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Our Opinions Are Correct — 209 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
Encore Episode: Has JK Rowling destroyed Harry Potter fandom?
Episode 101: Hell Yeah, We Want To Change the Timeline
Episode 100: Journalist Superheroes
Episode 99: Gender Is Magic in the Wheel of Time, with C.L. Clark
Episode 98: Will the United States Survive Another 50 Years? We Ask Jamelle Bouie
Bonus Episode: The future of farming with Armando Elenes
Encore Episode: Why Science Fiction Needs Romance
Bonus Episode: The future of crime solving with Dr. Raychelle Burks
Episode 97: The internet is still weird, with Vinny Thomas
Bonus Episode: The Future of Cities with Sarah Parcak
Encore Episode: Social Media Must Die!
Episode 96: Nationalism is science fiction, with Wajahat Ali
Episode 95: Science Fiction Keeps Trying To "Fix" Disabled People
Episode 94: Big biotech is watching you
Episode 93: Lucifer Is Our Therapist Now
Episode 92: How to imagine the next political uprising
Episode 91: Three Simple Tests That Reveal A.I. Consciousness
Episode 90: How To Use Research To Make Your Fiction Even More Irresistible
Episode 89: Do you suffer from historical amnesia?
Episode 88: How gender essentialism warped our view of science
Episode 87: The Psychology of Loki
Episode 86: Becoming One with the Hive Mind
Episode 85: Science Criminals!
Episode 84: The eldrich horror of gentrification
Episode 83: Summer Preview! What We're Pumped to Watch and Read This Season
Episode 82: The resistance is not dead
Deep Futures: Democracy of Tomorrow
Episode 81: Space Fantasy is a Thing. Deal With It!
An Exclusive Sneak Peek at Victories Greater Than Death!
Episode 80: How to write a fight scene
Episode 79: The War on Viruses
Episode 78: Godzilla vs. Kong vs. America
Episode 77: The Stories That Are Helping Us With Our Collective Trauma
Episode 76: The Truth About Lost Cities
Episode 75: Has JK Rowling destroyed Harry Potter fandom?
Episode 74: Disobedient Bodies
Episode 73: The rise of the cute ~aesthetic~
Episode 72: Birth Control of the Future
Episode 71: Books That Will Get You Through the Winter
Episode 70: The nightmare of history
Episode 69: Let's Obsess Over the Politics of Dune!
Episode 68: Everything is literally on fire
Episode 67: King Arthur Must Die
Episode 66: Portal Fantasies Are So Gay
Episode 65: We're Officially Done with Lovecraft and Campbell
Episode 64: How Science Is Redefining the Penis
Episode 63: What is Indigenous Futurism?
Episode 62: Help! I'm in love with my starship!
Episode 61: The Reality of Virtual Reality
Episode 60: Why stories need good dialogue
Episode 59: The Limits of Escapism
Episode 58: The nerd vs. jock fight was always a lie
Episode 57: Why Science Fiction Needs Romance
Episode 56: 9 new shows you should be watching right now
Episode 55: How to write a plot that sucks people in
Episode 54: Science fiction didn't prepare us for the pandemic
Episode 53: F*ck Your Nihilism!
Episode 52: Comedy, Death, and "The Good Place"
Episode 51: The Delicious Significance of Food in Science Fiction
Episode 50: The Power of Names
Episode 49: What's the matter with Star Wars?
Episode 48: How Pulp Magazines Conquered Publishing
Episode 47: The legacy of scientific racism
Episode 46: Four Technologies That Nobody Realizes Will Change the Future
Episode 45: Worldbuilding For Beginners
Episode 44: What Killed the Terminator?
Episode 43: The Myth of Rugged Individualism
Episode 42: It's time to stop quoting Clarke's Third Law
Episode 41: The Multiverse Problem!
Episode 40: What is TV criticism, anyway?
Episode 39: Monstrous Women and Women Who Make Monsters
Episode 38: The new anti-capitalist science fiction
Episode 37: The history of Afro-futurism
Episode 36: The Laws of the Future!
Episode 35: When science fiction gets censored
Episode 34: How to Write a Good Ending
Episode 33: Science fiction explains our messed-up economy
Episode 32: You're doing camp wrong!
Episode 31: Getting out of the Utopia/dystopia binary
Episode 30: Social media must die!
Episode 29: Real talk about the end of the universe
Episode 28: What's the Matter With Westeros?
Episode 27: The future of futurism
Episode 26: The Bomb is back
Episode 25: Peering into the deep future of humanity
Episode 24: We Have Many Feelings About Steven Universe
Episode 23: Sex, Lies, and Science Fiction
Episode 22: Can science fiction still give us hope for the future?
Episode 21: Pop culture nostalgia, or branding your memories
Episode 20: Why we're excited about Doctor Who again
Episode 19: What's so bad about cultural appropriation?
Episode 18: Alien minds
Episode 17: Democracy and its discontents
Episode 16: Can we survive capitalism?
Episode 15: The future of the city
Episode 14: The rise of transgender science fiction
Episode 13: The Wiki-ization of television
Episode 12: Why Are Utopias So Hard To Imagine?
Episode 11: We're in the wrong timeline
Episode 10: Deep in the heart of fandom
Episode 9: Horror of the One Percent
Episode 8: Science fiction has always been queer
Episode 7: Imaginary immigrants and time-traveling refugees
Episode 6: Animal companions and magical beasts
Episode 5: Fear of robots
Episode 4: Crisis on infinite superheroes
Episode 3: Books that stand the test of time
Episode 2: Propaganda and mind control in science fiction
Episode 1: Hope, dread, and Star Trek: Discovery