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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...
This is our last episode of Our Opinions Are Correct... but please stay subscribed to our feed, because you'll hear from us again. We're sad...
Frankenstein is back, baby. There are two new Frankenstein movies, plus tons of new fiction that plays with Frankenstein tropes. So it's tim...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
It's a double book birthday! Annalee has just released Automatic Noodle, a wonderfully cozy book about robots who've survived a devastating...
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...
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...
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 vital part of keeping all of us safe — but what does it mean, and where did the concept come from? Special guest host Nas...
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...
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...
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...
Why are taxes the secret weapon in so many science fiction and fantasy stories? And why the heck do archaeologists measure the complexity of...
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 group clipping. has just released a brilliant new cyberpunk-inspired album, Dead Channel Sky, and we're talking to the members about...
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...
We're catching you up on all the movies we've been watching recently, from The Substance to The Wild Robot, and a few themes emerged. One is...
It's a fun thought experiment: what if the universe is a simulation, and nothing around us is real? But lately, some of the most powerful pe...
History is on our minds lately. In this episode, we talk to two incredible authors who recreate history in their work. Tananarive Due draws...
From Ringworld to Rama, space is full of mysterious giant objects created by ancient civilizations. Do these gorgeous macrostructures bring...
Here's one of our favorite episodes from 2024 — it's about the mass psychology of fascism, plus how to fight book bans. We talk to friend of...
Are we getting toxic messages from speculative fiction about what it means to be alone? We're tackling troubling tropes and eviscerating myt...
The holidays are here once again, and that means one thing: time to stock up on books to help you get cozy and distract yourself from the co...
Lately, it feels as though a lot of fantasy books come in two kinds: cozy, or extremely dark. During a scary time in the world, we seek eith...
We're taking a cozy, autumnal trip back in time to "peak television," when animation was truly feral and we had shows like "Over the Garden...
Science fiction and fantasy are full of wondrous libraries containing everything from powerful artifacts to some dang good reads. How does t...
It's time for some writing advice! We talk about how to raise the stakes in a story without wrecking it. What exactly do we mean by "stakes,...
Science fiction is great at helping people get used to strange concepts — or people — and making us see them as more "normal." But what does...
When someone disrespects you in a subtle way, with plausible deniability, it can do just as much damage as overt bigotry. So we're talking a...
In one of our favorite episodes from 2021, we talked to TV news commentator and author (and scifi fan!) Wajahat Ali about nationalism in sci...
Dearest Listeners, you asked us for advice, and now we've got the definitive answers! From writing and relationship questions, to concerns a...
We're learning so much about dinosaurs lately — there are incredible new species, discoveries about how they had sex, and more detailed evid...
What is the point of absurdist storytelling in a world that feels absurd? We talk about science fiction that gets silly, satirical, and weir...
The Planet of the Apes franchise spans decades and formats: it started as a French novel in 1963, and then jumped the Atlantic to become a l...
We're obsessed with dragons, and for good reason. These gigantic creatures soar through many cultures and genres — and they feel more releva...
The summer entertainment season is upon us! Many of our favorite TV shows are back, and there are a few movies we're excited about as well....
You are being watched. Pop culture used to be full of vivid warnings about Big Brother watching you. What does it mean that we're now under...
Psyops are used by the military against foreign enemies, but now these dangerous weapons of demoralization and chaos are being used in cultu...
Science fiction has been warning us about fascism for decades — so why haven't we listened? How did Nazis become just another monster in our...
We're talking about the Turing Test, the grandmother of all tests for AI sentience. Joining us are AI researchers Alex Hanna and Emily M. Be...
It's a scary time for LGBTQIA+ folks — and many of us are turning to horror stories that take our real-life terrors and make them even more...
At last, videogame movies have defeated comic book movies. We learn about why from Evan Narcisse, who writes for comic books and videogames,...
The long-awaited Dune sequel is in theaters now — and it's a huge hit. To celebrate, we're resurfacing one of our favorite episodes from the...
Science fiction and fantasy fans love to argue about canon — both meanings of the word. Which stories in a fictional universe really "happen...
Inspired by The Super Mario Bros Movie, we're talking about a humble class of heroes whose lives are devoted to infrastructure maintenance a...
Anne Rice is best-known for her Vampire Chronicles, which began in the 1970s with her novel Interview with the Vampire. But did you know she...