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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
Episodes (210)
Episode 60: Why stories need good dialogue
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Episode 59: The Limits of Escapism
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Episode 58: The nerd vs. jock fight was always a lie
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Episode 57: Why Science Fiction Needs Romance
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Episode 56: 9 new shows you should be watching right now
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Episode 55: How to write a plot that sucks people in
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Episode 54: Science fiction didn't prepare us for the pandemic
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Episode 53: F*ck Your Nihilism!
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Episode 52: Comedy, Death, and "The Good Place"
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Episode 51: The Delicious Significance of Food in Science Fiction
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Episode 50: The Power of Names
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Episode 49: What's the matter with Star Wars?
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Episode 48: How Pulp Magazines Conquered Publishing
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Episode 47: The legacy of scientific racism
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Episode 46: Four Technologies That Nobody Realizes Will Change the Future
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Episode 45: Worldbuilding For Beginners
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Episode 44: What Killed the Terminator?
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Episode 43: The Myth of Rugged Individualism
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Episode 42: It's time to stop quoting Clarke's Third Law
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Episode 41: The Multiverse Problem!
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Episode 40: What is TV criticism, anyway?
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Episode 39: Monstrous Women and Women Who Make Monsters
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Episode 38: The new anti-capitalist science fiction
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Episode 37: The history of Afro-futurism
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Episode 36: The Laws of the Future!
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Episode 35: When science fiction gets censored
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Episode 34: How to Write a Good Ending
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Episode 33: Science fiction explains our messed-up economy
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Episode 32: You're doing camp wrong!
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Episode 31: Getting out of the Utopia/dystopia binary
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Episode 30: Social media must die!
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Episode 29: Real talk about the end of the universe
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Episode 28: What's the Matter With Westeros?
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Episode 27: The future of futurism
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Episode 26: The Bomb is back
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Episode 25: Peering into the deep future of humanity
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Episode 24: We Have Many Feelings About Steven Universe
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Episode 23: Sex, Lies, and Science Fiction
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Episode 22: Can science fiction still give us hope for the future?
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Episode 21: Pop culture nostalgia, or branding your memories
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Episode 20: Why we're excited about Doctor Who again
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Episode 19: What's so bad about cultural appropriation?
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Episode 18: Alien minds
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Episode 17: Democracy and its discontents
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Episode 16: Can we survive capitalism?
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Episode 15: The future of the city
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Episode 14: The rise of transgender science fiction
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Episode 13: The Wiki-ization of television
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Episode 12: Why Are Utopias So Hard To Imagine?
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Episode 11: We're in the wrong timeline
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