The best podcasts for alternate histories

I'm a Professor Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University in New York City. My science fiction novels include The Silk Code (winner of the Locus Award for Best First Science Fiction Novel of 1999), The Consciousness Plague, The Pixel Eye, Borrowed Tides, The Plot to Save Socrates, Unburning Alexandria, and Chronica. My novelette “The Chronology Protection Case” was made into a short film and is on Amazon Prime Video. My alternate history story about The Beatles, "It's Real Life," was made into a radio play, and was a finalist for the Sidewise Award for Alternate History. My novelette, “Robinson Calculator,” was published in the Robots Through the Ages anthology in July 2023. My nonfiction books, including The Soft Edge, Digital McLuhan, and New New Media, have been translated into 15 languages. I've appeared on CBS, CNN, MSNBC, the History Channel, and NPR. My 1972 album, Twice Upon A Rhyme, was re-issued in Japan and Korea in 2008, and in the U. K. in 2010. My first new album since 1972, Welcome Up: Songs of Space and Time, was released by Old Bear Records and Light in the Attic Records in 2020. I'm a science fiction author, and an avid reader, and fan of science fiction. Time travel and alternate history are my favorite kinds of science fiction, as an author, reader, viewer, and listener. I became very interested in alternate history in the 1960s, for two reasons: (1) When JFK was assassinated, I began thinking about how the world would be different if he had survived. (2) I loved Philip K. Dick's book, The Man in the High Castle, published in the 1960s. My appreciation of this alternate history narrative was heightened when I watched the TV series of The Man in the High Castle in the past decade. As an author, I've been thrilled with the response my short story, "It's Real Life" (2022) -- an alternate history in which The Beatles never disbanded and John Lennon survived -- has received. "It's Real Life" was made into a radio play in 2023, released as an audiobook, and the story won the Mary Shelley Award for Outstanding Fiction, 2023, and was a finalist for the Sidewise Award, 2022. I'm currently expanding the short story into a novel.

I've been very pleased to have at least half a dozen interviews and discussions on my Light On Light Through podcast about alternate histories. These include an in-depth interview with Rufus Sewell, who played the leading character John Smith in The Man in the High Castle TV series, and an in-depth interview with Jack Dann, who wrote The Fiction Writer's Guide to Alternate History.

My podcast playlist is about the best episodes of podcasts, and the best podcasts, devoted to alternate history.