations of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Ga...

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Shiri and Luke discuss VICIOUS, by V.E. Schwab and the nature of the super-hero origin story.  Next, we depart from visual media and delve into the world of social media and the tittilating comm...

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Shiri and Luke discuss Chuck Wendig’s BLACKBIRDS and whether or not a character can be an independent agent if she knows the future.  Next, we try to parse out the CORNETTO trilogy's… trilog...

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Shiri and Luke talk sexism and robots in their discussion of CAVES OF STEEL by Isaac Asimov.  We give some love to Vin Diesel, hardest bodied of the hard core geeks, and his seminal character RI...

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Shiri has a thesis about Horns by Joe Hill. Luke thinks applying the word thesis to a novel is hilarious. We ponder Agents of SHIELD and let you in on the the secret of where our ideas come from....

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In Episode One, Luke and Shiri talk Neil Gaiman's Ocean at the End of the Lane, Sleepy Hollow, the Oxford Comma, and chat about our projects. This week, we end on an up note with Something Good. ...

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LAST CHANCE SALON PODCAST!?! WHAT IS IT: a podcast! WHY SHOULD I LISTEN: Shiri and Luke babble on about writing, science fiction/fantasy books, movies and TV. And someone eats M&Ms during the...

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