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Hosted by Kandas Rodarte · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 22 episodes
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Science Fiction book podcast for nerds and geeks who like to read. Co-hosted by Gen-X spouses, Kandas & Shane Rodarte. Each episode features a thoughtful discussion around one work of speculative fiction.
Kandas Rodarte hosts Sci-Fi Book Pod, a arts show with 22 episodes published.
Imagine a future that feels disturbingly close to home—where collapse, climate chaos, and corporate power reshape daily life. Spoiler warning: this episode includes major spoilers for Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butl
Imagine the most important person in your life is kidnapped by your arch nemesis—what lengths would you go to to save them? That’s the heart of Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo, and in this episode of Sci‑Fi Book Pod, Sp
Kaz Brekker didn't survive the Barrel by being nice. His morally gray character is exactly what makes Six of Crows so hard to put down. In this episode of Sci-Fi Book Pod, visiting dignitary Juliana Coughlin (host of Run
Imagine having the power to change an alternate timeline — without touching your own. Today on Sci-Fi Book Pod, Space Admiral Kandas and Space Cadet Shane 2nd Class dive into Agency by William Gibson with a very special
Robert Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress turns 60 this year and it hasn't aged the way you'd expect. Space Admiral Kandas and Shane Space Cadet Second Class welcome visiting dignitary Kevin Thompson, cyber law atto
Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card — the companion novel to Ender's Game that most people sleep on is arguably the better book. Visiting dignitary Mahlena Rae Johnson joins Space Admiral Kandas and Space Cadet Shane 2nd
Season one of Sci-Fi Book Pod was a full-spectrum sci-fi experiment—some books soared, some crashed, and at least one “broke a lot of things.” In this Season 2 teaser, host Kandas Rodarte looks back at the most memorable
Can one act of hatred really end the world—and can compassion rewrite that future? In this episode of Sci‑Fi Book Pod, Kandas, Space Cadet Shane, and visiting dignitary Valerie Friedlander dive into Madeleine L’Engle’s A
In this episode of Sci-Fi Book Pod, Space Admiral Kandas Rodarte is joined by sociologist and life coach Valerie Friedlander to unpack A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L’Engle. Together, we explore how this deceptively sl
Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time is far more than a children's classic. It's a layered exploration of conformity, authoritarian culture, individuality, and the courage to embrace one's flaws. In this episode of Sci-
Space Admiral Kandas and Space Cadet Shane welcome visiting dignitary Patrick Lugo to discuss Steven Erikson's standalone science fiction novel "Rejoice, A Knife to the Heart." When a mysterious alien AI arrives offering
What happens when futuristic soldiers travel back to medieval England, cheat at jousting with advanced weapons, and accidentally kill the wrong people? Spoiler alert: the timeline splits, history rewrites itself, and som
Strap in for a deep dive into Frank Herbert's 1965 masterpiece Dune, the sprawling sci-fi epic that defined a genre and continues to spawn adaptations decades later. In this speculative fiction podcast episode, Space Adm
What happens when the world's most powerful leaders secretly collude at a gender-bending brothel run by the woman who really pulls the strings? Welcome to Ada Palmer's mind-bending Too Like the Lightning, the first book
In Children of Time, Adrian Tchaikovsky flips the classic sci-fi narrative: humanity's last survivors arrive on a terraformed planet, only to discover hyper-intelligent spiders thriving in a civilization built on empathy
What happens when regret, aliens, and second chances collide? In this episode of Sci-Fi Book Pod, Space Admiral Kandas and Space Cadet 2nd Class Shane dive into A Gift of Time by Jerry Merritt. When Micajah Fenton discov
What does it take to go from coward to hero — and can science and friendship really save the world? We explore the answer with former science teacher and sci-fi commentator Shereese Alexander in this deep dive into Proje
Can a robot teach us about being human? This week on Sci-Fi Book Pod, we're chatting about All Systems Red by Martha Wells — and the brilliance of the Murderbot character. Joining us is content strategist and sci-fi supe
Paul Heitsch, narrator of the Omega Force series, joins Space Admiral Kandas in a bonus transmission pulled straight from the Gratitude Geek Podcast. The topic? Bobiverse, AI in storytelling, and why not every accent nee
Is Humanity Worth Saving? "All These Worlds" by Dennis E. Taylor is the topic of discussion for episode 003 of Sci-Fi Book Pod. The Bobiverse is expanding—tenfold. In this episode, we confront what it means to live forev
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