Gweek 102: Peter Bebergal and Dean Putney

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Joining me in this episode:

Peter Bebergal, the author of Too Much to Dream: A Psychedelic American Boyhood and writes frequently on the speculative and slightly fringe. He is currently writing Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock ‘n’ Roll to be published by Tarcher/Penguin. He blogs at mysterytheater.blogspot.com.

Dean Putney, Boing Boing’s coding and development wizard.

Here’s what we talked about:

Soldier of the Mist by Gene Wolfe

Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats

FF by Mike Allred

OSR (Old School Renaissance) RPG games:

• Lamentations of the Flame Princess
• Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea

Candy Box and A Dark Room. New types of games popping up: minimalist in-browser text adventure/RPG hybrids

Dean’s text adventure on Omegle

Robot Film Festival.

The Ononeon

Satechi Bluetooth speaker

Metzger’s Dog, by Thomas Perry

Skooba Laptop Weekender duffle bag

The New Way Things Work

Memrise

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