SFUltra

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

01 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"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 a...

SFULTRA #38 - Stars In My Pocket Like Grains Of Sand - Samuel R. Delany

31 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"If you can talk about it, why paint it?" - Francis Bacon

SFULTRA #37 - Red Hook Variations

21 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Main works discussed: The Horror at Red Hook - H. P. Lovecraft The Ballad of Black Tom - Victor LaValle The Courtyard - Alan Moore Neonomicon - Alan M...

SFULTRA #36 - Vurt - Jeff Noon

28 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Tell me what you know about a man's affliction PC plod talk pure science fiction" - Cowboy Dave, Happy Mondays

Right Where You Are Sitting Now #2 - Routine Excercise

25 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"You can't have feelings alone" - William Burroughs, Naked Lunch

Right Where You Are Sitting Now #1 - My Past, Like A Terrible River

05 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Works covered: And The Hippos Were Boiled In Their Tanks Junky: The Definitve Text Of Junk Queer Yage Redux

SFULTRA #35 - Beasts - John Crowley

13 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"The elementary unit of language — the statement — is the order-word. Rather than common sense, a faculty for the centralization of information, w...

The Black Pool with Tim MacGabhann

19 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 l...

SFULTRA #34 - Holy Lacrimony - Michael DeForge

08 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"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 ...

DUBLIN EVENT MAY 10th - Barbaric Genius Extended Cut Screening/ Director Q+A/ Vsevolod Plotkin Noise Set

26 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Full details of the event are here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/event-dublin-may-127442825

Deep Territory #12 - Front Toward Enemy

04 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"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'...

Deep Territory #9 - Lanark - Alasdair Gray

01 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"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, thi...

Deep Territory #8 - The Erstwhile - Brian Catling

08 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

'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 a...

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

27 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"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...

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

19 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"And in Hell beneath & a mighty & awful change threatend the Earth. The American War began. All its dark horrors passed before my face..." - William B...

Deep Territory #2 - The Vorrh - B Catling

29 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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

SFULTRA #33 - UXA.GOV - Blake Butler

14 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"The Stumbling Block is an ark of extinction. A bouillon hive of the murdered past, frozen dry to a mass. Something has warmed its corner, the oxoed g...

SFULTRA #32 - The Third Policeman - Flann O'Brien

26 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Cough up a pointless lecture Does it matter? Vomit me more conjecture Doesn't matter Argue till your left brain dies Does it matter? Presume to abuse...

SFULTRA #31 - The Cipher - Kathe Koja

10 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"...okay, that's life, that's what I was told anyway And picking your feet till they bleed may be the half of it If every fourth animal in the world i...

SFULTRA #30 - Rammellzee - Racing For Thunder

26 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"BE WHO YOU ARE, WRECK THEM, AND THEN DIE" - Rammellzee

Explanatory Collapse #20 - On The Beach: Empty Space

09 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"There are no castles without ghosts And no spirits without hope But nobody passes the test of time I do not fear the buried sounds Of words that echo...

Explanatory Collapse #19 - On The Beach: Nova Swing

02 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"For every detective novel, regardless of its story, is for every reader, above all, a novel about himself: about what happened to the reader as a hum...

Explanatory Collapse #17 - On The Beach: Light

25 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Some roads are only seen at night Ghost roads, nothing but neon signs But some nights, the neon gas gets free And turns into walking dead like me And...

Explanatory Collapse #9 - Viriconium Pt 3

06 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

patreon.com/sfultra "...'For I aint, you must know,' said Betty, 'much of a hand at reading writing-hand, though I can read my Bible and most print. ...

Explanatory Collapse #8 - Viriconium Pt 2

30 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"The fire of wild abandon burns so beautiful and bright The ashes fade away after consuming all the light The fire of wild abandon burns so beautiful ...

Explanatory Collapse #7 - Viriconium Pt 1

22 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"I have said before that the music is the words and the words are the music. It is all there for you to understand if you can and for you to feel, reg...

SFULTRA #29 - Liege-Killer - Christopher Hinz

18 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"I fire myself ten times a day I throw myself in a watery grave With fourteen horses on top of my head I hear the voice again and again" - I Fire Myse...

SFULTRA #28 - The Third Eye - Lobsang Rampa

04 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"eurt si em tuoba yas yeht gnihtyrevE" - Euphoria, Kendrick Lamar (intro sample from The Wiz) I'm happy to welcome back Matt to tackle this terribl...

SFULTRA #27 - Monarch - Candice Wuehle

21 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"...Thank God you let me crash on your couch Who's my God that I'm prayin' to now? … Made her go home, felt the virus Web of life is my weed, false ...

SFULTRA #26 - Radiant Terminus - Antoine Volodine

03 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"You lie in the graveyard Well you're rotting away When I talk to you daily You've got nothing to say You lie in the graveyard Well you are down maki...

SFULTRA #25 - Mumbo Jumbo - Ishmael Reed

16 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Fear stalks the land. (As usual; so what else is new?)" - Ishmael Reed, Mumbo Jumbo

SFULTRA #24 - Blue Lard - Vladimir Sorokin

02 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"He looked round her drawing-room and marvelled how he, who prided himself on not being able to endure any-thing in bad taste, could tolerate this cha...

WDYTYA?IA #5 - The Fifth Wound - Aurora Mattia

22 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Who Do You Think You Are? I Am. is a Perfect Taste Forever series about memoir and biography. PFT is usually patreon exclusive but this episode is fre...

SFULTRA #23 - How I Killed The Universal Man - Thomas Kendall

18 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"I'm living a fake, People say "You are entitled to and great" But I haven't wrote for 90 days, I'll get a good deal and I'll go away, Away from the e...

SFULTRA #22 - An Exchange Of Hostages - Susan R. Matthews

31 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"I do not deny that, among an infinite number of acts of violence and folly, some good may have been done. They who destroy everything certainly will ...

SFULTRA #21 - The Physiognomy -Jeffery Ford

20 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"...when I put on my holster, I put God out of my mind" - Cop

SFULTRA #20 - The Warren - Brian Evenson

05 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"He did not work for posterity, nor did he work for God, whose literary preferences were largely unknown to him." - The Secret Miracle, Jorge Louis Bo...

SFULTRA #19 - Overlay - Barry Malzberg

19 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"Delight dwindles. Blame stays the same." - Briggflatts: An Autobiography, Basil Bunting I'm happy to welcome Matt on this last episode of SFUltra for...

SFULTRA #18 - Ruination - Katie Jean Shinkle

06 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"At the top of the hill You watch the world below Writhing with life You have two heads You feel one pushing out Trying to see ...

SFULTRA #17 - Sweet Blood/The Birth Machine - Elizabeth Baines

30 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"Sometimes when I get up and emerge from the mists of slumber, my whole room hurts, my whole bedroom, the view from the window hurts, kids go to schoo...

SFULTRA #16 - Revival - Stephen King

07 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"Death's meaning I cannot read. To me death is above all things a smell, a very bad smell, and that, like the skeletons which terrify children, is not...

SKULL FRICTION ULTRA - The Magician - Christopher Zeischegg

30 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"The relation between God and human beings is often mediated by the sign of the weapon" - Elaine Scarry

SFULTRA #15 - The Anubis Gates - Tim Powers

12 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"All alone at the '64 World's Fair Eighty dolls yelling "Small girl after all" Who was at the DuPont Pavilion? Why was the bench still warm? Who had b...

SFULTRA #14 - I Who Have Never Known Men - Jacqueline Harpman

28 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"Being empty, not being a complete, separate being, having no self to groove on and needing to be constantly in female company, he sees nothing at all...

SFULTRA #13 - Memoirs Found in a Bathtub - Stanisław Lem

16 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

There's something they aren't telling us. Something we don't know about. There's more to it. There's always more to it. This is what history consists ...

Murder House Sold #5 - The larger the prisoner's pain, the larger the torturer's world.

06 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

I'm happy to welcome Astrid Rose on this fifth episode of Murder House Sold, a Perfect Taste Forever miniseries about True Crime. We talk about Gor...

SFULTRA #12 - The Employees - Olga Ravn

01 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"Art is creation in response to lack. Quite different from a stand-in for the archetype, which must be there, somewhere, the art object is a kind of f...

SFULTRA #11 - Cleansed - Sarah Kane

17 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"Rattled by and by As if someone was right Drawn and downed Indifference stands But a light from deep It glows They must have seen it too Ratt...

Murder House Sold #2 - "...in cold blood with not a bother on him"

10 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

I'm happy to welcome Mark O'Connell on this second episode of Murder House Sold, a Perfect Taste Forever miniseries about True Crime, to talk about hi...

SFULTRA #10 - Ice - Anna Kavan

06 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"I know that. The difference between male and female perversion. The action of the man is directed toward a symbol, not himself. The woman acts agains...

OhleFans - The Age Of Sinatra - David Ohle

21 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"Ok, that's life, that's what I was told anyway And picking your feet till they bleed may only be the half of it If every fourth animal in the world i...

Ohle? Olé Olé - Motorman - David Ohle

04 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"Well, they called me a little so and so and so Yeah? Now they're hummin' a different tune Oh, this is a job for a stupid man Smoke it down to the f...

SFULTRA #9 - We Who Are About To... - Joanna Russ

21 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"The streets were empty as I drove home, the air was cool and the sky was dark Streetlamps cast their mockery of light over ghostly shapes in an empt...

SFULTRA #8 - I, Vampire - Jody Scott

07 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"Besides myself, the basement is totally empty. It is dark and musty. It serves no purpose. And yet the entire world is down here, the whole universe"...

SFULTRA #7 - Babel-17 - Samuel R Delany

25 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"If I'm the talker, here's the thing Just who the hell is listening? And if I am not tongue but ears Then whose voice is it that I hear? I swallow, ch...

SFULTRA #6 - The Dispossessed - Ursula K Le Guin

10 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"Well, is it true what they say about it? You oughta do what I do and doubt it He won and now he's gonna do something about it Ain't it sad? And if y...

SFULTRA #5 - Camp Concentration - Thomas M Disch

26 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"A group of us, just strangers, got together and we formed a committee to discuss the problem, We talked about things like assured mutual destruction ...

SFULTRA #4 - Rogue Moon - Algis Budrys

12 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"And I keep on losing count, I'm the dumbest girl alive And I'm picking up the pacе, I'm so happy, I could die Put emojis on my grave, I'm thе dumbe...

SFULTRA #3 - Electric Forest - Tanith Lee

29 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"The goal of the torturer is to make the one, the body, emphatically and crushingly present by destroying it, and to make the other, the voice, absen...

SFULTRA #2 - Doloriad - Missouri Williams

15 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"Blood essence Order in the world now Possessions, a bow tied around the hair You let me cut, you let me cut Delusions, black out Arrogance, black o...

SFULTRA #1 - High Rise - JG Ballard

01 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"Thus science marches on blindly, without regard to the real welfare of the human race or to any other standard, obedient only to the psychological ne...

SFULTRA #0 - Why Science Fiction?

01 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

I try to explain why I've embarked on this project.

HOPDB #31 - Noroi: The Curse

31 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Donation link: https://www.masi.ie/support-us/ Kickstarter Link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/deathwound/beyond-the-book-of-eibon A daily ...