729. Live at Capricon 2023!

Hotel polar plunges, deadly panels, and four nerds in a hotel room, oh my! Shaun Duke, Brandon O’Brien, Paul Weimer, and Trish Matson join forces LIVE at Capricon 43 in Chicago! That’s right: four of our number conspired to meet at a convention to record a podcast about said convention…and talk about very nerdy things like the afterlife, convention politics, what we loved about Cap, and more.

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Capricon, Capricon 43, Conventions, discussion, Fantasy, Genre Fiction, podcast, Science Fiction

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.