On my latest “Looking Back on Genre History” segment on the StarShipSofa podcast (Episode 772), I discuss early feminist science fictional utopias and focus on A Few Hours in a Far-Off Age (1883) by Henrietta Dugdale.

A black-and-white portrait of reformer, freethinker, and author Henrietta Dugdale as a young woman.

Happy October! 🎃 On my latest “Looking Back on Genre History” segment on the StarShipSofa podcast (Episode 766), I praise the Dracula "group read" experience. Here is the episode.

Pictured is the book Dracula Daily resting on a brick walk with a bunch of garlic resting on its open pages.

I'm delighted to say that my narration of "The Liar" by the brilliant Darcie Little Badger is now available on Episode 651 of the Cast of Wonders podcast.

Pictured is the Cast of Wonders banner, showing a playing card with the Queen of Spades, for "The Liar" by Darcie Little Badger, narrated by Amy H. Sturgis, for Episode 651.

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On my latest "Looking Back on Genre History" segment on the StarShipSofa podcast (Episode 762), I talk about Doctor Who, history, time travel, and the new Who novel Shirley Jackson and the Chaos Box by Kalynn Bayron.

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On my latest "Looking Back on Genre History" segment on StarShipSofa (Episode 760), I discuss Ashley Lawson's new book On Edge: Gender and Genre in the Work of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Leigh Brackett.

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On my latest “Looking Back on Genre History” segment on the StarShipSofa podcast (Episode 754), I discuss (in a spoiler-free way!) Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins, intellectual history, and genre references. Here is the link!

Pictured is the cover of Sunrise on the Reaping: A Hunger Games Novel by Suzanne Collins. The cover art is purple, and it shows the image of a flint-striker pendant depicting a snake facing a mockingjay.

Pictured is part of a quote by Scottish Enlightenment thinker David Hume, a quote listed as an epigraph to Sunrise on the Reaping. The relevant part reads, "Nothing appears more surprising to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few; and the implicit submission, with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers...." The key phrase here is "implicit submission."

Pictured is a quote from the late-eighteenth-century protest poem "The Common and the Goose," which is quoted in Sunrise on the Reaping. This excerpt reads, "The law demands that we atone/ When we take things we do not own,/ But leaves the lords and ladies fine/ Who take things that are yours and mine."

On my latest “Looking Back on Genre History” segment on the StarShipSofa podcast (Episode 750), I revisit the brilliant The Tomorrow Series and other works by John Marsden and discuss the lasting contributions of science fiction scholar H. Bruce Franklin.

Here is the link!

On my latest “Looking Back on Genre History” segment on the StarShipSofa podcast (Episode 748), I revisit the brilliant The Twilight Zone series and discuss Monsters on Maple Street: The Twilight Zone and the Postwar American Dream by David J. Brokaw.

Here is the link!

Thank you to all of the podcasts that invited me on this year!

My "Looking Back on Genre History" science fiction segment ran each month on StarShipSofa.

I talked to Potterversity about my book chapter "Dark Arts and Secret Histories: Investigating Dark Academia"; to Trash Compactor and New Books Network about my book Star Wars: Essays Exploring a Galaxy Far, Far Away; and to New Books Network about my book Star Trek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier.

I also talked about Alexis de Tocqueville with the Vital Remnants podcast and Mary Shelley (twice, once about The Last Man and once about Frankenstein) with The McConnell Center podcast.

Links to all of these podcast episodes are here.

I've been on a Mary Shelley roll lately! On my latest “Looking Back at Genre History” segment on the StarShipSofa podcast (Episode 747), I revisit the brilliant Frankenstein. Here is the episode.

Pictured are open pages of The New Annotated Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and edited by Leslie S. Klinger. The pages show sepia-toned decorative artwork around the edges and a vintage illustration of Victor Frankenstein fleeing his awakened Creature.

On my latest “Looking Back at Genre History” segment on the StarShipSofa podcast (Episode 745), I discuss the New Wave in science fiction and the Dangerous Visions anthologies, including the newly-published The Last Dangerous Visions.

Image (posted by Blackstone Publishing) of the three science fiction anthologies Dangerous Visions; Again, Dangerous Visions; and, on top of the stack, The Last Dangerous Visions.

Pictured are four books: A Gothic Cookbook: Hauntingly Delicious Recipes Inspired by 13 Classic Tales Hardcover by Alessandra Pino and Ella Buchan, American Scary: A History of Horror, from Salem to Stephen King and Beyond by Jeremy Dauber, The Vampire of Vourla and Other Greek Vampire Tales, 1819-1846 edited by �lvaro Garc�a Mar�n, and Halloweird: Classic Stories from the Season of Samhain edited by Johnny Mains.

On my latest "Looking Back at Genre History" segment on the StarShipSofa podcast (Episode 743), I recommend four new books for the Halloween season related to genre history.

It was a joy to join my co-editor Emily Strand to talk about our anthology Star Trek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier with the New Books Network!

It was a joy to join my co-editor Emily Strand to talk about our anthology Star Wars: Essays Exploring a Galaxy Far, Far Away with the New Books Network!

It's been interview season season around here!

Many thanks to Jessica of "Rule the Galaxy" for having my co-editor Emily Strand and me on the show.

We talked about our new scholarly anthology Star Wars: Essays Exploring A Galaxy Far, Far Away!

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And big thanks as well to Josh of "Trash Compactor: A Star Wars Podcast" for the wonderful conversation about our anthology!

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It was a delight to join Emily Strand, with whom I co-edited the anthologies Star Trek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier and Star Wars: Essays Exploring a Galaxy Far, Far Away (both 2023 from Vernon Press), to talk Star Trek and Star Wars with the Dice in Mind podcast. Dice in Mind is a podcast hosted by Brad Browne and Jason Kaufman that explores the intersection of life, games, science, music, philosophy, and creativity through interviews with leading creatives.

Here is the episode!

My latest "Looking Back on Genre History" segment is the second of a two-part review of the anthology AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking about Intelligent Machines, edited by Stephen Cave, Kanta Dihal, and Sarah Dillon, published by Oxford University Press in 2020. It's now up on the new episode of the StarShipSofa podcast.

Here is the link for part 1!

Here is the link for part 2!

If you listen, I hope you enjoy.

My latest "Looking Back on Genre History" segment is the first of a two-part review of the anthology AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking about Intelligent Machines, edited by Stephen Cave, Kanta Dihal, and Sarah Dillon, published by Oxford University Press in 2020. It's now up on the new episode of the StarShipSofa podcast.

Here is the link! If you listen, I hope you enjoy.

Many thanks to Meg Dowell of "Now This Is Lit: A Star Wars Books Podcast" for having my co-editor Emily Strand and me on the latest episode to talk about our new scholarly anthology Star Wars: Essays Exploring A Galaxy Far, Far Away!

Here is the episode.

I've been contributing my "Looking Back on Genre History" segments to the StarShipSofa podcast for 15 years now. All of my past segments are listed (with their topics and links!) on the "Podcasting" page of my website. (Scroll down to the "Looking Back on Genre History" section.)

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