201 Episodes

  1. Episode 98: Will the United States Survive Another 50 Years? We Ask Jamelle Bouie

    Published: 1/13/2022
  2. Bonus Episode: The future of farming with Armando Elenes

    Published: 1/6/2022
  3. Encore Episode: Why Science Fiction Needs Romance

    Published: 12/30/2021
  4. Bonus Episode: The future of crime solving with Dr. Raychelle Burks

    Published: 12/23/2021
  5. Episode 97: The internet is still weird, with Vinny Thomas

    Published: 12/16/2021
  6. Bonus Episode: The Future of Cities with Sarah Parcak

    Published: 12/9/2021
  7. Encore Episode: Social Media Must Die!

    Published: 12/2/2021
  8. Episode 96: Nationalism is science fiction, with Wajahat Ali

    Published: 11/18/2021
  9. Episode 95: Science Fiction Keeps Trying To "Fix" Disabled People

    Published: 11/4/2021
  10. Encore Episode: Let's Obsess Over the Politics of Dune!

    Published: 10/21/2021
  11. Episode 94: Big biotech is watching you

    Published: 10/7/2021
  12. Episode 93: Lucifer Is Our Therapist Now

    Published: 9/23/2021
  13. Episode 92: How to imagine the next political uprising

    Published: 9/9/2021
  14. Episode 91: Three Simple Tests That Reveal A.I. Consciousness

    Published: 8/26/2021
  15. Episode 90: How To Use Research To Make Your Fiction Even More Irresistible

    Published: 8/12/2021
  16. Episode 89: Do you suffer from historical amnesia?

    Published: 7/29/2021
  17. Episode 88: How gender essentialism warped our view of science

    Published: 7/15/2021
  18. Episode 87: The Psychology of Loki

    Published: 7/1/2021
  19. Episode 86: Becoming One with the Hive Mind

    Published: 6/17/2021
  20. Episode 85: Science Criminals!

    Published: 6/3/2021

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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