Visions of Philip K. Dick
Philip K. Dick is best known for his fiction that have been adapted to movies and TV shows like Blade Runner, Minority Report and Man in...
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Episodes
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Stuck in the Uncanny Valley
The holy grail for many animators is to create digital humans that can pass for the real thing -- in other words to cross the "uncanny...
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Remembering Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin was a master storyteller who was best known for her "thought experiments" -- like what if there were a planet in which...
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Behind the Daleks
They may not look scary to you, but the monsters on Doctor Who have scared generations of children to the point where hiding "behind the...
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Traveling in The TARDIS
If The Doctor offered you a spot traveling with him on his spaceship/time machine The TARDIS, would you go? Would you still go if you knew...
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Doctor Who?
We don't know his real name. We don't know who he was before he stole the TARDIS -- a spaceship/time machine that looks like a police box...
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Brain Chemistry
For the past year, I've been working with The Truth, an audio drama collective that makes "movies for your ears." In the second story that...
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The Canon Revisited
The Last Jedi may be the most controversial film in the Star Wars series. While the movie has been critically acclaimed, many Star Wars...
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Politics of The Expanse
The Expanse novels by James S.A. Corey (the pseudonym for writers Ty Franck and Daniel Abraham) imagine how human beings would colonize our...
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Robot Collar Jobs
Are we prepared for a future where robots are the most sought after employees? Maybe not. Lawmakers will blame anything but automation for...
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On The Front Lines of Fantasy
The military shows up in a lot of sci-fi and fantasy stories but the subgenre of military SF depicts soldiers holding their own in...
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Fanfiction (Don't Judge)
Sci-fi and fantasy have always been a big part of fanfiction, but fanfiction hasn't always gotten respect in return. My former colleague at...
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The Haunted Mansion
The Haunted Mansion is one of the most beloved rides at the Disney theme parks, yet its development was anything but smooth. Walt Disney...
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Rappers with Arm Cannons
In the second of my two-part episode on musical worlds, I talk with Mega Ran and Sammus -- hip hop artists that create concept albums based...
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Worldbuilding With Music
In the first of a two part episode on imaginary worlds in music, I talk with members of Vertigo Drift, an indie band that created a...
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Technobabble
This week, I team up with Helen Zaltzman of The Allusionist podcast to help me figure out why one set of poorly understood...
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Future Screens Are Mostly Blue
This week, I'm playing one of my favorite episodes of the podcast 99% Invisible where host Roman Mars and producer Sam Greenspan look at...
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Scott Snyder
If the previous episode was all about villains, this one looks at the other side of that equation. In 2014 I interviewed the writer Scott...
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Evil Plans
They've tried to take over the world. They've tried to take away our free will. They've gone after ancient artifacts with vaguely defined...
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The Book of Dune
Frank Herbert's 1965 novel Dune and its sequels tackled a lot of big themes. The books are about ecology. They're about journeys of...
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