[YouTube] [Apple] [Spotify] [Download] Anthony Ha joins us to discuss six more stories from the book The Best of Greg Egan. Stories discussed: “Silver Fire” (1:30), “Reasons to be Cheerful” (16:42), “Oceanic” (28:10), “Oracle” (44:19), “Singleton” (1:04:54), “Dark Integers” (1:16:32).
[YouTube] [Apple] [Spotify] [Download] Philip Gelatt and Morgan Galen King, creators of The Spine of Night, join us to discuss the book Flame and Crimson: A History of Sword and Sorcery by Brian Murphy. Please support us on Patreon or sign up as a sponsor.
[YouTube] [Apple] [Spotify] [Download] Mercurio D. Rivera joins us to discuss nine more stories from the book The Best of Larry Niven. Stories discussed: “Inconstant Moon” (1:34), “Rammer” (18:42), “Cloak of Anarchy” (27:42), “The Fourth Profession” (38:22), “Flash Crowd” (47:59), “The Defenseless Dead” (59:37), “Flight of the Horse” (1:15:55), “The Hole Man” (1:22:29), “Night on […]
[YouTube] [Apple] [Spotify] [Download] Matthew Kressel joins us to discuss Fantastic Fiction at KGB, a monthly science fiction reading series in New York City. Photo by Ellen Datlow. Please support the Fantastic Fiction at KGB Fundraiser.
[YouTube] [Apple] [Spotify] [Download] In this special 600th episode David Barr Kirtley interviews his wife Steph Grossman, short story writer and co-host of the Basement Girls horror podcast. Please support us on Patreon or sign up as a sponsor.
[YouTube] [Apple] [Spotify] [Download] Tom Gerencer joins us to discuss the book Storyteller: Writing Lessons and More from 27 Years of the Clarion Writers’ Workshop by Kate Wilhelm. Please support us on Patreon or sign up as a sponsor.
[YouTube] [Apple] [Spotify] [Download] Matt London joins us to discuss narrative design, George R. R. Martin, and the new book Grace Given: The Mythology of Elden Ring by George Truscott. Please support us on Patreon or sign up as a sponsor.
[YouTube] [Apple] [Spotify] [Download] Matthew Kressel joins us to discuss his short story collection Histories Within Us and his new novel Space Trucker Jess. Please support us on Patreon or sign up as a sponsor.
[YouTube] [Apple] [Spotify] [Download] Andrea Kail, Matthew Kressel, and Rajan Khanna join us to discuss God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert, the fourth book in the Dune series. Please support us on Patreon or sign up as a sponsor.
[YouTube] [Apple] [Spotify] [Download] Tom Gerencer joins us to discuss the book The Business of Science Fiction by Mike Resnick and Barry N. Malzberg. Please support us on Patreon or sign up as a sponsor.
[YouTube] [Apple] [Spotify] [Download] Andrea Kail, Erin Lindsey, and Matt London join us to discuss Season 2 of the Disney+ series Andor, a prequel to the movie Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Please support us on Patreon or sign up as a sponsor.
[YouTube] [Apple] [Spotify] [Download] Warren Lapine joins us to discuss editing the book On Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy by Roger Zelazny. Please support us on Patreon or sign up as a sponsor.
[YouTube] [Apple] [Spotify] [Download] Anthony Ha joins us to discuss the first eight stories in the book The Best of Greg Egan, part of the SF Masterworks series of science fiction classics. Stories discussed: “Learning to Be Me” (20:42), “Axiomatic” (44:03), “Appropriate Love” (50:10), “Into Darkness” (1:00:30), “Unstable Orbits in the Space of Lies” (1:14:47), […]
[YouTube] [Apple] [Spotify] [Download] Tom Gerencer joins us to discuss the book The Top of the Volcano: The Award-Winning Stories of Harlan Ellison, which contains 11 stories not included in Harlan Ellison’s Greatest Hits. Stories discussed: “A Boy and His Dog” (1:39), “The Region Between” (37:12), “Basilisk” (48:29), “Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: […]
[YouTube] [Apple] [Spotify] [Download] Mercurio D. Rivera joins us to discuss the first nine stories in the book The Best of Larry Niven, edited by Jonathan Strahan. Stories discussed: “Becalmed in Hell” (5:10), “Bordered in Black” (17:54), “Neutron Star” (26:35), “The Soft Weapon” (38:16), “The Jigsaw Man” (56:27), “The Deadlier Weapon” (1:02:55), “All the Myriad […]
[YouTube] [Apple] [Spotify] [Download] Andrea Kail, Matthew Kressel, and Rajan Khanna join us to discuss Season 1 of the HBO series Dune: Prophecy, a prequel set 10,000 years before the events of Frank Herbert’s Dune. Please support us on Patreon or sign up as a sponsor.
[YouTube] [Apple] [Spotify] [Download] James Wynn and Craig Brewer, hosts of the ReReading Wolfe podcast, join us to discuss Gene Wolfe’s classic novel The Urth of the New Sun, a sequel to The Book of the New Sun. Please support us on Patreon or sign up as a sponsor.
[YouTube] [Apple] [Spotify] [Download] Andrea Kail, Matthew Kressel, and Tom Gerencer join us to discuss the science fiction noir movies Dark City, Strange Days, The Thirteenth Floor, Looker, and Alphaville. Time stamps: Dark City (3:25), Strange Days (28:55), The Thirteenth Floor (48:19), Looker (1:00:43), Alphaville (1:16:19).
[YouTube] [Apple] [Spotify] [Download] Tom Gerencer joins us to discuss the second half of the new short story collection Harlan Ellison’s Greatest Hits, edited by J. Michael Straczynski. Stories discussed: “On the Downhill Side” (2:34), “Paladin of the Lost Hour” (12:00), “The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World” (30:08), “I’m Looking […]
[YouTube] [Apple] [Spotify] [Download] Philip Gelatt joins us to discuss writing the hard science fiction film The Europa Report and the animated sword & sorcery film The Spine of Night. Please support us on Patreon or sign up as a sponsor.