36. Casual Tek
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Welcome to Casual Tek, a podcast all about the prose of William Shatner! Is that not what we’re doing here? Well, if only because we could use the name “Casual Tek” it is this time! After months of Charlie trying and failing to get a copy of TekWar he finally has one, so it’s time for he and Miles to delve into William Shatner’s attempt at a cyberpunk noir tale. We do some reading from the book and try to explain what TekWar’s about, what the technology’s like and then desperately want to take some Tek in order to forget this reading experience! Normal service will be resumed shortly as we’ll be returning to Star Trek to ‘gift’ each other an episode in time for Christmas.
Timecodes:
0:00 – A Dramatic reading from the introduction of the book
23:32 – We actually start talking about TekWar
34:51 – Miles tries to explain TekWar. From there we kind of go all over the place.
Talking points include: NaNoWriMo, Blade Runner, Film Noir, Cyberpunk, Johnny Mnemonic, CyberPunk 2020, ShadowRun, that neon clubwear shop in Sydney Street in Brighton, The Big Lebowski, Gerry Anderson’s UFO, Geek Syndicate, Monarch, Transformers, Garth Marenghi, Breakfast in the Ruins, Tarnsmen of Gor, James Herbert, Just King Things, I Don’t Even Own a Television (RIP), Ed Brubaker, Agatha Christie, World of Darkness 1 point Disadvantages, Lost, Red Dwarf, Judge Dredd, faxes, the times Charlie threw his Kindle, Fifty Shades of Grey. Oh, and of course TekWar!
Pedant’s Corner: The cover image is not what Ron Goulart looks like.
Music by Alfred Etheridge-Nunn. Read Miles’s blog or Charlie’s blog.
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