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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 Ja...
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Frankenstein's Monster and the Bad Science Daddy
Frankenstein is back, baby. There are two new Frankenstein movies, plus tons of new fiction that plays with Frankenstein tropes. So it's tim...
The Future of Science Fiction Conventions
We love science fiction and fantasy conventions — especially the ones that are run by fans, for fans. But they haven't changed much since th...
We're Still Traumatized By This Writing Debate
Not long ago, everybody was arguing about whether characters need to be "relatable". We get to the bottom of a debate that still makes us in...
Spooky Season Books and Hellbenders
It's time to light a fire and curl up with a cup of cocoa and a terrifying book full of creepy shit -- or escaping from creepy shit. We've g...
Three Ways of Looking at Bruce Lee (with Jeff Chang)
Bruce Lee changed American pop culture forever, and his incredible legacy is more relevant than ever. But how did he go from child actor in...
Encore Episode: Silicon Valley vs. Science Fiction: ChatGPT
For our summer vacation, we're re-upping the first in our "Silicon Valley vs. Science Fiction" series from 2023, about how Silicon Valley ap...
Encore Episode: Obsessed with Battlestar Galactica
Charlie Jane and Annalee are on book tour(s), so we're re-upping one of our favorite episodes from 2023. At that time, we were celebrating t...
Robots! Witches! Annalee and Charlie Jane talk about their new books
It's a double book birthday! Annalee has just released Automatic Noodle, a wonderfully cozy book about robots who've survived a devastating...
Murderbot and the Stories That Heal Us
It's scary out there — so thank goodness we're taking comfort in some wondrous books, TV shows, comics and movies. What makes a story comfor...
The Invisible Chain that Holds Us Together (w/ Alexis Madrigal)
We keep hearing about the supply chain lately... but what is it? And how do all these shipping containers moving around the world shape our...
Cute Body Horror
We've got some good news and some bad news. The good news is that we're talking to Cirocco Dunlap, the showrunner of The Second Best Hospita...
Public Health Is a Utopian Vision (with Naseem Jamnia and Natasha O'Brown)
Public health is a vital part of keeping all of us safe — but what does it mean, and where did the concept come from? Special guest host Nas...
Simulating Earth and Politicizing Science
It's the end of science as we know it in America. As the U.S. government dismantles science agencies and slashes budgets for health and envi...
The Power of Protest (w/ andré carrington)
It's time to rise up. That's why we're talking about the power of protest, in real life but also in fiction. Indeed, the act of writing scie...
Too Bad About the Internet (with Anil Dash)
Where did the Internet go wrong, and how do we fix it? To find out more, we talk to entrepreneur and activist Anil Dash about the alternate...
Some really weird shit you didn't know about taxes
Why are taxes the secret weapon in so many science fiction and fantasy stories? And why the heck do archaeologists measure the complexity of...
Severance and the New Hellscape (w/ Carl Zimmer)
Welcome to the new dystopian era. The series Severance , which just finished its second season, is perhaps the best-known of a fresh crop of...
Hip Hop x Cyberpunk (with clipping.)
Hip hop group clipping. has just released a brilliant new cyberpunk-inspired album, Dead Channel Sky, and we're talking to the members about...
"Interior Chinatown" Just Became a Very Weird TV Show (with Charles Yu)
In his award-winning novel Interior Chinatown, Charles Yu took a scalpel to television's tropes and stereotypes. Now he explains to us how h...