202 Episodes

  1. The Turing Test is bullsh*t (w/Alex Hanna and Emily M. Bender)

    Published: 04/04/2024
  2. Queer Horror! (with Dr. Chuck Tingle)

    Published: 21/03/2024
  3. Videogame movies are officially better than comic book movies

    Published: 07/03/2024
  4. Encore Episode: Let's Obsess Over the Politics of Dune!

    Published: 04/03/2024
  5. We Don't Give a F*ck About Canon

    Published: 22/02/2024
  6. The world's humblest heroes, from plumbers to tardigrades

    Published: 08/02/2024
  7. Encore Episode: The Incredibly Strange Career of Anne Rice

    Published: 25/01/2024
  8. Encore Episode: Science Fiction Keeps Trying To "Fix" Disabled People with Elsa Sjunneson

    Published: 11/01/2024
  9. Alien ecosystems and the algae menace

    Published: 28/12/2023
  10. How Doctor Who Stood the Test of Time

    Published: 14/12/2023
  11. Episode 142: Books That'll Get You Through The Winter Months

    Published: 30/11/2023
  12. Episode 141: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Zines

    Published: 16/11/2023
  13. Episode 140: Silicon Valley is doomed to misunderstand the future, with Dr. Joy Buolamwini

    Published: 02/11/2023
  14. Episode 139: How To Write About Violence (with Fonda Lee and Lauren Beukes)

    Published: 19/10/2023
  15. Episode 138: Battlestar Galactica, 20 Years Later

    Published: 05/10/2023
  16. Episode 137: The Creativity Fallacy

    Published: 21/09/2023
  17. Episode 136: Who Wants to Live on an Eyeball Earth? With Aomawa Shields

    Published: 07/09/2023
  18. Episode 135: The Myth of Free Speech

    Published: 24/08/2023
  19. Encore Episode: Work Is Not Your Friend, with Alan Henry

    Published: 10/08/2023
  20. Encore Episode: We're in the wrong timeline, with Connie Willis and R.F. Kuang

    Published: 27/07/2023

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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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