Official OLS Episodes – One Last Sketch
Discussions of science fiction, fantasy, and history with a semi-regular cast of friends from across Canada.
- Update frequency
- every 61 days
- Episodes
- 66
- Years Active
- 2012 - 2025
Episode 23 – Two for One
Our ill-advised experiment drags on as we play our way through Revolt of the Dwarves and The Dragon’s Ransom. Despite covering two books, this might well be our shortest episode yet.
Only one more b…
Episode 22 – It’s a Gamma World (After All)
The Dungeoneering Edition of the podcast continues with Light on Quests Mountain.
(We’re sorry. We’re so, so sorry.)
Episode 21 – Dungeoneering Edition
I found a stack of TSR Endless Quest Books at the dump. After that, this podcast was inevitable.
Episode 19.5 (?) – Voluntour-de-force!
Cross-posted with Iatropexy. Thus the dueling theme songs.
We watch Doc Zone’s last documentary, Volunteers Unleashed.
Then…we rant.
Episode 19 – The Man in the Pod Castle
It’s 1962. Marijuana is legal in California, massive amounts of farmland was recently recovered from the Mediterranean, and human colonization of the Solar System has begun. Everything seems just pe…
Episode 18 – The Long and Rambling Conversation of Dune
Frank Hebert’s Dune is one of the most influential science fiction novels of all time. Naturally, we have a lot to say about it.
Episode 17 – A Podcast for Leibowitz
Science! Religion! History! A far-ranging discussion of Walter M. Miller, Jr.’s epic post-apocalyptic Catholic-monks-in-Utah novel A Canticle for Leibowitz.
NotAnEpisode – Dracula Unedited
We watched Dracula Untold, then tried to salvage the utterly ruined evening by recording a podcast wherein I mispronounce “caricature”, Marie talks about bad anime shows, and Cory is confused.
Our v…
Episode 16 – A Very Disappointing Evening
We spent the last few weeks experiencing what Canadian cinema has to offer. This was the result:
Episode 15 – A Lot of People Look Alike
We talk about an obscure 13th-century French verse romance you’ve probably never heard of: The Romance of Eustace the Monk.
Episode 14 – Battle Hatchers of Dragonland
Alternative Title: The Episode with Dragons in It.
Marie and I survey classic (and not-so-classic) Middle Grade and YA literature that include dragons. Special mention goes to Patricia C. Wrede’s D…
Episode 13 – Brown Girl in the CanLit Scene
We discuss Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson (which I already reviewed here), then get caught up in a discussion about Canada Reads and CanLit.
Episode 10 – The Left Hand of Podcasts
One year after the initially-planned recording date, we finally get around to talking about the works of Ursula K. Le Guin–specifically, The Left Hand of Darkness and The Word for World is Forest.
Episode 9 – Beyond Hungerdome
Two podcasters enter. One podcaster leaves.
In this eleventh episode, we discuss Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games trilogy, and ponder over the oddity of the Capitol’s urban planning.
Episode 8 – Eeee!
The Lizzie Bennet Diaries concluded this past Thursday, so naturally, Marie & I decided to babble about it. How can two people who care not a whit for Jane Austen come to enjoy an adaptation of Pri…
Episode 7 – And then the Fit Hit the Shan
A three-way discussion of Roger Zelazny’s Lord of Light, in which the fit really hits the Shan (tee hee hee). Dow…
Episode 6 – Steampunk and Alternate History, Part the Second: Curse you, Turtledove!
What, THIS scenario again?
And we complete our saga, by talking about Nazis, trench warfare, and the stupidity of some reptilian space invaders.