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the teen with a DSLR who took a pic of my "epic" Ranged Touch Investigates The Cascade shirt is THE Fourth Host Of Shelved By Genre

For our Patreon supporters today, a SHELVED BY GENRE Q&A Bonus Ep on our post-apocalypse unit, in which we answer YOUR questions about genre, the various books we've read, and also which fictional characters we would reincarnate www.patreon.com/posts/136027...

a helpful hint from cowboy michael

In Syndication: Eschatology and Genesis | Podcast Episode on RSS.com In Syndication ends this week with something a little different, a dark fantasy audio drama commissioned by Ranged Touch. and Shelved by Genre. It's dense, it requires interpretation, and producing it...

This week we're sharing some fiction, an audio drama adaptation of a piece of The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolf, originally produced for @rangedtouch.bsky.social. Dr Talos' Play: Eschatology and Genesis, In Syndication rss.com/podcasts/wsk...

For our Patreon supporters today, a SHELVED BY GENRE Q&A Bonus Ep on our post-apocalypse unit, in which we answer YOUR questions about genre, the various books we've read, and also which fictional characters we would reincarnate www.patreon.com/posts/136027...

new Michaels unlocked: Geranium Michael, National Treasure Michael

i'm also reading Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson along with @rangedtouch.bsky.social's Shelved by Genre and gee it's good

January - The Colorado Kid February - Cell March - Lisey's Story April - Blaze May - Duma Key June - Just After Sunset July - Under the Dome August - Full Dark, No Stars September - 11/22/63 October - The Wind Through the Keyhole November - A Face in the Crowd December - Joyland

A few people have asked after the upcoming itinerary for Just King Things--we keep the yearly schedule updated in our Discord and used to post it on the other place, but forgot to drop it here. So better late than never!

here you go bsky.app/profile/rang...

January - The Colorado Kid February - Cell March - Lisey's Story April - Blaze May - Duma Key June - Just After Sunset July - Under the Dome August - Full Dark, No Stars September - 11/22/63 October - The Wind Through the Keyhole November - A Face in the Crowd December - Joyland

A few people have asked after the upcoming itinerary for Just King Things--we keep the yearly schedule updated in our Discord and used to post it on the other place, but forgot to drop it here. So better late than never!

This is my audience when I was listening to @rangedtouch.bsky.social go at Baudrillard. A second order simulacrum of a derelict battlefield from scraps. open.spotify.com/episode/12s8...

Also, it's short notice, but if you have any burning post-apocalypse questions, get them in by TONIGHT for the Bonus Ep Q&A in a few weeks!! questionedbygenre at gmail dot com

Today we finish BROWN GIRL IN THE RING, featuring one of the coolest climaxes in fiction as Toronto's CN Tower becomes a massive conduit between the mortal and spirit realms. Plus, a bunch of tech-savvy street urchins with hologram machines get a small business loan. rangedtouch.com/2025/08/01/b...

Did you know? CMRN and Michael have an essay on CLR James in the new collection HISTORIOGRAPHIES OF GAME STUDIES, which is open access and has an incredible number of essays and interviews of interest anyone interested in game studies. Congrats to all contributors! punctumbooks.com/titles/histo...

GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES continues the Summer of Simulation with a very long episode on a very short but very odd and very difficult book, one often referenced but rarely fully read and contextualized: Jean Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation. rangedtouch.com/2025/07/31/8...

we keep a schedule posted in the jkt channel on the ranged touch discord and update it year by year! here's this year's

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this is one of the best books i've ever read, i couldn't wait for this episode so i could read the rest, and I read each half in one sitting lol

you'll get there

You've got one week left to finish Brown Girl in the Ring!

July 2025 | Ranged Touch Get more from Ranged Touch on Patreon

We've got a new patreon-exclusive monthly podcast where @badsavingthrow.bsky.social and @ckunzelman.bsky.social talk about the games they are playing for two hours -- and they only edited out ONE argument about movement trays! $5 for this and a huge backlog! www.patreon.com/posts/july-2...

July 2025 | Ranged Touch Get more from Ranged Touch on Patreon

We've got a new patreon-exclusive monthly podcast where @badsavingthrow.bsky.social and @ckunzelman.bsky.social talk about the games they are playing for two hours -- and they only edited out ONE argument about movement trays! $5 for this and a huge backlog! www.patreon.com/posts/july-2...

Brown girl in the ring is so good, just a totally electrifying novel, and the discussion in this ep brings out such interesting elements of the text. Totally worth a read + listen

On SHELVED BY GENRE we're starting the last book of our post-apocalypse unit, journeying to Canada with a post-collapse near-future where science, magic, politics, and family intertwine in Nalo Hopkinson's BROWN GIRL IN THE RING: rangedtouch.com/2025/07/18/b...

i'm in my unread king era and spitting the truly controversial takes now, such as "under the dome is better than the stand"

This month's BONUS EPISODE for Just King Things covers the first season of the very, very, very different TV series version of UNDER THE DOME. It's not very good? And our Microsoft Surface tablets tell us it only gets more very, very, very different www.patreon.com/posts/134130...

This month's BONUS EPISODE for Just King Things covers the first season of the very, very, very different TV series version of UNDER THE DOME. It's not very good? And our Microsoft Surface tablets tell us it only gets more very, very, very different www.patreon.com/posts/134130...

exclusive behind-the-scenes featurette

The day is warm, the air oddly still. The town sleeps fitfully, as if knowing a War on Terror allegory is about to play out there under some oppressive force... and we're talking about it all in the latest JUST KING THINGS, for which we read 2009's UNDER THE DOME! rangedtouch.com/2025/07/14/u...