The Incomparable Mothership

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• And I'm All Outta Dinosaurs

  October 9, 2026 · 1 hr 33 min

  Inhale deeply of the intoxicating gases and get ready to discuss the “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” season gone by. Our panel of puppets, “Casablanca” characters, badmirals, and high fantasy types have opinions on the genre-shifting…

• Thoughts About a Fictional Bakery

  October 3, 2026 · 58 min

  Helene Wecker’s third Golem and Jinni novel, The Gates of Midnight, is now available! Jason asks her about her multi-decade journey to get to the end of the trilogy, how research has changed along the way, the themes of the three books…

• Tea, Blankets, and Murder

  September 25, 2026 · 1 hr 41 min

  Once a subcategory for mysteries, “cozy” feels like the latest craze in publishing with every genre getting in on the act. Is it really a new thing? Are authors able to take sci-fi or horror and turn it into something to be read while…

• Team Whammer

  September 18, 2026 · 1 hr 34 min

  The Summer of Sundance comes to an end with “The Natural,” a story of a legendary baseball player—no, we’re not talking about Joe Don Baker as The Whammer, or are we? It’s Bernard Malamud’s take on baseball as American mythology, filtered…

• Dial-a-CIA-computer

  September 11, 2026 · 1 hr 17 min

  The Summer of Sundance continues with the paranoid thriller, “Three Days of the Condor.” A devastatingly handsome nerd goes out to buy sandwiches for the office, and the next thing he knows he’s on the run and kidnapping Faye Dunaway… Host…

• She Thought She Heard the Ice Cream Truck

  September 4, 2026 · 1 hr 12 min

  Now the curtain is going up, “The Sting” is starting the show! Snappy patter and jokes, along with the star power of Robert Redford and Paul Newman, drive this story of an elaborate con that goes right—or does it?! Also there’s a lot of…

• Likeable Goblins

  August 28, 2026 · 1 hr 12 min

  Eleven books later, our Awards Book Club has finally reached the end of the line. In this episode we cover our last uncovered book, “Shroud” by Adrian Tchaikovsky, recommend some Hugo-nominated short fiction, and rank all eleven books…

• What Is Even Bolivia?

  August 21, 2026 · 1 hr 13 min

  Our Summer of Sundance kicks off with Sundance himself, as we travel back to the end of the old west (and, later, to the garden spot of Bolivia) to visit a couple of robbers, their lady friend, and their not-very-important gang with “Butch…