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Episode | Date |
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Manufacturing loneliness
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Dec 12, 2024 |
These Books Will Help You Get Through the Cold, Cold Winter
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Nov 27, 2024 |
Why Fantasy Is Going To Extremes (With Nghi Vo)
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Nov 14, 2024 |
10 Years After "Over the Garden Wall"
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Oct 31, 2024 |
Every Town Deserves a Library (with Ken Liu)
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Oct 17, 2024 |
How to Raise the Stakes without Ruining Your Story
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Oct 03, 2024 |
Science Fiction is a normalization machine (with Rob Cameron)
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Sep 19, 2024 |
When Fiction Becomes a Microaggression (with Evelyn Douek)
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Sep 05, 2024 |
Encore Episode: Nationalism is science fiction, with Wajahat Ali
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Aug 22, 2024 |
Our Advice Is Correct
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Aug 08, 2024 |
Dinosaurs and Furries, with Riley Black
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Jul 25, 2024 |
Immigration law in space, with Victor Manibo
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Jul 11, 2024 |
Secrets of the Planet of the Apes with Josh Friedman
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Jun 27, 2024 |
Romancing the Dragon, with Moniquill Blackgoose
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Jun 13, 2024 |
Summer Entertainment Guide: What to Watch and Read this Summer!
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May 29, 2024 |
How Surveillance Dystopias Came True (with Wole Talabi)
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May 16, 2024 |
How to turn a story into a deadly weapon
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May 02, 2024 |
Fascism and Book Bans (with Maggie Tokuda-Hall)
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Apr 18, 2024 |
The Turing Test is bullsh*t (w/Alex Hanna and Emily M. Bender)
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Apr 04, 2024 |
Queer Horror! (with Dr. Chuck Tingle)
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Mar 21, 2024 |
Videogame movies are officially better than comic book movies
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Mar 07, 2024 |
Encore Episode: Let's Obsess Over the Politics of Dune!
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Mar 04, 2024 |
We Don't Give a F*ck About Canon
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Feb 22, 2024 |
The world's humblest heroes, from plumbers to tardigrades
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Feb 08, 2024 |
Encore Episode: The Incredibly Strange Career of Anne Rice
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Jan 25, 2024 |
Encore Episode: Science Fiction Keeps Trying To "Fix" Disabled People with Elsa Sjunneson
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Jan 11, 2024 |
Alien ecosystems and the algae menace
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Dec 28, 2023 |
How Doctor Who Stood the Test of Time
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Dec 14, 2023 |
Episode 142: Books That'll Get You Through The Winter Months
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Nov 30, 2023 |
Episode 141: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Zines
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Nov 16, 2023 |
Episode 140: Silicon Valley is doomed to misunderstand the future, with Dr. Joy Buolamwini
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Nov 02, 2023 |
Episode 139: How To Write About Violence (with Fonda Lee and Lauren Beukes)
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Oct 19, 2023 |
Episode 138: Battlestar Galactica, 20 Years Later
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Oct 05, 2023 |
Episode 137: The Creativity Fallacy
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Sep 21, 2023 |
Episode 136: Who Wants to Live on an Eyeball Earth? With Aomawa Shields
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Sep 07, 2023 |
Episode 135: The Myth of Free Speech
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Aug 24, 2023 |
Encore Episode: Work Is Not Your Friend, with Alan Henry
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Aug 10, 2023 |
Encore Episode: We're in the wrong timeline, with Connie Willis and R.F. Kuang
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Jul 27, 2023 |
Episode 134: The State of the Galaxy
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Jul 13, 2023 |
Episode 133: Silicon Valley vs. Science Fiction: Ayn Rand
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Jun 29, 2023 |
Episode 132: A Sense of Place with Jessica Johns
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Jun 15, 2023 |
Episode 131: The State of Star Trek, with Mike McMahan
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Jun 01, 2023 |
Episode 130: What to Watch and Read This Summer!
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May 18, 2023 |
Episode 129: Silicon Valley vs. Science Fiction: Smart Home Nightmares
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May 04, 2023 |
Episode 128: Dungeons & Dragons Gets Cozy
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Apr 20, 2023 |
Episode 127: Silicon Valley vs. Science Fiction: "Difficult Geniuses"
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Apr 06, 2023 |
Episode 126: It's a Great Time to Read (and Write) Short Stories!
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Mar 23, 2023 |
Episode 125: Silicon Valley vs. Science Fiction: ChatGPT
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Mar 09, 2023 |
Encore Episode: Four Technologies That Nobody Realizes Will Change the Future
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Feb 23, 2023 |
Encore Episode: Gender Essentialism
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Feb 09, 2023 |
Episode 124: How To Build A Planet
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Jan 26, 2023 |
Episode 123: Why We Disagree About Avatar
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Jan 12, 2023 |
Episode 122: The Incredibly Strange Career of Anne Rice
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Dec 29, 2022 |
Episode 121: Books to Devour This Winter
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Dec 15, 2022 |
Episode 120: Who Owns Epic Fantasy?
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Dec 01, 2022 |
Episode 119: The Myth of Progress with Brad DeLong
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Nov 17, 2022 |
Episode 118: F*ck Your Space Empire! with Naseem Jamnia
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Nov 03, 2022 |
Encore Episode: The Bomb is Back (Again)
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Oct 20, 2022 |
Episode 117: What Makes a Story Feel "Fast" Or "Slow"?
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Oct 06, 2022 |
Episode 116: Water Disasters
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Sep 22, 2022 |
Episode 115: Therapy, Good And Bad, with Theo Germaine
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Sep 08, 2022 |
Episode 114: Damnation Arcs
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Aug 25, 2022 |
Episode 113: Let's Get Sweetweird!
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Aug 11, 2022 |
Episode 112: Plastic Problems, with William Gibson
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Jul 28, 2022 |
Episode 111: Escape Into Musicals, with Laser
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Jul 14, 2022 |
Episode 110: The Future of Pizza! And Other Listener Questions
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Jun 30, 2022 |
Episode 109: Work Is Not Your Friend, with Alan Henry
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Jun 16, 2022 |
Episode 108: How Science Fiction Sold Us the Automobile
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Jun 02, 2022 |
Episode 107: Academia, Dark and Light
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May 19, 2022 |
Encore Episode: The Future Of Birth Control
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May 12, 2022 |
Episode 106: Waking up from the Illusion of Change
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May 05, 2022 |
Episode 105: Ghosts of the Cold War
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Apr 21, 2022 |
Episode 104: Action Princesses!
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Apr 07, 2022 |
Episode 103: What Are Animals Trying To Tell Us? with Arielle Duhaime-Ross
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Mar 24, 2022 |
Episode 102: Money Is a Fantasy
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Mar 17, 2022 |
Encore Episode: Has JK Rowling destroyed Harry Potter fandom?
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Mar 10, 2022 |
Episode 101: Hell Yeah, We Want To Change the Timeline
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Feb 24, 2022 |
Episode 100: Journalist Superheroes
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Feb 10, 2022 |
Episode 99: Gender Is Magic in the Wheel of Time, with C.L. Clark
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Jan 27, 2022 |
Episode 98: Will the United States Survive Another 50 Years? We Ask Jamelle Bouie
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Jan 13, 2022 |
Bonus Episode: The future of farming with Armando Elenes
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Jan 06, 2022 |
Encore Episode: Why Science Fiction Needs Romance
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Dec 30, 2021 |
Bonus Episode: The future of crime solving with Dr. Raychelle Burks
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Dec 23, 2021 |
Episode 97: The internet is still weird, with Vinny Thomas
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Dec 16, 2021 |
Bonus Episode: The Future of Cities with Sarah Parcak
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Dec 09, 2021 |
Encore Episode: Social Media Must Die!
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Dec 02, 2021 |
Episode 96: Nationalism is science fiction, with Wajahat Ali
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Nov 18, 2021 |
Episode 95: Science Fiction Keeps Trying To "Fix" Disabled People
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Nov 04, 2021 |
Encore Episode: Let's Obsess Over the Politics of Dune!
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Oct 21, 2021 |
Episode 94: Big biotech is watching you
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Oct 07, 2021 |
Episode 93: Lucifer Is Our Therapist Now
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Sep 23, 2021 |
Episode 92: How to imagine the next political uprising
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Sep 09, 2021 |
Episode 91: Three Simple Tests That Reveal A.I. Consciousness
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Aug 26, 2021 |
Episode 90: How To Use Research To Make Your Fiction Even More Irresistible
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Aug 12, 2021 |
Episode 89: Do you suffer from historical amnesia?
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Jul 29, 2021 |
Episode 88: How gender essentialism warped our view of science
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Jul 15, 2021 |
Episode 87: The Psychology of Loki
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Jul 01, 2021 |
Episode 86: Becoming One with the Hive Mind
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Jun 17, 2021 |
Episode 85: Science Criminals!
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Jun 03, 2021 |
Episode 84: The eldrich horror of gentrification
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May 20, 2021 |
Episode 83: Summer Preview! What We're Pumped to Watch and Read This Season
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May 06, 2021 |
Episode 82: The resistance is not dead
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Apr 22, 2021 |
Deep Futures: Democracy of Tomorrow
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Apr 15, 2021 |
Episode 81: Space Fantasy is a Thing. Deal With It!
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Apr 09, 2021 |
An Exclusive Sneak Peek at Victories Greater Than Death!
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Apr 01, 2021 |
Episode 80: How to write a fight scene
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Mar 25, 2021 |
Episode 79: The War on Viruses
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Mar 11, 2021 |
Episode 78: Godzilla vs. Kong vs. America
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Feb 25, 2021 |
Episode 77: The Stories That Are Helping Us With Our Collective Trauma
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Feb 04, 2021 |
Episode 76: The Truth About Lost Cities
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Jan 28, 2021 |
Episode 75: Has JK Rowling destroyed Harry Potter fandom?
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Jan 14, 2021 |
Episode 74: Disobedient Bodies
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Jan 02, 2021 |
Episode 73: The rise of the cute ~aesthetic~
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Dec 17, 2020 |
Episode 72: Birth Control of the Future
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Dec 03, 2020 |
Episode 71: Books That Will Get You Through the Winter
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Nov 19, 2020 |
Episode 70: The nightmare of history
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Nov 05, 2020 |
Episode 69: Let's Obsess Over the Politics of Dune!
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Oct 22, 2020 |
Episode 68: Everything is literally on fire
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Oct 08, 2020 |
Episode 67: King Arthur Must Die
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Sep 24, 2020 |
Episode 66: Portal Fantasies Are So Gay
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Sep 10, 2020 |
Episode 65: We're Officially Done with Lovecraft and Campbell
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Aug 27, 2020 |
Episode 64: How Science Is Redefining the Penis
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Aug 11, 2020 |
Episode 63: What is Indigenous Futurism?
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Jul 30, 2020 |
Episode 62: Help! I'm in love with my starship!
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Jul 16, 2020 |
Episode 61: The Reality of Virtual Reality
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Jul 03, 2020 |
Episode 60: Why stories need good dialogue
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Jun 18, 2020 |
Episode 59: The Limits of Escapism
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Jun 04, 2020 |
Episode 58: The nerd vs. jock fight was always a lie
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May 21, 2020 |
Episode 57: Why Science Fiction Needs Romance
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May 07, 2020 |
Episode 56: 9 new shows you should be watching right now
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Apr 23, 2020 |
Episode 55: How to write a plot that sucks people in
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Apr 09, 2020 |
Episode 54: Science fiction didn't prepare us for the pandemic
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Mar 26, 2020 |
Episode 53: F*ck Your Nihilism!
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Mar 12, 2020 |
Episode 52: Comedy, Death, and "The Good Place"
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Feb 27, 2020 |
Episode 51: The Delicious Significance of Food in Science Fiction
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Feb 13, 2020 |
Episode 50: The Power of Names
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Jan 30, 2020 |
Episode 49: What's the matter with Star Wars?
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Jan 16, 2020 |
Episode 48: How Pulp Magazines Conquered Publishing
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Jan 02, 2020 |
Episode 47: The legacy of scientific racism
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Dec 19, 2019 |
Episode 46: Four Technologies That Nobody Realizes Will Change the Future
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Dec 06, 2019 |
Episode 45: Worldbuilding For Beginners
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Nov 21, 2019 |
Episode 44: What Killed the Terminator?
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Nov 07, 2019 |
Episode 43: The Myth of Rugged Individualism
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Oct 24, 2019 |
Episode 42: It's time to stop quoting Clarke's Third Law
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Oct 10, 2019 |
Episode 41: The Multiverse Problem!
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Sep 26, 2019 |
Episode 40: What is TV criticism, anyway?
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Sep 12, 2019 |
Episode 39: Monstrous Women and Women Who Make Monsters
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Aug 29, 2019 |
Episode 38: The new anti-capitalist science fiction
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Aug 15, 2019 |
Episode 37: The history of Afro-futurism
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Aug 01, 2019 |
Episode 36: The Laws of the Future!
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Jul 18, 2019 |
Episode 35: When science fiction gets censored
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Jul 04, 2019 |
Episode 34: How to Write a Good Ending
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Jun 20, 2019 |
Episode 33: Science fiction explains our messed-up economy
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Jun 06, 2019 |
Episode 32: You're doing camp wrong!
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May 21, 2019 |
Episode 31: Getting out of the Utopia/dystopia binary
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May 09, 2019 |
Episode 30: Social media must die!
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Apr 26, 2019 |
Episode 29: Real talk about the end of the universe
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Apr 11, 2019 |
Episode 28: What's the Matter With Westeros?
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Mar 28, 2019 |
Episode 27: The future of futurism
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Mar 14, 2019 |
Episode 26: The Bomb is back
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Feb 28, 2019 |
Episode 25: Peering into the deep future of humanity
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Feb 14, 2019 |
Episode 24: We Have Many Feelings About Steven Universe
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Jan 31, 2019 |
Episode 23: Sex, Lies, and Science Fiction
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Jan 17, 2019 |
Episode 22: Can science fiction still give us hope for the future?
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Jan 03, 2019 |
Episode 21: Pop culture nostalgia, or branding your memories
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Dec 20, 2018 |
Episode 20: Why we're excited about Doctor Who again
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Dec 06, 2018 |
Episode 19: What's so bad about cultural appropriation?
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Nov 22, 2018 |
Episode 18: Alien minds
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Nov 08, 2018 |
Episode 17: Democracy and its discontents
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Oct 25, 2018 |
Episode 16: Can we survive capitalism?
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Oct 11, 2018 |
Episode 15: The future of the city
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Sep 27, 2018 |
Episode 14: The rise of transgender science fiction
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Sep 13, 2018 |
Episode 13: The Wiki-ization of television
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Aug 30, 2018 |
Episode 12: Why Are Utopias So Hard To Imagine?
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Aug 14, 2018 |
Episode 11: We're in the wrong timeline
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Aug 02, 2018 |
Episode 10: Deep in the heart of fandom
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Jul 19, 2018 |
Episode 9: Horror of the One Percent
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Jul 05, 2018 |
Episode 8: Science fiction has always been queer
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Jun 21, 2018 |
Episode 7: Imaginary immigrants and time-traveling refugees
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Jun 07, 2018 |
Episode 6: Animal companions and magical beasts
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May 24, 2018 |
Episode 5: Fear of robots
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May 10, 2018 |
Episode 4: Crisis on infinite superheroes
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Apr 27, 2018 |
Episode 3: Books that stand the test of time
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Apr 12, 2018 |
Episode 2: Propaganda and mind control in science fiction
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Mar 29, 2018 |
Episode 1: Hope, dread, and Star Trek: Discovery
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Mar 15, 2018 |