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Full Contact Nerd Interviews — 100 episodes
Magical, Mysterious, and Monstrous News Oct 2-8 2026
Magical, Mysterious, and Monstrous Discoveries – September 26-October 2 2026
Magical, Mysterious, and Monstrous Discoveries – September 19-25 2026
Words With Power – September 11-18 2026
Travel and murder in this new thriller – Book tour interview with Andrea Bartz
Artist and author Brian Catling discusses his writing and his art
Post-apocalyptic science fiction with Gene Doucette
An Insider Look at The Last Kids on Earth
How nerds protect the earth despite being marginalized – Interview with Anthony Lioi
How to scare yourself with horror and other creepy nuggets – Interview with Josh Malerman
Why Murderbot is tough to write and other sci-fi secrets – Interview with Martha Wells
Why Project Hail Mary is awesome and other sci-fi nuggets – Interview with Andy Weir
How modern alternative horror films have divided critics and fans with David Church
How colonialism and politics shaped Indian science fiction with Suparno Banerjee
How a deep-nerd comic book writer ended up writing for the Sonic TV series with Justin Peniston
How the Japanese imperial system inspired a sci-fi book series with Juliette Wade
The strange rivalry between British fantasy writers with Hadas Elber-Aviram
How a slow-burning idea of a lonely cabin in the woods became a sci-fi novel with David Arnold
How female cross-dressing intrigued the British literary world with Ula Klein
How Sweden adopted French knightly romances and Europeanized itself with Sofia Loden
How Nicole Glover wrote a fantasy novel about historic Philadelphia and the Underground Railroad
What Calamity Jane’s life might really have been like – Interview with Western author K. Lyn Wurth
Where did Edgar Allan Poe live and create his masterpieces with Scott Peeples
How a spider queen won a Bram Stoker award for her first novel with Sarah Read
Secrets and successes of an award winning monster writer with Owl Goingback
How to develop characters for screenplays with Brian Herskowitz
Elizabeth Bear interview about her sci-fi novel “The Machine” (Gallery / Saga, 2020)
How the evil and the dead may save the world in a new horror novel with Jonathan Janz
What happens when everything stops working with sci-fi author Jonathan Lethem
Brian Herskowitz discusses approaches to outlining a screenplay
Jane Gilmartin interview about her science fiction novel “The Mirror Man” (MIRA, 2020)
Arkady Martine interview about her debut award winning sci fi novel “A Memory Called Empire” (Tor Books, 2019)
Thilde Kold Holdt interview about her new Viking Fantasy Novel “Northern Wrath” (Solaris, 2020)
Brian Herskowitz explains how to develop structure in a screenplay “Product to Process”
Simon Stephenson talks about his science Fiction novel “Set My Heart To Five” (Hanover Square Press, 2020)
How a fantasy author made the successful switch to science fiction with Adrian Tchaikovsky
David Wellington interview about his science fiction novel “The Last Astronaut” (Orbit, 2019)
Alice James interview about her vampire mystery novel “Grave Secrets” (Solaris, 2020)
Ellen Datlow interview about her Horror, fantasy, and sci-fi book “Edited By” (Subterranean, 2020)
Brian Herskowitz talks about How to Write Screenplays and his book “Process to Product” (2014)
Somaiya Daud interview about her space fantasy fiction novel “Court of Lions” (Flatiron Books, 2020)
Melanie R. Anderson and Lisa Kroger interview about Horror and Speculative Fiction – “Monster She Wrote” (Quirk Books, 2019)
Science Fiction – “The House of Styx” (Solaris, 2020) – Derek Kunsken interview
Speculative Fiction anthology – “New Suns” (Solaris, 2019) – Nisi Shawl interview
Mary-Robinette Kowal interview – Science Fiction novel – “The Relentless Moon” (Tor Books, 2020)
L.E. Modesitt Jr interview – Science Fiction novel – “Quantum Shadows” (Tor Books, 2020)
Film history – “What Price Hollywood?” (University Press of Kentucky, 2020) – Elyce Helford interview
Gothic film history – “Gothic Film” (Edinburgh University Press, 2020) – Richard Hand and Jay McRoy interview
Horror fiction history – “Horror Fiction in the 20th Century” (Praeger, 2020) – Jess Nevins interview
Bethany C. Morrow interview about her fantasy novel “A Song Below Water” (Tor/Forge, 2020)
Post-apocalypse novel – “The Book of Koli” (Orbit/Little, Brown Books, 2020) – M.R. Carey interview
Thriller novel – “Crash” (Tor/Forge Books, 2020) – Lawrence Light interview
Caroline Stevermer interview about her fantasy novel “The Glass Magician” (Tor Books, 2020)
Fantasy novel – “The Poet King” (Tor Books, 2020) – Ilana C. Myer interview
Overwatch League – “Young Guns” (Hachette Books, 2020) – Austin Moorhead interview
Veronica Roth interview about her fantasy science fiction novel “Chosen Ones” (John Joseph Adams, 2020)
Science fiction novel – “Providence” (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2020) – Max Barry interview
Italian science fiction studies book – “Italian Science Fiction: The Other in Literature and Film” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) – Simone Brioni interview
How does the voice acting business work with Bryce Papenbrook
How to overcome shyness and become a successful anime voice actor with Daman Mills
Game of Thrones science – “Fire, Ice, and Physics” (MIT Press, 2019) – Rebecca Thompson interview
Faye Mata interview at Anime USA 2019 – Video Game and Anime Voice Artist
Overwatch Voice Artist – Keith Silverstein interview
Sci-Fi and Science – “Exploring Science Through Science Fiction” 2nd ed (Springer, 2019) – Barry Luokkala interview
Animation history – Joel Adams interview
Children’s show and puppeteering history – Jim Martin interview
Science Fiction Replicas – Master Replicas Group interview
Comic book history – Comic book writer – Christopher Priest interview
NASA space program history book – “Come Fly With Us” (University of Nebraska Press, 2019) – Mel Croft and John Youskauskas interview
Science Fiction history book – “The Technical Delusion” (Duke University Press, 2019) – Jeffrey Sconce interview
Animation history book – “Eat, Drink, Animate” (CRC Press, 2019) – Tom Sito interview
NASA history book – “The Space-Age Presidency of John F. Kennedy” (University of New Mexico Press, 2019) – John Bisney interview
Supernatural studies history book – “The Spectral Arctic” (UCL Press, 2018) – Shane McCorristine interview
Videogame Avaria discussion and gameplay – Andrew Linde interview
Scene by scene analysis of The Orville’s latest – Part I
Sci-fi tv show book – “The World of the Orville” (Titan Books, 2018) – Jeff Bond interview
Supernatural Horror studies book – “New Directions in Supernatural Horror Literature” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) – Sean Moreland interview
Japanese mystery fiction book – “Old Crimes, New Scenes” (Published by MerwinAsia; distributed by the University of Hawaii Press, 2018) – Charles Exley and Michael Tangeman interview
Video games studies book – “The Toxic Meritocracy of Video Games” (University of Minnesota Press, 2018) – Chris Paul interview
Supernatural fiction studies book – “A Feeling of Wrongness” (Penn State University Press, 2018) – Joe Packer interview
Horror movie history book – “The Howling: Studies in the Horror Film” (Centipede Press, 2018) – Lee Gambin interview
Artificial Intelligence academic – “How Smart Machines Think” (MIT Press, 2018) – Sean Gerrish interview
Latin American horror movies – “The Migration and Politics of Monsters in Latin American Cinema” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) – Gabriel Eljaiek-Rodriguez interview
Horror movie history – “Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror” (Counterpoint, 2018) – W. Scott Poole interview
Classic science fiction – “The Forever War” (Titan Comics, 2017) – Joe Haldeman interview
Star Trek history – “Star Trek: A Cultural History” (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018) – M. Keith Booker interview
Sci-fi and archaeology – “Excavating the Future” (Liverpool University Press, 2018) – Shawn Malley interview
Disney animation history – “Drawing the Line” (University Press of Kentucky, 2006) – Tom Sito interview
Rod Serling and his work – “Rod Serling” (University Press of Mississippi, 2018) – Nicholas Parisi interview
Race, Gender, and Disability in Spec Fiction – “Bodyminds Reimagined” (Duke University Press, 2018) – Sami Schalk interview
Frankenstein art – “It’s Alive!” (GILES, 2018) – Elizabeth Denlinger interview
Fantasy works and climate change – “Fire and Snow” (SUNY Press, 2018) – Marc DiPaolo interview
Science Fiction and disaster – “The Future as Catastrophe” (Columbia University Press, 2018) – Eva Horn interview
Science Fiction and religion – “Religion and Technology into the Future” (Lexington Books, 2018) – Sam Gill interview
Stargate actor – Peter Williams interview
Argentine Horror Films – “Blood Circuits” (SUNY Press, 2018) – Jonathan Risner interview
Classical “monster” art – “Portraits of Human Monsters in the Renaissance” (Medieval Institute Publications, 2018) – Touba Ghadessi interview
Stargate Universe actor – Peter Kelamis interview
Star Trek actress – Chase Masterson interview
Star Trek graphic designers – Michael and Denise Okuda interview