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.
Wizards & Spaceships
Claim This Podcastby Rachel A. Rosen & David L. Clink
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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.
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Recent Episodes
June 15, 2026
Indigenous Survivance for the Zombie Apocalypse ft. Daphne Singingtree
<p>So you've trashed the world. An EMP or a nuclear bomb or a plague of zombies have taken out civic infrastructure—now it's your chance to show off your survival skills. Fortunately, there's an incredible resurgence of Indigenous post-apocalyptic fiction that offers alternative visions to surviving collapse. In this episode, we talk to author, educator in Plant Medicine & Midwifery, and hippy prepper Daphne Singingtree about how to survive and thrive after the end.</p><p>We're nominated for an Aurora Award for Best Fan-Related Work!</p><p><a href="https://www.csffa.ca/awards-information/current-ballot/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Check out the ballot</a> (and consider casting a vote for us) at the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association.</p><p></p><p><strong>Show Notes</strong></p><ul><li><a href="https://daphnesingingtree.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Daphne's website</a></li><li><a href="https://linktr.ee/daphnesingingtree" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Daphne's socials</a></li><li><a href="https://zaniyan.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Zaniyan</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1632_series" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">1632,</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1632_series" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Eric Flint</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emberverse_series" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Emberverse, SM Stirling </a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Paradise_Built_in_Hell" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A Paradise Built In Hell,</a> Rebecca Solnit</li><li><a href="https://milkweed.org/book/braiding-sweetgrass" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Braiding Sweetgrass,</a> Robin Wall Kimmerer</li><li><a href="https://ecwpress.com/products/moon-of-the-crusted-snow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Moon of the Crusted Snow</a> and <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/665341/moon-of-the-turning-leaves-by-waubgeshig-rice/9780735281585" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Moon of the Turning Leaves,</a> Waubgeshig Rice</li><li><a href="https://www.cormorantbooks.com/Books/T/The-Marrow-Thieves" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Marrow Thieves</a> and <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/651691/hunting-by-stars-by-cherie-dimaline/9780735269651" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Hunting By Stars</a><a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/651691/hunting-by-stars-by-cherie-dimaline/9780735269651" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">,</a> Cherie Dimaline</li><li><a href="https://birchbarkbooks.com/products/future-home-of-the-living-god" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Future Home of the Living God,</a> Louise Erdrich</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail_of_Lightning" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Trail of Lightning,</a> Rebecca Roanhorse</li><li><a href="https://www.portageandmainpress.com/Books/T/This-Place" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">This Place: 150 Years Retold</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxWrPr3XQjc" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Blood Quantum</a> (2019)</li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_MAEu5k4kI" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Night Raiders </a>(2021)</li><li><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14500888/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Last of Us</a><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14500888/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Season 1, Episode 3, "Long Long Time."</a> [Check out <a href="https://2of.ca/season-5-episode-13-queer-sffh/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Rachel's guest appearance on Two Old Farts</a> where we talk about it!]</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunger_Games" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Hunger Games</a></li><li><a href="https://mybook.to/cascade" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Cascade,</a> Rachel A. Rosen</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inner_Light_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Star Trek: TNG:</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inner_Light_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> "The Inner Light" </a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator_(franchise)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Terminator</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Years_of_Rice_and_Salt" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Years Of Rice and Salt</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ministry_for_the_Future" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Ministry For the Future</a>, Kim Stanley Robinson</li></ul><br/>
May 15, 2026
Didactic Fiction ft. Vajra Chandrasekera, Samantha Mills, and Gregory A. Wilson
<p>Welcome to our new season! To celebrate, we’re kicking it up a notch by holding an all-star roundtable of some truly incredible writers. Vajra Chandrasekera, Samantha Mills, and Gregory A. Wilson join us to discuss didactic genre fiction. Is it a skill problem? Is it a media literacy problem? Can you hammer home a message without alienating (sorry/not sorry) your audience?</p><p>We're nominated for an Aurora Award for Best Fan-Related Work!</p><p><a href="https://www.csffa.ca/awards-information/current-ballot/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Check out the ballot</a> (and consider casting a vote for us) at the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association.</p><p><strong>Show Notes:</strong></p><ul><li><a href="https://vajra.me/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Vajra's website</a></li><li><a href="https://samtasticbooks.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Samantha's website</a></li><li><a href="https://www.gregoryawilson.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Gregory's website</a></li><li>Guillermo del Toro's <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1312221/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Frankenstein</a> (and Mary Shelley’s <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/84/84-h/84-h.htm" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Frankenstein</a>)</li><li><a href="https://archive.org/details/dantesinferno00dantuoft" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Dante’s Inferno</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katabasis_(novel)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Katabasis</a>, R.F. Kuang</li><li><a href="https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/rabbit-test/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Rabbit Test</a>, Samantha Mills</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Sound_of_Thunder" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A Sound of Thunder, </a>Ray Bradbury</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(novel)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Dune</a>, Frank Herbert</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Witcher" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Witcher, </a>Andrzej Sapkowski</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Roman_de_Silence" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Le Roman de Silence</a></li><li><a href="https://archive.org/details/fromnotebooksofd00mini" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">From the Notebooks of Doctor Brain, </a>Minister Faust</li><li><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Time Machine,</a> H.G. Wells</li><li><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/159/159-h/159-h.htm" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Island of Doctor Moreau,</a> H.G. Wells</li><li><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708435/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Star Trek TOS: Let That Be Your Last Battlefield</a></li><li><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/janeausten/comments/m980y6/1_review_of_pride_and_prejudice_i_laughed_a_lot/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">One star review of Pride and Prejudice</a></li><li><a href="https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.ADT.LITR.ZS" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">World Bank literacy stats</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grendel_(novel)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grendel, </a>John Gardner</li></ul><br/>
April 15, 2026
In Praise of Difficult Women ft. Silvia Moreno-Garcia
<p>Genre fiction is full of strong, independent women, badass heroines, brave Final Girls, and virginal princesses. Frankly, we’re getting a little sick of it? For our season finale, with us to discuss difficult women is the queen of messy, complicated, and antiheroic female protagonists herself, the legendary Silvia Moreno-Garcia!</p><h2>Show Notes</h2><ol><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span><a href="https://silviamoreno-garcia.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Silvia's website</a></li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/silviamg.author/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Silvia's Instagram</a> and <a href="https://www.threads.com/@silviamg.author" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Threads</a></li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60321142-signal-to-noise" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Signal To Noise</a> by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (find out why Rachel is correct and all of the Goodreads reviewers are wrong)</li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span><a href="https://silviamoreno-garcia.com/writing/velvet-was-the-night/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Velvet Was the Night</a> by Silvia Moreno-Garcia</li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/211428041-countess" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Countess</a> by Susan Palumbo</li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span><a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=m9gNXyfTK80" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Unknown Number: The High School Catfish</a></li></ol><br/><p><strong>Rachel’s Problematic Faves</strong></p><ol><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span>Bellis Coldwine (The Scar by China Miéville)</li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span>Baru Cormorant (The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickson)</li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span>Essun (The Broken Earth by N.K. Jemisin)</li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span>Catra (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power by Nate Stevenson)</li></ol><br/><p><strong>David’s Problematic Faves</strong></p><ol><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span>Morgan Le Fay (Le Morte d'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory)</li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span>Cersei Lannister (A Song Of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin)</li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span>Jadis (The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis)</li></ol><br/><p><strong>Silvia’s Problematic Faves</strong></p><ol><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span>Eleanor and Theodora (The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson)</li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span>Constance and Merricat (We Have Always Lived In the Castle by Shirley Jackson)</li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span>Everything by Tanith Lee</li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span>Rebecca and Rachel (Rebecca and My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier)</li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span>Emma Bovary (Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert)</li></ol><br/><p><strong>Are they genre? Nah, but we still love them</strong></p><ol><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span>Cass Neary novels by Elizabeth Hand</li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span>Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn</li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span>Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë</li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span>The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith</li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span>Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov</li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span>Washington Square by Henry James</li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span>Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy</li></ol><br/>
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