The Podcasters of the Apocalypse, on the My Internet Has Stopped Working podcast, take on A Season of Wonder, a holiday collection that swaps cozy nostalgia for time travel as confrontation—using the past not as escape, but as a proving ground for faith, grief, and identity. These stories ask why holidays pull us backward in time and what it costs when technology makes that pull literal. In Harlan Ellison’s “Go Toward the Light,” a future scientist intervenes during the desecration of the Temple in Jerusalem, reframing the Hanukkah miracle as an act of choice rather than myth. Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s “Loop” turns the lens inward, using a holiday marked by loss to show that even infinite do-overs can’t erase grief—only clarify it. It’s science fiction that challenges tradition, unsettles comfort, and gives the season of wonder real teeth.

Using Google Notebook I created a short supplemental episode exploring my thoughts on George Orr as God and contrasting his theology with that of Frank Herbert's Leto II and Robert Browning's Setabos. Three starkly different ideas of what an embodied God might look like.

In Stephen King's “The Breathing Method” — A woman takes her Lamaze lessons very seriously, a doctor joins a secret storytelling club where reality occasionally forgets its boundaries, and somewhere between birth and death, the universe takes a deep, unsettling breath. In this chilly corner of Stephen King’s multiverse, manners matter, stories have rules, and persistence—especially maternal persistence—might just bend the laws of physics. It’s not It or The Shining; it’s quieter, stranger, and somehow colder. A tale for the long, gray November evenings when even your technology seems to stop breathing. Join the Podcasters of the Apocalypse as they dive into this under-appreciated 4th novella from King's Different Seasons. The same book that gave us The Shawshank Redemption and Stand by Me.