Episodes

2 days ago
2 days ago
Andrea Johnson speaks with genre author and scientist Premee Mohamed about her work.

Thursday Oct 12, 2023
Thursday Oct 12, 2023
Host Andrea Johnson speaks with Lesley Conner, the editor of Apex Magazine.

Wednesday Sep 20, 2023
Wednesday Sep 20, 2023
This time, host Andrea Johnson speaks with Tor.com's Keith DeCandido about Star Trek, Jean-Luc Picard, and much, much more! Note that their conversation was recorded before Paramount's announcement that it was canceling Star Trek: Prodigy.

Thursday Jul 27, 2023
Thursday Jul 27, 2023
Andrea Johnson speaks with Steve Tanner, the publisher of Time Bomb Comics in the U.K.

Friday Jul 07, 2023
Friday Jul 07, 2023
Andrea Johnson's guest is Dr. Margaret A. Weitekamp, chair of the Space History Department at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC, and author of Space Craze: America's Enduring Fascination with Real and Imagined Spaceflight.

Thursday Jun 22, 2023
Thursday Jun 22, 2023
Andrea Johnson speaks with Bryan Thomas Schmidt, the editor of the new anthology Robots Through the Ages, along with contributing authors Ken Scholes and Martin L. Shoemaker. The book will be published on 25 July 2023.

Thursday Jun 08, 2023
Thursday Jun 08, 2023
Our guest this time is Nicole Kornher-Stace, author of Flight & Anchor, the sequel to novel Firebreak.

Thursday May 18, 2023
Thursday May 18, 2023
Our guest this time is biographer and SF writer Alec Nevala-Lee, the author of Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction.

Saturday Apr 22, 2023
Saturday Apr 22, 2023
Andrea Johnson speaks with Hugo Award-winning author Aidan Moher about his love of video games and how they have evolved, and influenced SF. Moher is the author of the recent book Fight, Magic, Items: The History of Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, and the Rise of Japanese RPGs in the West.

Sunday Oct 16, 2022
Sunday Oct 16, 2022
Host Andrea Johnson speaks with UK SF author Chris Farnell about the episodic storytelling in the genre.

RetroRockets
Welcome to RetroRockets, the podcast that explores the deep heritage of science Fiction and Fantasy. Follow us on twitter @RetroRocketsPod
RetroRockets is hosted and produced by Andrea Johnson. Audio editing and mixing is by Andy Robins. Our Special Consultant is John Wenger. Our logo and custom artwork was created by the amazing Carolyn Baker (twitter @GraphicsCarolyn). Our music is by Metre, and used with a Creative Commons License.