201 Episodes

  1. Encore Episode: Fascism and Book Bans (with Maggie Tokuda-Hall)

    Published: 12/26/2024
  2. Manufacturing loneliness

    Published: 12/12/2024
  3. These Books Will Help You Get Through the Cold, Cold Winter

    Published: 11/27/2024
  4. Why Fantasy Is Going To Extremes (With Nghi Vo)

    Published: 11/14/2024
  5. 10 Years After "Over the Garden Wall"

    Published: 10/31/2024
  6. Every Town Deserves a Library (with Ken Liu)

    Published: 10/17/2024
  7. How to Raise the Stakes without Ruining Your Story

    Published: 10/3/2024
  8. Science Fiction is a normalization machine (with Rob Cameron)

    Published: 9/19/2024
  9. When Fiction Becomes a Microaggression (with Evelyn Douek)

    Published: 9/5/2024
  10. Encore Episode: Nationalism is science fiction, with Wajahat Ali

    Published: 8/22/2024
  11. Our Advice Is Correct

    Published: 8/8/2024
  12. Dinosaurs and Furries, with Riley Black

    Published: 7/25/2024
  13. Immigration law in space, with Victor Manibo

    Published: 7/11/2024
  14. Secrets of the Planet of the Apes with Josh Friedman

    Published: 6/27/2024
  15. Romancing the Dragon, with Moniquill Blackgoose

    Published: 6/13/2024
  16. Summer Entertainment Guide: What to Watch and Read this Summer!

    Published: 5/29/2024
  17. How Surveillance Dystopias Came True (with Wole Talabi)

    Published: 5/16/2024
  18. How to turn a story into a deadly weapon

    Published: 5/2/2024
  19. Fascism and Book Bans (with Maggie Tokuda-Hall)

    Published: 4/18/2024
  20. The Turing Test is bullsh*t (w/Alex Hanna and Emily M. Bender)

    Published: 4/4/2024

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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