The Science Fiction & Fantasy Factory

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Mookie Spitz

8 episodes

1 week ago

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 in 2076 Tokyo, the book follows Faith Faraday, a daemon hunter chasing rogue AIs that masquerade as digital ghosts. Think Men in Black for machine...

Science Fiction

Religion & Spirituality,

Fiction,

Science

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Science Fiction

Religion & Spirituality,

Fiction,

Science

Episodes (8/8)

The Science Fiction & Fantasy Factory

Nathan J Pearce Launches Faith Faraday & the Cyber Samurai

1 week ago

3 hours 2 minutes

The Science Fiction & Fantasy Factory

Polishing Diamond Dragons: Welcome to Matthew Carauddo's World

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 six-book fantasy series blending martial arts, mysticism, and philosophy. But Matthew isn’t just an author: he’s a stunt performer, fenc...

1 week ago

2 hours 40 minutes

The Science Fiction & Fantasy Factory

A Sci-Fi Novel Comes to Life: Engineering the Transfinite Reality Engine

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: Jonnie Fazoolie and the Transfinite Reality Engine. In a full-circle moment of gratitude and literary soul-searching, Mookie hands the mic to...

1 week ago

2 hours 35 minutes

The Science Fiction & Fantasy Factory

Sounds of the Biohunter: Making of a Sci-Fi Audiobook

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. Ingrid reveals how the novel began as a pseudonymous writing challenge—complete with a mystery book cover and fake name—and ended as a full...

1 week ago

1 hour 4 minutes

The Science Fiction & Fantasy Factory

Ingrid's Moonstruck Musings on Indie Sci-Fi

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 science. Astrofiction, Biofiction, Robofiction — yes, those are real, and they’ll save your story from embarrassing “space magic"... Then it’s all in ...

2 weeks ago

1 hour 25 minutes

The Science Fiction & Fantasy Factory

Mechhaven Dreams: Talking Indie Shop with Greg Sorber

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 up about the making of his Mechhaven saga—a gritty space opera he describes as “Transformers meets Braveheart”—where 200 sentient robots struggle fo...

2 weeks ago

1 hour 40 minutes

The Science Fiction & Fantasy Factory

Top 10 Reasons We Love Science Fiction

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 writers, and creators across the sci-fi spectrum, I started noticing patterns — emotional, intellectual, even spiritual. Beneath the la...

2 weeks ago

1 hour 38 minutes

The Science Fiction & Fantasy Factory

Welcome to the Science Fiction & Fantasy Factory

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 favorite futures: from character arcs to cosmic engines, from special effects to imaginary and planetary-scale ideas. Think of the sho...

3 weeks ago

2 minutes