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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
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Episodes (210)
Encore Episode: Science Fiction Keeps Trying To "Fix" Disabled People with Elsa...
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Alien ecosystems and the algae menace
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How Doctor Who Stood the Test of Time
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Episode 142: Books That'll Get You Through The Winter Months
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Episode 141: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Zines
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Episode 140: Silicon Valley is doomed to misunderstand the future, with Dr. Joy...
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Episode 139: How To Write About Violence (with Fonda Lee and Lauren Beukes)
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Episode 138: Battlestar Galactica, 20 Years Later
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Episode 137: The Creativity Fallacy
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Episode 136: Who Wants to Live on an Eyeball Earth? With Aomawa Shields
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Episode 135: The Myth of Free Speech
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Encore Episode: Work Is Not Your Friend, with Alan Henry
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Encore Episode: We're in the wrong timeline, with Connie Willis and R.F. Kuang
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Episode 134: The State of the Galaxy
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Episode 133: Silicon Valley vs. Science Fiction: Ayn Rand
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Episode 132: A Sense of Place with Jessica Johns
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Episode 131: The State of Star Trek, with Mike McMahan
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Episode 130: What to Watch and Read This Summer!
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Episode 129: Silicon Valley vs. Science Fiction: Smart Home Nightmares
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Episode 128: Dungeons & Dragons Gets Cozy
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Episode 127: Silicon Valley vs. Science Fiction: "Difficult Geniuses"
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Episode 126: It's a Great Time to Read (and Write) Short Stories!
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Episode 125: Silicon Valley vs. Science Fiction: ChatGPT
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Encore Episode: Four Technologies That Nobody Realizes Will Change the Future
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Encore Episode: Gender Essentialism
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Episode 124: How To Build A Planet
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Episode 123: Why We Disagree About Avatar
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Episode 122: The Incredibly Strange Career of Anne Rice
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Episode 121: Books to Devour This Winter
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Episode 120: Who Owns Epic Fantasy?
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Episode 119: The Myth of Progress with Brad DeLong
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Episode 118: F*ck Your Space Empire! with Naseem Jamnia
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Encore Episode: The Bomb is Back (Again)
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Episode 117: What Makes a Story Feel "Fast" Or "Slow"?
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Episode 116: Water Disasters
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Episode 115: Therapy, Good And Bad, with Theo Germaine
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Episode 114: Damnation Arcs
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Episode 113: Let's Get Sweetweird!
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Episode 112: Plastic Problems, with William Gibson
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Episode 111: Escape Into Musicals, with Laser
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Episode 110: The Future of Pizza! And Other Listener Questions
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Episode 109: Work Is Not Your Friend, with Alan Henry
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Episode 108: How Science Fiction Sold Us the Automobile
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Episode 107: Academia, Dark and Light
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Encore Episode: The Future Of Birth Control
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Episode 106: Waking up from the Illusion of Change
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Episode 105: Ghosts of the Cold War
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Episode 104: Action Princesses!
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Episode 103: What Are Animals Trying To Tell Us? with Arielle Duhaime-Ross
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Episode 102: Money Is a Fantasy
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