Science Fiction 101

This time on Science Fiction 101 we attempt to identify the best science-fictional places to visit. We start with a list of about 25 places, but hope to add more as time goes on. Indeed, if you have any further suggestions, we invite you to let us know so that we can add them! Our full list of vacation spots will be posted to this blog shortly, under a separate heading, so that we can easily update it without it getting lost amongst the podcast episodes. Also in this episode: Colin's royally fiendish quiz, and our usual run through of past/present/future SF. Items discussed include:  Mary Robinette Kowal Star Trek: The Motion Picture - Director's Edition on physical media Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is ninety years old this year  Clockworks 2 wiki, about the human/machine interface Joyce Carol Oates ' strange views of SF and fantasy Auction of Harlan Ellison material (to fund the Harlan and Susan Ellison Foundation, and the proposed Ellison Memorial Library) Man...

Time for a new episode of the podcast! And this time we review Andy Weir's smash-hit of a novel, Project Hail Mary. We also offer a sci-fi quiz, and give our usual run-through of recommendations of past/present/future science fiction. Enjoy the episode below - or scroll down for links to the various podcast platforms that carry the podcast. Also below are links to all the things we discuss in the show.     Show Notes Take the SF quiz , courtesy of File 770 ! Project Hail Mary on Amazon US and on Amazon UK . Andy Weir uses the idea of panspermia in his book. Mary Robinette Kowal reviewed the book for the Washington Post . Experience time as Eridians do ! Phil may be the only person alive who remembers Sparky's Magic Piano . 2021 is one hundred years since the birth of Stanislaw Lem , the Polish author best known for Solaris .  Keith Laumer's Bolo series.  Love Death and Robots, Volume 2 from Netflix. Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuc...

We finally made it! Science Fiction 101 starts here. You'll be able to find us on all the major podcast platforms, so please search for us and subscribe. You can also play episode 1 directly from this page - see below. And if you're manually-inclined when it comes to such things, you can even plug our RSS feed into your podcatcher of choice (it's https://anchor.fm/s/4f17b2f0/podcast/rss)  In this debut episode, your friendly hosts Phil Nichols and Colin Kuskie first attempt to define "science fiction". If you want to know more about this thorny subject, check out Wikipedia 's attempt to do the very same thing . Or, for a more in-depth discussion, check out what the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction has to say on the subject . As for the "I know it when I see it" view, that's an allusion to the US Supreme Court position on pornography ! Next, Phil and Colin talk about their recommendations of science fiction ...