What 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 a long way from his first project and this book shows wonderful depth and growth. It was great fun to talk with Trev about the growth he has made in both characters and story along the way in antic...
Apr 04, 2021
There 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 time was had by all as I got the chance to ask a ton of stupid questions and we all got to have a ton of laughs about the myth and mythos of Lovcraftian wei...
Mar 21, 2021
In 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 not entirely new and different, instead it is a continuation, so to speak, of the non linear story, if you will of the odyssey of of our innocent bumbling alien invader and his talking st...
Mar 13, 2021
On 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 dystopian futurism (excuse the editorial slant of this writer….). I personally loved the idea, its concept, and execution and was, from inception, a vocal supporter. And then, covid hit. And with i...
Mar 07, 2021
Jennifer Anne Gordon In 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 how the pandemic may have influenced both. It’s fun picking Jens brain because you come to realize she writes much how she thinks which led to some very intere...
Feb 28, 2021
Marc Watson Why 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. Third, it’s always fun to talk to Marc and fourth, We get to choose the guests….so there. So, Marc’s first novel is an absolute hayride to hell and back and held our interest from the very first p...
Feb 21, 2021
In 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 Healing Wars by Janice Hardy to graphic novels, Brian Menard has been a busy man. Along the way we discuss his issues with crowdfunding and dealing with “alleged fraud” on these sites. Bria...
Feb 14, 2021
Marie Powell Raise 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 in talking with Marie Powell about her new series Last Of The Gifted . In this episode we focus on how and why this series happened and the genesis of her first book in this saga Spirit Sight . It i...
Feb 07, 2021
Trevor Fernandes-Lenkiewicz On 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 role as the writer on his comic Area 51: The Helix Projec t he took a comic craftsman’s approach to understanding the importance of every part of the comic...
Jan 31, 2021
Jennifer Anne Gordon As 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 over the scenery. It is within this eerily sterile landscape our guest resides and has set her latest two (or is it actually one) stories of gothic horror....
Jan 23, 2021
Why 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, even though we have never actually seen him trip on his shoe laces. Our conversation started with one of our favorite topics;comic cons, and whether we will see any this year. It is a conversation that ...
Jan 16, 2021
The Psychedelic Film And Music Festival What 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 this year is that it’s being held during the Covid-19 Pandemic (I know that sounds oxymoronic but bear with me)....
Jan 09, 2021
Jeffrey A, Carver 2020 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 to meet many new and amazingly talented people who shared their creations with us. Authors, Documentarian, Short Film creators, teams building innovative content in times when it is dif...
Dec 19, 2020
Kathrin Hutson Here 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 have kind of come to agreement on is that if you haven’t somehow been in some way engaged by a book by page 50 or so you probably are not going to be. Let it not be said that there hav...
Dec 13, 2020
JM Landels Which 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 take a “stab” at the second conundrum. Please join us in welcoming JM Landels , writer, illustrator, publisher, editor, equestrian, sword-fighter, musician and many more s...
Nov 28, 2020
Welcome 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 when we get to see something new streamed into our eye and ear holes in an innovative and creative way. On this show we talk to return guest Bruce Olav Solheim along with the cas...
Nov 14, 2020
If 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 to spend time with an old friend in every sense of the word and it felt like a moment frozen in amber to speak once again with creator/writer/musician George O’Connor about his latest jewel in ...
Nov 04, 2020
Jenna Greene The 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 about a young girl that due to a quirk of birth that shows up in her teens marks her to be sold into slavery. This story follows her time as a slave, her e...
Nov 01, 2020
If 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 is Dan Abella, the man behind the PKD Film Festival, this year originating in Paris. And in true Abella style (and under rigid international pandemic protocols) he is running the entire operation from his New York offices. And like every Dan ...
Oct 25, 2020
V.S. Holmes Eat 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 see her fantasy world. Oddly enough, this is the first world she ever created and helped in no small way become the amazing writer she is today.. Her current fantasy series consists of two duolo...
Oct 04, 2020
Emily Lawrence For 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 the project was heading. As it turns out, the title changed to Being Val (which is hopefully heading twards the festival circuit) and some of the inner working pers...
Sep 26, 2020
Edward Willett “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 with Ed about book three in his Worldshapers Series , aptly entitled The Moonlit World . One may well ask why is that an apt title? To divine the answer, you must listen to the podcast...
Sep 19, 2020
Christie Stratos (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 to be a part of The Writers Showcase and met Christie Stratos . It turns out Christie is not only an incredibly competent and charming host, but also an editor and author, so we here at party cent...
Sep 12, 2020
James Morrow According to the great 20th Century philosopher Linus van Pelt Cat Rambo 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 Sound . Joining us are James Morrow and Cat Rambo ,both of whom under other circumstances would have been more than enough for one episode but to have them b...
Sep 07, 2020
When 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, then every clue MUST have a meaning. The delicious problem here is that some do…some might and some…well…we may never actually know. And THAT is the beauty of her writing. Having re...
Aug 30, 2020
Marc Watson If 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 as an Anti-author due to his unique path of reaching this point in his career, a point which we discuss at length as his road to this point affects each word on the page. We discuss his newest work of...
Aug 22, 2020
Rusty Gilligan One 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 person is that we were talking to. Such is not the case with this podcast. We have on the podcast Rusty Gilligan , a face we see frequently at many cons and we get plenty of opportunities to talk to...
Aug 09, 2020
Jackiem Joyner Well 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 play with George Duke . So we may have strayed from the path as if this is not a normal occurance for us. We hope you will forgive us. If not, you haven’t been listening much. W...
Aug 01, 2020
Gisella Bustillos From 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 line s between the two blurs, which is as it should be. Good science fiction should be predicated in, and predictive of the future. Much like Star Trek communicators and tricorders foreshadowed into the age of tablets and smartphones or robots who are getting closer and closer R. Daneel Olivaw, Siri and Wat...
Jul 26, 2020
Photo Credit: Carolyn Clink (2008) THE 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 sure where it is. Welcome to the wonderful biography of Robert Oppenheimer written by Robert J. Sawyer which becomes one of the most amazing alternate histori...
Jul 17, 2020
