Wizards and Spaceships

Rachel on the Fiction LabRachel on the Fiction Lab

December 3, 2025| Space Wizard| 0 Comment| 8:34 pm

Do you miss Rachel’s melodious voice between episodes? Check out her guest spot on an entirely different podcast, The Fiction Lab with Katrina Schroeder, talking about the intersection between activism [...]

A black and white photo of medieval-style helmets and chainmail.

Season 2, Episode 7: How to Write a Kick-Ass Fantasy Battle ft. Suzannah RowntreeSeason 2, Episode 7: How to Write a Kick-Ass Fantasy Battle ft. Suzannah Rowntree

November 15, 2025| Space Wizard| 0 Comment| 6:00 am

Anyone 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 [...]

a veiled witch with a black dress and a pointy hat in the woods holding a jack o' lantern.

Season 2, Episode 6: WITCHES!Season 2, Episode 6: WITCHES!

October 15, 2025| Space Wizard| 0 Comments| 6:00 am

Happy 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 neighbourhood Wiccan [...]

A white couple in spacesuits on a desert landscape. Neither are wearing helmets. He's holding a dusty helmet, she's holding a plant. Look, kids, Mars colonization isn't going to happen. Stop trying to make it happen.

Season 2, Episode 5: The Science Bros Answer Your Science Questions, Part 2, ft. Rob & Jon MoundSeason 2, Episode 5: The Science Bros Answer Your Science Questions, Part 2, ft. Rob & Jon Mound

September 15, 2025| Space Wizard| 0 Comment| 6:00 am

Stop trying to make Mars colonization happen. It's not gonna happen. [...]

An astronaut (wearing a suit) floating above earth.

Season 2, Episode 4: The Science Bros Answer Your Science Questions, Part 1, ft. Rob & Jon MoundSeason 2, Episode 4: The Science Bros Answer Your Science Questions, Part 1, ft. Rob & Jon Mound

August 15, 2025| Space Wizard| 0 Comment| 6:00 am

Suspension 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 really are. [...]

Two hands in front of an ocean, covered with mud or blood.

Season 2, Episode 3: Against Hopepunk ft. Nick MamatasSeason 2, Episode 3: Against Hopepunk ft. Nick Mamatas

July 15, 2025| Space Wizard| 0 Comment| 6:00 am

In this wide-ranging conversation with multitalented author and editor Nick Mamatas, we talk about crushing your joy, corporate greed in the publishing and music production industries, and why the 80s [...]

relief sculpture from the Gilgamesh Epic, showing Gilgamesh in a protective attitude and with animals (Early Dynastic) (Ancient Seals of the Near East, No. 3) (1940)

Season 2, Episode 2: The Ur-Pisode: The Queer Heart of The Epic of Gilgamesh, ft. Julian GunnSeason 2, Episode 2: The Ur-Pisode: The Queer Heart of The Epic of Gilgamesh, ft. Julian Gunn

June 15, 2025| Space Wizard| 0 Comment| 6:00 am

For 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. [...]

an image of two copies of Blight by Rachel A. Rosen. There's a pink cupcake with rainbow decorations sitting on one. Tentacles are bursting out of it holding a 2 candle.

Season 2, Episode 1: Blight, ft. Rachel A. RosenSeason 2, Episode 1: Blight, ft. Rachel A. Rosen

May 15, 2025| Space Wizard| 0 Comment| 6:00 am

TRANSCRIPT Break 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, [...]

Wizards & Spaceships & Auroras, Oh My!Wizards & Spaceships & Auroras, Oh My!

April 15, 2025| Space Wizard| 0 Comments| 8:48 pm

Amazing news, space wizards! I am so excited to announce on the very same day as our season 1 finale that our little podcast has been nominated for an Aurora [...]

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Season 1, Episode 12: Transhumanism and AI ft. Robert J. SawyerSeason 1, Episode 12: Transhumanism and AI ft. Robert J. Sawyer

April 15, 2025| Space Wizard| 0 Comment| 6:00 am

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 [...]