The Book Lovers – a conversation with Steve Aylett

Steve Aylett, Moorcock's favourite modern absurdist and one-man genre, drops by Derry and Toms to talk about his work, satire and his latest novel The Book Lovers (available Dec 2nd 2024). This was a real treat for me as I've been a fan of Steve's since happening across Lint in a King's Cross bookshop nearly 20 years … Continue reading The Book Lovers – a conversation with Steve Aylett →

Warhounds and Witch Hammers (MM & RPGs VIII maybe?)

For this almost-delve into Moorcock's dark and inspired quest fantasy The Warhound and the World's Pain, I'm joined by author, playwright and Games Master David Griffiths. Inevitably, we ended up going down various routes in a wide-ranging conversation including Target Books (again), Moorcock and other inspirations, roleplaying games and, eventually, The Warhound and the World's … Continue reading Warhounds and Witch Hammers (MM & RPGs VIII maybe?) →

Halloween Special 2024 – Guy N Smith’s SABAT

The patrons spoke and this year's full-bore Halloween Special is Sabat - The Graveyard Vultures (and more) by Guy N Smith... It's fair to say that this one was challenging, and not just because our hero is a massive wanker. There's more... much more... Content warning for sexual violence and exasperated hosts.

Entropic State Report 22nd October 2024

Halloween is rampaging towards us and, following some technical issues, we managed to get our Halloween Special recorded and in the can...SABAT!And Holy shit. It was not what I expected, but I'll keep my powder dry on that one. Thoughts of Phil, Graham and me coming up in a couple of weeks.Meanwhile though, I had … Continue reading Entropic State Report 22nd October 2024 →

SLIMER (Halloween 2024)

In this, our third (?) Halloween episode for 2024, we tackle the book Loz describes as, "crass, bluff and gittish"! It's SLIMER... our second experience of Harry Adam Knight action on Breakfast in the Ruins and it certainly was a book. Interesting developments on the 'base under siege by weird monster' are brought low by … Continue reading SLIMER (Halloween 2024) →

The House on the Borderland (Halloween 2024)

We are firmly in our Halloween groove. The eco-horror of Pisces Rising may have given us a light step into the season, but now we're up to our necks in it and our choices for this year not only include the winner and one of the runners-up from this year's patron poll, but we're also … Continue reading The House on the Borderland (Halloween 2024) →

Breakfast with Robert (a Prelude to Bastable)

In this bonus fix-up episode, I meet up with our pen-pal Robert MacMillan in a coffee shop in Bradford to set the scene for our journey into the worlds of Bastable… this wasn't our initial plan. Still, life intervenes in strange ways sometimes and we follow the moonbeam roads as we must. As well as Moorcock, … Continue reading Breakfast with Robert (a Prelude to Bastable) →

Entropic State Report 13th September 2024

We're into September and ten days from the autumn equinox, so technically it's still summer. You wouldn't believe it from the thermometer though. It's a balmy eight degrees C this morning in the hills of Bradford. Brrrrrr. So we need activity to keep us warm and as you may have seen, we fired out a … Continue reading Entropic State Report 13th September 2024 →

BARBARIAN BINGO: Thongor and Brak

From the North he came, to seek knowledge and fortune. Cast out by his tribe for offending Ulfr, God of the Wastes, he is driven by mirth, restrained by melancholy. One day he will return to make offerings to the Bear Druids, particularly Mewler the Claw. She thinks he’s an idiot but owes him a … Continue reading BARBARIAN BINGO: Thongor and Brak →

BEFORE ARMAGEDDON

New traveller Liam Jones drops by Derry & Toms to discuss one of his favourite things... Victorian Invasion literature... as we tackle the Moorcock-edited anthology Before Armageddon, a collection of Victorian and Edwardian imaginative fiction. Liam also teaches me about the Parisian dandy criminals, the Apaches! (Who I must now write into my next game...) And … Continue reading BEFORE ARMAGEDDON →