804. Looking Back, Moving Forward (2024; 2025)

Joyful pasts, hopeful futures, and Dr. Doom, oh my! Shaun Duke, Trish Matson, Paul Weimer, and David Annandale join forces to share the things they loved in 2024 and the things they’re looking forward to in 2025! We discuss books, movies, geeky things, experiences, and much more! Plus, we share some announcements about the show!

Thanks for listening. We hope you enjoy the episode!

Show Notes:

2024 Things:
- Shaun:
  - Countess by Suzan Palumbo (our interview here; video version here)
  - Things Will Be Different (our review/discussion is here)
  - My family is officially together in the same place, and it’s glorious!
- Trish:
  - Archangels of Funk by Andrea Hairston (our review here)
  - Shogun (TV show)
- Paul:
  - The Naming Song by Jedidiah Berry (our review here)
  - The Prisoner on Blu-Ray
  - Worldcon in Glasgow!
- David:
  - Box Office Poison: Hollywood’s Story in a Century of Flops by Tim Robey
  - The Substance (TV show)
  - All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror Volume 2 (via Severin Films)
2025 Things:
- Shaun:
  - Midnight Timetable by Bora Chung
  - Daredevil: Born Again
  - Thrawn and On and On is returning!!! Here’s the first episode we ever did!
- Trish:
  - Coyote Run by Lilith Saintcrow
  - Sinners (dir. Ryan Coogler)
  - RPGS! The Thunderchild campaign continues, plus there’s the secret Star Trek Adventures game, more games on Shaun’s channel, and so much more!
- Paul:
  - The Witch Roads by Kate Elliott
  - Murderbot
  - Civilization VII
- David:
  - 28 Years Later
  - The House with Laughing Windows
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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.

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