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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

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