By Our Opinions Are Correct
Explore the meaning of science fiction, and how it's relevant to real-life science and society. Your hosts are Annalee Newitz, a science journalist who writes science fiction, and Charlie Jane Anders, a science fiction writer who is obsessed with science. Every two weeks, we take deep dives into science fiction books, movies, television, and comics that will expand your mind -- and maybe change your life
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2025-01-23 Never Forget Where We Came From (with Tananarive Due and Nicola Griffith)
2025-01-09 The Truth About Gigantic Objects in Space (with Sarah Parcak)
2024-12-26 Encore Episode: Fascism and Book Bans (with Maggie Tokuda-Hall)
2024-12-12 Manufacturing loneliness
2024-11-27 These Books Will Help You Get Through the Cold, Cold Winter
2024-11-14 Why Fantasy Is Going To Extremes (With Nghi Vo)
2024-10-31 10 Years After "Over the Garden Wall"
2024-10-17 Every Town Deserves a Library (with Ken Liu)
2024-10-03 How to Raise the Stakes without Ruining Your Story
2024-09-19 Science Fiction is a normalization machine (with Rob Cameron)
2024-09-05 When Fiction Becomes a Microaggression (with Evelyn Douek)
2024-08-22 Encore Episode: Nationalism is science fiction, with Wajahat Ali
2024-08-08 Our Advice Is Correct
2024-07-25 Dinosaurs and Furries, with Riley Black
2024-07-11 Immigration law in space, with Victor Manibo
2024-06-27 Secrets of the Planet of the Apes with Josh Friedman
2024-06-13 Romancing the Dragon, with Moniquill Blackgoose
2024-05-29 Summer Entertainment Guide: What to Watch and Read this Summer!
2024-05-16 How Surveillance Dystopias Came True (with Wole Talabi)
2024-05-02 How to turn a story into a deadly weapon
2024-04-18 Fascism and Book Bans (with Maggie Tokuda-Hall)
2024-04-04 The Turing Test is bullsh*t (w/Alex Hanna and Emily M. Bender)
2024-03-21 Queer Horror! (with Dr. Chuck Tingle)
2024-03-07 Videogame movies are officially better than comic book movies
2024-03-04 Encore Episode: Let's Obsess Over the Politics of Dune!
2024-02-22 We Don't Give a F*ck About Canon
2024-02-08 The world's humblest heroes, from plumbers to tardigrades
2024-01-25 Encore Episode: The Incredibly Strange Career of Anne Rice
2024-01-11 Encore Episode: Science Fiction Keeps Trying To "Fix" Disabled People with Elsa Sjunneson
2023-12-28 Alien ecosystems and the algae menace
2023-12-14 How Doctor Who Stood the Test of Time
2023-11-30 Episode 142: Books That'll Get You Through The Winter Months
2023-11-16 Episode 141: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Zines
2023-10-19 Episode 139: How To Write About Violence (with Fonda Lee and Lauren Beukes)
2023-10-05 Episode 138: Battlestar Galactica, 20 Years Later
2023-09-21 Episode 137: The Creativity Fallacy
2023-09-07 Episode 136: Who Wants to Live on an Eyeball Earth? With Aomawa Shields
2023-08-24 Episode 135: The Myth of Free Speech
2023-08-10 Encore Episode: Work Is Not Your Friend, with Alan Henry
2023-07-27 Encore Episode: We're in the wrong timeline, with Connie Willis and R.F. Kuang
2023-07-13 The State of the Galaxy
2023-06-29 Silicon Valley vs. Science Fiction: Ayn Rand
2023-06-15 A Sense of Place with Jessica Johns
2023-06-01 The State of Star Trek, with Mike McMahan
2023-05-18 Episode 130: What to Watch and Read This Summer!
2023-05-04 Silicon Valley vs. Science Fiction: Smart Home Nightmares
2023-04-20 Dungeons & Dragons Gets Cozy
2023-04-06 Silicon Valley vs. Science Fiction: "Difficult Geniuses"
2023-03-23 It's a Great Time to Read (and Write) Short Stories!
2023-03-09 Silicon Valley vs. Science Fiction: ChatGPT
2023-02-23 Encore Episode: Four Technologies That Nobody Realizes Will Change the Future
2023-02-09 Encore Episode: Gender Essentialism
2023-01-26 How To Build A Planet
2023-01-12 Why We Disagree About Avatar
2022-12-29 The Incredibly Strange Career of Anne Rice
2022-12-15 Books to Devour This Winter
2022-12-01 Who Owns Epic Fantasy?
2022-11-17 The Myth of Progress with Brad DeLong
2022-11-03 F*ck Your Space Empire! with Naseem Jamnia
2022-10-20 Encore Episode: The Bomb is Back (Again)
2022-10-06 What Makes a Story Feel "Fast" Or "Slow"?
2022-09-08 Therapy, Good And Bad, with Theo Germaine
2022-08-11 Let's Get Sweetweird!
2022-07-28 Plastic Problems, with William Gibson
2022-07-14 Escape Into Musicals, with Laser
2022-06-30 The Future of Pizza! And Other Listener Questions
2022-06-16 Work Is Not Your Friend, with Alan Henry
2022-06-02 How Science Fiction Sold Us the Automobile
2022-05-19 Academia, Dark and Light
2022-05-12 Encore Episode: The Future Of Birth Control
2022-05-05 Waking up from the Illusion of Change
2022-04-21 Ghosts of the Cold War
2022-03-24 What Are Animals Trying To Tell Us? with Arielle Duhaime-Ross
2022-03-10 Encore Episode: Has JK Rowling destroyed Harry Potter fandom?
2022-02-24 Hell Yeah, We Want To Change the Timeline
2022-02-10 Journalist Superheroes
2022-01-27 Gender Is Magic in the Wheel of Time, with C.L. Clark
2022-01-13 Will the United States Survive Another 50 Years? We Ask Jamelle Bouie
2022-01-06 Bonus Episode: The future of farming with Armando Elenes
2021-12-30 Encore Episode: Why Science Fiction Needs Romance
2021-12-23 Bonus Episode: The future of forensics with Dr. Raychelle Burks
2021-12-16 The internet is still weird, with Vinny Thomas
2021-12-09 Bonus episode: The future of cities with Sarah Parcak
2021-12-02 Encore Episode: Social Media Must Die!
2021-11-18 Nationalism is science fiction, with Wajahat Ali
2021-11-04 Science Fiction Keeps Trying To "Fix" Disabled People
2021-10-21 Encore Episode: Let's Obsess Over the Politics of Dune!
2021-10-07 Big biotech is watching you
2021-09-23 Lucifer Is Our Therapist Now
2021-09-09 How to imagine the next political uprising
2021-08-26 Three Simple Tests That Reveal A.I. Consciousness
2021-08-12 How To Use Research To Make Your Fiction Even More Irresistible
2021-07-29 Do you suffer from historical amnesia?
2021-07-15 How gender essentialism warped our view of science
2021-06-17 Becoming One with the Hive Mind
2021-05-20 The eldrich horror of gentrification
2021-05-06 Summer Preview! What We're Pumped to Watch and Read This Season
2021-04-22 The resistance is not dead
2021-04-15 Deep Futures: Democracy of Tomorrow
2021-04-09 Space Fantasy is a Thing. Deal With It!
2021-04-01 An Exclusive Sneak Peek at Victories Greater Than Death!
2021-03-25 How to write a fight scene
2021-02-25 Godzilla vs. Kong vs. America
2021-02-04 The Stories That Are Helping Us With Our Collective Trauma
2021-01-28 The Truth About Lost Cities
2021-01-14 Has JK Rowling destroyed Harry Potter Fandom?
2020-12-17 The rise of the cute ~aesthetic~
2020-12-03 Birth Control of the Future
2020-11-19 Books That Will Get You Through the Winter
2020-11-05 The nightmare of history
2020-10-22 Let's Obsess Over the Politics of Dune!
2020-10-08 Everything is literally on fire
2020-09-24 King Arthur Must Die
2020-09-10 Why Are Portal Fantasies So Gay?
2020-08-27 We're Officially Done with Lovecraft and Campbell
2020-08-11 How Science Is Redefining the Penis
2020-07-30 What is Indigenous Futurism?
2020-07-16 Help! I'm in love with my starship!
2020-07-03 The Reality of Virtual Reality
2020-06-18 Why stories need good dialogue
2020-06-04 The Limits of Escapism
2020-05-21 The nerd vs. jock fight was always a lie
2020-05-07 Why Science Fiction Needs Romance
2020-04-23 9 new shows you should be watching right now
2020-04-09 Why is it so hard to write a good plot?
2020-03-26 Science fiction didn't prepare us for the pandemic
2020-03-12 F*ck Your Nihilism!
2020-02-27 Comedy, Death, and "The Good Place"
2020-02-13 The Delicious Significance of Food in Science Fiction
2020-01-16 What's the matter with Star Wars?
2020-01-02 How Pulp Magazines Conquered Publishing
2019-12-19 The legacy of scientific racism
2019-12-06 Four Technologies That Nobody Realizes Will Change the Future
2019-11-21 Episode 45: Worldbuilding For Beginners
2019-11-07 What Killed the Terminator?
2019-10-24 The Myth of Rugged Individualism
2019-10-10 It's time to stop quoting Clarke's Third Law
2019-09-26 The Multiverse Problem!
2019-09-12 What is TV criticism, anyway?
2019-08-29 Monstrous Women and Women Who Make Monsters
2019-08-15 The new anti-capitalist science fiction
2019-08-01 The history of Afro-futurism
2019-07-18 The Laws of the Future!
2019-07-04 When science fiction gets censored
2019-06-20 How to Write a Good Ending
2019-06-06 Science fiction explains our messed-up economy
2019-05-21 You're doing camp wrong!
2019-05-09 Getting out of the Utopia/dystopia binary
2019-04-26 Social media must die!
2019-04-11 Real talk about the end of the universe
2019-03-28 What's the Matter With Westeros?
2019-03-14 The future of futurism
2019-02-14 Peering into the deep future of humanity
2019-01-31 We Have Many Feelings About Steven Universe
2019-01-17 Sex, Lies, and Science Fiction
2019-01-03 Can science fiction still give us hope for the future?
2018-12-20 Pop culture nostalgia, or branding your memories
2018-12-06 Why we're excited about Doctor Who again
2018-11-22 What's so bad about cultural appropriation?
2018-10-25 Democracy and its discontents
2018-10-11 Can we survive capitalism?
2018-09-27 The future of the city
2018-09-13 The rise of transgender science fiction
2018-08-30 The Wiki-ization of television
2018-08-14 Why Are Utopias So Hard To Imagine?
2018-08-02 We are in the wrong timeline
2018-07-19 Deep in the darkest heart of fandom
2018-07-05 Episode 9: Horror of the One Percent
2018-06-21 Science fiction has always been queer
2018-06-07 Imaginary immigrants and time-traveling refugees
2018-05-24 Animal companions and magical beasts
2018-04-27 Crisis on infinite superheroes
2018-04-12 Science fiction books that stand the test of time
2018-03-29 Propaganda and mind control in science fiction
2018-03-15 Hope, dread, and Star Trek: Discovery
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