DEATH // SENTENCE
Episodes
Leonora Carrington's The Stone Door, Alchemy, Dreams, and Memory
15 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Eden is joined by friend of the cast Jesse Kohn (The Book of Webs) to talk about Leonora Carrington's beguiling and dense The Stone Door. Unfortunatel...
Branson Reese Visits the Wizard's Castle
07 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Langdon conjures forth the Wizard's Castle once more, this time trapping Branson Reese (HELL WAS FULL, SWAN BOY, Rude Tales of Magic, and more) within...
Web of Angles and Another Cyberpunk
27 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Langdon and Eden kick things off by talking about the uses of awards - how to follow them, what they're good for, and why! Then, they dive into John ...
Eddington and Weapons
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Naruto run with us to the local picture house to watch a double bill of Ari Aster's Eddington and Zack Cregger's Weapons, with Kayte Terry of the exce...
One Hand to Hold, One Hand to Carve
06 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Langdon and Eden discuss the too-often bland and safe nature of science fiction and fantasy before diving in to a work that's anything but, "One Hand ...
Kazuo Ishiguro - Klara and the Sun
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ishiguro season is done now that we've reached 2022's Klara and the Sun, the heartwarming story of a M3gan learning what it is to love. We also talk a...
The Multitude of Existence and North Continent Ribbon
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This time around, Langdon and Eden peer into the world, which is actually many things and not just one (and that's good!) Then, they take a look at U...
The Futility of War and Zelazny's Creatures of Light and Darkness
27 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Langdon and Eden kick things off by asking the important questions: which member of the Friends cast would you follow into battle? They also discuss t...
Kazuo Ishiguru - The Buried Giant
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We made it - the podcast's personal favourite Kazuo Ishiguro book, The Buried Giant. It turns out a book about memory and genocide is kind of relevant...
Everfair, Colonialism, and Better History Fiction
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Gareth and Eden explore Nisi Shawl's Everfair, a mostly successful attempt at writing better, less racist, and more "complete" historical fiction. Nuc...
Growing Up Weightless and the John M. Ford Revival
25 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Eden flies solo on this episode, diving deep into the masterful, subtle, and rich Growing Up Weightless by the criminally under-read and under-recogni...
Calypso and Topographical Verse
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Langdon and Eden kick things off by discussing their favorite Metallica tracks and also how good Metallica really are. Then, they dive into Oliver K....
Kazuo Ishiguro - Nocturnes
15 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Kazuo Ishiguro season continues with maybe his least known, maybe his least liked work: Nocturnes. Sitting between the mega-hit Never Let Me Go an...
Lyta Gold - Dangerous Fictions
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are books... dangerous? A lot of people think so, from Moms For Liberty to the mostly-imaginary internet spectre of the censorious Puriteen. Lyta Gold...
Red-tinted Pasts and Ursula Le Guin's Five Ways to Forgiveness
18 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Eden and Langdon both exist (maybe) and with this snippet of existence, they discuss the historiography of the Paris Commune on the left and suggest a...
The Empusium - Olga Tokarczuk
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Olga Tokarczuk's first book since winning the Nobel prize in Literature is deeply feminist folk-horror with more than a little influence from Thomas M...
Forgotten Work and the Individual in History
01 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This time around, Langdon and Eden discuss what can be done in our personal lives, regardless of the potential for a revolution or any feelings of hop...
Alex Pheby - Waterblack
25 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
One of the greatest fantasy epics of the 21st century ends here, with Alex Pheby's mind-bending Waterblack. We go in-depth into the trilogy and the su...
Code Damp: An Esoteric Guide to British Sitcoms - Sophie Sleigh-Johnson
17 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ready to get DAMP? Sophie Sleigh-Johnson's Code: Damp explores fucked Anglo vibes through the work of sitcom legend Leonard Rossiter, star of Rising D...
Silicone God - Victoria Brooks
12 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Y'all ready to get DELEUZIAN? Victoria Brooks' Silicon God is a goopy, rhizomatic book about time mistresses from the future and a bunch of stuff that...
Ask The Audience 2: Extolling Guan Yu's Many Virtues
09 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why is Guan Yu so powerful? Which Universal Movie Monster tastes best? How can you get somebody to enjoy Brutal Death Metal? Will Communism win? Our a...
Nosferatu! With Kayte Terry and Jon Greenaway
04 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Langdon is joined in the Wizard's Tower by Kayte Terry of Tender Subject and Jon Greenaway of Horror Vanguard to discuss Robert Eggers' tale of a Drac...
Uknown Language - Time, Memory, And Holy Violence
20 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Langdon and Eden tackle linear time and how World War II, and its retellings, fit in with our cultural memories of the past. Then, they dive into the...
Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go
13 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kazuo Ishiguro season keeps on truckin' into 2005's Never Let Me Go, perhaps his most widely read and equally widely loved novels. There are brain-don...
THE SUBSTANCE with Kayte Terry and Jake Flores
06 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
ENTER THE WIZARD'S TOWER with this episode in which we stretch the concept of a 'text' to breaking point by talking about a film- specifically 2024's ...
Oh God, The Sun Goes And The Decline? Of American Empire
24 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This time around, Langdon and Eden dive into the question of geo-political narratives and the stories we tell ourselves, specifically about the "Ameri...
Emily Herring - Henri Bergson, the Biggest Philosopher You've Probably Never Heard Of
18 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the early 20th century Henri Bergson was a rockstar of philosophy, able to pack lecture halls and create the first ever traffic jam on Broadway. To...
John Trefry - Massive
10 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
John Trefry's Massive is 764 pages of the densest post-everything literary noise possible, a monolith that you don't read, you move through. There's a...
Everything To Play For - The Potential, and Failures, of the Video Games Industry with Marijam Did
05 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This time around, Gareth and Eden are joined by Marijam Did to discuss her excellent research into the revolutionary and reactionary potentials, avenu...
Charlene Elsby - Red Flags and Violent Faculties
25 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
CW FOR BASICALLY EVERYTHING Charlene Elsby is one of the most renowned literary horror writers out there right now, and her two most recent books, th...
Kyle Winkler, Tone-Bone, And Heavy Fucking Metal
22 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This time around, Eden is joined by Kyle Winkler, author of Grasshands and, more recently, the cosmic horror, punk-infused, metal-slinging tale of a b...
Talia Lavin - Wild Faith, or Neon Genesis Evangelical (Taylor's Version)
19 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Talia Lavin joins us to talk about her new book Wild Faith, on how the Christian Right is taking over America, but also raw milk, cruelty, demons and ...
Kazuo Ishiguro - When We Were Orphans
17 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kazuo Ishiguro season keeps on truckin' to 2000's When We Were Orphans. After the divisive The Unconsoled, Kaz' is getting his groove back with this s...
Jillian Luft - Scumbag Summer
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ever wanted to live out your worst impulses in America's sweaty armpit? Of course you have, and debut author Jillian Luft knows this. Her book Scumbag...
Bug Jack Barron And The Burning Power Of The Debut
08 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Langdon and Eden travel to a future-past where TV hosts bring nations to their knees (hahahah oh god that's just our present) with Norman Spinrad's co...
'We've solved transport' - How the Railways Will Fix the Future with Gareth Dennis
04 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There are cars, hyperloops, even blimps - but no form of transport is better than the train. Gareth Dennis has been in the rail industry for a decade ...
Don Bronco's (Working Title) Shell with Donald Ryan
01 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Wizard's Tower emerges once more, this time gathering in its clutches Donald Ryan, author of Don Bronco's (Working Title) Shell! Meta-narrative, e...
Cyberbiomancy And Updated Flesh With Adam C. Jones
27 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Eden is joined by Adam C. Jones of the Acid Horizon podcast to discuss his upcoming book - The New Flesh: Life and Death in the Data Economy! The two ...
Rakesfall, Genocide, And What Comes Next
22 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Langdon and Eden happily return to Vajra Chandrasekera's Rakesfall but first must unhappily return to the ongoing and intensifying genocide in Palesti...
The Handyman Method with Kayte Terry of Tender Subjects
13 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Wizard's Tower appears out of the mist once more! This time, Langdon conjures forth Katye Terry of Tender Subjects to dive into The Handyman Metho...
Yu Miri's The End of August with Morgan Giles
09 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Langdon goes into the Wizard's Tower and summons Morgan Giles to discuss the expansive and fantastic The End of August by Yu Miri which Giles translat...
Dark Fantasy And Between Two Fires
03 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It's chaos configuration as Eden, Gareth and Langdon sit down to discuss the...sort of good and very hyped Between Two Fires! And also argue about dar...
The West Passage And Occulted Knowledge
17 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Langdon and Eden are forced to tackle the so-called "Hegelian E-girl Council" and explain why they suck. While they tackle them. To t...
Arthurian Myth, Weird, And Lev Grossman's The Bright Sword
03 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this solo episode, Eden talks about the Arthurian myth and its weird potentialities by covering Lev Grossman's The Bright Sword. Gender-bending, po...
Roger Zelazny - Roadmarks
17 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Langdon and Eden discuss the merits, oddities, and uses of mediocrity before covering a mediocre, but fun, book from an excellent aut...
Michael Swanwick - Stations of the Tide
15 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We definitely didn't record this three months ago and only remembered to post this now! Langdon's computer definitely didn't die at the end! Stations ...
Lydia Kiesling - Mobility
13 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Mobility, Lydia Kiesling really bildungs the heck out of a Roman. Bunny is a foreign-service brat who wants a conventional life and, spoilers, she ...
Jen Calleja - Vehicle
30 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Babe, wake up, my new favourite book just dropped. Music by Sauna Youth.
Gretchen Felker Martin - Cuckoo
26 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine The Thing, Invasion of the Body Snatchers and It. Okay, imagining that? Okay, now make it gay. Gayer. More gay than that. That's returning gue...
Vajra Chandrasekera, Anti-colonial Violence, Scale, and Time
23 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This time around, Eden is joined by none other than Vajra Chandrasekera, author of The Saint of Bright Doors and Rakesfall! The two discuss time, hist...
FOUR
22 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is titled FOUR because Langdon used it to talk to Eden about FOUR books. We have read too many books and all the Smart has leaked away. T...
Jon Greenaway - Capitalism: A Horror Story
10 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What if the real horror story didn't involve skeletons and boggarts and whatnot... what if the real horror was your boss? There is probably more to re...
Kazuo Ishiguro - The Unconsoled
06 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After 1989's masterpiece Remains of the Day made him a superstar, Kazuo Ishiguro returned in 1995 with the baffling, divisive The Unconsoled. James Wo...
Kazuo Ishiguro - Remains of the Day
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We're here at last - Langdon's journey through the work of Kazuo Ishiguro reaches one of his greatest novels and perhaps of the greatest novels of the...
Woodworm, Resentment, and the Viciousness of Discourse
25 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Langdon and Eden cover the weird, gothic, Catholic-horror, and unsettling Woodworm by Layla Martinez. But first, they do the unthinkable and wade into...
Elle Nash - Deliver Me
18 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Elle Nash is back on the show to talk about her new book of bodies, babies and bugs, Deliver Me. We talk about parenting, YouTube, the life of a write...
Ask the Listener to Mail in a Bag OR The Questions Episode
04 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
That's right, we have decided to open up the terrible portal called "The Internet" and ask our listeners some questions! They cover topics like non-me...
Ray Brassier - Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment And Extinction
28 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ve believe in nothing Lebowski. Gareth has been trying to get Ray Brassier's Nihil Unbound since it came out, and in this episode he enlists Langdon t...
Spencer Sunshine - Countercultural Fasism and Neo-N*zi Terrorism
22 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Spencer Sunshine joins us to talk about a book that is as cheery as his name suggests: it has Nazis, Industrial Music, Child P*rnography, Charles Mans...
A.V Marraccini - We The Parasites
13 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What if the way we interact with art is like a parasite inside of it's host? We talk to A.V Marraccini about her genre-hopping, dare we say Deleuzian ...
Genevieve Jagger - Fragile Animals
07 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Vampires are having a bit of a moment, and the best book in the current wave is Genevieve Jagger's Fragile Animals, a literary maybe-vampire story set...
Love Chronicles Of The Octopodes With Jesse Kohn
20 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Eden sits down with the non-fictional representative of the book of webs, Jesse Kohn, to talk about the weird, beguiling, and bubbling Love Chronicles...
Termush And The Violence Of Manners
08 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In honor of the world-ending eclipse that's scheduled for today, Gareth and Eden sit down to tackle Sven Holm's Termush! The novel explores an atomic ...
A Primer on Utopian Philosophy - John Greenaway
03 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ernst Bloch is probably going to be unknown to many listeners, but, according to Horror Vanguard's Jon Greenaway, he's one of the most overlooked and ...
Kay Dick - They
26 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What if nasty commoners were going around breaking all the nice people's art? What if we've been getting morality all wrong? We consider all this and ...
Grace Blakeley - Vulture Capitalism
19 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What if everything you were taught about Neoliberalism was wrong? What if it's not a free-market free-for-all but as tightly controlled as any planned...
Ian Cory of Lamniforms interview
17 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Langdon talks to Ian Cory, former editor-in-chief of the almighty Invisible Oranges blog and now lead of genre-agnostic (but generally heavy) band Lam...
Isaac Rose - The Rentier City
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We're 'mad for it' on this episode! And by 'mad for it' we mean mad about how Manchester, the city where capitalism and communism were invented, has t...
Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind And The Hopelesness Of Work
04 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It's a very chipper and uplifting episode, as Langdon and Eden tackle the question of revolutionary optimism, the role of hope (or lack thereof) in re...
Archivist Wasp - A YA Katabasis
28 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This time around, Langdon and Eden talk about how the Internet is dead, actually, and who has killed it. Then, they stay on the topic of demise by div...
Josie Riesman - Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and The Unmaking of America
21 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Josie Riesman joins us to talk about her book on Vince McMahon, the head of the WWE and arguably the creator of modern wrestling, who is now undergoin...
The Science Fiction Poem - Aniara and Deep Wheel Orcadia
18 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On this solo episode, Eden kicks off a series looking at a new format for Death // Sentence - the science fiction poem! He does it by diving deep into...
Kazuo Ishiguro - An Artist of the Floating World
15 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The singular entity known as Langdon/Eden records a solo episode continuing the long-promised series on Kazuo Ishiguro. This time around, they tackle ...
Vajra Chandrasekera - The Saint Of Bright Doors
24 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This time around, Langdon and Eden explore the shadowy and religious urbanity of The Saint of Bright Doors, a fantasy book about knowledge, imperialis...
Dan Sinykin - Big Fiction
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why aren't books hitting like they used to? Partly it's because of how they're sold, Dan Sinykin says in Big Fiction. We talk about how everyone from ...
Matt McManus - The Political Right and Equality
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Matt McManus is one of the most perceptive critics of the conservative movement out there, and in The Political Right and Equality: Turning Back the T...
Acid Horizon's Anti-Oculus: Escape, Control, and Resistance
28 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Adam and Craig of the Acid Horizon podcast join Eden to discuss their new book, "Anti-Oculus: A Philosophy of Escape". The three dive...
M. John Harrison's The Sunken Land Begins To Rise Again
20 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Langdon and Eden sink deep into M. John Harrison's masterful, erudite, oppressive, and creepy "The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again"! The two discuss ...
Marc Andreessen, Nick Land and Martin Heidegger
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Highly aerodynamic tech investor Marc Andreessen has written a 'Techno Optimist Manifesto' that cites arch-edgelord dork Nick Land as a 'Patron Saint ...
Bewilderment And The Book Of Webs
19 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This time around, Langdon and Eden begin by talking about literary and epistemological bewilderment before pivoting to the role of knowledge, narrativ...
Michael Moorcock and the End of Time
28 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Eden returns and is joined by his compatriot, Langdon, who is definitely not a robot! The two start off by discussing the disappearance acts of The Tw...
Isabel Waidner - Corey Fah Does Social Mobility
21 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A writer wins a prize but the prize is a UFO and there's a spider-deer hybrid and a time-travelling playwright and- Isabel Waidner's new book is a tr...
Eliza Clark - Penance
07 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 2020 Eliza Clark's debut Boy Parts absolutely blew up. Now she's back and, folks, Penance is even better - twistier, deeper, overall more toothsome...
Graham Jones - Red Enlightenment
17 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Commissar of Enlightenment Graham Jones joins the boys to talk about his new book Red Enlightenment, the nature of spirituality, whether communism is ...
The Cycle Begins - Elric of Melniboné
02 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
That's right, this time around, Eden, Langdon and Gareth kick off D//S's series of episodes on The Eternal Champion by covering the so-bad-it's-actual...
To Colonize the Fungal City - Andrew F. Sullivan's "The Marigold"
05 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This time around, Langdon has been colonized by The Mold™, and Eden revisits the issues of identity politics, tracking your consumption of art, and ...
Metallic Excess with David Burke
03 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Eden is joined by David Burke (https://twitter.com/metal_analysis), who's researching his PhD at Bath Spa University on the unifying thematics of heav...
Lethargic Futures with Missouri Williams' The Doloriad
26 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A dreaded triumvirate episode looms on the horizon as Gareth, Langdon, and Eden dive into the brutal, incisive, and beautifully written "The Doloriad"...
The Ever-shifting Realities of PKD with Abraham Josephine Riesman
18 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This time around, Eden is joined by Abraham Josephine “Josie” Riesman, NYT-bestselling authoress of True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee, ...
Bill Peel - Tonight It's a World We Bury: Black Metal, Red Politics
11 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Black metal? Isn't that the genre for nazi edgelords with all the Gene Simmons makeup? Well that's where you're wrong kiddo: Bill Peel has written the...
Brian Catling - Earwig
02 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Langdon and Eden return once again to the vaulted halls of the genius-brain that was Brian Catling. This time around they cover Earwig, a cold and wei...
Tolkien's Akallabêth and the Straight Road
11 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Eden reads one page from Tolkien's Akallabêth (that's right, only one) and discusses themes of memory, myth, Platonism, religion, storytelling, Tolki...
Timothy Bewes - Free Indirect (P*ssing yourself in the Skinamarink House)
21 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this house... we read Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age by Timothy Bewes with Jon Greenaway aka also known as TheLitCritGuy. What can...
Samuel R. Delany - Dhalgren
13 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We finally did it. We tackled 'the Ulysses of Science Fiction', all 600 pages of Samuel R. Delaney's magnum opus Dhalgren. We talk about race, sex, De...
Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune
24 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What will be your job in the Leftist Commune? M. E O'Brien and Eman Abdelhadi have written the book of the evergreen Twitter question. and I'm only ki...
Eleanor Janega - The Once and Future Sex
11 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Eleanor Janega (also of the We're Not So Different podcast) joins us to discuss her book The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval On Women's Roles ...
K.J. Bishop - The Etched City
24 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Eden returns with another solo episode, this time diving into the New Weird inflected fantasy of K.J. Bishop's "The Etched City"! God-creators stalk t...
Stepan Chapman - The Troika
21 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode, Langdon reports on his adjusted power levels while Eden rambles about dying alone in space. Or perhaps building a flourishing community ...
Tariq Goddard - High John The Conqueror
30 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tariq Goddard joins us to talk about his new book High John the Conqueror - part police procedural, part folk-horror fantasy. Tariq also happens to be...
Jeffrey Ford - The Physiognomy
12 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of Death // Sentence, Langdon and Eden kick things off by summoning the worst version of Eden possible - Conservative Eden! He rants o...