@fantasy4theages.bsky.social
Account of Jim (Father) & Zach (Son), the duo of Fantasy for the Ages YouTube Channel (& audio podcast), content all about fantasy, sci-fi, horror, & other nerdy things we enjoy. We review books, rank movies, and comment on all sorts of randomness!
NEW EPISODE: Jim has REALLY been enjoying the work of Stephen Graham Jones this year. Here's his next read from the post 2020 works, The Babysitter Lives. See why this one might be worth your time! #SFF #horror #hauntedhouse #StephenGrahamJones @sgj.bsky.social youtu.be/sOc96b9EqIg
06.12.2025 11:18 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
NEW EPISODE: Jim goes all the way back for an absolute SF Classic today, a review of Stranger in a Strange Land. This was one of the earliest deep SF reads Jim experienced, & he recently revisited it. How did it hold up? #SFF #SciFi youtu.be/4Y_h4Tj_ZYo
05.12.2025 13:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
NEW EPISODE: Jim reviews the "classic" dystopian post-apocalyptic novel from 1987, Swan Song. Have you read it? Should you? Come see what Jim had to say. This may not be a popular opinion, but sometimes you need to take the stand. #SFF #SwanSong #dystopian youtu.be/A5q-5VKy61Q
04.12.2025 14:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Fly Stone, Fly, 45%: Author Dust Kunkel fully commits to his approach, giving us this story (so far) as 1st Person Narrative, protagonist talking to a dog. It works. Leaves us puzzling things together, only knowing what he knew. Some serious world-building going on! #Fantasy
04.12.2025 14:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Dad Joke Time: Hey, I worked hard to construct this joke! Why are you groaning? Oh, oh yeah... #DadJokes #Humor youtube.com/shorts/Jnq-W...
04.12.2025 01:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
⅔ of the way through Joe Hill's The Fireman. Fascinating story, with exceptional character work, and a heck of a puzzle to solve. Not to mention the dangers of group think. Oh, and the possibility of burning alive - yet that's perhaps the minor danger? #SFF #JoeHill #Suspense
04.12.2025 01:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
NEW EPISODE: Jim's Review of a sci-fi/fantasy mash-up, Mushroom Blues, by Adrian M. Gibson. If you like your speculative fiction mystery thrillers weird and unique, this may be for you. Jim shares his thoughts, spoiler-lite. #SFF #WeirdFiction #Mystery youtu.be/8D7FU2LQ8Vg
03.12.2025 15:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Dad Joke Alert: Oh, the fun one can have with a canoe. This will change your perspective (and bring on a groan, surely). #DadJokes #Humore youtube.com/shorts/q4qfI...
02.12.2025 20:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
NEW EPISODE: An Awards Show! Jim & Zach are handing out "Best of" Awards in 10 different categories, nominees coming from the 170 books they've together read in 2025 from all across #SFFH. Come see which books took home the hardware! #BestBooks youtu.be/-Z1k703AyRA
02.12.2025 17:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Dad Joke Time: No excuses! This one will just have you groaning. #DadJokes #Humor youtube.com/shorts/i8eGT...
01.12.2025 23:26 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
NEW EPISODE: Zach got Jim to finally watch the 2025 Superman movie. How did that go? Was Jim right to have not bothered, or was Zach right for insisting his father correct this oversight? Check out this review to find out. #Superman2025 #Superheroes youtu.be/txOi2I2w27o
01.12.2025 14:16 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Watched those first four episodes of Stranger Things, Sn 5 yesterday (Vol. 1). Quite satisfied, a good start, and leveling up on a couple of things. Nice! I totally predicted the reveal Holly discovers in episode 4, soon as I saw that map. Love it! #StrangerThings5 #WillByers
30.11.2025 22:58 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
NEW EPISODE: Together for Thanksgiving, Zach & Jim decided to record WITH their significant others. They chatted our YouTube Poll results from the past few months. Come see what YOU voted on these polls, & our guesses & reactions! #SFF #Thanksgiving youtu.be/7bAdo1hHjzs
30.11.2025 19:19 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 2
Dad Joke Alert: Fun with spelling! Yes, you CAN have fun with spelling... #DadJokes #humor youtube.com/shorts/eKabO...
29.11.2025 17:15 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
NEW EPISODE: Zach & Jim chat the very best books they read in 2025 across Sci-Fi, Fantasy, & Horror, the 5-Star Reads, the Best of the Best. Come see what REALLY worked for them, & whether you should add to your TBRs! #SFFH #BookRecs #BookTube #BestBooks youtu.be/CatnMjA-TdU
28.11.2025 15:39 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
NEW EPISODE: Time to finish of this retrospective on SFF villains, today sharing my top picks from the modern error. Here's the biggest villain in the minds of the fandoms in fantasy & sci-fi for each year, 2010-2024. Heck of a list! #SFF #Villains youtu.be/ezuHj2zrZW0
27.11.2025 14:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Dad Joke Alert: Enjoy the fun of this amazing survival strategy from the animal kingdom. Who knew? #DadJokes #Humor youtube.com/shorts/hIPiI...
26.11.2025 16:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
NEW EPISODE: Time for the 2000s! Jim brings his villain study to the Oughts, revealing the biggest & baddest of each year of that decade, the nasties who were all the buzz. Come see which ones you loved, & which you missed! #Villains #SFF youtu.be/jg-29W8ih_A
26.11.2025 14:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
NEW EPISODE: How many more of the villains will you remember & recognize as our Villains Video Retrospective series shifts into the 1990s? Some all-time favorites appear here, baddies who brought new levels of shock and awe to the page. Enjoy! #SFF youtu.be/8qg7mD5YRfs
25.11.2025 16:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Now I've moved on to a Joe Hill novel, only the second of his I've tried (after NOS4A2), and it's off to a blazing hot start! The Fireman. (You see what I did there, right?) #JoeHill #horror #thriller #TheFireman
25.11.2025 02:05 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Finished The Babysitter Lives, by Stephen Graham Jones. Fascinating haunted house tale. Loved what he did with MANY elements of this story. Great TWISTS in this tale! But the ending? Got me scratching my head. Like it? Hate it? I can't decide... yet. Pondering. #Haunted #horror @sgj.bsky.social
25.11.2025 01:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
NEW EPISODE: Jim continues the journey through the decades today, highlighting the greatest of SFF Villains over the years, with today's spotlight on the 1980s. What a decade! Check it out. #SFF #Villains youtu.be/ocz8aOIvdCI
24.11.2025 18:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Dad Joke Time: My friends, Disney is NOT always the correct answer. #DadJokes #Humor youtube.com/shorts/EzmBt...
24.11.2025 17:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
NEW EPISODE: Jim's back to highlight the greatest baddies of the 1970s, villains who took SFF novels to new heights (or depths), & changed what we thought about the face of darkness. Which ones are favs of yours, & which might be new to you? #Villains #SFF youtu.be/IbI2ajlQBNw
23.11.2025 15:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Dad Joke Alert: I lived in Alaska for many years, driving home the truism that, when in doubt, duct tape is the answer. But it's NOT always true... #DadJokes #Humor youtube.com/shorts/K7ah5...
22.11.2025 17:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Now listening to my next Stephen Graham Jones entry, from his post 2020 hits, The Babysitter Lives. This originally was produced ONLY as an audiobook (2022), but also came out in a print edition this year. #StephenGrahamJones #Horror
22.11.2025 02:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Finished Swan Song, by Robert McCammon. Hmmm... A dystopian apocalyptic tale of good vs. evil. Sort of. Also, a little bizarre. A 3-star read for me, that I wish I felt better about, but in the end it was simply "OK." Review episode coming. #SFF #apocalyptic
22.11.2025 02:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
NEW EPISODE: Time to reach back into the 1960s, to rediscover the amazing SFF villains that were all the craze during this wild and psychedelic decade. How many will you have encountered in books already? Take a look! #1960s #SFF #BestVillains youtu.be/G2XtZxdw2Mw
21.11.2025 01:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Dad Joke Time: When will they ever learn — the mistakes of Jurassic Park AGAIN! At least it's worth a groan... #DadJokes #Humor youtube.com/shorts/GnDPt...
20.11.2025 23:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Finished Mushroom Blues (The Hofmann Report Book 1): It ended better than I anticipated. I'm always here for a good story, and that's what I got. It's not a perfect read, but it's got some great qualities, and is worth the experience. Review soon! #SFF #fantasy #selfpublished
20.11.2025 05:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 2
