The Rivers of Elfland
A spec-fic podcast featuring original Science Fiction and Fantasy, with a special love for solarpunk, historical fantasy and space opera. Currently reading "Sons of Devils," a historical fantasy by Alex R Oliver. Going out weekly on Thursdays.
Episodes
July 15, 2021 • 48 mins
In which the story closes with forgiveness for some, and death for others, as Osman's reign officially begins.
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July 13, 2021 • 38 mins
In which, Radu, Ecaterina and Frank must defeat two armies between them, and their chances of victory depend on Radu's ability to murder his own parents.
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May 6, 2021 • 66 mins
In which Constantin and Alaya remove what little masks they had left, and Osman (peace be upon him) goes outside for the first time in his life.
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April 29, 2021 • 42 mins
In which Radu is only lightly tortured, before he has a long-overdue change of heart.
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April 23, 2021 • 67 mins
In which Zayd captures an abominable gang of traitors, and Radu and Frank are lightly tortured.
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April 1, 2021 • 55 mins
In which, having been thwarted in her attempt to murder Radu, Ecaterina accepts his proposal of marriage instead. And also in which Zayd's flying carpet problem suddenly becomes relevant again.
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March 18, 2021 • 62 mins
In which, Ecaterina sets out to gain revenge on Radu, while Radu invades the Ottoman Empire with an army of vampires.
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March 4, 2021 • 74 mins
In which the shit finally hits the fan in Bucharest. Stefan turns up - very much undead - below Ecaterina's window on the night after he was buried. Ecaterina enlists Radu and Frank to help her stake him and bury him properly, and the confrontation does not go well.
Now Ecaterina suspects Radu of being in league with the vampires, Frank has had to stop the pair of them from coming to blows, Constantin - Radu's vampire father - is be...
Now Ecaterina suspects Radu of being in league with the vampires, Frank has had to stop the pair of them from coming to blows, Constantin - Radu's vampire father - is be...
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February 25, 2021 • 84 mins
In which, Frank and the Vacarescus arrive in Bucharest and it is widely assumed that Radu is down from the country to find himself a wife. Invited to a sensational party by Prime Minister Sterescu, Radu and Frank are introduced to his daughter, Ecaterina - the foremost enchantress in the country - and his teenage son Stefan, who hates parties and loves horses.
Frank is discovered to have a rare magical talent, but Radu, it turns ou...
Frank is discovered to have a rare magical talent, but Radu, it turns ou...
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February 18, 2021 • 56 mins
In this chapter, Frank finally remembers the great crime for which he was turned out of his house and exiled from his country. It isn't what he expected.
The Vacarescu household, including Mirela, set out on that trip to Bucharest that Radu has been denying his vampire parents all his life.
And elsewhere, in the Atlantic, a British ship receives the Turkish declaration of war, in a manner that makes it impossible to refuse.
The Vacarescu household, including Mirela, set out on that trip to Bucharest that Radu has been denying his vampire parents all his life.
And elsewhere, in the Atlantic, a British ship receives the Turkish declaration of war, in a manner that makes it impossible to refuse.
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February 11, 2021 • 50 mins
In the last episode, Mirela saved herself from vampire predation by taking a job as a chambermaid at the vampires' castle.
Meanwhile, Frank discovered that he'd been afraid of the wrong Vacarescu, and took a gamble on trusting Radu - the only living member of the family. Remembering that his friends were killed in the attempt to see the Vril Accumulator on Radu's lands, Frank asks to make a pilgrimage there in Protheroe's name. But...
Meanwhile, Frank discovered that he'd been afraid of the wrong Vacarescu, and took a gamble on trusting Radu - the only living member of the family. Remembering that his friends were killed in the attempt to see the Vril Accumulator on Radu's lands, Frank asks to make a pilgrimage there in Protheroe's name. But...
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February 4, 2021 • 67 mins
In this episode, Mirela flees for her life from hunting vampires, with only her own cleverness to save her.
Meanwhile Frank visits the Atlantean device that powers all the magic in Romania, and finally figures out that there is, possibly, one member of the Vacarescu family who can be trusted.
Meanwhile Frank visits the Atlantean device that powers all the magic in Romania, and finally figures out that there is, possibly, one member of the Vacarescu family who can be trusted.
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January 28, 2021 • 54 mins
In which the young daughter of the Vacarescu house defends Frank from her overly interested vampire father, the prospect of marriage to one another is repellent to both Radu and Mirella for very different reasons, and Frank utterly fails to get to the bottom of several important mysteries.
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January 21, 2021 • 65 mins
In this episode, we leave Frank to the tender mercies of his monster and go to Istanbul, where Zeyd, a harmless young peddlar of magic charms - and jellyfish enthusiast - is about to land in trouble far too big for him.
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January 14, 2021 • 59 mins
Chapter One of Sons of Devils, a historical fantasy novel by Alex R Oliver, set in 18th Century Wallachia and in Istanbul. Written by someone who loved Dracula but wished it had leaned further into the Ottoman Empire connection, and also added some wizards.
In chapter one, we meet Frank, our unlikely hero. A British linguist with a murky past, he is on an expedition with his university friends to study the vril accumulator - a kind ...
In chapter one, we meet Frank, our unlikely hero. A British linguist with a murky past, he is on an expedition with his university friends to study the vril accumulator - a kind ...
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