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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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Humanity might have reached the stars, but the 9-5 still rolls on just the same. There's just spaceships now. Follow a ensemble cast of characters ase they do their best to get through the week without breaking anything too important. Who among us hasn't dealt with classic sci-fi sitcom conundrums like forgetting one's keys on a spacewalk, cooking food with a rocket, or tracking down a missed connection in virtual reality? Just them? Well then. Transcripts of every episode and minisode can b ...
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A collection of immersive actual play TTRPG campaigns brought to life through sound design, roleplay, and drama. Explore the high-stakes adventures of flawed heroes trying to survive in worlds not their own. From virtual reality death games to dark fantasy realms, every campaign dives deep into character, consequence, and chaos. 🎮 Sword Art Online: AOD The AOD guild must battle their way through the infamous VRMMORPG that has claimed thousands of lives. Trapped with no logout button and only ...
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In "God-Level Upgrade System: Offline Mode Activated," gamer Marcus wakes up in a vibrant fantasy world, where his every move is dictated by a mysterious interface resembling his favorite MMORPG. Tasked with navigating enchanting landscapes and facing fierce monsters, he must embrace his newfound powers and transform from an ordinary player into a legendary hero. With danger lurking at every corner and quests to uncover, will he rise to the challenge or fall prey to the very game he thought ...
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Audio Signals Podcast

ITSPmagazine, Marco Ciappelli, Sean Martin

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Hosted by Marco Ciappelli | We are all made of stories. Storytelling is at the core of our human experience—how we transmit knowledge, share experiences, and communicate values. Stories are bridges that connect us, shaping our worldview and weaving together our collective consciousness. In our modern, hybrid analog-digital society, the art of storytelling matters more than ever. Every storyteller—regardless of medium or platform—contributes to the grand narrative of human experience. I'm foc ...
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After a fatal crash derails his professional gaming career, Elias awakens in a vibrant new world—Eldoria—armed with a staggering 100x XP multiplier and an insatiable hunger for power. As he embarks on a quest to conquer mystical creatures and level up beyond belief, he discovers that grinding for greatness is not just a game—it's a path to godhood. In a realm where every battle sharpens his skills and every victory fuels his ambition, Elias must navigate treachery, friendships, and the quest ...
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Dreambound

Sena Bryer

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Jesse Piñero plays video games for a living. But as cool of a job as that may sound, it barely makes ends meet. So when a state of the art, virtual-reality game that is way beyond his price range emerges onto the scene, he turns to... questionable means to pay for it. Unfortunately for Jesse, those questionable means demand that if he wants the game he must play it not as a man, but as an adorable, little girl! And to make matters worse, once he gets in the game, he can't get back out! From ...
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The year is 2032, and the revolutionary tech company AD LUCEM O.I. has over 10 million subscribers. Their Corporeal Augmented Reality Assistant, or CARA for short, is a massive success. CARA isn’t just another listening device. It’s a virtual assistant, helmed by a live operator, who responds to the wants and needs of their clients in real time – the way only a human can. With an update to this game-changing technology on the horizon, the company’s CEO is poised to capture the fame and fortu ...
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Gil Abrams is a religious man, and not getting any younger. But after watching his wife die, and lines in his face getting deeper, he decides that maybe heaven can wait. Especially when he finds out about the new de-aging treatment on the market. The only problem is the cost. Being a retired janitor, his life savings don't quite cover the million yuan. The only option is to become a coyote, smuggling American immigrants by sea into Newfoundland from the civil war that rages below the border. ...
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Forgive Me Father

Ross Finlayson

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Come all ye Faithful and confess your sins! Seek Absolution through the ONLY anonymous confessional Podcast: Forgive Me Father! Father Bertram is just a pastor: calm, collected, kind, gentle, and doing his best to help his congregation spread the Warmth of the Glory and the Light to all those who are willing to receive it. As one of his many ventures,m Father Bertram hosts the podcast Forgive Me Father as a way for people to confess their sins without physically going to church. 100% anonymo ...
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In the not-so-distant future, the gaming industry has advanced to a point where developers can create incredibly immersive worlds with lifelike characters, both main and non-player characters (NPCs). Our podcast follows the executives of a cutting-edge company, "Non-Player Char," at the forefront of NPC development. SynthiVerse Technologies has developed a groundbreaking technology that allows for the cloning of NPCs with incredibly complex behavior patterns. These cloned NPCs possess almost ...
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Welcome to Video Game Podcast, your ultimate destination for all things gaming! At Video Game Podcast, we bring you a dynamic mix of the latest news, in-depth reviews, and engaging discussions about the gaming world. Whether you're a seasoned player or new to gaming, our episodes are designed to keep you entertained, informed, and inspired. Each episode of the Video Game Podcast dives deep into topics like the hottest releases, industry trends, and the stories behind your favorite titles. Fr ...
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Show Notes for Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 846 - Welcome To Eorzea AprilPvd and Grand Nagus discusses No Man's Sky, Final Fantasy XIV, Virtual Reality and other video games including World of Warcraft. Send an email to [email protected] telling us how you play Virtual Reality and video games as an altoholic or dealing with it in your family life. Join …
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Aurora seems to have a plan in inviting the naive Jonathan to join her for a meal. But the information she gains poses a far more sinister implication than they realized. As tensions rise, Aurora is forced to confront her own ambitions and the true intentions of those around her. The road to recovering her memories is fraught with danger and deceit…
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Spy's Mate: A Conversation with Bradley W. Buchanan About Chess, Cold War Intrigue, and the Stories That Save Us After a few months away, I couldn't stay silent. Audio Signals is back, and I'm thrilled that this conversation marks the official return. The truth is, I tried to let it go. I thought maybe I'd hang up the mic and focus solely on my wor…
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Show Notes for Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 845 - WoW Gets New Transmog System Too AprilPvd and Grand Nagus discusses No Man's Sky, Final Fantasy XIV, Virtual Reality and other video games including World of Warcraft. Send an email to [email protected] telling us how you play Virtual Reality and video games as an altoholic or dealing with it in your fam…
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J.Z. Pitts doesn’t posture, pretend, or pose behind “author brand” theatrics. He comes on the Factory floor to pod with Mookie Spitz, where they tell the truth about what it costs to write, to fail, to get back up, and to self-publish when the world is drowning in content and nobody’s handing out golden tickets. In this episode, Pitts walks us thro…
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They say imitation is a form of flattery. In Hollywood, it's a way to milk every last dollar out of an IP (Intellectual Property), Hollywood's most precious commodity. These imitations are called sequels and for the most part, they are inferior to the originals. Yet sometimes they surpass the originals. They are superior. That's what we talking abo…
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The twelfth episode of the SFFF features Mookie chatting up the genre with Princeton astrophysics grad student turned tech consultant Ed Powell, where they immediately launch into hard science, bad science, and unraveling state of a genre that used to dream big and think smart. Ed walks in with his PhD, his plasma-physics past, and his lifelong obs…
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Show Notes for Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 844 - Once More Into the Breach AprilPvd and Grand Nagus discusses No Man's Sky, Final Fantasy XIV, Virtual Reality and other video games including World of Warcraft. Send an email to [email protected] telling us how you play Virtual Reality and video games as an altoholic or dealing with it in your family lif…
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This episode of the SFFF drops you straight onto the factory floor with Robert Reif, the Zoomer indie author who somehow writes like a pulp-era wanderer inebriated on optimism. His debut novel, Frontier One, feels like Tarzan meets Sally Ride, wrapped in that old-school, high-adventure energy that so much of science fiction abandoned when it got mo…
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Mookie gets chatty with speculative-fiction author Lou Iovino about the long, uneven road to becoming a working writer. Lou shares how his creative life started in comics through co-authoring a ten-issue graphic novel on his commute to Manhattan, hiring artists out of pocket, and learning the discipline of concise storytelling and crisp dialogue. T…
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Our adventurers find themselves grappling with the eerie and mysterious forces of the Dark Wood. After a harrowing encounter with an enigmatic creature, the party must navigate their fears and the shadows that lurk within the forest. Charles Smoot, Finavir, Vaeolin, and Kelsey face their own challenges as they engage with an AI named E.V.A. in the …
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Mookie is thrilled to chat with Blake and Sherry Shimshock, the husband-and-wife team behind the Chronicles of Derek Fade: a fast-paced sci-fi adventure series that fuses James Bond swagger, Star Wars style, and Firefly heart. Their partnership echoes the creative chemistry of The Expanse’s Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck: Blake provides the action, i…
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Show Notes for Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 843 - Expeditions Redux FTW AprilPvd and Grand Nagus discusses No Man's Sky, Final Fantasy XIV, Virtual Reality and other video games including World of Warcraft. Send an email to [email protected] telling us how you play Virtual Reality and video games as an altoholic or dealing with it in your family life. J…
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Show Notes for Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 842 - Almost No More Glamour Restrictions AprilPvd and Grand Nagus discusses No Man's Sky, Final Fantasy XIV, Virtual Reality and other video games including World of Warcraft. Send an email to [email protected] telling us how you play Virtual Reality and video games as an altoholic or dealing with it in your …
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For a brief moment Aurora glimpsed a moment from her past. The scene viewed through unfamiliar eyes. But the figure unmistakable for one who may be able to help her recover her lost memories. But her time to process this knowledge is cut short as Sir Prescot is apprehended by the Barons guards. What she uncovers during this pursuit will challenge h…
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A Marine reborn as a Witcher-style hunter. A hedge mage who becomes a dungeon troll and teaches NPCs to wake up. A virtual reality MMO where there are real stakes and consequences once the real world ends. A hungover everyman who turns the Backrooms into a lifeline with a map, a store, and a mimic dog made of blue croc material. James Hunter joins …
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The engines of creativity are humming, the publishing lights are flickering, and an electrifying story just streamed off the line. On this launch-day episode of The Science Fiction Factory, host Mookie Spitz welcomes indie author Nathan J. Pearce, whose debut cyberpunk thriller Faith Faraday and the Cyber Samurai hits screens and shelves today! Set…
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The seventh episode of The Science Fiction & Fantasy Factory explores how speculative fiction actually gets made — the grind, the vision, and the madness behind the worlds we can’t stop dreaming about. Hosted by writer, ranter, and raconteur Mookie Spitz, he sits down with Matthew Carauddo, creator of the Diamond Dragons saga — a richly illustrated…
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What do you get when a dopamine-deficient bald guy, a stack of manuscript pages, and an accidental reader with a doctorate walk into a podcast? You get this wild, heartfelt, and honest episode of The Science Fiction & Fantasy Factory—where Mookie Spitz, podcaster, ranter, and writer talks about the creation of his latest science fiction novel: Jonn…
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Sci-fi author Ingrid Moon and voiceover wizard Scott Allen join your host, Mookie Spitz, for an unfiltered ride through the making of audiobook for Biohunter—a post-apocalyptic sci-fi love story between a deadly alien tracker and a teenage human target. They talk shop about audiobooks, content repurposing, and self-publishing in the age of AI. Ingr…
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Show Notes for Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 841 - A First Look At Patch 7.4 AprilPvd and Grand Nagus discusses No Man's Sky, Final Fantasy XIV, Virtual Reality and other video games including World of Warcraft. Send an email to [email protected] telling us how you play Virtual Reality and video games as an altoholic or dealing with it in your family lif…
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Your sci-fi obsessed host Mookie Spitz sits down with science educator, technologist, and multi-genre author Ingrid Moon to dissect writing and self-publishing — and why it’s so damn hard to do it well. They start with Ingrid’s journey from tech marketing to science classrooms to building reference books for sci-fi authors who don’t know enough sci…
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Show Notes for Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 840 - Ctrl Alt No Man’s Sky AprilPvd and Grand Nagus discusses No Man's Sky, Final Fantasy XIV, Virtual Reality and other video games including World of Warcraft. Send an email to [email protected] telling us how you play Virtual Reality and video games as an altoholic or dealing with it in your family life. J…
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Extreme Cinema is designed to be disruptive. It is uncomfortable to watch, and yes, it can be exploitive. It can be gratuitous, mysogonistic, and for many just plain disgusting. Boston SciFI Podcast host Garen Daly has found two articulate guests to explore horror’s last frontier - Extreme Cinema. KILLER PICTURES author/influencer Hope Madden teams…
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Step back inside The Science Fiction Factory, where host Mookie Spitz joins fellow indie author Greg Sorber as they transform vivid imagination into great storytelling. Recorded fresh off LA Comic Con 2025, this episode dives into what it means to build worlds, fight algorithms, and write science fiction without a corporate mothership. Greg opens u…
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We can't get enough science fiction! But why...? Science fiction isn’t just a genre, but the way we see the world and ourselves. Great science fiction is where philosophy meets spectacle, where we project our fears, fantasies, and future selves into strange new worlds to see reflections of our possibilities. After talking to die-hard fans, veteran …
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What makes science fiction & fantasy great? Step onto the shop floor where imagination meets machinery. The Science Fiction & Fantasy Factory is where writers, artists, filmmakers, and dreamers reveal how the genre gets made—story by story, world by world, effect by effect. Join your host Mookie Spitz to talk about the craft and chaos behind your f…
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Show Notes for Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 839 - Bye Bye Expedition No. 19 AprilPvd and Grand Nagus discusses No Man's Sky, Final Fantasy XIV, Virtual Reality and other video games including World of Warcraft. Send an email to [email protected] telling us how you play Virtual Reality and video games as an altoholic or dealing with it in your family lif…
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The journey back to Lamb's Respite is underway. And with the chance to speed up their travel, the party attempted to fix the mechanism of canal gate. Of course, the GM decided this needed to be a challenge! And so the puzzle began, ending quickly with great frustration as Charles Smoot decided it would be better to leap off the 80-foot cliff, liter…
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Show Notes for Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 838 - A New Sanctuary AprilPvd and Grand Nagus discusses No Man's Sky, Final Fantasy XIV, Virtual Reality and other video games including World of Warcraft. Send an email to [email protected] telling us how you play Virtual Reality and video games as an altoholic or dealing with it in your family life. Join us…
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In the heart of The Town of Beginnings, Aurora's journey unfolds as she crosses paths with a newfound companion named Harrison. With her past shrouded in uncertainty, Aurora explores the town's labyrinthine streets, unearthing a web of intrigue lurking behind its seemingly tranquil facade. To piece together the fragments of her lost memories, Auror…
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Fun and engaging. On this show, we have aliens masquerading as teachers, an imaginary woman , a time traveling teen, a Mensa candidate messing with lasers and some Community College professors facing an alien invasion. These are the films in GETTING SCHOOLED, the latest Boston SciFi Podcast. It’s all about looking at films where the action takes pl…
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Show Notes for Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 837 - Still Time to Get Your Expedition Goodies AprilPvd and Grand Nagus discusses No Man's Sky, Final Fantasy XIV, Virtual Reality and other video games including World of Warcraft. Send an email to [email protected] telling us how you play Virtual Reality and video games as an altoholic or dealing with it in…
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Show Notes for Ctrl Alt WoW Episode 836 - Corvettes R Us AprilPvd and Grand Nagus discusses No Man's Sky, Final Fantasy XIV, Virtual Reality and other video games including World of Warcraft. Send an email to [email protected] telling us how you play Virtual Reality and video games as an altoholic or dealing with it in your family life. Join us …
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Ever wondered what happens when you blend dungeon cores, tennis matches, wild west gunslingers, and competitive Magic: The Gathering into one creative mind? Journey with us as we sit down with Ryn, writing as Jonathan Smidt, the versatile author behind multiple LitRPG series including Elemental Dungeon, Dungeon Corps Online, Aced, Resonance, and Fl…
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