All Episodes

7 Years of Correct Opinions!

Frankenstein's Monster and the Bad Science Daddy

The Future of Science Fiction Conventions

We're Still Traumatized By This Writing Debate

Spooky Season Books and Hellbenders

Three Ways of Looking at Bruce Lee (with Jeff Chang)

Encore Episode: Silicon Valley vs. Science Fiction: ChatGPT

Encore Episode: Obsessed with Battlestar Galactica

Robots! Witches! Annalee and Charlie Jane talk about their new books

Murderbot and the Stories That Heal Us

The Invisible Chain that Holds Us Together (w/ Alexis Madrigal)

Cute Body Horror

Public Health Is a Utopian Vision (with Naseem Jamnia and Natasha O'Brown)

Simulating Earth and Politicizing Science

The Power of Protest (w/ andré carrington)

Too Bad About the Internet (with Anil Dash)

Some really weird shit you didn't know about taxes

Severance and the New Hellscape (w/ Carl Zimmer)

Hip Hop x Cyberpunk (with clipping.)

"Interior Chinatown" Just Became a Very Weird TV Show (with Charles Yu)

Forced Feminization and Cute Robots

No, We Don't Live in a F---ing Simulation!

Never Forget Where We Came From (with Tananarive Due and Nicola Griffith)

The Truth About Gigantic Objects in Space (with Sarah Parcak)

Encore Episode: Fascism and Book Bans (with Maggie Tokuda-Hall)

Manufacturing loneliness

These Books Will Help You Get Through the Cold, Cold Winter

Why Fantasy Is Going To Extremes (With Nghi Vo)

10 Years After "Over the Garden Wall"

Every Town Deserves a Library (with Ken Liu)

How to Raise the Stakes without Ruining Your Story

Science Fiction is a normalization machine (with Rob Cameron)

When Fiction Becomes a Microaggression (with Evelyn Douek)

Encore Episode: Nationalism is science fiction, with Wajahat Ali

Our Advice Is Correct

Dinosaurs and Furries, with Riley Black

Immigration law in space, with Victor Manibo

Secrets of the Planet of the Apes with Josh Friedman

Romancing the Dragon, with Moniquill Blackgoose

Summer Entertainment Guide: What to Watch and Read this Summer!

How Surveillance Dystopias Came True (with Wole Talabi)

How to turn a story into a deadly weapon

Fascism and Book Bans (with Maggie Tokuda-Hall)

The Turing Test is bullsh*t (w/Alex Hanna and Emily M. Bender)

Queer Horror! (with Dr. Chuck Tingle)

Videogame movies are officially better than comic book movies

Encore Episode: Let's Obsess Over the Politics of Dune!

We Don't Give a F*ck About Canon

The world's humblest heroes, from plumbers to tardigrades

Encore Episode: The Incredibly Strange Career of Anne Rice

Encore Episode: Science Fiction Keeps Trying To "Fix" Disabled People with Elsa Sjunneson

Alien ecosystems and the algae menace

How Doctor Who Stood the Test of Time

Episode 142: Books That'll Get You Through The Winter Months

Episode 141: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Zines

Episode 140: Silicon Valley is doomed to misunderstand the future, with Dr. Joy Buolamwini

Episode 139: How To Write About Violence (with Fonda Lee and Lauren Beukes)

Episode 138: Battlestar Galactica, 20 Years Later

Episode 137: The Creativity Fallacy

Episode 136: Who Wants to Live on an Eyeball Earth? With Aomawa Shields

Episode 135: The Myth of Free Speech

Encore Episode: Work Is Not Your Friend, with Alan Henry

Encore Episode: We're in the wrong timeline, with Connie Willis and R.F. Kuang

Episode 134: The State of the Galaxy

Episode 133: Silicon Valley vs. Science Fiction: Ayn Rand

Episode 132: A Sense of Place with Jessica Johns

Episode 131: The State of Star Trek, with Mike McMahan

Episode 130: What to Watch and Read This Summer!

Episode 129: Silicon Valley vs. Science Fiction: Smart Home Nightmares

Episode 128: Dungeons & Dragons Gets Cozy

Episode 127: Silicon Valley vs. Science Fiction: "Difficult Geniuses"

Episode 126: It's a Great Time to Read (and Write) Short Stories!

Episode 125: Silicon Valley vs. Science Fiction: ChatGPT

Encore Episode: Four Technologies That Nobody Realizes Will Change the Future

Encore Episode: Gender Essentialism

Episode 124: How To Build A Planet

Episode 123: Why We Disagree About Avatar

Episode 122: The Incredibly Strange Career of Anne Rice

Episode 121: Books to Devour This Winter

Episode 120: Who Owns Epic Fantasy?

Episode 119: The Myth of Progress with Brad DeLong

Episode 118: F*ck Your Space Empire! with Naseem Jamnia

Encore Episode: The Bomb is Back (Again)

Episode 117: What Makes a Story Feel "Fast" Or "Slow"?

Episode 116: Water Disasters

Episode 115: Therapy, Good And Bad, with Theo Germaine

Episode 114: Damnation Arcs

Episode 113: Let's Get Sweetweird!

Episode 112: Plastic Problems, with William Gibson

Episode 111: Escape Into Musicals, with Laser

Episode 110: The Future of Pizza! And Other Listener Questions

Episode 109: Work Is Not Your Friend, with Alan Henry

Episode 108: How Science Fiction Sold Us the Automobile

Episode 107: Academia, Dark and Light

Encore Episode: The Future Of Birth Control

Episode 106: Waking up from the Illusion of Change

Episode 105: Ghosts of the Cold War

Episode 104: Action Princesses!

Episode 103: What Are Animals Trying To Tell Us? with Arielle Duhaime-Ross

Episode 102: Money Is a Fantasy