201 Episodes

  1. Episode 184: Spooky Season Books and Hellbenders

    Published: 02/10/2025
  2. Three Ways of Looking at Bruce Lee (with Jeff Chang)

    Published: 18/09/2025
  3. Encore Episode: Silicon Valley vs. Science Fiction: ChatGPT

    Published: 04/09/2025
  4. Encore Episode: Obsessed with Battlestar Galactica

    Published: 21/08/2025
  5. Robots! Witches! Annalee and Charlie Jane talk about their new books

    Published: 07/08/2025
  6. Murderbot and the Stories That Heal Us

    Published: 24/07/2025
  7. The Invisible Chain that Holds Us Together (w/ Alexis Madrigal)

    Published: 10/07/2025
  8. Cute Body Horror

    Published: 26/06/2025
  9. Public Health Is a Utopian Vision (with Naseem Jamnia and Natasha O'Brown)

    Published: 12/06/2025
  10. Simulating Earth and Politicizing Science

    Published: 29/05/2025
  11. The Power of Protest (w/ andré carrington)

    Published: 15/05/2025
  12. Too Bad About the Internet (with Anil Dash)

    Published: 01/05/2025
  13. Some really weird shit you didn't know about taxes

    Published: 17/04/2025
  14. Severance and the New Hellscape (w/ Carl Zimmer)

    Published: 06/04/2025
  15. Hip Hop x Cyberpunk (with clipping.)

    Published: 20/03/2025
  16. "Interior Chinatown" Just Became a Very Weird TV Show (with Charles Yu)

    Published: 06/03/2025
  17. Forced Feminization and Cute Robots

    Published: 20/02/2025
  18. No, We Don't Live in a F---ing Simulation!

    Published: 06/02/2025
  19. Never Forget Where We Came From (with Tananarive Due and Nicola Griffith)

    Published: 23/01/2025
  20. The Truth About Gigantic Objects in Space (with Sarah Parcak)

    Published: 09/01/2025

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Explore the meaning of science fiction, and how it's relevant to real-life science and society. Your hosts are Annalee Newitz, a science journalist who writes science fiction, and Charlie Jane Anders, a science fiction writer who is obsessed with science. Every two weeks, we take deep dives into science fiction books, movies, television, and comics that will expand your mind -- and maybe change your life

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