On my latest “Looking Back on Genre History” segment on the #StarShipSofa podcast (Episode 776), I revisit #Andor Season 1. #ScienceFiction #StarWars #SFF
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Pictured is the 2025 book Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler by Susana M. Morris. The cover art shows the face of Octavia Butler.
Pictured is the 2025 book Jules Verne and the Invention of the Future by Laurence Bergreen. The cover art looks like a retro/vintage Verne scientific romance, complete with balloon, rocket, and submarine.
Pictured is the 2025 book Second Star to the Right: Essays on Leadership in Star Trek, edited by Jason A. Kaufman and Aaron M. Peterson. The artwork shows a spacescape.
Pictured is the 2025 book Space Ships! Ray Guns! Martian Octopods! Interviews with Science Fiction Legends, edited by Richard Wolinsky. The cover art shows a vintage-looking scene of a figure at a massive computer command console.
On my latest “Looking Back on Genre History” segment on the #StarShipSofa podcast (Episode 774), I discuss four recent works about #ScienceFiction that are perfect for your 2026 #TBR. #Biography #History #OctaviaButler #JulesVerne #VintageSF #StarTrek #Books […]
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Pictured is the banner for Cast of Wonders episode 651, with a deck of playing cards showing a queen on top.
2025 Wrap-Up: Podcasts
Thanks to all of the #podcasts that invited me on this year!
My "Looking Back on Genre History" #ScienceFiction segment ran each month on #StarShipSofa.
I narrated "The Liar" by #DarcieLittleBadger for Episode 651 of #CastOfWonders […]
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A black-and-white portrait of reformer, freethinker, and author Henrietta Dugdale as a young woman.
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On my latest “Looking Back on Genre History” segment on the #StarShipSofa podcast (Episode 772), I discuss early #Feminist #ScienceFiction utopias and focus on A Few Hours in a Far-Off Age (1883) by #HenriettaDugdale. #Utopia #AustralianLit #Books […]
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Pictured is The Inferior by Peadar Ó Guilín, with the tag line "Read this, and remember why Science Fiction lit your fire in the first place" from DeathRay.
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On my latest “Looking Back on Genre History” segment on the #StarShipSofa podcast (Episode 770), I discuss some #ScienceFiction works that describe #YoungAdult protagonists being "played" by "the game," works that set the stage for #TheHungerGames. (This […]
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Pictured is the novel Invitation to the Game by Monica Hughes (1990), with cover art depicting a teen young woman wearing virtual reality glasses.
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On my latest “Looking Back on Genre History” segment on the #StarShipSofa podcast (Episode 768), I talk about some #ScienceFiction works that described #YoungAdults being "played" by "the game," works that set the stage for #TheHunger Games. #Dystopia #YA […]
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New episode is out at StarShipSofa 🚀
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Pictured is the book Dracula Daily resting on a brick walk with a bunch of garlic resting on its open pages.
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Happy October! 🎃 On my latest “Looking Back on Genre History” segment on the #StarShipSofa podcast (Episode 766), I praise the #Dracula "group read" experience. 🦇 #DailyDracula #ReDracula #BramStoker #Gothic #Books #Bookstodon #SFF
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New episode is out at StarShipSofa 🚀
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The pathbreaking series #CaptainPower and the Soldiers of the Future first aired 38 years ago today. I remember it so well! I covered the unique history and political debates surrounding the show in Episode 42 of the #StarShipSofa #podcast. #ScienceFiction #Dystopia #Television […]
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New episode is out at StarShipSofa 🚀
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I'm very pleased to announce that Nick Mamatas of StarShipSofa recently bought a reprint of my bizarre dark fantasy story "Initiation." Doni Nicoll-Duir did a fantastic job narrating this peculiar tale: cryptoscatology.blogspot.com/2025/09/init...
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New episode is out at StarShipSofa 🚀
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New episode is out at StarShipSofa 🚀
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Pictured is Kalynn Bayron's novel Doctor Who: Shirley Jackson and the Chaos Box, with cover art depicting Shirley Jackson and the Doctor looking at each other across space.
The banner for "Looking Back on Genre History with Amy H. Sturgis on StarShipSofa" with retrofuturist artwork showing a rocket in space.
On my latest “Looking Back on Genre History” segment on the #StarShipSofa podcast (Episode 762), I talk about #DoctorWho, #History, #TimeTravel, and the new Who novel #ShirleyJackson and the Chaos Box by #KalynnBayron. #ScienceFiction #SFF
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New episode is out at StarShipSofa 🚀
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Thankful to #StarShipSofa for inviting me to narrate Marie Vibbert's "Tactical Infantry Bot 37 Dreams of Trochees."
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New episode is out at StarShipSofa 🚀
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Pictured is the book On Edge: Gender and Genre in the Work of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Leigh Brackett by Ashley Lawson. The black-and-white cover art shows a partially opened door leading to a shadowed staircase with a key dangling from a string in the corner.
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On my latest “Looking Back on Genre History” segment on the #StarShipSofa podcast (Episode 760), I discuss the new book On Edge: #Gender and #Genre in the Work of #ShirleyJackson, #PatriciaHighsmith, and #LeighBrackett by #AshleyLawson.
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New episode is out at StarShipSofa 🚀
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New episode is out at StarShipSofa 🚀
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Pictured are the books Restricted State: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States, a nonfiction book by historian Alex Wellerstein, and the classic science fiction novel Level 7 by Mordecai Roshwald (with cover art depicting a mushroom-shaped cloud). Both sit on a brick walk.
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On my latest “Looking Back on Genre History” segment on the #StarShipSofa #podcast (Episode 758), I discuss #ScienceFiction, #NuclearWeapons, and the ongoing relevance of the classic #Level7 by #MordecaiRoshwald.
#Dystopia #PostApocalyptic #SFF #NuclearWar […]
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New episode is out at StarShipSofa 🚀
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New episode is out at StarShipSofa 🚀
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Two books sit side by side on a brick walk: The Space Merchants by Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth (with a banner on the cover that reads Science Fiction Book Club 50th Anniversary Edition) and Feed by M.T. Anderson (with a seal on the cover that reads National Book Award Finalist).
The banner for "Looking Back on Genre History with Amy H. Sturgis on StarShipSofa" with retrofuturist artwork showing a rocket in space.
On my latest “Looking Back on Genre History” segment on the #StarShipSofa #podcast (Episode 756), I discuss two classic, pioneering #dystopian novels -- published 50 years apart! -- that have a great deal to say to each other and to us in 2025 […]
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New episode up at StarShipSofa 🚀
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New episode of StarShipSofa is up at 🚀
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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 754), I discuss (in a spoiler-free way!) #SunriseOnTheReaping by #SuzanneCollins, intellectual history, and genre references.
#Dystopia #Resist #SFF #Books […]
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Pictured are the seven books in John Marsden's The Tomorrow Series (beginning with Tomorrow, When the War Began).
Pictured is the book Future Perfect: American Science Fiction of the Nineteenth Century -- An Anthology by H. Bruce Franklin.
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On my latest “Looking Back on Genre History” segment on the #StarShipSofa #podcast (Episode 750), I revisit the work of #ScienceFiction scholar #HBruceFranklin and #YA author #JohnMarsden. #SFF #Books #Bookstodon #TomorrowWhenTheWarBegan
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The logo for "Looking Back on Genre History" with Amy H. Sturgis on StarShipSofa, with retrofuturist artwork of a rocket in space.
Pictured is the book Monsters on Maple Street: The Twilight Zone and the Postwar American Dream by David J. Brokaw. The book's cover has black-and-white artwork mimicking the opening of The Twilight Zone with a television in the center showing a vintage family tableau. The book has colored flags in it, and beside the book are more flags to be used to mark key passages.
On my latest “Looking Back at Genre History” segment on the #StarShipSofa #podcast (Episode 748), I revisit the brilliant #TheTwilightZone series and discuss #MonstersOnMapleStreet: The Twilight Zone and the Postwar American Dream by #DavidJBrokaw […]
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