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The Science Fiction & Fantasy Factory

Hosted by writer and ranter Mookie Spitz, the SFFF is where science fiction & fantasy creators, fans, and technologists transform imagination into reality. Each episode explores how writers, filmmakers, and world-builders bring their universes to life, with personal stories about turning wild ideas into finished projects that connect, inspire, and thrill. From indie authors to visionary engineers, Mookie uncovers the creative engines powering the future of sci-fi & fantasy storytelling!

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56:35

Saengard Begins with the World Ender

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2026/04/15

In this episode of The Science Fiction & Fantasy Factory, Mookie sits down with the elusive author Saengard, who emerges from behind a pseudonym to talk about his debut novel The World Ender—a fast-moving, idea-heavy sci-fi story decades in the making that answers the question: "What happens when the system meant to save humanity becomes the thing that destroys it? At the center is George Greycloud Guess, a physicist who creates a revolutionary energy source meant to save a collapsing wor...

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107:55

Michael S. Clarke Goes Synthetic: Because One Version...

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2026/04/14

In this 39th episode of The Science Fiction & Fantasy Factory, Mookie brings Michael S. Clarke onto the factory floor to dissect the craft, the grind, and the brutal reality of trying to write—and sell—serious sci-fi in a world drowning in noise. Clarke is deep in the trenches with Synthetic, a novel about mind uploading, identity duplication, and what happens when “you” becomes plural. Mookie, never one to let a concept sit quietly, pushes it further: if you copy your brain into a machin...

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69:27

Rachanee Lumayno Spellbinds with Kingdom Legacy:...

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2026/04/13

What happens when a pandemic kills your D&D campaign? If you’re Rachanee Lumayno, you don’t sulk or bake bread—you construct an entire fantasy universe instead. In the 38th episode of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Factory, host Mookie Spitz sits down with Rachanee, the indie author behind the Kingdom Legacy series. She describes how she turned an abandoned gaming character into a seven-book saga spanning interconnected kingdoms, shifting protagonists, and themes of identity, power, an...

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83:36

Peter Gribble and the City of Magicians: Where...

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2026/04/11

In this episode of The Science Fiction and Fantasy Factory, Mookie Spitz sits down with Peter Gribble, author of the sprawling City of Magicians trilogy. They dig into a world where magic replaces military force, complacency masquerades as stability, and a barbarian invasion exposes the cracks holding everything together. At the center is a deceptively simple premise: a pacifist, pilgrimage-driven city-state has grown rich, comfortable, and dangerously soft. When violence comes knocking, the ...

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86:40

Michael Morton's Military Sci-Fi Writers' Workshop

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2026/04/09

The 36th episode of Science Fiction & Fantasy Factory features Mookie going deep into storytelling craft with Michael Morton, a military sci-fi author, editor, and former Air Force space operations specialist who breaks writing down the same way he approaches missions: Clear objectives, defined adversaries, and no wasted energy or motion. Morton lays out a core principle that drives everything: If your characters do not have goals, and nothing stands in their way, the story collapses. Con...

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63:04

D.A. Murray's Dominion Ascension: Turning the Gender...

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2026/04/09

The 35th episode of The Science Fiction & Fantasy Factory features Mookie sharing the mic with debut novelist D.A. Murray to break open her provocative novel Dominion Ascension: a dystopian world where men are reduced to tools, women run everything, and control becomes the real antagonist. Her set-up is sharp, a post-war society reshaped by chemical damage and role reversal. The result is an authoritarian matriarchy that inverts the old system and then exposes it. Through Donnie, Linda, a...

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60:28

Daniel P. Douglas Gets Real About Indie Sci-Fi—and...

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2026/04/06

In this 34th episode of Science Fiction & Fantasy Factory, Mookie gets real about what it actually takes to write and sell fiction in today’s chaos economy. Part craft talk but mostly a collision between loving to write and loving to actually get read. On one side: Mookie—unfiltered, prolific, and borderline allergic to rules. Plays, novels, rants, sci-fi, satire. No lane, no brakes, no patience for algorithm-chasing, just raw output and instinct. On the other: Daniel P. Douglas—Phi...

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74:25

Philip Cahill on Superintelligence, Telepathy, and...

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2026/04/04

The 33rd episode of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Factory asks the question: What happens when intelligence stops looking human? Mookie sits down with speculative fiction author Philip Cahill—longtime contributor to the annual anthology circuit and author of Noystria—to tear into one of the biggest questions in science fiction: not whether AI will get smarter, but how alien that intelligence might actually become. Cahill’s work goes beyond the “robots take over" trope, and explores someth...

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93:04

Patrick Abbott Explores Faith, Firepower, and First...

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2026/03/29

The 32nd episode of The Science Fiction & Fantasy Factory features Mookie diving deep into science, religion, and philosophy with indie author Patrick Abbott. a writer pulling from real-world experience to build science fiction that resonates. Patrick's Fallen series hurls readers into a first contact scenario where humanity is immediately outmatched technologically, strategically, and psychologically. The alien race, the Sabia, arrives speaking our languages, offering gifts, and re...

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68:33

Al Hagan Infuses His Post-Apocalyptic Vision with...

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2026/03/27

Mookie welcomes Al Hagan onto the Science Fiction & Fantasy Factory floor, a writer whose complex heroes and driving prose comes from his dedication to duty and service. Instead of MFA programs or writing circles, Al rose through the ranks of the United States Marine Corps, followed by decades in oil, intelligence-adjacent work, and real-world exposure to how systems break, and how people react when they do. That background bleeds directly into his fiction, especially his post-apoca...

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55:49

Howard Loring and the Elastic Limits of Time:...

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2026/03/27

The 30th episode of the pod features Mookie and Howard after connecting the way many indie sci-fi writers do—through an anthology collection. Both landed stories in S.A. Gibson’s 2026 sci-fi collection, turning a cold submission into a creative collision and, now, a deep dive into how they each approach the genre. Loring’s method strips the language down, leans heavily on dialogue, and avoids overbuilt worlds. His “epic fables” are simple on the surface but layered underneath, driven by myth ...

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78:54

Margret Treiber is Over It: Cranking Sci-Fi While...

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2026/03/26

In this robust episode of Science Fiction & Fantasy Factory, Mookie sits down with Margret Treiber—a pissed-off, no-nonsense New Yorker by way of Long Island and Jersey, now out in the Soutwest desert but still swinging that East Coast edge like a light sabre. She’s been grinding for years, writing sharp, dark, often hilarious science fiction… and getting buried under the algorithmic avalanche. Margret lets loose, and Mookie loves it: She goes ballsitic in a pure Long Island–bred, Jersey-...

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58:05

Patrick LeClerc Celebrates Indie Author Freedom

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2026/03/24

The 28th episode of Science Fiction & Fantasy Factory features speculative fiction author Patrick LeClerc, a writer who Mookie discovers made a deliberate choice early on: skip the gatekeepers, go indie, and answer to no one but the story. Faced with the grind of chasing agents and waiting for permission, Patrick flipped the equation. Instead of pitching to publishers, he put that same energy into reaching readers directly—building his own ecosystem, collaborating with fellow writers, and...

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62:02

First Contact & Second Chance from J. Michael Thomas

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2026/03/17

What happens when first contact isn’t with aliens—but with ourselves? On this episode of The Science Fiction & Fantasy Factory, Mookie shares the floor with indie sci-fi author J. Michael Thomas for a conversation that starts with a compelling premise and spirals into something bigger: AI, authorship, and the slow erosion of what makes us human. Thomas unpacks his Substack series First Contact, a bold twist on the genre. A UFO lands at Stonehenge in full daylight, undeniable and global… b...

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118:08

AI Isn't the Enemy: David T. Etheredge Infers the...

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2026/03/09

The 26th episode of The Science Fiction & Fantasy Factory has Mookie Spitz with technology entrepreneur and science-fiction writer David T. Etheredge for a wide-ranging conversation about artificial intelligence, creativity, and the future of storytelling. At a moment when much of the cultural conversation around AI is dominated by fear—job loss, creative collapse, armageddon, and even worse, the specter of machine-generated “slop”—Mookie and David take a decidedly different stance. Both ...

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116:18

C.S.E. Cooney Is Knocking on Saint Death's Doorway

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2026/02/18

On this 25th episode of The Science Fiction & Fantasy podcast, host Mookie Spitz sits down with C.S.E. Cooney for a lively conversation about her Saint Death series—and the living, breathing speculative-fiction community that shaped it. Cooney is a 20+-year veteran of the genre: poetry, short fiction, audio narration, conventions, small presses, writing groups, and editorial volleys. Her career was forged inside the ecosystem that still defines serious science fiction and fantasy, and is ...

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66:56

A.C. Wise Sings the Ballad of the Bone Road:...

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2026/02/06

Mookie Spitz welcomes A.C. Wise to the 24th episode of The Science Fiction & Fantasy Factory: a Canadian-born, award-winning speculative writer, and one of the most incisive critics across genre circles. Wise boldly crosses boundaries between science fiction, fantasy, and horror, and her decades-long career has explored them from both sides of the page as creator and critic. Mookie and Alison chat about her work as an author of novels like Wendy, Darling and Hooked — quirky, charact...

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94:21

The Black Swan Trilogy: Helen Hynson Vettori Warns Us...

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2026/02/02

What happens when the people who trained for catastrophe watch society ignore every warning sign? In the 23rd episode of The Science Fiction & Fantasy Factory, host Mookie Spitz asks that question and many others of Helen Hynson Vettori—former EMT, senior medical intelligence analyst for the Department of Homeland Security, and award-winning author of the Black Swan speculative thriller series. Their conversation is a bracing, no-nonsense examination of disaster, denial, and what happens ...

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64:04

Pasadena Comic Con & Beyond: The Singularity Scribes...

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2026/01/31

The 22nd episode of The Science Fiction & Fantasy Factory features the crew of indie science-fiction authors who gathered together at Pasadena Comic-Con 2026 to bark their books, network, and rally around their shared sci-fi passion. Together on the pod they crack open their creative process, and wrestle with the future of storytelling in the age of AI. Welcome to their post-Con roundtable on writing, publishing, fandom, hustle, technology, and the tough but fun reality of being a c...

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83:10

Matthew Kressel Seeds Sci-Fi Optimism in The Rainseekers

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2026/01/21

In this episode of The Science Fiction & Fantasy Factory, host Mookie Spitz sits down with the prolific and acclaimed science fiction author Matthew Kressel to dissect his new novella Rainseekers, a deeply human, quietly radical novella about hope, grief, and collective endurance on a terraformed Mars. Matthew talks candidly about writing against the scifi default dystopia. Set centuries in the future, Rainseekers follows forty-six flawed, damaged, searching people trekking across Mars to...

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