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Wizards & Spaceships

Wizards & Spaceships

Written by: Rachel A. Rosen & David L. Clink
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Welcome to Wizards and Spaceships, the only podcast that’s about wizards and also about spaceships. Well, probably not, but it does involve wizards, spaceships, and the things we love (and complain about) in science fiction, fantasy, and horror.Copyright 2026 Rachel A. Rosen & David L. Clink Art Science Fiction
Episodes
  • Indigenous Survivance for the Zombie Apocalypse ft. Daphne Singingtree

    Indigenous Survivance for the Zombie Apocalypse ft. Daphne Singingtree
    Jun 15 2026
    So you've trashed the world. An EMP or a nuclear bomb or a plague of zombies have taken out civic infrastructure—now it's your chance to show off your survival skills. Fortunately, there's an incredible resurgence of Indigenous post-apocalyptic fiction that offers alternative visions to surviving collapse. In this episode, we talk to author, educator in Plant Medicine & Midwifery, and hippy prepper Daphne Singingtree about how to survive and thrive after the end.We're nominated for an Aurora Award for Best Fan-Related Work!Check out the ballot (and consider casting a vote for us) at the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association.Show NotesDaphne's websiteDaphne's socialsZaniyan1632, Eric FlintEmberverse, SM Stirling A Paradise Built In Hell, Rebecca SolnitBraiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall KimmererMoon of the Crusted Snow and Moon of the Turning Leaves, Waubgeshig RiceThe Marrow Thieves and Hunting By Stars, Cherie DimalineFuture Home of the Living God, Louise ErdrichTrail of Lightning, Rebecca RoanhorseThis Place: 150 Years RetoldBlood Quantum (2019)Night Raiders (2021)The Last of Us Season 1, Episode 3, "Long Long Time." [Check out Rachel's guest appearance on Two Old Farts where we talk about it!]The Hunger GamesCascade, Rachel A. RosenStar Trek: TNG: "The Inner Light" TerminatorYears Of Rice and Salt and The Ministry For the Future, Kim Stanley Robinson
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    57 mins
  • Didactic Fiction ft. Vajra Chandrasekera, Samantha Mills, and Gregory A. Wilson

    Didactic Fiction ft. Vajra Chandrasekera, Samantha Mills, and Gregory A. Wilson
    May 15 2026

    Welcome to our new season! To celebrate, we’re kicking it up a notch by holding an all-star roundtable of some truly incredible writers. Vajra Chandrasekera, Samantha Mills, and Gregory A. Wilson join us to discuss didactic genre fiction. Is it a skill problem? Is it a media literacy problem? Can you hammer home a message without alienating (sorry/not sorry) your audience?

    We're nominated for an Aurora Award for Best Fan-Related Work!

    Check out the ballot (and consider casting a vote for us) at the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association.

    Show Notes:

    • Vajra's website
    • Samantha's website
    • Gregory's website
    • Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein (and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein)
    • Dante’s Inferno
    • Katabasis, R.F. Kuang
    • Rabbit Test, Samantha Mills
    • A Sound of Thunder, Ray Bradbury
    • Dune, Frank Herbert
    • The Witcher, Andrzej Sapkowski
    • Le Roman de Silence
    • From the Notebooks of Doctor Brain, Minister Faust
    • The Time Machine, H.G. Wells
    • Island of Doctor Moreau, H.G. Wells
    • Star Trek TOS: Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
    • One star review of Pride and Prejudice
    • World Bank literacy stats
    • Grendel, John Gardner
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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • In Praise of Difficult Women ft. Silvia Moreno-Garcia

    In Praise of Difficult Women ft. Silvia Moreno-Garcia
    Apr 15 2026

    Genre fiction is full of strong, independent women, badass heroines, brave Final Girls, and virginal princesses. Frankly, we’re getting a little sick of it? For our season finale, with us to discuss difficult women is the queen of messy, complicated, and antiheroic female protagonists herself, the legendary Silvia Moreno-Garcia!

    Show Notes
    1. Silvia's website
    2. Silvia's Instagram and Threads
    3. Signal To Noise by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (find out why Rachel is correct and all of the Goodreads reviewers are wrong)
    4. Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
    5. Countess by Susan Palumbo
    6. Unknown Number: The High School Catfish

    Rachel’s Problematic Faves

    1. Bellis Coldwine (The Scar by China Miéville)
    2. Baru Cormorant (The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickson)
    3. Essun (The Broken Earth by N.K. Jemisin)
    4. Catra (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power by Nate Stevenson)

    David’s Problematic Faves

    1. Morgan Le Fay (Le Morte d'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory)
    2. Cersei Lannister (A Song Of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin)
    3. Jadis (The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis)

    Silvia’s Problematic Faves

    1. Eleanor and Theodora (The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson)
    2. Constance and Merricat (We Have Always Lived In the Castle by Shirley Jackson)
    3. Everything by Tanith Lee
    4. Rebecca and Rachel (Rebecca and My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier)
    5. Emma Bovary (Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert)

    Are they genre? Nah, but we still love them

    1. Cass Neary novels by Elizabeth Hand
    2. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
    3. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
    4. The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
    5. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
    6. Washington Square by Henry James
    7. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
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    50 mins
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