Postcards from a Dying World

Joining me on this episode of PFDW is writer and film director Izzy Lee who is promoting her Kickstarter campaign to film her first feature-length film! Izzy Lee was named as one of A.V. Club's 10 female filmmakers to hire, a director on the rise. Her award-winning tales have screened at major international genre festivals such as Fantasia, Overlook, Morbido, FrightFest, Fantaspoa, Brooklyn Ho...

In this episode, my guest is Dreampunk author and editor Cliff Jones Jr. whose new novel Dreck is Part Surreal, Part humor, part science fictional material… all the taste and appearance of a PKD nightmare all wrapped into a unique and modern voice. Cliff is a serious Philip K. Dick nerd and the vanguard of a new surreal subgenre Dreampunk. In this interview we talk about Cliff’s influences, Philip...

Each and every book we read and consume is a relationship between two people on each side of the book. The time you really get a feeling for that is when you personally sell books at book signings and talk directly to that person. You can’t help but think about that when you are reading a book with a title like this one. Such is the theme of this science fiction novel by author, professor of Engli...

After every season of Star Trek, I gather a panel of nerds together and we talk about the highs and lows of the season that just ended. This time we talk about the third season of Star Trek Strange New Worlds. Returning for our 8th episode breaking down a completed season of Trek. Joining me as always are vocal Star Trek fan Sara Lynn Michener, Musician, and filmmaker Issa Diao and for this episod...

Hey there listeners. In this episode, we continue a mini-series of panels discussing WW II mission movies that inspired my upcoming novel The Last Night to Kill Nazis from Clash books. The novel comes out next month, during the pre-order period (You can get it from the Clash site, Amazon, Barnes, and Noble, or basically any indie bookstore) we will celebrate by talking about the movies that inspir...

Hey there listeners. In this episode, we continue a mini-series of panels talking about WW II mission movies that inspired my upcoming novel The Last Night to Kill Nazis from Clash books. The novel comes out next month, during the pre-order period (You can get it from the Clash site, Amazon, Barnes, and Noble, or basically any indie bookstore) we will celebrate by talking about the movies that ins...

Since 2000 one of the most extreme metal in Syracuse New York, a city known for brutal hardcore is the band Ebony Sorrow. Most of that time John Bukowski has been sharing the guitar playing and vocalist duties.  I met John went I lived in Syracuse during the 90s and we bonded on our shared love of Mercyful Fate and King Diamond. I have always known John to be one of the most passionate metal nerds...

Sean Raymond is a Science Fiction loving American astrophysicist living in Bordeaux France. I have been a longtime fan  of his blog PlanetPlanet.  He studies the formation and evolution of planetary systems and has created a system for modeling fictional solar systems, which I enjoy as he blends imagination with hard science. On his blog he also evaluates the scientific validity of well-known sett...

If there is a cursed episode of this podcast it is this one. Sparked by an argument on Twitter started when I declared John Brunner’s Stand on Zanzibar the best SF novel of the 20th century. Multiple people responded saying it wasn’t their favorite of the year. I invited all the people who weighed in and trying to schedule 4 time zones and five people’s schedules proved impossible. So it ended but...

One of the most talked about Science Fiction novels of the last year is the debut novel of Ray Nayler. Born in Quebec and raised in California, Ray Nayler lived and worked abroad for two decades in Russia, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan,Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Vietnam, and Kosovo. A Russian speaker, he has also learned Turkmen, Albanian, Azerbaijani Turkish, and Vietnamese. In V...

In 30 or more Science Fiction novels and countless short stories from the 1950s till his death in 1982 Philip K. Dick envisioned many wild futures. In this video Dickheads podcast co-host David Agranoff breaks down 10 examples of weird technology that PKD envision and has become real. For more PKD podcasts: www.soundcloud.com/dickheadspodcast PKDheads on Apple podcasts https://www.youtube.com/@Dic...

Lisa Yaszek is one of my favorite interviews but her appearances with me have all to this point been on the Dickheads podcast. She is the Regents Professor of Science Fiction Studies in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech. She is the author of Galactic Suburbia: Recovering Women’s Science Fiction co-editor of Sisters of Tomorrow. Most importantly today she is the edi...

No regular show this week, but how about a bonus episode! John Shirley was part of the vanguard of the Cyberpunk literary movement, this came after he help break the ground for punk rock in Portland Oregon. He is my one of my favorite living writers and I wanted to do a short bonus video about 7 books by John Shirley that you cannot miss. •You can find my books here: Amazon-https://www.amazon.com/...

The first time I interviewed Paul was 88 episodes ago for his new at the time novel Survivor Song, since then he joined us for a panel about basketball with Josh Malerman and Stephen Graham Jones. Lots has happened in Paul's life including a major studio motion picture based on his novel "The Cabin at the End of the World" called Knock at the Cabin. In this episode, we talk about his...

I was sad to learn that NY Times bestselling author F. Paul Wilson suffered from a stroke. He is working to get back to health, but in my attempt to send healing vibes, I made a 20-minute bonus video with six reasons why you should be reading F. Paul Wilson. Paul was on the podcast twice, although he also appeared once on Dickheads for a panel about Tony Boucher. The first time he joined Postcards...

After every season of Star Trek, I gather a panel of nerds together and we talk about the highs and lows of the season that just ended. This time we talk about the third season of Star Trek Picard. Returning for our 7th episode breaking down a completed season of Trek. Joining me as always are vocal Star Trek fan Sara Lynn Michener, Musician, and filmmaker Issa Diao and for this episode, we are jo...

Hey there listeners. In this episode, we start a mini-series of panels talking about WW II mission movies that inspired my upcoming novel The Last Night to Kill Nazis from Clash Books. My novel comes out this summer, during the pre-order period (You can get it from the Clash site, Amazon, Barnes, and Noble, or basically any indie bookstore) we will celebrate by talking about the movies that inspir...

Hey there listeners. In this episode, we start a mini-series of panels talking about WW II mission movies that inspired my upcoming novel The Last Night to Kill Nazis from Clash books. My novel comes out this summer, during the pre-order period (You can get it from the Clash site, Amazon, Barnes, and Noble, or basically any indie bookstore) we will celebrate by talking about the movies that inspir...

On this episode S.B. Divya is back, her 2021 novel Machinehood was one of my top reads of that year, and in 2023 she is back to discuss the novel she hinted at with us before. Her new novel Meru is one of the best character-driven Science Fiction novels I have read in some time. Set 900 years in our future Meru is a story about Transhumanism, colonialism and it has an interesting romance at its co...

This interview is overdue on the podcast. David James Keaton is a guest I have wanted on many times before. His work circles around bizarro, science fiction, and horror. His latest novel Head Cleaner is one I was looking forward to for some time. Head Cleaner is a Sci-fi horror hybrid that exists pays loving homage to the VHS era and more importantly the random video stores. In this discussion, we...

After every season of Star Trek, I gather a panel of nerds together and we talk about the highs and lows of the season that just ended. This time we talk about the third season of Star Trek Lower Decks. Returning for our 6th episode breaking down a completed season of Trek. Joining me are vocal Star Trek fan Sara Lynn Michener, and Musician and filmmaker Issa Diao. Sorry, this one was late, We lov...

Very excited to interview one of my favorite local authors here in San  Diego Jim Ruland, who is quickly becoming one of the most important historians of underground music. In this conversation we talk about  Jim’s journey to becoming a writer, discovering punk rock, organizing literature events punk rock style, researching his books about musicians and his process.    Jim is t...

In this episode of the podcast,I talked with Steve Davidson, the co-editor of the original science fiction magazine Amazing Stories. A lifelong active member of the Science Fiction fan community a few years back Steve noticed that Hasbro the one-time owner of Amazing Stories has let the trademark lapse. In this episode, we talk about how Steve became the owner of the classic trademark, the magazin...

Barry N. Malazberg and his multiple Science Fiction personalities were on the frontlines as eras shifted from Asimovian ideas to a  counter-culture middle finger held high novels filled with sex, drugs,  and political points of view. One of his weirdest meta- SF novels was the thin 1974 masterpiece Galaxies. The novel is the story of a  40th-century starship captain and the science...

100 episodes! Season two Finale! For the big show, I decided I wanted to do something special, no matter if there was a demand or not. In my childhood, there was one Science Fiction property that was important to me as Star Wars or Star Trek. Debuting on NBC in May 1983 only weeks before Return Of The Jedi we were introduced to V the Mini-series. An alien invasion story that I enjoyed as a kid for...