About this podcast
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.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 31 episodes
- Cosmic Horror ft. Devinder Thiara and Jesse Scoble · 49 min · Season 3 Episode 6Happy Halloween! There's no shortage of horrors, but the best one is the horror found in forces that are so large, so abstract, or upsetting that to engage with them directly…
- Are We Having Fun Yet? ft. Peter Watts · 1 h 33 min · Season 3 Episode 5It’s the 20th anniversary of Blindsight! David and Rachel sit down in Rachel’s living room with marine biologist, critically acclaimed author, and enemy-of-the-state Peter Watts…
- This Episode is Epic ft. Sophus Helle · 48 min · Season 3 Episode 4The podcast is part of the oral tradition, and joining us to talk about ancient epics, living texts in dead languages, Babylonian Pride parades, and how all of this relates to…
- What the Big 5 Don’t Tell You ft. Jeremy Szal · 50 min · Season 3 Episode 3A contract with one of the five big publishing companies means placement in bookstores and libraries, reviews in major publications, award nominations, and a huge advance—even a…
- Indigenous Survivance for the Zombie Apocalypse ft. Daphne Singingtree · 57 min · Season 3 Episode 2So you've trashed the world. An EMP or a nuclear bomb or a plague of zombies have taken out civic infrastructure—now it's your chance to show off your survival skills…
- Didactic Fiction ft. Vajra Chandrasekera, Samantha Mills, and Gregory A. Wilson · 1 h 1 min · Season 3 Episode 1Welcome to our new season! To celebrate, we’re kicking it up a notch by holding an all-star roundtable of some truly incredible writers. Vajra Chandrasekera, Samantha Mills, and…
- In Praise of Difficult Women ft. Silvia Moreno-Garcia · 50 min · Season 2 Episode 12Genre fiction is full of strong, independent women, badass heroines, brave Final Girls, and virginal princesses. Frankly, we’re getting a little sick of it? For our season…
- Amazing Stories 100th Anniversary ft. Steve Davidson, Kermit Woodall and Lloyd Penney · 50 min · Season 2 Episode 11We are celebrating the 100th anniversary of Amazing Stories Magazine. It started way back in March or April, of 1926, depending on who you ask. With us to talk about the…
- Charles R. Saunders ft. Jon Tattrie · 1 h 4 min · Season 2 Episode 10Charles R. Saunders was a Halifax journalist and, with his Imaro novels, the founder of the "sword and soul" genre and a Black Canadian literary icon. When he died in obscurity…
- Editing Roundtable ft. Alexandra Pierce and Josh Wilson · 49 min · Season 2 Episode 9Magazines and journals have been a foundational part of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror since the very beginning and provide us with the stories, art, and critical analysis that keep…
- Postcolonialism in SFFH, ft. Suzan Palumbo · 34 min · Season 2 Episode 8The famous introduction to Star Trek lays out the mission of the Starship Enterprise: to explore strange new worlds; to seek out new life and new civilizations; to boldly go…
- How to Write a Kick-Ass Fantasy Battle ft. Suzannah Rowntree · 38 min · Season 2 Episode 7Anyone who’s ever written fantasy has faced this problem: You have hit the point of conflict in a story where problems can no longer be worked out with witty retorts or a magic…
- WITCHES! · 48 min · Season 2 Episode 6Happy Halloween! We're talking about WITCHES! A staple of fantasy, horror, and Broadway musicals, witches can be anything from a murderous presence in the woods to the friendly…
- The Science Bros Answer Your Science Questions, Part 2, ft. Rob & Jon Mound · 49 min · Season 2 Episode 5You guys had so many science questions that our resident scientists couldn't answer them all in just one episode! In this episode, Rob & Jon Mound tackle important questions such…
- The Science Bros Answer Your Science Questions, Part 1, ft. Rob & Jon Mound · 1 h 1 min · Season 2 Episode 4Suspension of disbelief is a cornerstone of speculative fiction, but as writers and fans, we often find ourselves wondering just how grounded in reality our favourite stories…
- Against Hopepunk ft. Nick Mamatas · 45 min · Season 2 Episode 3Sci-fi and fantasy has always had an optimistic current, whether it’s utopian space-age cities or noble chosen ones vanquishing a dark lord. In recent years, with the popularity…
- The Ur-Pisode: The Queer Heart of The Epic of Gilgamesh, ft. Julian Gunn · 55 min · Season 2 Episode 2For 4000 years, The Epic of Gilgamesh has influenced mythology, theology, and literature, and its rediscovery in the 1850s is itself an epic tale of war, theft, and Hobby Lobby…
- Blight, ft. Rachel A. Rosen · 49 min · Season 2 Episode 1Break out the cake, balloons, and gigantic bone tentacles, it's season 2 of Wizards & Spaceships! Rachel has a new book out, Blight, the sequel to her first novel, Cascade. In…
- Transhumanism and AI ft. Robert J. Sawyer · 1 h 0 min · Season 1 Episode 12It'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…
- TTRPG Design ft. Jesse Pohlman · 37 min · Season 1 Episode 11There’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…
