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Jenn Lyons, Finalist for this year’s Astounding Award will join us this Saturday to discuss her series A Chorus of Dragons.

This Saturday, July 24th, at 3 PM US Eastern Time.

Gadi couldn’t stop talking about “For All Mankind” until we promised to build an episode around it. Joining him and Karen to share their impressions of the show will be R.W.W. Greene (author of The Light Years and Twenty Five to Life), Helen Montgomery (Chair of Chicon 8), and Alex Fayette (board member of both Karen’s and Gadi’s startups).

Mary Robinette Kowal, author of The Relentless Moon (Tor Books / Solaris), and Micaiah Johnson, author of The Space Between Worlds (Penguin Random House / Del Rey) join us to talk about their works and what they have coming down the pipeline. This Saturday, June 26th, at 3 PM US Eastern Time.

Three Worldcon insiders, Tammy Coxen, Nicholas Whyte, and Vincent Docherty will join Gadi and Karen to discuss the Hugo, Astounding, and Lodestar awards, their history, and their future. This Saturday, June 12th, at 3 PM US Eastern Time.

Bryson Bort will join Gadi and Karen to talk about threats to the US elections in 2020 – this time domestic. Also joining will be Matt Masterson (Former Election Security Lead for CISA, Harri Hursti (Nordic Innovation Labs), SJ Terp (Strategist, ThreeT Consulting). This Saturday, May 22nd, at 3 PM US Eastern Time.

Strategy Strikes Back authors Lt. Col. Matt Cavanaugh, Max Brooks, August Cole, and Steve Leonard join Gadi and Karen to discuss Star Wars and modern military conflict. In the book, they made understanding strategy fun by the use of a common global language – The love of Star Wars.

Join us for two panels on Chinese science fiction explored from multiple outlooks, from the fiction itself, through the translation and the fans, and all the way to the industry. The show is co-hosted by Regina Kanyu Wang and Yen Ooi. This Saturday, April 24, at 3 PM US Eastern time.

Catch a rising star as five of the Mexicanx Initiative’s leaders spotlight some of the brightest new literary and art phenoms. They’ll share their latest endeavors furthering Mexicanx representation in SFF and the world at large. Joining Gadi and Karen will be John Picacio, Libia Brenda, Julia Rios, Andrea Chapela, and Héctor González. This Saturday, April 10th, at 3 PM Eastern Time.

Photo by Edward Jenner from Pexels Najla Lindsay and Nina Alli from the DEFCON Biohacking Village will join Gadi and Karen along with Meredith L. Patterson, for a conversation on the state ofContinue reading “The Biohacking Show”

Art by our staffer Piia Sorvoja. As the nomination period for the 2021 Hugo Awards draws to a close this coming Friday, Essence of Wonder is planning a reprise ofContinue reading “Hugo Awards Coverage in 2021 and Have You Voted Yet?”