Wizards & Spaceships

著者: 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.
    Copyright 2024 Rachel A. Rosen & David L. Clink
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  • In the Beginning ft. Shiraz Janjua
    2024/08/15
    How do you begin your epic sci-fi, fantasy, or horror story? How do you grab a viewer or reader’s attention, introduce your characters and world, and avoid the dreaded infodump? To discuss these questions and much more, we talk to Shiraz Janjua, host of the YouTube channel How the Novel Starts. Show Notes:
      • How the Novel Starts


      • Shiraz's website


      • Shiraz's Instagram


      • Bulwer-Lytton Awards


    Reading and Watching List:
      • George Orwell, 1984


      • Karen Russell, Swamplandia


      • Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell


      • William Gibson, Neuromancer


      • Michael Chabon, Yiddish Policemen's Union


      • Vajra Chandasekera, The Saint Of Bright Doors


      • Frank Herbert, Dune


      • JRR Tolkien, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings


      • Christopher Nolan, Inception


      • George Lucas, Star Wars


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    55 分
  • A New World In Our Hearts
    2024/07/15
    In this episode, we interview absolute legend Ken MacLeod about utopias in science fiction. And yes, we're talking about the Culture. Of course we're talking about the Culture. Show Notes: The Early Days of a Better Nation Russian Cosmism Utopia and the Return of History Postwar as the war generation's utopia China 2019, just before the pandemic Reading/Watching List The Culture, Iain M. Banks News From Nowhere, William Morris Half-Earth Socialism: https://www.half.earth/ Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072 by M.E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin The Green-Sky Trilogy by Zilpha Keatley Snyder This Is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone and Amal El-Mohtar Red Star by Alexander Bogdanov Another Now by Yanis Varoufakis Desert by Anonymous The English Utopia by A.L. Morton Utopia by Thomas More Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach Elysium (2013) The Creator (2023) Noon Universe by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky We by Yevgeny Zamyatin Lenin Lives by Philip Cunliffe Merrie England by Robert Blatchford Ministry For the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
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    1 時間 4 分
  • You Never Get a Second Chance to Make First Contact
    2024/06/15
    In this episode, we talk about meeting sentient extraterrestrials: The challenges of communication, what first contact stories say about our own Earthbound society, and why the aliens won't return our texts. David's recommendations:
      • "Darmok" (Star Trek TNG)


      • "The Inner Light" (Star Trek TNG)


      • The Day the Earth Stood Still


      • Arrival


      • The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell


    Rachel's recommendations
      • "Species 10-C" (Star Trek Discovery)


      • Children of Time, Adrian Tchaikovsky


      • Attack the Block


      • Xenogenesis Trilogy (Lilith’s Brood), Octavia E. Butler


      • Blindsight, Peter Watts


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    43 分

あらすじ・解説

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.
Copyright 2024 Rachel A. Rosen & David L. Clink

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