Author: shaunduke

Dr. Shaun Duke is an instructor at DMACC and the Director of the Portolan Project at the Speculative Literature Foundation. He received his M.A. and Ph.D in English from the University of Florida and a B.A. in Modern Literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz. He studies science fiction, digital fan cultures, Caribbean literature, literary canons, postcolonialism, and digital rhetoric. In addition to his academic work, he wears many hats. He is a writer of genre fiction and a freelance editor at The Duke of Editing. His fiction has appeared in Curiouser Magazine, Stupefying Stories, and elsewhere. He also hosts and produces The Skiffy and Fanty Show, a four-time Hugo Award finalist podcast dedicated to examining the literary, cinematic, and cultural world of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. His podcast work has sent him around the world to participate in conventions, conduct interviews, and more. When he's not podcasting, he can be found on his Twitch channel, AlphabetStreams, or Bluesky, Threads, Mastodon, and other social media places.

The Next Movie: A Wrinkle in Time

We’re continuing this new #AudienceAssemble tradition by letting y’all know what we’re up to! Our next episode will be a film discussion of A Wrinkle in Time (2018) directed by Ava DuVernay! If you’ve seen the film and want to share your thoughts or ask us a question, you can do so in all these fancy ways: Twitter Facebook Email: skiffyandfanty@gmail We’ll share some of these on the podcast! And if you haven’t seen the film, it is currently streaming on Disney+ and available for rent on most of the major streaming services! Watch it and share your thoughts with us! So go on. Let us know what you think!

The Next Book: The Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste!

As part of our #AudienceAssemble initiative, we’re going to try to be more active on our Patreon page and social media accounts. With that in mind, we’re announcing that our next book discussion will be on Tracey Baptiste’s fantastic middle grade novel, The Jumbies. And we’re inviting you to share your thoughts about it via our Twitter, Patreon page (and its related Discord server), and Facebook! Think of it as a kind of makeshift Skiffy and Fanty book club! You can get the book directly from Scholastic or where fine books are sold. It’s a quick read, so if you want to read along with us and share your thoughts, get started! We intend to record our podcast discussion on the 8th of July. In the future, we’d like to give a lot more lead time on our discussions, so stay tuned for some shifts in communications. Enjoy!

Announcement: Our 2020 (and Beyond) Focus and an Open Call to Publishers and Creators

For the past few weeks, the United States and much of the world has been in the grips of a massive movement of protest and resistance against police brutality and systemic racism, all under the familiar and power banner of Black Lives Matter. To say that 2020 has been a difficult year is an understatement, but while there was very little we, as an SF/F/H podcast, could do about the COVID-19 pandemic, there is something, however small, we can do to support black communities in the world. And so we’re going to do it in the most forceful way we know how. With that in mind, we have three announcements to make:

383. The Wild Shore by Kim Stanley Robinson (Reading Rangers)

https://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/archive.org/download/sand-f-383-the-wild-shore/SandF_383_TheWildShore.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSS Scavengers, teenagers, and truth-stretching old dudes, oh my! Jen and Shaun are at it again with another Reading Rangers format. This time, they explore The Wild Shore, the first book in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Three Californias trilogy, recently reprinted by Tor. Together, they explore the novel’s themes of teen life, literary history, and the post-apocalypse, the political underpinnings of Robinson’s treatment of post-apocalypse California, the importance of story to survival, and so much more! Thanks for listening. We hope you enjoy the episode!

382. Black Lives Matter: Announcements, Octavia Butler, and Tochi Onyebuchi (Reading Rangers)

https://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/archive.org/download/sand-f-382-black-lives-matter/SandF_382_BlackLivesMatter.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSS #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter, BLACK LIVES MATTER, oh my! Jen and Shaun return (sorta) to the Reading Rangers format to discuss our latest announcement about the direction of the show for the remainder of 2020 AND to examine Octavia Butler’s “Bloodchild” and Tochi Onyebuchi’s Tor.com essay, “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream.” This one is jam packed with content, from our views on what is going on around us to its connections to Onyebuchi’s essay to an in-depth discussion of the themes and social commentary in Butler’s story! You won’t want to miss this one. Thanks for listening. We hope you enjoy the episode!

381. Turkish Star Wars (1982) — Torture Cinema #102

https://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/archive.org/download/sand-f-381-turkish-star-wars/SandF_381_TurkishStarWars.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSMagic metallic fists, human brain power, and flying Turks, oh my! Shaun Duke and Jen Zink tag team on the strangest and most incoherent Torture Cinema film we’ve ever covered: Dünyayi Kurtaran Adam (a.k.a. The Man Who Saved the World or Turkish Star Wars). From the film’s incredibly dense and incoherent plot to its obsession with extra long, kung fu-inspired fights to its blatant theft from Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Flash Gordon, and more, Shaun and Jen have their hands full trying to make sense of this monstrosity. You’ll have to listen to find out if they enjoyed it! Also: this episode marks the official return of skits and some of your favorite characters. More to come. We promise! 😛 We hope you enjoy the episode!