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Brandon Duke
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Founder, Filmmaker, Podcaster & Musician at Karkata Media. 🎥🎙️🎸🦀
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Another clip with @jordanloyalshort.bsky.social talking about his space fantasy “Dreadbound Ode”’books.

Watch the full episode of The Droid & Dragon Cantina on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts!

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THE DREADBOUND ODE BOOKS by Jordan Loyal Short | The Droid & Dragon Cantina
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July 24, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Our friends at @kamikazecomic.bsky.social have launched another Kickstarter campaign to fund Volume 4 of their comic. If you want to support some indie comic creators and get yourself a cool new comic book, check them out!

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Kamikaze: Volume 4
Get the exhilarating fourth graphic novel in the Kamikaze series! 120 pages of gravity-defying cyberpunky post-apocalyptic goodness.
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July 24, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Our guest this week is @jordanloyalshort.bsky.social who has written the “Dragon Reich” series and “The Dreadbound Ode” books.

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JORDAN LOYAL SHORT | The Droid & Dragon Cantina
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July 23, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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In this clip from The Droid & Dragon Cantina, @costigurgu.bsky.social talks about the inspiration behind his Corrosion Trilogy.
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Costi Gurgu's CORROSION TRILOGY (Part 1 & 2) | DDC Clips
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May 7, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Our guest this week is @lisaamowitz.bsky.social - a graphic designer and teacher turned novelist, who has written the Lost Garden Series, Breaking Glass and Until Beth.

Watch the episode on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts!🎧
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LISA AMOWITZ | The Droid & Dragon Cantina
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May 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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This week’s guest, @lisaamowitz.bsky.social talks about her Lost Garden Series.
Watch the full episode on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts!

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The Lost Garden Series by Lisa Amowitz | The Droid & Dragon Cantina
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May 16, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Our guest this week is @benschenkman.bsky.social - the author of The Devil You Know series. In this episode we talked about religion in pop culture and writing urban fantasy in New Haven, Connecticut.

Watch the show on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts! 🎧

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BEN SCHENKMAN | The Droid & Dragon Cantina
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May 20, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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You know how most vampire stories take place in the past? When she wrote her book, @vehuntleyauthor.bsky.social didn’t do that.
She set it 500 years in the future after vampires took over the world.

Listen to the latest episode of The Droid & Dragon Cantina wherever you get your podcasts.
May 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Our guest this week Is M.A. Wall, withor of the Shattered Hollows series. In this episode, we talked about world building and tyranny in science fiction.

Check out our convesation online or listen wherever you get your podcasts!

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M.A. WALL | The Droid & Dragon Cantina
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May 28, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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We’ve met lots of people that have done NaNoWriMo, but Barbara J. Gilbert is the first person we’ve seen that got a book series out of it.

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BARBARA J. GILBERT | The Droid & Dragon Cantina
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July 1, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Our guest this week is Jason DeGray. We had a great discussion about writing science fiction and artificial intelligence in art and culture.

Watch this episode of The Droid & Deagon Cantina on YouTube or listen to the interview wherever you get your #podcasts!

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JASON DEGRAY | The Droid & Dragon Cantina
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July 1, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Our guest Kay Marrie is a fantasy author who isn’t afraid to let her mind wander, and it takes her to some pretty wild places.

Watch this episode of The Droid & Dragon Cantina on YouTube or listen to it wherever you get your #podcasts!

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KAY MARRIE | The Droid & Dragon Cantina
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July 1, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Our 1st guest this week is Cal Logan, who used Japanese Mythology and the history of feudal Japan as the inspiration for his novel Shadow Bane.

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CAL LOGAN | The Droid & Dragon Cantina
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July 1, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Our 2nd guest this week is Bria Rose who decided to do a usual take on Beauty and The Beast: this time Belle IS The Beast.

Because we had some problems with the video, this episode is audio only. Listen to the episode wherever you get your podcasts!

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BRIA ROSE (Audio Only) | The Droid & Dragon Cantina
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July 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Our guest this week is @ericmalikyte.bsky.social who not only runs a few YouTube channels on various topics, he’s also written a few novels.

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ERIC MALIKYTE | The Droid & Dragon Cantina
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July 8, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Our guest this week is Cyndi Brec. For her novel The Therans: Secrets Beneath Scars, she drew inspiration from both urban lore and world history.

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CYNDI BREC | The Droid & Dragon Cantina
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July 16, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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I’ve got a new podcast out today. I had a great time talking to this gentleman and I even learned a new word!
karkatamedia.bsky.social Karkata Media @karkatamedia.bsky.social · May 6
Our first guest at The Droid & Dragon Cantina is @costigurgu.bsky.social His novels include The Corrosion Trilogy, along with Servitude, and his award winning novel RecipeArium. 📚

Watch the interview on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts! 🎧

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COSTI GURGU | The Droid & Dragon Cantina
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May 6, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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I’ve got a new podcast inbound…
karkatamedia.bsky.social Karkata Media @karkatamedia.bsky.social · May 2
Coming this Tuesday, May 6th, we’ve got a new podcast called The Droid & Dragon Cantina, wherein Brandon Duke talks to independent science fiction and fantasy authors.

Thanks to Jon Stubbington @bookcoversbyjon.bsky.social for the super cool artwork!

#podcasts #sciencefiction #fantasy #books
May 2, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Sadly, this type of behavior will probably make RFK Jr. even more attractive to the MAGA crowd…
ronfilipkowski.bsky.social Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · Jan 28
Wow. Caroline Kennedy breaks her silence on RFK Jr in a message to Senators: “We grew up together. It’s no surprise that he keeps birds of prey as pets because Bobby himself is a predator. He enjoyed showing off by putting baby chickens & mice in a blender to feed to his hawks.”
January 28, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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If this all true, my fellow Americans, we got hosed…

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BREAKING: KAMALA ROBBED OF 3,565,000 VOTES | The Kyle Kulinski Show
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January 28, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Now that Joe Rogan has gone full MAGA, of course he’s all for giving Putin what he wants. It’s nice to hear what the Ukrainians think about that themselves.

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Ukrainians react to Joe Rogan’s rant on Ukraine
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December 1, 2024 at 9:19 PM
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A podcast that I co-host. We’ve interviewed some cool people who do cool things.
karkatamedia.bsky.social Karkata Media @karkatamedia.bsky.social · Nov 27
One of our projects is a #podcast called Scratch Claw Push, wherein we talk to #creatives about how they manage to carve out a place for themselves in the world. And usually when they do so, they help other creatives in the process.

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Scratch Claw Push
A podcast about making art in spite of it all. Interviews with creatives who are clawing out a space for their work in the world.
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November 27, 2024 at 10:52 PM
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Thanks to @thebulwark.bsky.social for putting this clip of Sturgill Simpson on my radar. Feels like something I needed to hear.
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Sturgill Simpson's Post-Election Wisdom Gives Hope for the Future | Bulwark Takes
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November 25, 2024 at 4:42 PM
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If you’re a reader or just a fan of great storytelling, this is a good podcast episode to check out:
salvationsouth.com Salvation South @salvationsouth.com · Nov 19
The latest episode of the Salvation South Deluxe podcast is live, and we talk to five authors about how "Southern noir" lit is actually, as #SACosby says, the "gospel of the dispossessed.” With @davidjoy.bsky.social, @tayari.bsky.social, Chris Offutt, and Michael Farris Smith.
The Rot Under the Magnolias – Salvation South
Salvation South talks to five Southern writers who can keep you awake, thinking "just one more chapter," all night long.
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November 20, 2024 at 9:07 PM
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When Trump voters complain about the things he’s done in office that hurt them, should we just tell them they have Trump Derangement Syndrome?
November 20, 2024 at 8:21 PM