- 255
- Episodes
- 98
- Transcribed
- 131
- Ratings
- Monthly
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
- 1M
- YouTube views
About Slice of SciFi
Interviews and discussion about science fiction, fantasy and horror in television and film, plus coverage of comics, indie features, and more
- Publisher
- Summer Brooks
- Category
- tv & film · tv & film · tv & film
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 8 Aug 2020
- Latest episode
- 10 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
98 of 255 episodes have a transcript.
10 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
“Leviathan Freedom”: Marc Guggenheim on seeing history as space opera
27 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
“Vincent Price: What Keeps Us Alive”: Director Matthew Miele on celebrating a legend
20 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
International Edgar Allan Poe Festival, Baltimore 2026
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“Leviathan Freedom”: Marc Guggenheim on seeing history as space opera
Published 10 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] You know, and, you know, from right from the start, Tom had a very clear vision of sort of how he wanted to strike that balance. Well, historically speaking, the Confederate gunship that Robert Smalls took over was a very central piece to the story. And as such, the ship in the story, it actually is a Leviathan class ship. And it's called Freedom, which is kind of on the nose. Kind of cheeky. Kind of on the nose, but very cool. But the ship design itself is striking. Was that Simon's idea or was this a collaboration of what the power arm of that coalition was going to look like? it was simon's design the the challenge there is you know when you're out in space and you don't have other ships around you there's nothing to give the ship scale you know you've got you know scale is is a relative thing you've got to compare one thing to another in order to determine its size um and Simon, very much to his credit, was able to figure out a way. […]
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- Marc Guggenheim
- Matthew Miele
- Enrica Jang
- Douglas Forrester
- Joel Meyers
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- YouTube views
- 1,461,998
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.4 / 5
- 129 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 2 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 84 / 100
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- Quality
- 95
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 86
- Engagement
- 94
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