Episodes
TalkCast 486 – NOT His Fist Attempt
June 13, 2021 00:00 - 1 MBMiles Cameron is an enigma and that is a huge understatement. First of atl he writes under several names but Miles is the name he uses for his science fiction work, which we hope will be numerous, because his first book, Artifact Space, is a quite amazing start for an author who has well over […]
Talkcast 485 – Star Trek in Pakistan, Or How To Forget to Introduce The Guest
June 06, 2021 00:00 - 1 MBOn the ‘Cast is one of the more interesting people we have had on in a very long while. So interesting, in fact, that we began talking in the pre-show and quite frankly, once the show began, I forgot to introduce him. Shahid Mahmud is the creator of the SF/Fantasy imprint Phoenix Pick. The catalog […]
TalkCast 484 – Things To See And Do As We Start To Come Out Of The Pandemic Featuring Ariel Diaz
May 30, 2021 00:00 - 1 MBIn this episode, the Commander and I get the chance to speak with an up and coming artist from Texas who is about to burst on the national convention scene. Ariel Diaz had her opening cut short by the pandemic and was forced to sit patiently for a year, honing her craft and working (as […]
TalkCast 483 – Time Travel and Vampires, I’m Told It’s A Thing
May 23, 2021 00:00 - 1 MBIn this episode Commander Cam and I get the chance to speak with W.L.Hawkin about her Hollystone Mystery series. I have to admit speaking with Wendy was a quite unique experience and was one of one of the few times I was truly tongue tied. a situation which amused the hell out of Cam as […]
TalkCast 482 – A Friend Of A Friend Created A Nightmare
May 16, 2021 00:00 - 1 MBIn the Lovcraftian universe there are very few rules. When I learned a friend of one of my very good Sci Fi writer friends, CT Phipps, (see Talkcasts 380, 425 and 475 ) had written a number of stories in this universe I became intrigued and we talked about it. He then suggested I read […]
TalkCast 481 – Deep Cuts With Sam Groom and Ringo Starr
May 09, 2021 00:00 - 1 MBA remarkable interview begins and ends in the most unexpected places. This begins with Sebastien de Castell, musician, author and our guest on the ‘Cast. Ostensibly here to talk about his latest book, Way Of The Argosi, The Commander and I has way too much fun on a number of other topics before we ever […]
TalkCast 480 – The Dinosaurs Didn’t Have A Space Program And Look Where It Got Them!
May 02, 2021 00:00 - 1 MBSmart, original and snappy science fiction is a rare commodity today. Rarer still is the author who can converse about it. Meet Edward M, Lerner and get the chance to know a bit about him, who he is and his work as we explore him, his background and his latest novel, Deja Doomed. It’s fun […]
TalkCast 479 – Another High Ace
April 25, 2021 00:20 - 1 MBWhen we first spoke with the writing team known as OE Tearman in January oof 2020 it was to introduce book one of their Aces High, Jokers Wild Dystopian Science Fiction Series. In this episode , we welcome back Olivia and Nonier to talk about book 2 in the series, Call The Bluff as well […]
TalkCast 478 – There Wolf! (with apologies to Marty Feldman).
April 14, 2021 13:13 - 1 MBOnce upon a time there was a werewolf, who sometimes wasn’t a very good one. It really wasn’t his fault, because as most of his ilk, he was a victim of circumstance. Meet Michael Andrews, protagonist of The Canadian Werewolf Series written by tonight’s guest the very smart and funny Mark Leslie. We got the […]
TalkCast 477- More Wales Watching with Marie Powell
April 11, 2021 00:00 - 1 MBHow does one get lost in their own interview? I have to admit, it was easy in this one. Marie Powell came by to take with us about her personal journey of discovery which began with an ancestral inquiry into her own Welsh background and culminated into this marvelous duology, Watersight (Last Of The Gifted); […]
TalkCast 476 – The Blood and The Finger
April 04, 2021 00:00 - 1 MBWhat is a sequel? Is book two in a series a continuation of the story or an expansion of the characters? In this episode we get the chance to talk again with Trevor Fernandes-Lenkiewicz as he brings us book two of his Kickstarter funded series, Area 51: The Helix Project. The fledgling writer has come […]
TalkCast 475 – Yog-Sothothory For Dummies and Cultists
March 21, 2021 00:20 - 1 MBThere are times when you find yourself in the deep end of the swimming pool without your water wings. Welcome to TalkCast 475, in which Dome finds himself uncomfortable ensconsconsed between two friends, co-host Commander Cam and guest C.T. Phipps, far more knowledgeable than he is upon this evening’s subject, i.e., Yog-Sothoth. And… a good […]
Talkcast 474 – Space Aliens Don’t Cry by Bruce and Dumm
March 13, 2021 23:00 - 1 MBIn this Talkcast, we once again meet up with part-time paranormal instigator and full time interesting guy Bruce Olav Soldheim to talk about his latest work Snarc, the Graphic Novel, not to be confused with Snarc , The Comic, which we talked about in TalkCast 439. This is a whole new and different Snarc…. Well […]
TalkCast 473 – When Something Works…. Fix it.
March 07, 2021 01:00 - 1 MBOn this edition, it’s all about evolution. About two years ago we got to meet Scot and Jane Noel as they began their process of building the passion project of a magazine of science fiction that they had alway wanted; Dreamforge a magazine of hope and positivism able to balance out the current wave of […]
TalkCast 472 – The Haunting Mind
February 28, 2021 01:00 - 1 MBIn this episode we get to once again talk again with Jennifer Anne Gordon about more of her art. First and foremost we talk about her gothic novel Beautiful, Frightening and Silent, a multi layered, multi-set novel which is unique both in scope and style. We got to spend time discussing characters and development and […]
TalkCast 471 – A Refreshing Book About Death
February 21, 2021 01:00 - 1 MBWhy not welcome back Marc Watson, as we talk about the first book he ever wrote? OK, we do that in tonight’s episode for a number of reasons. First, Death Dresses Poorly is a damn good read, fresh, funny and very original. Second, Marc wanted to come on to tale about it for another reason. […]
TalkCast470 – We Are Siamese If You Don’t, Please?
February 14, 2021 01:00 - 1 MBIn this episode we get to ask the question, “So, what have you been doing during the pandemic?”. If your name happens to be Brian Menard, it would seem as if your plate has been full. Between the crime fighting comic, Siamese, feline based superheroes, and converting a trilogy of young adult novels called The […]
TalkCast 469 – Tonight on the Medieval History Channel…Whales?
February 07, 2021 01:00 - 1 MBRaise your hand if you thought that Welsh history would have been a topic for this podcast, OK, hands down, Now, raise your hands if you thought fantasy welsh novels would ever be a topic on this podcast, Well, see how wrong you were because you are about to be fascinated, as we all were […]
TalkCast 468 – Leukocyte? I Never Touched That Antigen!
January 31, 2021 01:00 - 1 MBOn tonight’s show we talk with comic creator Trevor Fernandes-Lenkiewicz, someone who by his own admission came into comic books late in life. This did not deter him from developing a deep love and respect for the craft of comics. He has created two websites, Dark Knight Nation and Pocket Watch Press. While in his […]
Talkcast 467 – She Haunts Lonely Places
January 23, 2021 23:00 - 1 MBAs residents of New England we can tell you that the coast of Maine is equally beautiful and haunting. There are many ghost stories to be found about the desolate seacoast of Maine, it’s haunted lighthouses and islands. During the isolation of the winter months the deep loneliness has resulted in tragic outcomes that loom […]
TalkCast 466 – Prose and Cons (with apologies to Eddie Murphy)
January 16, 2021 23:00 - 1 MBWhy do bad things always happen to good people? Why does the perfect point on your pencil always snap off? What do you trip on your own shoe laces? Why have all the conventions been cancelled? Damned if we know but we talked about them anyway with one of our best convention buddies Keith Gleason, […]
TalkCast 465 – You Put The Lime in the Coconut…..Drink It and What What Happens
January 09, 2021 23:00 - 1 MBWhat happiness when you bring Flaming Chicken, Psychedelicatessen, Uberfrog, The Funhouse Waltz, Nina of The Woods and a veritable plethora of films from around the globe hosted by the inimitable Dan Abella. Why, once again my friends, it’s time for The 3rd Annual Psychedelic Film and Music Festival, and what makes it so magnificently different […]
Talkcast 464 – If Audiobooks Could Talk..No Wait, That’s A Dumb Title
December 19, 2020 23:00 - 1 MB2020 has been a long year like no other, but through the ridiculous circumstance and hardship there have been ………. moments…….. During this “Year of The Pandemic” we have been forced by means of social distancing to not be able to see in person the people we usually do and as a result have gotten […]
TalkCast 463 – If Safety Deposit Boxes Could Talk
December 13, 2020 01:00 - 1 MBHere at Sci Fi Saturday Night, we read a lot of books. In fact, that may be an understatement this year more than most due to the understandable peculiarities that pandemics do to us. In reading as many books as we have over this “pandenterious” time we have discovered many many things. One thing we […]
Talkcast462 – Reality Is Subjective, Subjectivly Speaking
November 28, 2020 18:00 - 1 MBWhich came first, the chicken or the egg? Is the pen truly mightier than the sword? Questions like these and many others have troubled mankind (the species, not the wrestler) for millennia. For an answer to the first question I might ask Neil deGrasse Tyson. On this show we perhaps have someone uniquely qualified to […]
TalkCast 461 – Welcome to Lockdown Theatre
November 14, 2020 16:30 - 1 MBWelcome to Tough Trip Through Hell. Every so often we at Sci Fi Saturday Night find something so very different and wonderfully interesting that even if it doesn’t fit into our usual fair we want others to learn about. This show is one of those. During this pandemic, when any entertainment is limited, it is fascinating […]
TalkCast 460 – Busking As Seen Through a Prism
November 04, 2020 20:33 - 1 MBIf you’re old enough to remember Simon and Garfunkle AND you remember their early work AND you remember it fondly, you might remember one of their very early classics Old Friends/Bookends and if you mull over the lyrics of that wonderful classic song it was very much like this show. In this episode we get […]
TalkCast 459 – The Problem With Memory Marks
November 01, 2020 00:00 - 1 MBThe concept of “Young Adult” fiction within the science fiction/fantasy genre has evolved significantly over the years. What was once a very restrictive genre has become open to very modern interpretations as society evolves. In this episode we talk with Jenna Greene about her new book, titled Reborn. It is the first in a series […]
TalkCast 457 – PKD During The Pandemic In Paris
October 25, 2020 00:00 - 1 MBIf you’re going to put a film festival on in this god forsaken year and it’s going to be a Philip K Dick Film Festival, AND it’s going to be in Paris , well then, here’s the guy who’s going to do it and pull it off with some amazing films. Our guest tonight […]
TalkCast 458 – PKD During The Pandemic In Paris
October 25, 2020 00:00 - 1 MBIf you’re going to put a film festival on in this god forsaken year and it’s going to be a Philip K Dick Film Festival, AND it’s going to be in Paris , well then, here’s the guy who’s going to do it and pull it off with some amazing films. Our guest tonight […]
TalkCast 457 – I’ve Seen Smoke and I’ve seen Rain
October 04, 2020 00:00 - 1 MBEat your heart out James Taylor because in tonight’s episode we interview V. S. Holmes and it doesn’t involve Nel Bently. With the Nel Bentley series we see a wonderful series of sci fi stories with great characters. In this episode, we see V’s other side with Smoke and Rain and transition to […]
TalkCast 456 – The Definition of Insanity
September 26, 2020 23:28 - 1 MBFor four years we have waited with patience to talk to the woman behind the Kickstarter “Lilith In The Garden” which began in July 2016 and was successfully funded. Over the course for time the name changed, the personas changed but the driving force behind the project remained and we and she persisted, wondering where […]
TalkCast 455 – Mama, Where Do Baby Vampires Come From?
September 19, 2020 22:00 - 1 MB“If God created the universe with the appearance of being billions of years old, how was that any different from it actually being billions of years ago and aging through all that time?” This is the worlds of the Shapers. The worlds from the mind of our guest Ed Willett. In this episode we converse […]
TalkCast 454 – Turnip Out Is Always Fair Play
September 12, 2020 20:46 - 1 MB(For those of you who are Mothers of Inventions fans, the title makes perfect sense) Podcasting, in many ways, is a lot like cooking stew. You throw a bunch of stuff in a pot and see what happens. When a friend of the show brought us to the attention of another podcast, we were invited […]
TalkCast 453 – Warning! Time Travel May Cause Cramps
September 07, 2020 00:00 - 1 MBAccording to the great 20th Century philosopher Linus van Pelt there are three things you should never discuss with people: Religion, Politics and the Great Pumpkin. On this show we break two of the three rules. In this episode we discuss an alternate future anthology of a near future America, And The Last Trump Shall […]
TalkCast 252 – Things That It Isn’t, Not Things That It Is
August 30, 2020 00:03 - 1 MBWhen you discuss literature, inevitably one wonders what things are missing and in doing so , was it in error or purposeful. Welcome to the incomplete world of Heather M. Gooden, an author who dangles more threads than a blind seamstress and does so knowinging and with gleeful malice. If every picture tells a story, […]
TalkCast 451 – Finishing Jigsaw Puzzles with Marc Watson
August 22, 2020 20:58 - 1 MBIf there is one thing on this show that we have come to learn, and sometimes we question learning anything, it is that authors can come from anywhere and no single path leads to becoming an author. Marc Watson is a good example of coming at it from an oblique angle. He refers to himself […]
TalktCast450 – It’s Rusty
August 09, 2020 00:00 - 1 MBOne of the things we love best about attending Comic Book Conventions are the people we get to meet. We get to sit down with them in person and have fun conversations that never make it on to the podcast. But these conversations never seem to do more than scratch the surface of who the […]
TalkCast 449 – Embrace the Weirdness That is Jackiem Joyner
August 01, 2020 22:00 - 1 MBWell it was bound to happen. After 448 episodes we have become a music podcast. Okay, not really. But when you have a talented jazz performer who has moved into the realm of science fiction writing, you have to talk about the elephant in the room. Especially when the “elephant” is having the opportunity to […]
TalkCast 448 – Is That Fry’s Head In a Jar? No, but, it could be….
July 26, 2020 00:00 - 1 MBFrom time to time here on Sci Fi Saturday Night, we take a jump to the left. We put aside science fiction for the world of science fact. Every time we do we realize that the lines between the two blurs, which is as it should be. Good science fiction should be predicated in, […]
TalkCast 447 – What If Schrodingers Cat Had Kittens
July 17, 2020 19:19 - 1 MBTHE OPPENHEIMER ALTERNATIVE is an Alternate history novel by Robert J. Sawyer. The best part of an alternate history novel is when it is firmly founded in hard fact. one in which the historical accuracy of its roots is inviolate. The second best part is the moment at which it deviates and you’re not quite […]
TalkCast446 – The Song of Bernadette
July 12, 2020 00:00 - 1 MBIn 2020 we thought the world was strangely similar to the first book in the Blue Helix saga, Sleepwater Beat, like we had seen this before? Well welcome to 2031 where everything old is old yet again but not. It is a confusing dystopian future, which we were left off in at the end of […]
TalkCast445 – Peace In the Face of Chaos
July 05, 2020 20:00 - 1 MBSo. here’s what happens when you assume……99.99999995% of the time, you’re wrong. Welcome to the continuing saga of Nel Bently as told by the incomparable VS Holmes as we explore the third novel in the Nel Bently series Strangers, a series that takes place simultaneously on Earth, in space and on some other places yet […]
TalkCast 444 – The Many Worlds of Jay Mooers
June 27, 2020 20:45 - 1 MBIn 2014 the comic world was introduced to The Twisted World of Jay Mooers’ Autumn Grey. At that point it was the beginnings of an interesting story about a place, kinda like here but kinda not…an in-between world that existed somewhere in the periphery of your vision…just when you think you see it, it blinks […]
TalkCast443 – The Wonderful World of Extraterrestrial Teenage Cats and Other Fun Stuff
June 10, 2020 15:57 - 1 MBThe good news is, It’s a great day here in area 51 when we get to visit again with someone we really like and they have a new project to talk about. The better news is we are for some unknown reason STILL talking about aliens on earth and the agencies that support them. Our […]
Talkcast 442 – It’s All About The Reptiles
May 24, 2020 00:00 - 1 MBThe fun thing about this podcast is that we never know where we are going to be introduced to our next guest. This includes social media platforms we would not associate with science fiction or fantasy. I am looking at you LinkedIn. But that is where we met Dominik M Kirtaime and learned about his […]
Talkcast 441 – Just Like Watching Greg Louganis on the High Board
May 16, 2020 22:00 - 1 MBAnd, yes the podcast titles are becoming more obscure. In this case it is very appropriate. We get to talk with Kathrin Hutson about her new series of books set in a near dystopian future. The first book in her Blue Helix Series is called Sleepwater Beat. This book is killer in every sense of […]
Talkcast 440- A little Handwavium with Richard Paolinelli
May 09, 2020 20:00 - 1 MBIn this episode we get to, once again, touch base with multi-talented friend of the show Richard Paolinelli. As is usual when Richard comes on, whatever main topic we were planning to discuss becomes part of an auditory omelet, whereby we know where we want to end up but actually have no idea what’s inside […]
Talkcast439 – Of Comics and Innocent Aliens Abroad
May 02, 2020 22:29 - 1 MBSome interviews just happen all by themselves. No matter how much you plan and research, the conversation does what the hell it pleases and meanders wherever it wants. Thus was this episode with Bruce Olav Solheim; Radio Talk Show Host, Playwright, History Professor, member of MUFON, author of 8+ books on a wide range of subjects… […]
Podcast 438 – A “Slerk” of Blood with Curtis Lawson, or Lucien’s Song
April 25, 2020 22:34 - 1 MBCan music be evil, in and of itself? We explore this concept using a piece of fictional classical music called The Madrigal of the World’s End. In this episode, we get to once again talk with horror novelist Curtis M. Lawson (and yes, I do goof his name, but this time in an entirely unexpected […]