Welcome to Wizards and Spaceships, the only podcast that’s about wizards and also about spaceships. Well, probably not, but it does involve wizards, spaceships, and the things we love (and complain about) in science fiction, fantasy, and horror.
Cosmic Horror ft. Devinder Thiara and Jesse Scoble
Happy Halloween! There's no shortage of horrors, but the best one is the horror found in forces that are so large, so abstract, or upsetting that to engage with them directly would drive you insane. With us to discuss cosmic horror are Devinder Thiara and Jesse Scoble, co-creators of a new comic, Dead Money.
Show notes:
https://jdstudios.art/ (https://jdstudios.art/)
Devinder on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/dthiara)
Jesse on Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/jscoble.bsky.social)
Jesse’s Substack (https://substack.com/@jessescoble)
Moby Dick illustration with the eye (https://www.instagram.com/p/DRv9AFnihOO/)
Your new TBR/TBW list:
Call of Cthulhu RPG (https://www.chaosium.com/call-of-cthulhu-rpg/)
The Three-Body Problem, (https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/20518872-the-three-body-problem) Liu Cixin
Alien franchise (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(franchise))
The Thing (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084787/) (1982) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084787/)
H.P. Lovecraft (https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/fiction/)
Conan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conan_(books)), Robert E. Howard (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conan_(books))
Swamp Thing, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swamp_Thing_(comic_book)) Alan Moore (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swamp_Thing_(comic_book))
Hellblazer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellblazer)comics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellblazer)
Preacher (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preacher_(comics)), Garth Ennis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preacher_(comics))
The Invisibles, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invisibles) Grant Morrison (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invisibles)
Hammers on Bone, (https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/30199328-hammers-on-bone) Cassandra Khaw (https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/30199328-hammers-on-bone)
Aliens the Board Game (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliens_the_Board_Game)
Blindsight, (https://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm) Peter Watts (https://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm)
Laundry Files, (https://www.goodreads.com/series/50764-laundry-files) Charles Stross (https://www.goodreads.com/series/50764-laundry-files)
Move Under Ground, The Damned Highway, (https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/193861.Nick_Mamatas) and (https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/193861.Nick_Mamatas) I Am Providence (https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/193861.Nick_Mamatas) by Nick Mamatas (https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/193861.Nick_Mamatas)
True Detective (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2356777/)
Lovecraft Country (https://bymattruff.com/lovecraft-country/)by Matt Ruff (https://bymattruff.com/lovecraft-country/)
David’s poem in (https://polarborealis.ca/currentback-issues/)Polar Borealis (https://polarborealis.ca/currentback-issues/)
The Devil’s Highway, (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/91359.The_Devil_s_Highway) Luis Alberto Urrea (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/91359.The_Devil_s_Highway)
The Ballad of Black Tom (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26883558-the-ballad-of-black-tom), Victor LaValle (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26883558-the-ballad-of-black-tom)
The Undead Sorceress, (https://www.amazon.ca/Undead-Sorceress-International-House-Vampires-ebook/dp/B00JGU7LI4) JF Garrard (https://www.amazon.ca/Undead-Sorceress-International-House-Vampires-ebook/dp/B00JGU7LI4)
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/214565614-the-buffalo-hunter-hunter), Stephen Graham Jones (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/214565614-the-buffalo-hunter-hunter)
Continue the conversation on the Wizards & Spaceships Discord (https://discord.gg/PHUxSHgtvs) or on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/groups/361582146758767)!
15 Sept 2026
Are We Having Fun Yet? ft. Peter Watts
It’s the 20th anniversary of Blindsight! David and Rachel sit down in Rachel’s living room with marine biologist, critically acclaimed author, and enemy-of-the-state Peter Watts to drink two bottles of wine and talk about theories of consciousness, cigar-shaped harbour seals, the climate collapse, and why dystopian sci-fi authors are in fact childishly optimistic.
Additional audio engineering by Rick Innis (https://soundcloud.com/anythingthatgrooves).
Show Notes:
Rifters (https://rifters.com/)
The Collapse Is Coming. Will Humanity Adapt? (https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-collapse-is-coming-will-humanity-adapt/)
The Sheep Look Up, John Brunner (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41074.The_Sheep_Look_Up)
The Limits To Growth (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth)
Philosophical Zombie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie)
Consciousness and its function, David M. Rosenthal (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0028393207003867)
Michael Timothy Bennett (https://michaeltimothybennett.com/research)
Erik Hoel (https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/)
Mirror Test (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_test)
The Hidden Spring (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53642061-the-hidden-spring)
Arthur Jafa (https://art21.org/artist/arthur-jafa/)
Continue the conversation on the Wizards & Spaceships Discord (https://discord.gg/PHUxSHgtvs) or on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/groups/361582146758767)!
15 Aug 2026
This Episode is Epic ft. Sophus Helle
The podcast is part of the oral tradition, and joining us to talk about ancient epics, living texts in dead languages, Babylonian Pride parades, and how all of this relates to sci-fi, fantasy, and horror is writer, translator, and cultural historian Sophus Helle.
Show notes:
Sophus’ website (http://sophushelle.com)
Electronic Babylonian Library (https://www.ebl.lmu.de/)
Babylonian Myths, Sophus Helle
Critical Antiquities, including Human: Babylonian Reflections on Labour, Sophus Helle (https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/series/CISMS.html)
Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics, J.R.R. Tolkien (https://jenniferjsnow.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/11790039-jrr-tolkien-beowulf-the-monsters-and-the-critics.pdf)
Beowulf: A New Translation, Maria Dahvana Headley (https://books.google.ca/books/about/Beowulf_A_New_Translation.html?id=B7xuDwAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y)
The Complete Mahabharata (online) (https://ia803400.us.archive.org/7/items/the-complete-mahabharata/The%20Complete%20Mahabharata%20.pdf)
The Mahabharata (Penguin Classics) (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/305480/the-mahabharata-by-anonymous-abridged-and-translated-with-an-introduction-by-john-d-smith/9780140446814)
Ovid's Metamorphoses: A New Translation, C. Luke Soucy (https://classics.princeton.edu/research/bookshelf/ovids-metamorphoses-new-translation)
Query, Zilla Novikov (https://traumbooks.com/query/)
The Ur-Pisode: The Queer Heart of the Epic of Gilgamesh, ft. Julian Gunn (https://wizardsandspaceships.ca/2025/06/15/season-2-episode-2-the-ur-pisode-the-queer-heart-of-the-epic-of-gilgamesh-ft-julian-gunn/)
Continue the conversation on the Wizards & Spaceships Discord (https://discord.gg/PHUxSHgtvs) or on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/groups/361582146758767)!
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