Science Fiction 101

For this episode, we decided to challenge each other with books, stories and films that we thought the other hadn't read or seen. The result is some suggestions for reading and watching that we'd like you all to consider. These aren't necessarily the best science fiction around, but they are all items we greatly enjoy and heartily recommend. We hope you enjoy our suggestions every bit as much as our robo-butler enjoys serving them up to you. Among the items discussed in this episode: Alan Dean Foster's  Sentenced to Prism John Sladek's  Tik-Tok Robert Jackson Bennett's  The Tainted Cup   Ray Bradbury's " The Toynbee Convector "   Brandon Sanderson's  Legion   Doppelganger aka  Journey to the Far Side of the Sun * batteries not included Ken Liu's " The Sith of Datawork " Our quiz , taken from  Super Science Stories , October 1944! New French adaptation of Richard Matheson's  The Incredible Shrinking Man Quatermass 2   4k box s...

What on earth does science have to do with science fiction? Is science fiction about science? Is it fiction that takes a scientific approach to fiction? Without getting into the tedium of multiple possible definitions of science fiction, Colin and Phil explore what they expect of something labelled "science fiction". What you can expect is a rambling conversation that touches on philosophy, physics, logic, time travel, and much more. We also have our usual quiz, and our dash through the past, present and future of our favourite genre. Among the items mentioned in this episode:   The Three-Body Problem  by Cixin Liu 3 Body Problem , the Netflix series based on Liu's book series   The Life of Chuck,  movie Brandon Sanderson , author A.J. Ayer and Karl Popper , philosophers Stephen Jay Gould and Carl Sagan , scientists and science communicators John Scalzi's  When The Moon Hits Your Eye Medicine Man , film Nope , film Maybe Happy Ending , musical 28 Years Lat...