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215 episodes
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English
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No
Date created
2017/05/28
Latest episode
2026/10/12
Average duration
152 min.
Release period
39 days

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Brainwashing myself into loving science fiction, one book at a time.

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Me Here To Do The Thinking #3 - 88 - 08
2026/10/12
On this series, I am joined by Cameron Kunzelman so we can listen to the work of Neil Young in roughly chronological order and then talk about it. On this episode: El Dorado Freedom Way Down in the Rust Bucket Ragged Glory Weld Arc Dreamin' Man Live '92 Unplugged Harvest Moon Sleeps with Angels Mirror Ball Dead Man Broken Arrow Year of the Horse Looking Forward Silver & Gold Road Rock Vol. 1 Are You Passionate? Toast Greendale Return to Greendale Prairie Wind Living with War Living with War: In the Beginning Chrome Dreams II Here's the YouTube music playlist I used to prepare for the episode: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUDw8N12eHdw&si=sGKh8hCfuPNuk9tq Logo by Charles Forsman Theme by John from Vsevolod Plotkin
Me Here To Do The Thinking #2 - 76 - 88
2026/08/17
"People write in magazines that I make different kinds of records just to draw attention to myself. If I ever saw the little wimps that were saying that, then I'm sure that I'd have to f*****g kill them … There's many better ways to draw attention to myself. I could kill music critics if I wanted to … I could burn down Geffen Records … I could burn myself down in public if I wanted to—that would get a lot of attention, right?" - Neil Young On this series, I am joined by Cameron Kunzelman so we can listen to the work of Neil Young in roughly chronological order and then talk about it. On this episode: Long May You Run Decade American Stars 'n Bars Comes a Time Rust Never Sleeps Live Rust Hawks & Doves Re·ac·tor Trans Everybody's Rockin' Old Ways Landing on Water Life This Note's for You American Dream and, somehow, more. Here's the YouTube music playlist I used to prepare for the episode: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnq_kwIKDYN_V46nVwrshGdi8zoP8IdKT&si=RK14fXUf_JiAfdQ7 Logo by Charles Forsman Theme by John from Vsevolod Plotkin
Me Here To Do The Thinking #1 - 63 - 75
2026/07/07
"Volume's not really that important. It's the size of the room and the relationship of the sound to the enclosure it's in that makes a difference." - Neil Young On this series, I am joined by Cameron Kunzelman so we can listen to the work of Neil Young in roughly chronological order and then talk about it. On this episode: Neil Young Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere After the Gold Rush Harvest Time Fades Away Tonight's the Night On the Beach Homegrown Zuma and, somehow, more. Logo by Charles Forsman Theme by John from Vsevolod Plotkin
SFULTRA #41 - Monroe Girls - Antoine Volodine
2026/05/25
"Never stopped to wonder why then I saw black and my face splashed in the sky" - Neil Young, Powerfinger
SFULTRA #40 - Dai Dark - Q Hayashida
2026/04/13
"Many are transforming in that glorious condition normally described as decay. Transforming through splinter and chemical imbalance. By fading and forgetfulness." - Brian Catling, Lantern Slides, Several Clouds Colliding
SFULTRA #39 - His Master's Voice - Stanislaw Lem
2026/03/01
"So I think when I'm looking at you, I see you there. But I can't just explain what you are. I see you there and you could be photographed, but then after you'd been photographed, one still wouldn't know what your realism was. You'd have to find a technique by which you can give over all the pulsations of a realism of a person…  I'm talking bollocks…" - Francis Bacon, The Brutality Of Fact
SFULTRA #38 - Stars In My Pocket Like Grains Of Sand - Samuel R. Delany
2026/01/31
"If you can talk about it, why paint it?" - Francis Bacon
SFULTRA #37 - Red Hook Variations
2025/11/21
Main works discussed: The Horror at Red Hook - H. P. Lovecraft The Ballad of Black Tom - Victor LaValle The Courtyard - Alan Moore Neonomicon - Alan Moore Providence - Alan Moore "So you think you know what terror is As it stares from the newspaper page Yeah of course you all know what horror is It's the rage of the age Well, intimidation doesn't have a focus It oozes from every pore Murder doesn't bother to whisper In this f*****g town it roars" - The Badge Means You Suck, AK-47 "Old time, something come back again If you have a start, then you must have an end None of them ever could've test with the pen My pen's the equivalent to the leng" - Bad Like We, Wiley Featuring a guest appearance by non-euclidian, cacodaemoniacal podcast entity and academic Cameron Kunzleman, author of the recently published Everything Is Permitted and cohost of many podcasts on the Ranged Touch network including Just King Things and Shelved By Genre.  Interlude by the great Evil Sword. patreon.com/sfultra
SFULTRA #36 - Vurt - Jeff Noon
2025/09/28
"Tell me what you know about a man's affliction PC plod talk pure science fiction" - Cowboy Dave, Happy Mondays
Right Where You Are Sitting Now #2 - Routine Excercise
2025/07/25
"You can't have feelings alone" - William Burroughs, Naked Lunch
Right Where You Are Sitting Now #1 - My Past, Like A Terrible River
2025/07/05
Works covered: And The Hippos Were Boiled In Their Tanks Junky: The Definitve Text Of Junk Queer Yage Redux
SFULTRA #35 - Beasts - John Crowley
2025/06/13
"The elementary unit of language — the statement — is the order-word. Rather than common sense, a faculty for the centralization of information, we must define an abominable faculty consisting in emitting, receiving, and transmitting order-words. Language is made not to be believed but to be obeyed, and to compel obedience...Words are not tools, but we give children language, pens, and notebooks as we give workers shovels and pickaxes. A rule of grammar is a power marker before it is a syntactical marker. The order does not refer to prior significations or to a prior organization of distinctive units. Quite the opposite. Information is only the strict minimum necessary for the emission, transmission, and observation of orders as commands...Language is not life; it gives life orders. Life does not speak; it listens and waits." - A Thousand Plateaus, Gilles Deleuze Felix Guattari I'm happy to welcome the Booktube's best critic and only tasteful video editor Matt Bookpilled back on the show. Matt's channel is one of the main inspirations behind SFUltra and his engaging, thoughtful approach to reading means his patreon is worth it and then some. Matt's channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Bookpilled  Matt's patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Bookpilled
The Black Pool with Tim MacGabhann
2025/05/19
To celebrate the release of his memoir The Black Pool on May 22nd, I spent 2 hours boring my close friend Tim MacGabhann into unconsciousness. Book launch details: 6pm, May 22nd in Hodges Figgis Dublin. Click here to read an extract that became the opening chapter: https://thedublinreview.com/article/the-black-pool/ Link to preorder or buy The Black Pool: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Black-Pool-by-Tim-MacGabhann/9781399728232
SFULTRA #34 - Holy Lacrimony - Michael DeForge
2025/05/08
"You get under my skin I don't find it irritating, You always play to win but I won't need rehabilitating  oh no" - Another Girl Another Planet, The Only Ones
DUBLIN EVENT MAY 10th - Barbaric Genius Extended Cut Screening/ Director Q+A/ Vsevolod Plotkin Noise Set
2025/04/26
Full details of the event are here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/event-dublin-may-127442825

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4.9 out of 5
58 reviews
★★★★★
ThePodcastListener 2026/03/05
World’s Premier Snooker Podcast
Have never even bothered looking for another one after hearing this
★★★★★
Lewis R P 2024/02/20
Wonderfully weird sci-fi reviews
Sean McTiernan’s new project SFUltra is a treasure trove of weird, alternative sci-fi reads, filtered through the host’s always insightful-yet-irrever...
★★★★★
Jonnyboi95 2023/04/24
[SFULTRA] The beast at his best
Sean McTiernan, the rambling man himself, finally gives himself permission to get excited about science fiction. That happens; it's fun.
★★★★★
Jung Loud 2023/03/19
Ballin in the middle of the club no jersey
I dont want no liquor cuz i been drinkin that dirty
★★★★★
Zachairy 2021/01/30
Sick pod
Listened to 2 episodes and loved both. Spree and Murder Death Koreatown. Excellent style and love the quickness and free flowing vibe. Hope more episo...
★★★★★
skipjack_margot 2018/10/18
My new favorite!
This is one of the most thoughtful podcasts I've ever heard. It's constantly obvious that Sean never says ANYTHING without thinking about it first — w...
★★★★★
N.S. Bell 2018/01/18
a diamond of the first water
Stumbled upon Sean's writing for the Baltimore City Paper, specifically his brilliant Christmas-Not-Christmas listicle of 2016. It took me about ten s...
★★★★★
NexusRasp 2017/08/18
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Sean is engaging and intelligent, but most importantly (not important at all) he hates 99% of the same things I hate. Five stars.
★★★★★
Nueva York 2017/07/28
Hella good
most interesting film podcast
★★★★★
Cletus VD 2017/07/25
Prepared, Distilled, and Effective
Having an affection for people doing solo podcasts, I was excited to listen to All Units, more so because while I enjoyed the sporadic episodes I list...
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