Rumor Has It with Cat Rambo and Dave Robison
If This Goes On (Don't Panic): Science Fiction, Fantasy & Progressive Politics
Release Date: 01/02/2025
Speculative Whiteness Part 5: This Snowflake is an Avalanche with Dr. Jordan Caroll
If This Goes On (Don't Panic): Science Fiction, Fantasy & Progressive Politics
In the Fifth part of this column, we flip the script and discuss how writers can pursue equity in their writing, how to deal with problematic creators, and how Dr. Carroll deals with the toxicity of reading alt-right works, and authors who are examples of anti-fascist writing. You can purhase Speualtive Whiteness here:
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Horror Bugge with Premee Mohamed
If This Goes On (Don't Panic): Science Fiction, Fantasy & Progressive Politics
In this episode, Alan talks to writer Premee Mohamed. They discuss imposter syndrome, awards, being caegorized as horror, the state of the horror genre, Stephen King, the correlation between social media and sales, quicksand, Premee's favorite ink, audience questions, and much more. You can find Premee Mohamed and her books here:
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Speculative Whiteness: Part 4 Whitey In Space with Dr. Jordan Carroll
If This Goes On (Don't Panic): Science Fiction, Fantasy & Progressive Politics
In the fourth part of this column, Alan and Jordan pick up trying to understand what is happening in the minds of the alt-right, the ambiance of racism in the US, fascism in Fantasy and Horror, the lack of imagination in fascist thinking, and they begin to discuss how to evaluate the fiction you’re reading. You can purhase Speualtive Whiteness here:
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Uncertain Sons with Thomas Ha
If This Goes On (Don't Panic): Science Fiction, Fantasy & Progressive Politics
In this episode, Alan and Cat talk to writer Thomas Ha. They discuss the effects of covid on genre, Lit RPG, cozey fiction, writing across genres, Clarkesworld Magazine, Matt Diniman, Brian Evenson, preserving the status quo, writing villains, writing children, killing children in prose, inventing monsters, Thomas' recent collection, Uncertain Sons, and much more. You can find Uncertain Sons And Other Stories here:
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Speculative Whiteness Part 3: MFing Nazi Info Dump with Dr. Jordan Carroll
If This Goes On (Don't Panic): Science Fiction, Fantasy & Progressive Politics
In the third part of our column about the alt-right and Speculative Fiction fandom, Alan and Jordan break down a number of important concepts needed to understand the alt-right and how they view Speculative Fiction. Concepts include low time preferences, metapolitics, Archeofuturism, Faustianism, and mutant romances. we discuss the right wing and fandom and much more.
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Bailey's Books: Sword, Sorcery, Science, Astronauts, AIs, Horrors, & Hurricanes
If This Goes On (Don't Panic): Science Fiction, Fantasy & Progressive Politics
In this episode Alan reviews (books linked below): published by Brackenbury Books 2024 The Walls of Shira Yulun by Dariel R.A. Quiogue Waste Flowers by Bryn Hammond by Todd Medema published by Atmosphere Press 2025 by Allen Stroud published by Flame Tree Press 2024 by Alastair Miles published by Shadow Dragon Press 2025 by Justin Holley published by Flame Tree Press 2025
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Hard Science Fiction with Arula Ratnakar
If This Goes On (Don't Panic): Science Fiction, Fantasy & Progressive Politics
In this episode, Alan and Diane talk to writer and neuroscientist Arula Ratnakar. They discuss Phillip K. Dick, computational neursocience, hard science fiction, science and math communication, preceptions of reality, the neuroscience of neurodiversity, psychedelics, being neurodiverse in a neurotypical world, AI, Clarkesworld, evolving in public, and much more. You can find most of her fiction here:
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Magic Can't Save Us with Josh Denslow
If This Goes On (Don't Panic): Science Fiction, Fantasy & Progressive Politics
In this episode, Alan talks to author and musician Josh Denslow. They discuss writing dialogue and movie scripts, music's influence on his writing, Marlon James, the break down of walls between speculative fiction and Literature, suprheros and comics, the importance of exploring new forms of art, Josh's novel Super Normal, living outside the US, extreme politics and family, humor in fiction, listening to music, their mutual struggle to have "favorite" bands, and Josh's new collection Magic Can't Save Us: Eighteen Tales of Likely Failure.
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Hope in Horror: Like An Infection
If This Goes On (Don't Panic): Science Fiction, Fantasy & Progressive Politics
This time Paul Jessup tackles the politics of zombies in the classic Night of the Living Dead, as well as modern Train to Busan. He also discusses why hope is not naive and, as always, how horror can provide us with hope. Be sure to check out his new book .
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Solarpunk: Electric Vehicles and Batteries with Todd Medema and Navarre Bartz
If This Goes On (Don't Panic): Science Fiction, Fantasy & Progressive Politics
Alan and a couple of engineers from the the Solapunk community, Navarre Bartz and Todd Medema, discuss everything you want to know about electric vehichles, battery technology, EVs that are not Tesla, and charging stations. Todd also discusses his new book, How to Surf a Hurricane, and how he got involved with Solapunk, and much more! You can find How to here:
info_outlineIn this episode, Alan and guest co-host, Dave Robison, talk to our own Cat Rambo about Cat's newest novel Rumor Has It, the evolution of her work, her upcoming work, the pragmatisim of necromancy, villiains, clones, humor, 2025 WorldCon, 10 book series, building romance in a story, Conan the Barbarian and Robert E Howard, and much more.
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