Wizards & Spaceships

By: Rachel A. Rosen & David L. Clink
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  • 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.
    Copyright 2024 Rachel A. Rosen & David L. Clink
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Episodes
  • Speculative Whiteness

    Speculative Whiteness
    Sep 15 2024
    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
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    36 mins
  • In the Beginning ft. Shiraz Janjua

    In the Beginning ft. Shiraz Janjua
    Aug 15 2024
    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
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    55 mins
  • A New World In Our Hearts

    A New World In Our Hearts
    Jul 15 2024
    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
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    1 hr and 4 mins
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