201 Episodes

  1. Queer Horror! (with Dr. Chuck Tingle)

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

    Published: 3/7/2024
  3. Encore Episode: Let's Obsess Over the Politics of Dune!

    Published: 3/4/2024
  4. We Don't Give a F*ck About Canon

    Published: 2/22/2024
  5. The world's humblest heroes, from plumbers to tardigrades

    Published: 2/8/2024
  6. Encore Episode: The Incredibly Strange Career of Anne Rice

    Published: 1/25/2024
  7. Encore Episode: Science Fiction Keeps Trying To "Fix" Disabled People with Elsa Sjunneson

    Published: 1/11/2024
  8. Alien ecosystems and the algae menace

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

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

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

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

    Published: 11/2/2023
  13. Episode 139: How To Write About Violence (with Fonda Lee and Lauren Beukes)

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

    Published: 10/5/2023
  15. Episode 137: The Creativity Fallacy

    Published: 9/21/2023
  16. Episode 136: Who Wants to Live on an Eyeball Earth? With Aomawa Shields

    Published: 9/7/2023
  17. Episode 135: The Myth of Free Speech

    Published: 8/24/2023
  18. Encore Episode: Work Is Not Your Friend, with Alan Henry

    Published: 8/10/2023
  19. Encore Episode: We're in the wrong timeline, with Connie Willis and R.F. Kuang

    Published: 7/27/2023
  20. Episode 134: The State of the Galaxy

    Published: 7/13/2023

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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