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.

763. Through the Night Like a Snake: Latin American Horror Stories — Reading Rangers

https://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/archive.org/download/sand-f-763-throughthe-night-likea-snake/SandF_763_ThroughtheNightLikeaSnake.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSWeird Kermit, questionable friends, and terrifying dogs, oh my! Shaun Duke and Daniel Haeusser join forces to discuss Through the Night Like a Snake, a new collection of Latin American horror stories (in translation) from Two Lines Press. Together, they explore the collection’s themes, the ways the authors explore the concept of horror, serial killers and terrifying toys, and so much more. Thanks for listening. We hope you enjoy the episode!

762. Science Fiction Empires (A Discussion)

https://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/archive.org/download/sand-f-762-sfempires/SandF_762_SFEmpires.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSBad hair days, broken systems, and anti-imperial struggle, oh my! Shaun Duke, Trish Matson, and Paul Weimer join forces to discuss science fiction empires! Together, they tease out some of the threads of this massive topic, exploring why empires are so common, what makes them collapse, and more. There may be more to this topic for another day, so let us know what you think! Thanks for listening. We hope you enjoy the episode!

761. The Tommyknockers (1993) — Torture Cinema #137

https://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/archive.org/download/sand-f-761-tommyknockers/SandF_761_Tommyknockers.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSAlien secretions, bad poetry, and Jimmy Smits, oh my! Shaun Duke, Jen Zink, and Daniel Haeusser join forces to discuss the 1993 miniseries adaptation of Stephen King’s The Tommyknockers! Together, they tell some potentially inappropriate jokes (for work), tackle the film’s role as an adaptation, share their love of (or confusion about) Jimmy Smits, and have a grand old time! Thanks for listening. We hope you enjoy the episode!

760. The Demon Breed by James H. Schmitz (1968) — Mining the Genre Asteroid!

https://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/archive.org/download/sand-f-760-the-demon-breed/SandF_760_TheDemonBreed.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSUplifted otters, competent women, and overconfident aliens, oh my! Shaun Duke, Trish Matson, and Paul Weimer join forces for our first ever Mining the Genre Asteroid subcast. In this special show, we’ll go back in time to lesser known or unfairly forgotten science fiction, fantasy, and horror from before 1980 to explore what wonders are buried in the annuls in time. In this episode, we look at James H. Schmitz’s The Demon Breed. (MGA is the brainchild of Paul Weimer, who, along with Trish, kindly demanded it be turned into a show!) Thanks for listening. We hope you enjoy the episode!

759. Looking Back, Moving Forward (2024)

https://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/archive.org/download/sand-f-759-looking-back-moving-forward/SandF_759_LookingBackMovingForward.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSThe past, the future, and geek plans, oh my! Shaun Duke, Daniel Haeusser, Trish Matson, Paul Weimer, and Brandon O’Brien begin the new 2024 season with some announcements, some jokes, and a whole lotta of their favorite things from 2023 and the thing they’re looking forward to in 2024! The announcements are big ones, too! Thanks for listening. We hope you enjoy the episode!

Announcing the 2024 Season!

Ch-ch-changes. Turn and face the strange! That’s right. The brand new season of The Skiffy and Fanty Show is coming your way, and it’s going to be different. The biggest and most important change: We’re turning into a live show this year. Barring scheduling or tech problems, we’ll be live every Friday at 6:30 PM Central for the foreseeable future. Where? On Twitch at AlphabetStreams. If you’d like to see the show as it’s made, then join us every Friday at 6:30 PM Central! Our first show of the season will be on Feb. 9th (Looking Back, Moving Forward). Does this mean we’ll stop releasing podcasts? Nope. All of our live shows will be produced as podcasts, too. They’ll also end up on our YouTube channel. These changes will come to our Patreon page, too. We’ll also begin experimenting with a live version of the Speculative Dispatch on on our Discord. These will occur on Mondays at 6:30 PM Central, with the first of these expected on Feb. 12th. Our Torture Cinema livewatch events will also move to the Monday before Torture Cinema (the last Friday of every month)(first one: Feb. 19th for the livewatch; Feb. 23rd for Torture Cinema on Twitch). We’re trying to keep things as simple as we can. Fridays for live shows. Mondays for Patreon stuff. Boom! We hope to see everyone in the live show chats. If you can’t make these shows, that’s OK! You can keep listening through your regular podcast feed (iTunes, Castbox, Goodpods, Podchaser, etc.). Don’t forget to review the show, too! Thanks for sticking with us through the years. We hope this year will be an exciting one. It will be for us because it’s so new! Onward ho!!!