For the first half of 2025, I stuck with my four month cadence:
- Regular Episode (award-winner or nominee discussion)
- Zoomed Out: Author Deep Dive
- Seth’s Picks Episode (regular episode but not necessarily an award winner)
- Zoomed Out: Subgenre Spotlight
For the second half, I focused more on regular episodes, resulting in the following breakdown of the 20 episodes:
- Normal Episodes (8): Seth + One Guest + One Book. Some of the books were award winning SFF books, some were just books Seth wanted to cover.
- The Space Trilogy, by C.S. Lewis, with guest Evan Bradke
- Old Man’s War, by John Scalzi, with guest Tony R
- Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson, with guest Leah Borden
- The Stress of Her Regard, by Tim Powers, with guest Ray Alston
- Lightning, by Dean Koontz, with guests Megan Cutter and Colin Kuskie
- The Man Who Saw Seconds, by Alexander Boldizar, with guests Sophia Suhu and JW Wartick
- Glory Road, by Robert A. Heinlein, with guest James Hedrick
- Annihilation, by Jeff Vandermeer, with guest Mythius
- “Zoomed Out” episodes (4): Talking more broadly about authors or genres
- Lloyd Alexander, Zoomed Out, with guest Jared Crossley
- Sports Science Fiction, Zoomed Out, with guest Christopher J. Garcia
- Kurt Vonnegut, Zoomed Out, with guest Nic Pietersma
- SF Movie Novelizations, Zoomed Out, with Andrew and Hannah from Authorized!
- Interviews (1): Seth interviewing a guest about a project or recent experience, often touching on science fiction.
- Interview with David Agranoff about his 2025 novel Great America In Dead World
- Other Bonus Episodes (7):
- My 2024 in books, a review of all my reading in 2024
- 2025 Hugo-nominated Short Stories panel
- 2025 Hugo-nominated Novels panel
- 2025 Hugo-nominated Novellas panel
- Dispatches from Seattle WorldCon, my reflections on the con and some interviews from the convention floor
- Original Fiction: “Bookends, or Libromancy.” Micro-fiction story by me, read by me.
- Science Fiction and Fantasy Concepts Draft, with Dan, Emmanuel, and Kalin