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Wizards & Spaceships

Rachel A. Rosen & David L. Clink

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Frequency: 1 episode/30d. Total Eps: 24

Welcome to Wizards and Spaceships, the only podcast that’s about wizards and also about spaceships. Well, probably not, but it does involve wizards, spaceships, and the things we love (and complain about) in science fiction, fantasy, and horror.

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28/09/2025
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19/07/2025
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18/07/2025
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https://www.khoreomag.com/
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Narnia
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The King of Horror ft. Troy Harkin

Season 1 · Episode 6

mardi 15 octobre 2024 • Duration 01:05:08

Happy Halloween! To celebrate all that is spooky and monstrous, we're joined by poet, novelist, and David's other podcast co-host, Troy Harkin, to talk about the master of horror himself, Stephen King. Also cocaine. Show Notes:

- Troy's website

- ChiZine Publications

- SK Tours of Maine

- Two Old Farts Talk Sci-Fi

Speculative Whiteness

Season 1 · Episode 5

dimanche 15 septembre 2024 • Duration 35:46

In this episode, we talk to Jordan S. Carroll about his new book, the Sad and Rabid Puppies, and how to avoid getting your sci-fi co-opted by fascists. Show Notes:

- Jordan’s Twitter: https://x.com/JordanSCarroll/

- Jordan’s Bluesky: jordanscarroll.bsky.social

- Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt Right by Jordan S. Carroll

- Kaleidotrope

- Elizabeth Sandifer: Eruditorum Press and Neoreaction a Basilisk but why not just go ahead and read everything she’s written?

- Camestros Felapton’s The Complete Debarkle: Saga of a Culture War

In the Beginning ft. Shiraz Janjua

Season 1 · Episode 4

jeudi 15 août 2024 • Duration 54:50

How do you begin your epic sci-fi, fantasy, or horror story? How do you grab a viewer or reader’s attention, introduce your characters and world, and avoid the dreaded infodump? To discuss these questions and much more, we talk to Shiraz Janjua, host of the YouTube channel How the Novel Starts. Show Notes:

- How the Novel Starts

- Shiraz's website

- Shiraz's Instagram

- Bulwer-Lytton Awards

Reading and Watching List:

- George Orwell, 1984

- Karen Russell, Swamplandia

- Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

- William Gibson, Neuromancer

- Michael Chabon, Yiddish Policemen's Union

- Vajra Chandasekera, The Saint Of Bright Doors

- Frank Herbert, Dune

- JRR Tolkien, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings

- Christopher Nolan, Inception

- George Lucas, Star Wars

A New World In Our Hearts

Season 1 · Episode 3

lundi 15 juillet 2024 • Duration 01:03:36

In this episode, we interview absolute legend Ken MacLeod about utopias in science fiction. And yes, we're talking about the Culture. Of course we're talking about the Culture. Show Notes: The Early Days of a Better Nation Russian Cosmism Utopia and the Return of History Postwar as the war generation's utopia China 2019, just before the pandemic Reading/Watching List The Culture, Iain M. Banks News From Nowhere, William Morris Half-Earth Socialism: https://www.half.earth/ Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072 by M.E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin The Green-Sky Trilogy by Zilpha Keatley Snyder This Is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone and Amal El-Mohtar Red Star by Alexander Bogdanov Another Now by Yanis Varoufakis Desert by Anonymous The English Utopia by A.L. Morton Utopia by Thomas More Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach Elysium (2013) The Creator (2023) Noon Universe by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky We by Yevgeny Zamyatin Lenin Lives by Philip Cunliffe Merrie England by Robert Blatchford Ministry For the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

You Never Get a Second Chance to Make First Contact

Season 1 · Episode 2

samedi 15 juin 2024 • Duration 43:21

In this episode, we talk about meeting sentient extraterrestrials: The challenges of communication, what first contact stories say about our own Earthbound society, and why the aliens won't return our texts. David's recommendations:

- "Darmok" (Star Trek TNG)

- "The Inner Light" (Star Trek TNG)

- The Day the Earth Stood Still

- Arrival

- The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell

Rachel's recommendations

- "Species 10-C" (Star Trek Discovery)

- Children of Time, Adrian Tchaikovsky

- Attack the Block

- Xenogenesis Trilogy (Lilith’s Brood), Octavia E. Butler

- Blindsight, Peter Watts

Some People Call Me the Space Cowboy

Season 1 · Episode 1

mercredi 15 mai 2024 • Duration 35:28

In this episode, we're talking about the Space Western! Was Firefly cancelled too soon or is it massively overrated? Why does it continue to grip the Nerd Imagination? Is it even okay to use Western elements in SFFH?

Credits: Shamelessly stolen from Star Trek's "Spectre of the Gun," the Expanse Season 1 trailer, UFO Cowboy's official trailer, and Firefly's "Jayne's Town." The background music clips are "Somewhere In the Dark" and "Western Showdown" by Holizna and licensed under Creative Commons.

Where Are We, and Why Are We In This Handbasket?

Season 1

lundi 15 avril 2024 • Duration 35:27

Welcome to Wizards & Spaceships, a podcast that's about both wizards and spaceships, featuring poet David L. Clink and novelist Rachel A. Rosen. In this episode, we introduce ourselves, talk about our favourite media, and explain why genre snobs need to get a lot less snobby. Do infodumps have a place in literature? Do all fantasy novels need to be a series? Grab a metaphorical drink with your newest nerdy friends and join us for our podcast launch.

The Great Hugo Awards Controversy ft. Diane Lacey

Season 1 · Episode 7

vendredi 15 novembre 2024 • Duration 45:37

Welcome to the first episode of Wizards & Spaceships to pass the Bechdel Test! In 2023, the Hugo Awards, administered by the World Science Fiction Society, were rocked by scandal. That year, the convention was hosted in Chengdu, China, and a number of popular and acclaimed works, from R. F. Kuang's Babel to Xiran Jay Zhao's Iron Widow, were deemed ineligible...even though they had enough nominations to appear on the ballot. The controversy engulfed the world of speculative fiction, but what really happened? In this episode, we talk to WorldCon whistleblower Diane Lacey to get her take on what went wrong, who's to blame, and what we can learn from this moving forward.

Transhumanism and AI ft. Robert J. Sawyer

Season 1 · Episode 12

mardi 15 avril 2025 • Duration 01:00:03

It's been an entire year of Wizards & Spaceships! Thank you for coming along with us on this wild and magical space ride. You can't turn on the news or doomscroll social media without hearing about how AI will revolutionize everything. Unfortunately, the worst people in the world seem to be in charge of it. In this episode, we talk to sci-fi legend Robert J. Sawyer about what AI and transhumanism really mean for humanity and our planet and how we can stand up to corporate hype and greed. Show notes:

- Robert's website

- Robert's Bluesky

- AI's environmental problems

- AI's thirst for electricity

TTRPG Design ft. Jesse Pohlman

Season 1 · Episode 11

samedi 15 mars 2025 • Duration 36:31

There’s a huge crossover between tabletop role-playing game players, genre fans, and genre writers, and many of us fell in love with genre fiction by playing D&D in the basement. In this episode, we're joined by author and game designer Jesse Pohlman to talk about the considerations that go into building your own TTPRG. Show notes: