Tales From The Bridge

Peter and Karl talk about the benefits of both pessimism and optimism. Is one more useful than the other when faced with climate and/or societal collapse? Find out about this and more as these two ol…

Adrian joins us again on the Bridge to talk about many of his new releases and what books we can look forward to reading in the new year. We nerd out and talk about old and new favourite films, and w…

We start this episode off by discussing mind uploading and what the results may look like. Can we meet in dreams? Some seem to think so. Let's talk about it! Sam's pick of the month is The Murderbot …

Join us as we sit down with Damien to discuss good writing, bad writing, the genius work of Iain M. Banks, and The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power,  the series that has people disagreeing on bo…

Jamie Anderson is the son of legendary filmmaker, Gerry Anderson, creator of many essential classic science fiction shows such as Space 1999, UFO, Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlett and many others. Jami…

In this episode we discuss the implications of programs that create art,  we flip the finger to the trolls of modern tv shows, and we talk about how much we enjoyed Chris Hadfield's novel, The Apollo…

Chris Gebhardt from nasaspaceflight.com stopped by to talk about rockets and space!  Chris lets us know about programs to get excited for, he tells us about his introduction to rockets at a very youn…

Kevin and Marty have a great talk with Robert J. Sawyer about his past novels and his newer projects, such as his soon to be released Audible book, The Downloaded. Rob shares his thoughts on big idea…

In this episode we start things off by talking about odd shaped air crafts, and then move on to critic some recent big film releases. And of course, we battle out our differences with a discussion of…

Join us as we chat with comic book artist and author, MariNaomi. Mari tells us about her early exposure to science fiction, her passion for sharing stories, and creating databases for underrepresente…

In this episode, we look at the astronaut job market, a fascist takeover of the moon, Chris Hadfield's mustache, and the latest from Star Wars. This month we read Pierce Brown's, Red Rising and have …

Join us as we chat with writer, comedian and veteran podcaster, Chris Mancini. Chris tells us about writing graphic novels, making movies and we even get some classic science fiction book recommendat…

Join us as we sit down with award winning author, Charles Stross. We discuss his books and his creative writing process. Charlie tells us about the different directions he is taking with his latest w…

We start things off with some interesting science news and developments, then chat a little about some shows we've been watching like Outer Range, Love, Death and Robots and Star Wars Visions. We fin…

In this episode Kevin tells us about his amazing journey of writing Clockwork Destiny, the third book in the trilogy that Kevin wrote with friend and legendary drummer, Neil Peart of Rush. We go deep…

It's time to look back at our first year of the show!

 Firstly, thank you to all our listeners. We appreciate you very much and we will continue to bring great conversations and content to the world o…

Andrew Liptak tells us about his new book Cosplay: A History. We geek out and talk about comic conventions, 3D printers, inclusion, fan culture and being the bad guy.

Are you into cosplay?  Let us kn…

Science Content Alert! In this episode, Marty starts things off with some new scientific discoveries involving the Higgs Boson.  We talk about some of the books we've been reading on the side.  Spoil…

In this episode we chat with actor David Menkin. David has recently portrayed the legendary character of Luke Skywalker in the new video game, Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga. David tells us about…

In this episode, we sit down with legendary filmmaker, Phil Tippett. Phil has created special effects for the original Star Wars trilogy, Jurassic Park, Robocop, Starship Troopers, and more.

We discu…