Episode 41 of my science fiction podcast is now up at io9. In this show we interview Daniel H. Wilson about his new novel Robopocalypse, which is currently being adapted for film, with Steven Spielberg slated to direct. Then stick around after the interview as John and I discuss the Terminator movies.

Episode 40 of my science fiction podcast is up at io9. In this show we interview Genevieve Valentine, author of Mechanique, about circus performers, period costumes, and really, really bad movies. Then stick around after the interview as John and I discuss some of our most disastrous moviegoing experiences.

Episode 39 of my science fiction podcast is now up at io9. In this show we interview Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead) about his new memoir Nerd Do Well. Then stick around after the interview as John and I discuss funny fantasy & science fiction.

Episode 38 of my science fiction podcast is now up at io9. In this show we interview Ken Denmead, editor of the Geek Dad blog on Wired.com and author of the Geek Dad series of books, which describe fun, geeky projects for the whole family. Then stick around after the interview as John and I discuss the issue of whether or not we’re all living inside a computer simulation.

Episode 37 of my science fiction podcast is now up at io9. In this show we interview Ellen Kushner about resurrecting the landmark Borderland shared-world anthology series. Then stick around after the interview as John and I discuss anti-fantasy bias.

Episode 8 of my science fiction podcast is now up at io9. In this show we interview medical student Blake Charlton about his debut novel Spellwright, then John and I discuss magic and medicine in fiction.

Episode 36 of my science fiction podcast is now up at io9. In this show we interview Mary Roach, author of the popular science books Stiff, Spook, and Bonk. Her latest book is called Packing for Mars, and deals with the less glamorous aspects of space travel. Then stick around after the interview as John and I discuss horror stories set aboard spaceships and space stations.

Episode 35 of my science fiction podcast is now up at io9. In this show we interview author Daniel Abraham about the advantages of pseudonyms, the economics of fantasy kingdoms, and adapting George R. R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones into graphic novel format. Then stick around after the interview as John and I discuss Episodes 1 & 2 of the new Game of Thrones TV series on HBO.

Episode 7 of my science fiction podcast is now up at io9. In this show we interview Steve Eley, creator of the Escape Pod podcast. Then stick around after the interview as John and I discuss audio fiction and recommend a few of our favorite Escape Pod episodes.

Episode 34 of Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy is now up at io9. In this episode we interview Alan Dead Foster about writing movie tie-ins, about his upcoming novels, and about his new wildlife travel memoir Predators I Have Known. Then stick around after the interview as John and I debate the Predator franchise and discuss the role of animals in fantasy & science fiction.

Episode 33 of Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy is now up at io9. In this show we interview Cameron Stracher, media lawyer and author of the dystopian YA novel The Water Wars. Then stick around after the interview as John and I discuss dystopian literature and John’s new anthology Brave New Worlds.

Episode 32 of Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy is now up at io9. In this show we interview star astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson about life in the universe, death in outer space, and why Titanic pissed him off. Then stick around after the interview as John and I recommend some of our favorite astronomy-based science fiction. We also discuss James Frey’s role in the movie I Am Number Four and speculate about whether aliens could truly be incomprehensible.

Episode 6 of Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy is now up at io9. In this episode Cherie Priest, “Queen of Steampunk,” talks about her alternate history Civil War steampunk zombie novel Boneshaker and reminisces about her childhood (“it’s only a slight exaggeration to say that I was raised in an eschatalogical cult”). Then stick around after the interview as John and I discuss Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes and John’s anthology The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

Episode 31 of Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy is now up at io9. In this show we interview Chris Roberson, award-winning science fiction novelist and publisher of Monkey Brain Books, who recently landed his dream gig of writing for the Superman monthly comic. Then stick around after the interview as John and I discuss upcoming superhero movies, superheroes in prose fiction, Marvel and DC trademarking the word “superhero,” and “porn face” in comics.

Episode 5 of Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy is now up at io9. In this show we interview Brian Dunning of the Skeptoid podcast, and then John and I chat about Santa Claus, the Loch Ness Monster, Bigfootology, UFOs, and more!

Episode 30 of Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy is up at io9. In this show we interview Jennifer Ouellette, author of three popular science books, Black Bodies and Quantum Cats: Tales from the Annals of Physics, The Physics of the Buffyverse, and The Calculus Diaries: How Math Can Help You Lose Weight, Win in Vegas, and Survive a Zombie Apocalypse. She also maintains a blog called Cocktail Party Physics, and for the past three years has been the director of the Science and Entertainment Exchange, an initiative of the National Academy of Sciences that seeks to improve the way that science and scientists are portrayed by Hollywood. Then stick around after the interview as John and I discuss fantasy & science fiction on television.

Episode 29 of Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy is now up at io9. In this episode we interview Orson Scott Card about his new novel The Lost Gate, and discuss theater, writing for Marvel, and Hollywood. Then stick around after the interview as John and I discuss wizards in fiction and games.

Episode 4 of Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy is now up at io9. In this episode we interview Marjorie M. Liu, author of urban fantasy and paranormal romance novels (and writer on the Marvel comics NYX and Dark Wolverine). Then stick around after the interview as John and I discuss superheroes.

Episode 28 of Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy features an interview with Jennifer Finney Boylan, author of the middle grade fantasy novel Falcon Quinn and the Black Mirror, about a school where monsters are taught to suppress their true natures. Jenny is also the author of She’s Not There, one of the first bestselling memoirs by a transgendered American. She’s appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Larry King Live, and The Today Show, been lampooned on Saturday Night Live, and appeared (as herself) on All My Children. She also teaches English and Creative Writing at Colby College, where she was named “Professor of the Year” in 2000, and where I was lucky enough to study with her. Then stick around after the interview as John and I discuss the role of monsters in fantasy & science fiction.

Here’s a polished-up version of Episode 3 of Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy. In this episode we interview P. W. Singer, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, about his book Wired for War, which explores the real-life use of military robotics. Then stick around after the interview as John and I discuss robots, power armor, and war in science fiction.