It’s the TMTYR/Hugos There Podcast crossover you’ve all been waiting for! For Halloween 2019, the Pavement Pounders discuss the 2019/1944 Retro Hugo Award for Best Novel winner, Conjure Wife, by Fritz Lieber, and its three (!) movie adaptations.
We’ve been warned by at least one woman that any female readers/listeners may hate read/watch. We understand this.
Rankings!:
Colin:
- book
- 1962 film
- 1980 film
- 1944 film
James:
- book
- 1962 film
- 1980 film
- 1944 film
Seth:
- 1962 film
- book
- 1980 film
- 1944 film
Notes:
Original Novel from Unknown Worlds:
http://www.unz.com/print/Unknown-1943apr-00009/?View=PDF
Burn, Witch, Burn! (1962 film) on Amazon Video (no longer Prime, sorry):
https://www.amazon.com/Burn-Witch-Janet-Blair/dp/B009EOBB4C
History of the book’s publication:
https://www.blackgate.com/2014/02/15/lust-women-and-the-devil-seven-decades-of-fritz-leibers-conjure-wife/
Chris Rock bit on taking credit for things you’re supposed to do (content warning: all the n-words):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0B_ekSrsEk
Scriabin’s Piano Sonata #9 (hot garbage):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENxotmXmvGw
This time, the Pavement Pounders discuss the 1944 Fredric Brown short story “Arena”, which was adapted into a Star Trek TOS episode (S1E18), may have inspired the TNG episode “The Last Outpost” (S1E5), and there’s also an Outer Limits episode, “Fun and Games (S1E27).”