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It's a SHELVED BY GENRE day, and we're talking the final part of A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ: come ponder with us cyclical history and the annihilation of nuclear war (again), the wedding of science and mysticism, and the shortcomings of institutional religion: rangedtouch.com/2025/06/06/a...

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"of course the papa must be stolen. a papa cannot simply live, a papa must be murdered or taken"

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It's a bright, sunny day here in the remains of the world, and right on time to catch the critical discussion at its highpoint, TOO MUCH FUTURE has returned with our thoughts on the first half of the Fallout TV series from last year. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZYA...

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A Saturday drop for GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES, as we dive into GAMING THE SYSTEM by David J. Gunkel to chat about deconstruction and virtual worlds, which goes some places we think are useful and other places where, maybe, we think it could be pushed a bit further. rangedtouch.com/2025/05/31/8...

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We've learned that some listeners have trouble telling Michael and CMRN apart. It's actually pretty simple: Michael is the one with the sword, while CMRN is the one with the sickle.

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we are continuing to read Teen Michael's favorite book, so tune in to hear me go on a long jag about Petrarch?? also this is the part of the book New Vegas comes from

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Today on SHELVED BY GENRE continues its unit on POST APOCALYPSE by discussing PART TWO of A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ. Will everything change except for war? Can an abbot deal with this Isaac Newton? Learn more in the episode FREE wherever you get podcasts and also here: rangedtouch.com/2025/05/23/a...

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The vault door swings wide once more, spilling the light of day on our Fallout show TOO MUCH FUTURE, in which we FINALLY discuss what everyone wants to hear about: the Fallout TV show's flavored coffee tie-ins and the Magic: The Gathering crossover set from last year. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKA0...

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A new bonus episode for our Patreon supporters today, as the Shelved By Genre crew returns to the Sprawl for a big old William Gibson Q&A session: www.patreon.com/posts/shelve...

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And now up for our patrons: a monthly podcast in which CMRN and Danni reflect on Adepticon and talk through their hauls! www.patreon.com/posts/128990...

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Better late than never: a midmonth roundup newsletter to remind you all what Ranged Touch got up to in April: www.patreon.com/posts/128990...

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we live in a beautiful world

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This months, Patreon supporters are in for a treat of a JUST KING THINGS Bonus Episode, on 2011's very weird BAG OF BONES TV miniseries adaptation and the numerous odd choices it makes about accents, trees, and recognizable actors. www.patreon.com/posts/just-k...

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Join patreon.com/rangedtouch to hear us talk about 2011's BAG OF BONES, a truly terrible (and yet extremely weird) adaptation of the Stephen King novel. It has one of the funniest things I have ever seen in a tv movie - Pierce Brosnan getting electrocuted with tree powers so hard he pukes. Sound up

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Florida! Ghosts! Paintings that reshape reality itself! Trauma and memory! Filling flashlights with water to stop tiny statues from coming to life! All this and more as JUST KING THINGS tackles 2008's pretty dang good haunted island/magic painting novel DUMA KEY: rangedtouch.com/2025/05/12/d...

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this shirt up for one more week

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Today on SHELVED BY GENRE: a new unit begins, as the bombs fall and everything changes... except for our love of reading books! We start our sojourn through the post-apocalypse by reading the first third of Walter Miller's A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ. rangedtouch.com/2025/05/09/a...

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we once did a thing where we said if we hit X patreon subscribers we would immediately begin a homestuck show, which created Homestuck Made This World what if we also did this for Twin Peaks

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On Friday there's going to be a brand new Shelved By Genre episode out. It's a canticle for someone...but I can't remember...a canticle....

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It's a great book!

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Hello! Ranged Touch is a podcast network touching on various aspects of popular culture. A selection of currently running shows is below, and everything we do and have done (including a completed Actual Play series and a longform series on the webcomic Homestuck) can be found at rangedtouch.com

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The 81st episode of GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES is here, and it's covering a book both Michael and CMRN agree achieves a quiet revolution for game studies, Kristine Jorgensen's GAMEWORLD INTERFACES, reframing what digital games as objects are and how we do with them: rangedtouch.com/2025/04/30/8...

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SHELVED BY GENRE LISTENERS: Any outstanding questions for our William Gibson unit? Get them to us at QuestionedByGenre at gmail before the end of the week for the Bonus Episode Q&A!

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oh frozen head, what're we doing here

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In a couple weeks: The new SBG unit begins! Join us for a post-apocalypse variety platter by reading along with the schedule below, or just listen in for the conversation as you navigate the arid wastes over the months to come.

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SHELVED BY GENRE concludes the cyberpunk unit with the Hallmark-produced extravaganza VIRTUAL OBSESSION, an erotic technothriller from 1998 primetime television that features an Albert Einstein hologram, child actor Jake Lloyd, and a healthy dose of weird body horror: rangedtouch.com/2025/04/25/v...

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For Patreon supporters, today we've got a new Shelved By Genre bonus episode on the uniquely 90s techno-caper film SNEAKERS, which we all had a great time watching: www.patreon.com/posts/126937...

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New on the Patreon: a free episode in which @ckunzelman.bsky.social interviews miniature artist totally_not_panicking at Adepticon! www.patreon.com/posts/126683...

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New on Patreon, a JUST KING THING Bonus episode pairing this month's BLAZE with the 2022 remake of FIRESTARTER (more interesting than you've been led to believe, btw) for reasons that should be obvious: www.patreon.com/posts/just-k...

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New JUST KING THINGS episode: the strange era of the 2000s stretches onward as our Uncle Stevie returns to the Richard Bachman pseudonym to spin a tale out of another era and genre, which isn't ultimately too bad, but does have some trademark Kingian touches: rangedtouch.com/2025/04/14/b...

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For our patrons: there's a 40-minute podcast recorded live on the floor of Adepticon! #TheYearOfTTRPGs www.patreon.com/posts/126569...

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Battlebots! A realm of digital ghosts! And a computer that is also a lightly obnoxious English boy! Worlds collide in the latest SHELVED BY GENRE as we finish up the Sprawl Trilogy, concluding MONA LISA OVERDRIVE, where Molly Millions finally takes center stage: rangedtouch.com/2025/04/11/m...

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For our PATREON SUPPORTERS ONLY: the latest episode of MICHAEL ON MICHAEL, with @ztul.bsky.social watching Michael Bay's fourth film PEARL HARBOR and having... well, having some sort of time. www.patreon.com/posts/michae...

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The new GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES is here: join Michael and CMRN as they discover a little thing called "online gaming" consider how it functions as a social, mediating, and performative technology as they talk through the recent documentary, GRAND THEFT HAMLET. rangedtouch.com/2025/03/31/8...

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SHELVED BY GENRE has begun the final book of William Gibson's Sprawl Trilogy, today reading the first half of MONA LISA OVERDRIVE and getting a glimpse into a bizarre future where popular influencers use artificial intelligence to generate meaningless content: rangedtouch.com/2025/03/28/m...

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The next SHELVED BY GENRE unit has been decided: we're doing a POST-APOCALYPSE VARIETY SHOW, with A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller Dr. Bloodmoney by Philip K. Dick Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson Grabbing them through our Bookshop list helps us out: bookshop.org/lists/shelve...

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New free five-hour podcast on Caves of Qud?? New free five-hour podcast on Caves of Qud. www.patreon.com/posts/march-...

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MONA LISA DRINK-AND-DRIVE (DON'T SHARE THIS ONE OR FAVE IT OR ANYTHING I'M JUST WRITING IT DOWN HERE UNTIL THIS PLACE ADDS DRAFTS)

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On the Patreon today is the SHELVED BY GENRE Bonus Episode on Kathryn Bigelow's 1995 cybernoir masterwork STRANGE DAYS, difficult to procure but hugely influential in ways that may be surprising. Plus we talk about a theoretical Benoit Blanc giallo movie. www.patreon.com/posts/124853...

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SHELVED BY GENRE concludes COUNT ZERO, the second part of William Gibson's Sprawl Trilogy, as all the characters smack into each other and weird voodoo computer gods start flexing their muscle. Meanwhile, we break to discuss the career of the beloved Michael Strahan: rangedtouch.com/2025/03/14/c...

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Want to know what Ranged Touch were up to in February and what we're going to be up to in March? The FREE monthly newsletter covers all that! www.patreon.com/posts/march-...

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Already in tears and the beginning of this episode, whomst among us hasn’t found a bad thing to be good to be bad

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