This week, Chris Vander Kaay drops by to talk about his latest reference guide, Horror Films by Subgenre: A Viewer's Guide. This is the latest book Chris co-authored this volume with wife Kathleen, and Chris talks about their love of cult sci-fi and horror and what drove them to write this reference and last year's guide, The Anatomy of Fear: Conversations with Cult Horror and Science-Fiction Film Creators

Chris goes deeper into the discussions that led to the distinct 75 categories they've broken down, and even some of the overlap and the grey areas where some films might be classified, why and how they chose the subgenres included, and also about what subgenres were left out of their lists and why.

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This week, Nick Howes drops by to talk about this year's event and the history and future of Spacefest. Nick is the coordinator for Spacefest's panels and social media outreach, and he tells us about all the work that goes into putting on Spacefest every year.

Spacefest is the most unique space event on the planet -- an annual reunion of NASA Apollo astronauts, famous space scientists, authors, astronomers, space artists, and fans. This year, Spacefest VII is back home in Tucson AZ, at the Starr Pass Resort, June 9-12th.

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This week, the 10th anniversary edition of Boarding the Enterprise was released to honor the celebration of the 50th anniversary of Star Trek, so David Gerrold and Robert J. Sawyer, the award-winning authors who edited that collection, join us to talk Trek memories and more.

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This week, we have two conversations that shed a little light on some of the darker tales we enjoy.

First, director Pearry Teo's talks about his latest feature, The Curse of Sleeping Beauty, a reimagining of the fairy tale with a much darker twist to it.

Next, Britne Oldford plays Agent Alison Regan on Syfy Channel's Hunters, and she talks about her character, the cast's training, and the joys of being a scifi geek.

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This week, Daren Gulsvig joins Summer to talk with narrative designer Cam Rogers, who helped design the story in the video game "Quantum Break" and also wrote the tie-in novel Quantum Break: Zero State.

Cam tells us about what narrative design entails and infusing the human element into the game play, how much research in quantum physics they did in order to incorporate plausible story elements, the massive logistics of developing a story for a game, where he envisions the evolution of storytelling in games could go, and more.

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This week, Kyle Harris, Cameron Goodkin of Freeform's Stitchers, drops by to talk about some of the changes the team is facing amidst everything and everyone experiencing reboots in the Stitchers Project and in their own lives.

Kyle also drops some hints about some of the changes the writers have in mind for the program and the team for Season 3, and about his new venture into horror movies.

Are you following the show? Check out Summer's Season 2 review, and definitely follow @StitchersTV on Twitter!

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This week, Summer talks with writer/director Michael Hurst and actor Malik Yoba about Paradox, a time-travel action-thriller from XLrator Media.

Michael talks about what he had in mind when writing the story, and his approach to directing the film and with the set design and effects production. He goes a little bit into his writing process, and how he's always writing something with an eye to getting in made as soon as possible.

Next, Malik talks about growing up with science fiction, and enjoying the clever scripts he sometimes comes across to work on. Horror's not his thing, but doing more scifi is definitely of interest.

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This week, Summer talks with award-nominated comics and television writer Brandon Easton, and this conversation could have gone on all day.

Talk starts with his documentary Brave New Souls: Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Writers of the 21st Century, and the experience of making the film and talking to the many creators of color. His inspiration to make the movie began with his confusion over the conundrum of black science fiction fans unconsciously rejecting works created by black writers while simultaneously asking why stories about characters like themselves are being overlooked or ignored.

The bulk of the conversation is fascinating and diverse, covering many topics in and around science fiction creators, stories, and fandoms, from space opera and epic fantasy, to Transformers and Marvel's "Civil War II". We're going to have to save the deeper scifi literature discussion for another time!

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This week, Kevin Bachelder joins Summer to chat with bioethicist Dr Gregory Pence to talk about his new book, What We Talk About When We Talk About Clone Club: Bioethics and Philosophy in Orphan Black.

Using the science and the situations in Orphan Black, Dr Pence takes us on a deeper look at the science and the ethics of cloning, an exploration of self and identity when faced with identical twins as well as clones, the problematic history of eugenics, the questions raised by synthetic biology, of the influence of epigenetics, and much more.

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It's time for the Phoenix Film Festival and the International Horror & Sci-Fi Film Festival, playing at the AMC Scottsdale 101 April 7-14, and Horror & Sci-Fi program director Monte Yazzie drops by to talk about the showcases and short film tracks for the nighttime horror and scifi programming.

Go to Phoenix Film Festival to see the schedule of screenings for both the main festival and the Horror-Scifi Festival, as well as order your tickets online.

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