About

The Skiffy and Fanty Show is a four time Hugo-finalist podcast produced and hosted by Shaun Duke and Brandon O’Brien. The show focuses on science fiction and fantasy, including discussions about major topics in the field, interviews with authors and creators, reviews and discussions of new and old sf/f films, and Torture Cinema, our infamous bad movie extravaganza. Our show is a fan venture supported by listeners.

The Mains

Shaun Duke (a.k.a. “The Duke”)

A professor of digital rhetoric and other nerdy things at Bemidji State University and a University of Florida alumnus, Shaun studies science fiction, digital fan cultures, postcolonialism, and digital rhetoric. He is an avid reader of SF/F, a would-be writer with a few writing credits, and an all around SF/F wombat. He can be found on his website and on his Twitter account. He/Him!

Brandon O’Brien – Host (a.k.a. Your Friendly Neighborhood Poet)

Brandon O’Brien is a performance poet and writer from Trinidad. His work has been shortlisted for the 2014 Alice Yard Prize for Art Writing and the 2014 and 2015 Small Axe Literary Competitions, and is published in Uncanny Magazine, Strange Horizons, Arsenika, Fireside Magazine, and New Worlds, Old Ways: Speculative Tales from the Caribbean, among other outlets. He is also a teaching artist with The 2 Cents Movement, and the poetry editor of FIYAH Literary Magazine. He/They