Episode List
| # | Guest Name |
| Guest Description | |
| Panel Topic | |
| Guest Geek(s) |
| Season Three – 2012 (produced for Wired.com): |
| 88 | Annalee Newitz | Listen at Wired.com |
| Author of Scatter, Adapt, and Remember | ||
| Rationalism in Science Fiction | ||
| Julia Galef | ||
| 87 | Alaya Dawn Johnson | Listen at Wired.com |
| Author of The Summer Prince | ||
| Star Trek Into Darkness | ||
| E.C. Myers and Emily Asher-Perrin | ||
| 86 | Rick Yancey | Listen at Wired.com |
| Author of The 5th Wave | ||
| Recent Horror Movies | ||
| Mur Lafferty | ||
| 85 | Joe Hill | Listen at Wired.com |
| Author of NOS4A2 and Locke & Key | ||
| Recent Horror Movies | ||
| Brittany Geragotelis | ||
| 84 | Austin Grossman | Listen at Wired.com |
| Author of Soon I Will Be Invincible and You | ||
| Video Games | ||
| Ted Kosmatka | ||
| 83 | Hugh Howey | Listen at Wired.com |
| Author of the self-published phenomenon Wool | ||
| Self-Publishing | ||
| Tobias Buckell | ||
| 82 | Robert J. Sawyer | Listen at Wired.com |
| Author of Triggers and Red Planet Blues | ||
| Space Marine Trademark | ||
| Matt London | ||
| 81 | Nalo Hopkinson | Listen at Wired.com |
| Author of Brown Girl in the Ring and Sister Mine | ||
| Weirdest Movies Ever | ||
| Matt London | ||
| 80 | Gregory Maguire | Listen at Wired.com |
| Author of Wicked | ||
| The Wizard of Oz | ||
| Douglas Cohen | ||
| 79 | Karen Russell | Listen at Wired.com |
| Author of Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove | ||
| Weirdest Stories Ever | ||
| Lynne M. Thomas | ||
| 78 | Jane Yolen | Listen at Wired.com |
| Author of over 300 books, including the graphic novel Foiled | ||
| Swordfights | ||
| Kat Howard | ||
| 77 | Brandon Sanderson | Listen at Wired.com |
| Author selected to complete Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time | ||
| Robert E. Howard Movie Adaptations | ||
| Douglas Cohen | ||
| 76 | Philip Pullman | Listen at Wired.com |
| Author of The Golden Compass | ||
| The Hobbit Book vs. Film | ||
| Corey Olsen | ||
| 75 | Lois McMaster Bujold | Listen at Wired.com |
| Author of the Vorkosigan Series | ||
| Soldiers in Science Fiction | ||
| Myke Cole | ||
| 74 | Steven Erikson | Listen at Wired.com |
| Author of Malazan Book of the Fallen | ||
| Epic Fantasy Short Fiction | ||
| Douglas Cohen | ||
| 73 | Cory Doctorow | Listen at Wired.com |
| Blogger, activist, and author of Pirate Cinema | ||
| Sex in Science Fiction | ||
| Laura G. Duncan | ||
| 72 | Daniel Handler | Listen at Wired.com |
| Author of the Lemony Snicket A Series of Unfortunate Events books | ||
| Nightmare Magazine | ||
| R.J. Sevin | ||
| 71 | Mike Mignola | Listen at Wired.com |
| Creator of Hellboy | ||
| H.P Lovecraft | ||
| Chris Cevasco | ||
| 70 | Junot Diaz | Listen at Wired.com |
| Author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and “Monstro” | ||
| Slipstream | ||
| Meghan McCarron | ||
| 69 | Tad Williams | Listen at Wired.com |
| Author of Otherland and The Dirty Streets of Heaven | ||
| Angels and Heaven | ||
| Genevieve Valentine | ||
| 68 | Alastair Reynolds | Listen at Wired.com |
| Author of Revelation Space and Blue Remembered Earth | ||
| Philip K. Dick Movie Adaptations | ||
| Matt London | ||
| 67 | Terry Brooks | Listen at Wired.com |
| Author of the Shannara and Landover series | ||
| Magic Items | ||
| Matt London | ||
| 66 | David Brin | Listen at Wired.com |
| Author of the Uplift series and Existence | ||
| Batman | ||
| Rob Bland | ||
| 65 | Ursula K. Le Guin | Listen at Wired.com |
| Author of the Earthsea and Hainish Cycles | ||
| Ray Bradbury | ||
| Rajan Khanna | ||
| 64 | John Scalzi | Listen at Wired.com |
| Author of Old Man’s War and Redshirts | ||
| Star Trek | ||
| E.C. Myers | ||
| 63 | Seanan McGuire | Listen at Wired.com |
| Author of the Newsflesh Trilogy | ||
| Prometheus Movie Review | ||
| Matt London and Theresa DeLucci | ||
| 62 | Kim Stanley Robinson | Listen at Wired.com |
| Author of Red Mars and 2312 | ||
| Ecology in SF | ||
| Tobias Buckell | ||
| 61 | Paul Krugman | Listen at Wired.com |
| Nobel Prize-winning economist | ||
| Economics in SF | ||
| Sarah Brand | ||
| 60 | Brian Greene | Listen at Wired.com |
| Theoretical physicist and host of The Fabric of the Cosmos | ||
| Parallel Worlds | ||
| 59 | Garth Nix | Listen at Wired.com |
| Author of Sabriel and A Confusion of Princes | ||
| 1980s TV Cartoons | ||
| E.C. Myers | ||
| 58 | Anne Rice | Listen at Wired.com |
| Author of Interview with the Vampire and The Wolf Gift | ||
| Horror and Publishing | ||
| Jordan Hamessley London | ||
| 57 | Morgan Spurlock | Listen at Wired.com |
| Director of Super Size Me and Comic-Con IV: A Fan’s Hope | ||
| Science Fiction Conventions | ||
| Christopher M. Cevasco | ||
| 56 | Vernor Vinge | Listen at Wired.com |
| Author of A Fire Upon the Deep and Rainbows End | ||
| Tobias Buckell Chat | ||
| Tobias S. Buckell | ||
| 55 | Michael Chabon | Listen at Wired.com |
| Author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay | ||
| John Carter Movie Review | ||
| 54 | Robin Hobb | Listen at Wired.com |
| Author of the Farseer trilogy and the Rain Wilds chronicles | ||
| Epic Fantasy | ||
| Saladin Ahmed | ||
| 53 | William Gibson | Listen at Wired.com |
| Author of Neuromancer and Distrust That Particular Flavor | ||
| Cyberpunk | ||
| Seth Dickinson | ||
| Season Two – 2011 (produced for io9.com): |
| 52 | Ian McDonald | Play | Download |
| Author of The Dervish House and Planesrunner | |||
| Upcoming Movie Adaptations Part 2 | |||
| Matt London | |||
| 51 | Brian Selznick | Play | Download |
| Author of The Invention of Hugo Cabret | |||
| Upcoming Movie Adaptations Part 1 | |||
| Matt London | |||
| 50 | Chuck Palahniuk | Play | Download |
| Author of Fight Club and Damned | |||
| The Devil & Hell | |||
| Grady Hendrix | |||
| 49 | R. A. Salvatore | Play | Download |
| Creator of the popular dark elf character Drizzt Do’Urden | |||
| Dungeons & Dragons | |||
| James L. Sutter | |||
| 48 | Lev Grossman | Play | Download |
| Author of The Magicians and TIME book critic | |||
| A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin | |||
| Douglas E. Cohen | |||
| 47 | Neal Stephenson | Play | Download |
| Author of Snow Crash and The Diamond Age | |||
| Computer Role-Playing Game Design | |||
| Keith Burgun | |||
| 46 | Richard Dawkins | Play | Download |
| Author of The Selfish Gene and The God Delusion | |||
| Atheism & Science Fiction | |||
| 45 | Jim Butcher | Play | Download |
| Author of The Dresden Files and The Codex Alera | |||
| Nerd Bashing | |||
| 44 | Charlaine Harris | Play | Download |
| Creator of Sookie Stackhouse (star of True Blood) | |||
| Game of Thrones / The Walking Dead / Dexter | |||
| 43 | China Miéville | Play | Download |
| Author of Perdido Street Station and Embassytown | |||
| The New Weird | |||
| 42 | Eoin Colfer | Play | Download |
| Author of Artemis Fowl and And Another Thing | |||
| Douglas Adams | |||
| Christie Yant | |||
| 41 | Daniel H. Wilson | Play | Download |
| Author of Robopocalypse | |||
| The Terminator movies | |||
| 40 | Genevieve Valentine | Play | Download |
| Author of Mechanique | |||
| Bad movies | |||
| 39 | Simon Pegg | Play | Download |
| Star of Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and Paul | |||
| Humorous Fantasy & Science Fiction | |||
| 38 | Ken Denmead | Play | Download |
| Editor of the Geek Dad blog on Wired.com | |||
| Are We Living in a Computer Simulation? | |||
| 37 | Ellen Kushner | Play | Download |
| Fantasy novelist and editor of Welcome to Bordertown | |||
| Bias Against Fantasy | |||
| 36 | Mary Roach | Play | Download |
| Author of Stiff, Spook, and Packing for Mars | |||
| Horror in Outer Space | |||
| 35 | Daniel Abraham | Play | Download |
| Author of The Dragon’s Path | |||
| The Game of Thrones TV show | |||
| 34 | Alan Dean Foster | Play | Download |
| Author of Predators I Have Known | |||
| The Predator movies / Animal Characters | |||
| 33 | Cameron Stracher | Play | Download |
| Author of The Water Wars | |||
| Post-apocalyptic Fiction | |||
| 32 | Neil deGrasse Tyson | Play | Download |
| Astrophysicist and author of Death by Black Hole | |||
| I Am Number Four / Astronomy and Science Fiction | |||
| 31 | Chris Roberson | Play | Download |
| Novelist and writer on the Superman comic | |||
| Superheroes | |||
| 30 | Jennifer Ouellette | Play | Download |
| Author of The Calculus Diaries | |||
| Fantasy & Science Fiction on TV | |||
| 29 | Orson Scott Card | Play | Download |
| Author of Ender’s Game and The Lost Gate | |||
| Wizards | |||
| 28 | Jennifer Finney Boylan | Play | Download |
| Author of Falcon Quinn and She’s Not There | |||
| Monsters | |||
| 27 | Ron Gilbert | Play | Download |
| Creator of The Secret of Monkey Island | |||
| Adventure Games | |||
| 26 | Greg Bear | Play | Download |
| Author of Eon and Hull Zero Three | |||
| Alien Invasion | |||
| 25 | Robert Kirkman | Play | Download |
| Creator of The Walking Dead | |||
| Zombies | |||
| 24 | Charles Yu | Play | Download |
| Author of How to Live Safely in an SF Universe | |||
| Time Travel | |||
| 23 | Catherynne M. Valente | Play | Download |
| Author of Palimpsest | |||
| New Writers / Pulp Era Mars & Venus | |||
| 22 | George R. R. Martin | Play | Download |
| Author of A Game of Thrones | |||
| The A Song of Ice and Fire series | |||
| Season One – 2010 (produced for Tor.com): |
| 21 | Nnedi Okorafor | Play | Download |
| Author of Who Fears Death? | |||
| Africa in Fantasy & Science Fiction | |||
| 20 | Eli Kintisch | Play | Download |
| Author of Hack the Planet | |||
| Terraforming | |||
| 19 | Robin Wasserman | Play | Download |
| Author of Frozen (previously Skinned) | |||
| Consciousness Transference | |||
| 18 | Eric Garcia | Play | Download |
| Screenwriter of Repo Men | |||
| Total Recall / Robocop 2 / The Running Man | |||
| 17 | Naomi Novik | Play | Download |
| Author of His Majesty’s Dragon | |||
| Dragons | |||
| 16 | Jonathan Coulton | Play | Download |
| Singer/Songwriter | |||
| Geek Music | |||
| 15 | Dan Carlin | Play | Download |
| Host of the Hardcore History podcast | |||
| History in Fantasy & Science Fiction | |||
| 14 | Holly Black | Play | Download |
| Author of The Spiderwick Chronicles | |||
| Toys and Miniatures | |||
| 13 | John Langan | Play | Download |
| Author of House of Windows | |||
| Horror | |||
| 12 | Corey Olsen | Play | Download |
| Host of the Tolkien Professor podcast | |||
| The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings | |||
| 11 | Alexandre Philippe | Play | Download |
| Director of The People vs. George Lucas | |||
| Star Wars | |||
| 10 | Tom Rogers | Play | Download |
| Author of Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics | |||
| Hard Science Fiction | |||
| 9 | Carrie Vaughn | Play | Download |
| Author of the Kitty Norville urban fantasy series | |||
| Vampires and Werewolves | |||
| 8 | Blake Charlton | Play | Download |
| Author of Spellwright, about a dyslexic wizard | |||
| Magic in Fantasy / Medicine in Science Fiction | |||
| 7 | Steve Eley | Play | Download |
| Host of the Escape Pod podcast | |||
| Audio Fiction | |||
| 6 | Cherie Priest | Play | Download |
| Author of Boneshaker | |||
| Sherlock Holmes / Steampunk | |||
| 5 | Brian Dunning | Play | Download |
| Host of the Skeptoid podcast | |||
| Pseudoscience & Skepticism | |||
| 4 | Marjorie M. Liu | Play | Download |
| Novelist and writer on the Dark Wolverine comic | |||
| Comic Books | |||
| 3 | P. W. Singer | Play | Download |
| Author of Wired for War, about military robotics | |||
| Military Science Fiction | |||
| 2 | Paolo Bacigalupi | Play | Download |
| Author of The Windup Girl | |||
| Science Fiction & Education | |||
| 1 | Chet Faliszek | Play | Download |
| Writer on the Left 4 Dead video game | |||
| Zombies / Video Games / The End of the World | |||
