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- Signal Boost #48 — Sabrina Vourvoulias (Ink) and Stephanie Gunn (Icefall)
In today’s episode of Signal Boost, Shaun talks to Sabrina Vourvoulias about the re-release of her incredibly prescient novel, Ink. They discuss how the book’s conversation about immigration is more timely than ever, the courageousness of Rosarium Publishing, what it means to be primed to notice the signs of authoritarianism, journalism, and much more!
Then Elizabeth has a chat with Stephanie Gunn about her new novella, Icefall. They talk about the colonialist issues of mountain climbing, the challenges of being a female mountineer, how technology can reduce accessibility rather than improve it, and the co-existence of science and spirituality.
We hope you enjoy the episode!
Show Notes:
- Sabrina Vourvoulias (00:54 – 25:23)
- Sabrina’s Website
- Sabrina on Twitter
- Our Previous Interview on Ink
- Ink (GO BUY IT!)
- Stephanie Gunn (25:38 – 38:02)
- Steph’s Website
- Steph on Twitter
- Icefall (GO BUY IT!)
- Twelfth Planet Press
If you have a question you’d like us to answer, feel free to shoot us a message on our contact page.
Our new intro and outro music comes from “Dimension” by Creo (CC BY 4.0), which has been slightly modified to include sound effects and for length purposes.
40 min - 355. Celine Kiernan (a.k.a The Ghost of NIMH) — Begone the Raggedy Witches (An Interview)
Puppies, crows, and rainbows, oh my! We’re just so happy to have back one of the oldest friends of the Skiffy and Fanty Show, Celine Kiernan. In this episode, Jen and Elizabeth have a chat with Celine about her first juvenile fiction, Begone the Raggedy Witches! They discuss everything from the themes of control and depression, how motherhood is complicated, why Celine feels like horror is appropriate for children, how she used rhyme as a tool of an evil fascist witch queen, the way she uses ghosts to explore cultural trauma, and so very much more!
We hope you enjoy the episode!
Show Notes:
- Celine’s Website
- Celine’s Twitter
- Celine’s Art & More!
- Celine’s Books
- Begone the Raggedy Witches (GO BUY IT!)
Feel free to shoot us a message on our contact page.
Our new intro and outro music comes “Dimension” by Creo (CC BY 4.0), which has been slightly modified to include sound effects and for length purposes.
44 min - Signal Boost #47 — Betsy Dornbusch (The Silver Scar) & Dax Murray (Birthing Orion)
In today’s episode of Signal Boost, Jen talks to Betsy Dornbusch, author of the Seven Eyes series and much more, about her new novel, The Silver Scar. Betsy shares with us a little about the story, why she decided on a blending of genres to create the setting, the way in which the religious war is more about resources and power than it is religion, what compels her to write male protoganists, and why she included a queer relationship!
Then Shaun hangs out with Dax Murray, author of several queer novels, to talk about feir brand new lesbian space goddess novel (in verse!), Birthing Orion. They discuss how Dax was inspired by astrophysics, why fey decided to tell this story in verse, and about the incredible artwork in the book, then Dax shares with us what feir next project is (hint: it involves unicorns!).
We hope you enjoy the episode!
Show Notes:
- Betsy Dornbusch (00:54 – 15:41)
- Betsy’s Website
- Betsy’s Instagram
- Betsy on Twitter
- The Silver Scar (GO BUY IT!)
- Dax Murray (15:56 – 34:08)
- Dax’s Website
- Dax on Twitter
- Birthing Orion (GO BUY IT!)
- Dax’s Cats
- “Why Pépito the Cat is More Famous Than You” by Allison Tierney
If you have a question you’d like us to answer, feel free to shoot us a message on our contact page.
Our new intro and outro music comes from “Dimension” by Creo (CC BY 4.0), which has been slightly modified to include sound effects and for length purposes.
36 min - Torture Cinema #85: Blade: Trinity (2004)
Happy trails, Office Building Prime, and proto-Katniss, oh my! So, you know how the first Blade movie was actually kind of awesome and we all went crazy for the killer daywalker with a badass cloak, giant fangs, and the most country sidekick this side of the Mississippi? Well, if you do, we implore you not to watch this one. Jen, Becca, and Paul turn a humorous, critical eye to the final film in the Blade series, Blade: Trinity. They talk character the new cast, character deaths, the Sumerian demon inspired Dracula, alien dogs, and Parker Posey in pumps. It may be a horrific hodge-podge of unfinished plotlines with representation problems, but it’s not the worst Wesley-Snipes-as-undead-guy-fighting-undead-guys movie that we’ve seen this year…
We hope you enjoy the episode!
Show Notes:
- Blade: Trinity (2004)(IMDb)
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Our new intro and outro music comes from “Dimension” by Creo (CC BY 4.0), which has been slightly modified to include sound effects and for length purposes.
1 hr 1 min - Reading Rangers #8: Mirror Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold
Hello, Rangers! This month, we’re diving back into the Vorkosiverse with Mirror Dance! Our team of Rangers, Paul, Trish, and Kate, dig into one of the most life-altering books of the series: a book which contains a major death, even more conversations on the ethics of cloning, some truly traumatic scenes, and much, much more.
Next time in our journey through the Vorkosigan Adventures, we’ll discuss Memory, which is Alex’s favorite book in the series (they’ll no doubt be making an appearance).
We hope you enjoy the episode!
Note: If you have iTunes and like this show, please give us a review on our iTunes page, or feel free to email us with your thoughts about the show!
Show Notes:
- Mirror Dance
- Chronological Reading Order of The Vorkosigan Saga (though we’re not totally using this)
- Memory
Feel free to shoot us a message on our contact page.
Our new intro and outro music comes from “Dimension” by Creo (CC BY 4.0), which has been slightly modified to include sound effects and for length purposes.
46 min - Episode 3. Into the Wardrobe with Hocus Pocus (1993; Dir Kenny Ortega): Complications with 90s Narratives
In this third episode of Into the Wardrobe (though the first to most of our listeners), Shaun and Jen discuss the 1993 Disney film, Hocus Pocus, directed by Kenny Ortega. They discuss the film’s pros and cons, from its treatment of people of color and anti-feminist portrayals of witches to how it deals with toxic masculinity and bullying and more. The deeper they dig into the film, the more apparent it becomes that what should be a simple Halloween romp is perhaps a bit more complicated than they originally expected. Finally, the show ends in characteristic ItW fashion: with a conversation about whether Hocus Pocus will connect with young audiences today.
Enjoy!
Show Notes:
- Hocus Pocus (1993)(IMDB)
- The Wiki Page (Film)
- Rotten Tomatoes
Feel free to shoot us a message on our contact page.
Our new intro and outro music comes from “Dimension” by Creo (CC BY 4.0), which has been slightly modified to include sound effects and for length purposes.
1 hr 9 min - Speculative Fiction in Translation #10: Iceland and Gothic Fantasy
In this month’s episode, Rachel and Daniel make the most of a relatively-light SFT month, discussing the collections, stories, and reviews that came out in October. They also look ahead to the exciting wonderfulness that is November. The highly-acclaimed Icelandic novel, CoDex 1962, keeps coming up (probably because it’s as great as everyone says it is) and we now have new stories by Yoss and Melanie Fazi to read thanks to World Literature Today. And while Rachel and Daniel wish they could have more time to read all the things, Daniel still needs to invent that time machine Rachel keeps asking for…
Remember: with new stories and books coming to our attention each week, make sure to check the SFT website for updates. Enjoy, and keep reading!
A bientôt!
Show notes:
- SFT Out in October
- “The Facecrafter” by Anna Wu, translated from the Chinese by Emily Jin (Clarkesworld, October 1
- “Health for All” by Yoss, translated from the Spanish by George Henson (World Literature Today, October 25)
- “Our Lady of the Scales“ by Mélanie Fazi, translated by Edward Gauvin (World Literature Today, October 25)
- The Tyranny of the Fays Abolished and Other Stories by Comtesse D. L., translated from the French by Brian Stableford (Black Coat Press, October 1)
- The Murdered City by Fernand Mysor, translated from the French by Brian Stableford (Black Coat Press, October 1)
- Excerpts
- from CoDex 1962 by Sjon, translated from the Icelandic by Victoria Cribb (FSG Work in Progress, October 4)
- Reviews
- Daniel Haeusser’s Short SFT Reviews
- Rachel Hill reviews Hybrid Child
- Sean Gaffney reviews Last and First Idol
- Paul Di Filippo reviews The Apex Book of World SF 5
- Kate Sherrod reviews The Apex Book of World SF 5
- Katharine Coldiron reviews CoDex 1962
- Fionn Mallon reviews Familiar Things
- Rachel Cordasco reviews Alphaland
- Michael Weingrad reviews Zion’s Fiction
- Interviews
- Jason Sanford interviews Daniel Huddleston about translating Sisyphean
- Readers’ Corner
- Daniel is reading Vestiges in the original French
- Rachel is reading The Apex Book of World SF 5
- Rachel is translating stories by Italian sf author Clelia Farris. Read one of Clelia’s stories here.
- General Links
- Speculative Fiction in Translation website
- Speculative Fiction in Translation facebook page
- SFT on twitter: @Rcordas
If you have a question you’d like us to answer, feel free to shoot us a message on our contact page.
Our new intro and outro music comes “Dimension” by Creo (CC BY 4.0), which has been slightly modified to include sound effects and for length purposes.
42 min - Torture Cinema #84: Leprechaun in the Hood (2000) — Happy Halloween w/ Tonia ThompsonAfros, magic “flutes,” and tokenism, oh my! Happy Halloween, everyone! Shaun, Jen, and Teri consulted with Tonia Thompson to select movies appropriate for a Halloween special during Black Speculative Fiction Month and she has suffered for it. We turn our drunken eyes to Leprechaun in the Hood, a movie that can be best described as everything BAD about representation with a side of WHY. We discuss how the film approaches representation (of so many different peoples), its absurd take on rap and gang culture, and even Leprechauns. And, yeah, we give some love to Warwick Davis, too. In the end, one question remains: is this the worst Torture Cinema movie of all time? Listen to find out! We hope you enjoy the episode! Show Notes: Leprechaun in the Hood (2000)(IMDb) Tonia Thompson’s Things: Tonia’s Website Tonia on Twitter Nightlight Podcast (GO LISTEN!) Nightlight on Twitter Feel free to shoot us a message on our contact page. Our new intro and outro music comes from “Dimension” by Creo (CC BY 4.0), which has been slightly modified to include sound effects and for length purposes.53 min
- 354. Black Horror – A Discussion w/ Eden Royce, Linda Addison, & Sheree Renée Thomas (moderated by Tonia Thompson)Deer heads, Tituba, and zombies, oh my! Jen hands the podcast over to Tonia Thompson of Nightlight Podcast, who moderates a discussion about black horror between Eden Royce, Linda Addison, and Sheree Renée Thomas. These phenomenal horror writers bring their lives, their careers, and their knowledge to the table to tell us about the history of Black horror, the ways in which Black culture is colonized in horror, the importance of publishing markets for Black stories, the impact of Get Out, what they hope to see in Black Horror in the coming year, and so much more that you’re just going to have to listen to every word they say. We hope you enjoy the episode! Show Notes: Eden Royce’s Things: Eden on Twitter Eden’s Website Linda Addison’s Things: Linda on Twitter Linda’s Website Sheree Renée Thomas’ Things: Sheree on Twitter Sheree’s Website Tonia Thompson’s Things: Tonia’s Website Tonia on Twitter Nightlight Podcast (GO LISTEN!) Nightlight on Twitter Works Mentioned: I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem by Maryse Condé Of One Blood by Pauline Hopkins Horror Noire: Blacks in American Horror Films from the 1890s to Present by Dr. Robin Means Coleman Ganja & Hess (Make sure you watch the original cut) Blacula The Blood of Jesus Chitlin’ Circuit Sycorax’s Daughters ed. by Kinitra Brooks, PhD., Linda Addison, & Susan Morris, PhD. Candyman Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson (and the movie adaptation, Brown Girl Begins) Get Out Nona Hendrix Octavia Butler Steven Barnes Tananarive Due Charles R. Saunders Sun Ra George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic The International Gullah Film Fiestival The Choking Kind by Eden Royce Blood Runs Down Every Good-bye Ain’t Gone by Eden Royce Graveyard Shift Sisters (If we’ve missed anything mentioned, please let us know so we can put a link up for it!) If you have a question you’d like us to answer, feel free to shoot us a message on our contact page. Our new intro and outro music comes from “Dimension” by Creo (CC BY 4.0), which has been slightly modified to include sound effects and for length purposes.1 hr 30 min
- Signal Boost #46 — DC (Mutants in the Night) & Chinelo Onwualu (Omenana & Anathema)In today’s episode of Signal Boost, Shaun talks to DC, creator of the table-top role-playing game, Mutants in the Night. They discuss how Mutants in the Night utilizes the Forged in the Dark RPG system to explore marginalization, what inspired them to create RPGs in the first place, how RPGs allow us to create a space that isn’t plagued by problems of colonization, the way that language, ttrpgs, and jazz are connected, and their next project! Then our special guest host, Tonia Thompson, founder and executive producer of Nightlight Podcast, talks to Chinelo Onwualu, Nommo finalist short story writer of the phenomenal “Read Before Use” and co-founder and editor of Omenana magazine. Chinelo shares the history of her writing career, the themes of “Read Before Use” and how they were inspired by her home country of Nigeria, how living between two worlds influences her writing, her work on and the goals of both Omenana and Anathema magazines, and so much more! We hope you enjoy the episode! Show Notes: DC (00:55 – 24:59) DC’s Website DC on Twitter Mutants in the Night (GO BUY IT!) Chinelo Onwualu (25:13 – 43:34) Chinelo’s Website Chinelo on Twitter Omenana (GO BUY IT!) Anathema (GO BUY IT!) Tonia Thompson Tonia’s Website Tonia on Twitter Nightlight Podcast (GO LISTEN!) Nightlight on Twitter If you have a question you’d like us to answer, feel free to shoot us a message on our contact page. Our new intro and outro music comes from “Dimension” by Creo (CC BY 4.0), which has been slightly modified to include sound effects and for length purposes.45 min
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The Skiffy and Fanty Show 4x Hugo Finalist podcast covering a wide range of science fiction, fantasy, and horror content from interviews and genre discussions to movie reviews and a monthly *bad*…
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