This was the first year I watched Eurovision, in no small part thanks to Catherynne Valente’s wonderful Space Opera. I think they owe her some royalties, or at least the chance to do publicity for them. If you’ve read anything by Valente, you already know how rad that would be. If you haven’t, Space Opera …

Perhaps you, the humble wizard, are deep within the stacks of the archives, but when it comes to those tomes on the arcane arts you’re having a hard time of it. You’ve been pouring over glyphs, runes, and cryptic dead languages trying to brush up on your school of magic. While you examine those dusty …

Did you know we were gone? Did you miss us? We are back now for Season 5 – are you excited? WE NEED REASSURANCES, OKAY? This week, Sarah tells us about how Dudley got demented, the gang discuss their book 5 preconceptions, and the Battle for the Quizzich Cup begins!! Find us on Twitter at …

Signing up for a competition in Alondia is never quite as simple as it seems. The Brute Force meet a new friend, Mort makes a new enemy, and Ezra gets a new name. If you wish to support the show and get some goodies in the process, please check out the Patreon at Patreon.com/bruteforce. Brute …

Things are really picking up steam in this weeks episode! We get the biggest surprise reveal of the entire season and with it brings new questions and possibilities! Bernard is playing the latest in VR, MIB and daughter have a real heart to heart with bean man, and Dolores has a brand new Teddy.  The …

“It’s like Romeo and Juliet meets Mad Max meets X-Men with a little bit of Blade Runner cheering from the sidelines.” With a tagline like that, there was no way I wasn’t going to pick up Lifel1k3, even though the leetspeak title made me wince. But the problem with comparing yourself to an iconic work …

Due the to busy or sick state of the cast this week we chose to lean into the weird and do another mailbag episode! Thank you to all the folks who wrote in, mainly on twitter, to ask us questions. We could have chatted for 13 hours but we knew we had to save some …

We continue our 3-part review of the legendary Cowboy Bebop! Featuring mutated lobster monsters and ex girlfriends on Ganymede. You can also find us on; Vince (@vincekenny), Kym (@kymcattys) and Ben (@benstonick). Special guest Nika Howard can be found @nika_howard! Or! Drop us an email address with transformationsequence@gmail.com. You can listen to Transformation sequence on Stitcher, too! http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/transformation-sequence …

The Poppy War is the debut young adult novel written by R.F. Kuang, inspired and set in China’s 19th and early 20th century. War orphan Fang Runin, aka Rin, seeks to escape being married off to an older man for his influence on trade for her drug dealing adoptive parents. She spends two years preparing …

Sorry for the late episode! Someone forgot their audio. Anyway, this weeks episode takes us to Shogun world and we get to meet a bunch of familiar characters with new faces. The pieces are beginning to fall into place and how we get to robot soup is still quite the mystery.  Maeve is picking up …