Tales From The Bridge

Updated: 11 Jun 2025 • 131 episodes
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Tales From the Bridge is a podcast that discusses all things science fiction. Join Tristan, Kevin, James, and Sam as they chat with your favourite science fiction authors and filmmakers. We cover the best in sci-fi, from books and graphic novels - to television and film. We also geek out on cutting-edge concepts in our news segment, Science Fiction-Science Fact. Subscribe, follow, like, and leave a review. We'd love to hear from you! 

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11 Jun 2025 • EN

A Chat with Arkady Martine

Joining us on TFTB is author, Arkady Martine. Her Texi-calon duology, "A Memory Called Empire" and "A Desolation Called Peace," have each won the Hugo Award for Best Novel. She has also published short stories in numerous publications (links below). Her latest book, Rose/House, was recently re-released by TOR in 2025.

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Joining us on the Bridge this week is Production Designer, David Blass. Known for his work on ‘Star Trek: Picard’, his credits also include The Boys, Preacher, Justified, and many other television series you’ve enjoyed. We had a great conversation with Dave and cover a great deal of ground on this one, from Roger Corma

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14 May 2025 • EN

A Chat with Ray Nayler

On this episode of TFTB we sit down with Ray Nayler. He is the author of the Locus Award winning The Mountain in the Sea, and he joins us to talk about his latest book, Where the Axe is Buried. A cybernetic novel of political intrigue, revolution, and authoritarianism. Pretty timely themes these days. We also look at h

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On this episode of TFTB we discuss The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin.  First published in 1969 this book was far ahead of its time, and still stands up as excellent progressive science fiction. If you haven’t had the pleasure of enjoying this one, we highly recommend that you add it to your summer reading l

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On this episode of TFTB Film Club, our film nerds revisit the 2014 Sci-fi hit, Edge of Tomorrow. It"s a great film, and there has long been talk of a sequel. Fingers crossed, Tom takes a break from completing impossible missions long enough to deliver on a long-anticipated part two. We"d love to see more Live, Die, Rep

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On this episode of TFTB, things take a turn for the weird. Our book of the month was the first instalment of the perfectly ridiculous (and kind of fun), Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman. If you have a gamer teen that you want to read a GD book, this might be the way. On Science Fiction, Science Fact, we have a loo

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