Paul Bahou So, there was this guy, a more eclectic guy you are never going to meet, I think. His name is Paul Bahou and , among other things , he is a writer and judging from his book, Sunset Distortion: The Pyramid At The End Of The World , a damn good one. He is also a musician, an ecologist, an entrepreneur and environmentalist, but this is about his writing …. or is it? The talented and very funny Mr. Bahou brings us an intergalactic buddy comedy staring Lazer and Streek, which asks some ama...
Dec 19, 2021
Edward M. Lerner When you read science fiction or fantasy or for that matter anything within the entire collective mish-mash genre, as a reader you tend to “give up” certain things; you simply accept “givens”. Lobsters from Andromeda speak with English accents, generation ships will actually work, FTL travel must work. Why? In this Cast remarkable writer, physicist and computer scientist Edward M. Lerner talks about his book Trope-ing the Light Fantastic: The Science Behind the Fiction . This bo...
Dec 12, 2021
Dr. Bruce Olav Solheim Having been on the ‘Cast a number of times, Dr Bruce Olav Solheim joins us again, this time to talk about UFO’s, life in the universe and his unique and personal perceptions of the paranormal which began at the age of 4 and have continued throughout his life. We got the opportunity to speak about his many experiential instances as well as his research and work with CERO , his numerous books and appearances on Coast to Coast and Alien Encounters Declassified . And just when...
Nov 07, 2021
Tracy and Laura Hickman In this very special edition we get the chance to reconnect with dear friends Tracy and Laura Hickman as they are in the middle of their phenomenal Kickstarter , a simply amazing new game which was funded in 88 minutes, and is now skyrocketing with over 2,500 backers. Who are they? What have they done? Well, sit back, relax and enjoy an hour or so of conversation that includes an explanation of Skyraiders including the work on the project done by Joe Manganiello , Larry E...
Nov 03, 2021
Thor Nesch Thor Nesch is by any definition multifaceted . The many styles of books as well as his other endeavours makes him “interesting” to say the least. When you have a writer, who amongst his many offerings has books that could qualify as Sci Fi, Fantasy, horror, crime drama, and thrillers, with subjects ranging from killer bears, beings trapped in a train underwater, finding your animal totem and in tonight’s offering a body switch comedy that is one part Disney Freaky Friday and one part ...
Oct 31, 2021
Melissa Yi After a few weeks on hiatus for a number of issues, we’re back, and this ‘casts guest is just wonderful. Melissa Yi is a gifted writer and if that was all she was it would be plenty,,,,but she is also an ER Doctor with a special interest in health education, a world traveler and a joy to talk to on a myriad of subjects so we sent the interview flitting from topic to topic and had one hell of a time. The Commander and I wanted to talk about her werewolf novel Wolf Ice , in large part b...
Oct 24, 2021
Tonight we take a look back with some of our friends. In a very special episode we reminisce with Zombrarian, Kriana, Illustrator X and Commander Cam and talk about some off their memories of the past 500 episodes: the good, the bad and the ridiculous. From Doug Jones to Dr. K. and almost everywhere in-between, this is 500 episodes of us. Enjoy the fun http://www.scifisaturdaynight.com/podcast/talkcast500.mp3 Download | Open Player in New Window Zombrarian Kriana Illustrator X Commander Cam...
Sep 26, 2021
Garon Whithed One might reasonably ask what these two things have in common? The quick answer is of course Garon Whited. The not so quick response is also Garon Whited . Garon and The Commander talk about one of his hard SF books, Luna . and its roots in Plato’s republic and Lord of the Flies and seem to have a genuinely good time in paralleling the origin of the hero quest from Joseph Campbell. The conversation then moves into the commercial as Garon gets to discuss his “day one exploits” at Dr...
Sep 19, 2021
Dan Abella joins us once again to talk about the Philip K Dick Science Fiction FIlm Festival to be held at the Producers Club Theater and Cinema In New York City on September 17,18 and 19. As usual we have no idea where the interview is going to end up because that’s how it goes whenever Dan is on the show and that’s just fine. We did however get a chance to discuss a bit of back history of the past years lockdown and what it meant to the festival and how it affected this tear in terms of both p...
Sep 12, 2021
What Do GraniteCon and Paranormal Romance Have In Common? Why, it’s Sci Fi Saturday Night , of course! New England is so very lucky to have a Granitecon this year. We get a few moments to talk with Chris from Double Midnight Comics to get an overview of what we can expect from this years event. WL Hawkin Then, W. L. Hawkin returns to talk about how nice she is to the podcast. We talk to her about reading her series of books backwards, The Hollystone Mysteries To Render A Raven. It’s a series of ...
Sep 05, 2021
Kathrin Hutson What a pleasure it is to have Kathrin Hutson back with us again. She returns to talk about book two in her Accessory to Magic series, The Cursed Fae. When last we spoke with her is was to kick off this series and we got our introduction to the magical underground world of Denver and met semi-reformed felon Jessica Northwood as she began her life after jail as an apprentice in the magical bank of Winthrop and Dirledge as an apprentice with no real thought as to what she might be ge...
Aug 29, 2021
In this Cast we get to again speak author Edward Willett about his latest “juvenile” SF thriller Star Song; the adventures of Kriss, a young orphan boy, his off-worlder girlfriend Tevera and his touchlyre. One might rightfully ask , just what is a touchlyre, what does it do, where does it come from…. and these are all good questions, many of which may be answered in the course of Kriss’ adventures with a spacefaring nomadic group known as The Families as well as a number of nefarious characters ...
Aug 22, 2021
Angela Yuriko Smith Never in the course of a Cast have I ever said “can I say something about that ” Scot Noel more times that in this episode and I’m not sure why other that I think Commander Cam and I adore these two folks very much. In this episode we are so pleased to welcome back Scot Noel from Dreamforge Anvil and introduce Angela Yuriko Smith from Space & Time Magazine . We get to talk to Scot about the metamorphosis of Dreamforge and how it is evolving into Anvil and what exactly tha...
Aug 15, 2021
Anna J. Walner In this episode we get to meet author Anna J. Walner as she introduces her new series, Garkain, Book One of the Ulura Legacy . In this first book we meet Amelia, a woman of extraordinary gifts who is learning about herself in many ways. As she explores her lineage she begins to realize it is not in Texas but draws her back to the Australian Outback where she learns of her true past as part of a hidden Vampire enclave which goes back generations: who she is, what she is how she got...
Aug 07, 2021
Garon Whited In this Cast we bring you the very funny and interesting author Garon Whited to talk about his very odd and interesting book, Dragonhunters . Garon not only proved to be an interesting conversationalist but was just fun to talk to. The Commander and I had the chance to delve into his past works for a bit as well as to talk with him about his style, where it comes from and why he has come to write the way he does. It turns out that Garon writes a lot like he thinks so this conversati...
Jul 31, 2021
Jennifer Anne Gordon Photo by Max Stark The key phrase in tonight’s show seems to be ‘My Banter is Bad” as we talk about Jennifer’s latest “horror”book Pretty/Ugly and peoples attempt to pigeonhole the genre. We also got the chance to talk about her style of writing which puts the reader between two railroad tracks and keeps the main characters careening on both rails as you bounce from side to side. It makes for a chaotic ride as the reader learn about the broken lives of Sam and Nicole.If you ...
Jul 25, 2021
Kristi Charish In this episode we talk about opening back up of conventions, Northeast Comicon, Gay Somers, Blind Boxes. The blind box analogy referred to Kristi Charish and her newest book, Owl and the Japanese Circus which is book four in the Owl series and really just dumped Commander Cam and I into this wonderful universe of hers. So….we spent the rest of the interview talking about her “Owl” universe, where it came from and where it is going. The universe is, in concept, both scientifically...
Jul 18, 2021
Richard Paolinelli Sound confusing? Sure it does! It wouldn’t be Richard Poalinelli if it wasn’t, but god it was great to have him back on the show for appearance number 5 which makes him the newest official member of The Five Timers Club. He brings to us Galen’s Way. A Starquest 4th Age Adventure . First and foremost it must be acknowledged that John C. Wright is the “owner” of the Starquest Universe and has a group of writers working within it to set a consistent universal timeline and history...
Jul 11, 2021
Jenna Greene joins the Commander and I as we talk with her about book two in her Reborn Marks Series, Renew, to continue the tale of Lexil and Finn and the story of their plight. We get the chance to learn more about the many different stopovers in this world and how they interact and what it is they have become over generations. It is not something the reader can come into without context and history, so you really do have to have read the previous book in the series (and please do so!). Enjoy ...
Jul 04, 2021
Liz Butcher It’s not often we get a second chance to talk with a wildly inventive author upon their sophomore outing and yet here we are with Liz Butcher as she offers up Never Never , one of the most inventive mystery horror novels to come into Area 51 in a very long time. Set loosely within the mythos (though not really) of a recognizable fairy tale it quite quickly goes off the rails into its own terrifying world which keeps you guessing until the very last word….. and beyond. This book is Li...
Jun 27, 2021
Miles Cameron Miles 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 40 other books under his belt under other names including Gordon Kant and Christian Cameron . What a wild ride it has been for Miles from his days in the US Navy to a historical reenactor, to ...
Jun 13, 2021
Shahid Mahmud On 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 now includes reprints by Heinlein, Niven, de Camp and many other iconic figures of the genre. We had one hell of a discussion that just barely began to pique the interest of Commander Cam...
Jun 06, 2021
Ariel Diaz In 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 we all did) doing sketching, drawings and covers and producing amazing work. You can find on her web page , Facebook and her Instagram page. We got the opportunity to talk about how things are finally b...
May 30, 2021
To Kill A King In 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 well as myself. We got the chance to explore with Wendy a lot of her process in both her character formation and development as well as her plot structure. Its was most certainly different as well ...
May 23, 2021
In 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 the works of Matthew Davenport and so I did and he joins us on this talkcast to discuss his “horrifying “works as well as his other “stuff”. It turns out a multidisciplinary author and a multidisciplinary mind lik...
May 16, 2021
Sebastien de Castell A 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 got there, some of which may have included: Is that your real name? Where Do You Ge these Ideas? What Are Your Concepts on Worldbuilding. Do you really Fence? Who’s your favo...
May 09, 2021
Edward M. Lerner Smart, 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 to be able to have a conversation not just about the work but also about its contextual relevance within current science as well as looking forward in the most positive of ways….. maybe. The mi...
May 02, 2021
When 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 as the poignant similarities between what we might see in the book and logical extrapolations in current and near society. The fine line between futurism and crying wolf is tightroped as we walk through this stun...
Apr 25, 2021
Mark Leslie Once 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 chance to pick his brain and talk about book three in the series, “Fear and Longing in Los Angeles” , which is engaging, funny as well as a damn good story with some very interest...
Apr 14, 2021
How 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 ); a project a monumental journey which took her over 15 years. Throughout this time the look into her past became her passion project and her growth into this wonderful fantasy/historical pas...
Apr 11, 2021
