Archives: Captivate Podcasts

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 [...]

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. [...]

Pulp fiction is a cornerstone of the genres we love. In this episode, we talk to screenwriter, ghostwriter, and author of the new zombie novel Deads Rise, Shawn Whitney, about [...]

Rachel and David take the show on the road to Can*Con 2024 in Ottawa. We recorded the launch of The Dance, a multiverse anthology, as well as some general table [...]

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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. [...]

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, [...]

In this episode, we talk to Jordan S. Carroll about his new book, Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right, including the Sad and Rabid Puppies, and how to avoid [...]

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? [...]

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: [...]