Marooned! on Mars with Matt and Hilary
Episodes
Frankenstein 3: Frames Collapse!
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sorry, sorry, sorry! I'm a lazy loser, what can I say. We recorded this probably at least a month ago and I just sat on it. Well, here it is in ti...
Frankenstein 2: Bildungsromonster!
01 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Special mystery guest "Daniel" joins us to discuss the incomparable Volume 2.Some of the greats in Western thought pop their heads in, inclu...
Frankenstein 1.4-7: The Consolation of Elizabeth
29 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In which the Frankensteins summon the courage and wherewithal to not lift a finger to save an innocent girl from being executed by the state and the v...
Frankenstein 1.1-3: Portrait of the Mad Scientist as a Young Man
06 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we cover Frankenstein Volume 1, Chapters 1-3, Victor's family, his childhood, and his college years--right up to the creation of t...
Frankenstein Episode 2: Walton's Letters
20 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In our inimitable fashion we spend two and a half hours talking about 20 pages. Yeah, we'll get through this whole thing in no time.The next episo...
Frankenstein 2025
06 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hello!We're back with an exciting new concept for a podcast: reading a book not written by Kim Stanley Robinson and talking about it!Not that the ...
New York 2140 Part Five: "Escalation of Commitment," Hinge Points, Monocausotaxophilia, and GOLD!
15 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There's gold in them thar podcasts, I tell ya, GOLD! Talking this time about Part Five of New York 2140, "Escalation of Commitment." We ...
New York 2140, Episode 4: Expensive or Priceless? Sticky or Epiphenomenal? Law or Dispossession? The Good or Ideology?
04 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode (recorded a few days after the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, hence the opening discussion), we talk about Part Four of New ...
New York 2140 Part Three: "Liquidity Trap,"
19 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we discuss "Liquidity Trap," Part Three of Kim Stanley Robinson's New York 2140. We talk about the citizen chapters and ...
New York 2140 Part Two: "Expert Overconfidence," Epigrams, Property Regimes, and Outlaw Polar Bears
09 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hello! This week we continue our conversation of New York 2140, talking about Part Two, "Expert Overconfidence," in which our various expert...
New York 2140 Part One: "The Tyranny of Sunk Costs," Mistaking the Past for the Future, and Street Anemones
24 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we declare there's not much to say, this is just a table-setting section of the novel, we won't discuss each and every subchap...
New York 2140 Intro: Hello! (Again)
14 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We're back from a long work- and life-related absence to fart around for a couple minutes trying to log in to our old accounts, and then we're...
The World Soul Visits His Mummy: Napoleon
19 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our review of Ridley Scott's Napoleon. Email us at [email protected] Follow us on Twitter @podcastonmars Leave us a voicemail on t...
Proof of Life, or, Hoping in One Hand
28 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We're still here! Grumpier than ever, complaining about things we probably shouldn't be, reading books, talking. And you're still listeni...
Obstructed Viewing (A Backdoor Pilot): SABOTAGE!
03 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A very special episode of Marooned on Mars, a backdoor pilot, as they say in the biz, of Obstructed Viewing with friends of the pod returning-guest ch...
Galileo's Dream, Episode 4: Dumb Verbal Tics, Foregone Conclusions, and the Undramatic Inevitability of Grief
31 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In our final reckoning with GALILEO'S DREAM, we talk about our horrible voices and their dumb verbal tics, the trickiness of time travel narrative...
Galileo's Dream, Episode 3: No Lent on Callisto
04 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode we discuss the Jovian society, the way the novel posits the relationship between science and religion, the entwined logics of extraction ...
Galileo's Dream, Episode 2: Sneezing, Shitting, and Fucking in Space-Time, plus the Redemption of Human Folly
11 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In probably our greatest episode ever, Matt and Ms. Partial Sentence talk about all the stuff we normally talk about, like Shark Tank, redemption, hel...
Galileo's Dream, Episode 1: Quantum Historical Fiction and the Messiness of the Future
26 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Buongiorno! We're back with another thrilling series of discussions, and back to our author of choice, Kim Stanley Robinson. This time around we'...
Nothing for Nobody: STEALTH and the Nu Militarism
28 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we apologize for discussing STEALTH, an extended Incubus music video/ American military propaganda directed by Rob Cohen. Join us as we dis...
Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072: Problems of Centrality and Narrative in a De-hierarchicalized Future
11 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week we are reading a very special, wonderful book, Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072, by M.E. O'Brien ...
Tomorrow's Parties: Life in the Anthropocene
10 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
WARNING: This podcast is a paid advertisement, for a book. The payment for the advertisement that this podcast is was the book that this podcast is ad...
Last Survivors of the Covenant, 2: ALIEN: COVENANT, Automythopoesis, Empire, Kinship, and Shower Sex
30 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the thrilling conclusion to our conversation about ALIEN: COVENANT, the final (so far) installment of the ALIEN franchise, Matt, Hilary, and Bill t...
Last Survivors of the Covenant, Part 1: ALIEN: COVENANT, Wheat, Cults, History, and Couples
27 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Part 1 of 2! In our final episode of our miniseries exploring the Alien franchise, Matt and Hilary, joined by the inimitable Bill, discuss Alien: Cove...
The Last Survivors of the PROMETHEUS: Universal Dumbness, the Victory of Postmodernism, and the Intersection of Desire
04 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The fifth and penultimate episode in our ALIEN Franchise series. Joined once again by Bill, we discuss Ridley Scott's return with Prometheus (2012), s...
Last Survivors of the Betty: ALIEN: RESURRECTION, the Inexplicable Film, Boots, Whiskey, Sex-Gender Panic, and $11 million
05 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We're back, with our discussion of a serious piece of shit, Alien: Resurrection, the Joss Whedon-scripted, Jean-Pierre Jeunet-directed, 1997 mess that...
The Last Survivors of Fury 161: ALIEN CUBED, End of History Bafflement, Postmodern Genre Mishmash, Rumor Control and Religion
09 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We’re watching the Assembly Cut (an extra 30 minutes!) of Alien3 for our latest foray into the Alien franchise. This one takes place on a forced-lab...
Last Survivors of the Sulaco: ALIEN$, Reproduction, Settler Colonialism, and the Military Turducken
31 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We're back with Bill, tracing the adventures of new mom Ellen Ripley through the vast reaches of space as she returns to LV-426, now a colony (in ever...
Last Survivors of the Nostromo Episode One: ALIEN, Labor, Robots, and, of course Cats
26 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hop a ride on your nearest commercial towing vehicle and set a course for the stars! We're back with a special series on the ALIEN movie franchise. Jo...
Green Earth, Episode 8: "Terraforming Earth," "The Dominoes Fall," and "You Get What You Get": Unintelligibility, the Everyday, and Climate Politics
23 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this FINAL episode of our discussion of Green Earth, Matt and Hilary talk about the themes of unintelligibility throughout the novel(s) and think a...
Green Earth, Episode 7: "Undecided," "Sacred Space," "Emerson for the Day:" Necessity, Joy, and Cats
13 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this, our PENULTIMATE episode in our examination of Green Earth, Matt and Hilary start off by sharing what they're going to miss after the global c...
Green Earth, Episode 6: "60 Days and Counting" 1, Exhaustion, Plastic, Solidity, Total Information Awareness
30 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Starting Sixty Days and Counting, Chapters 21-24 Again we ask the big questions: Why are we doing this? When does Frankie say, "relax"? What if the 14...
Green Earth, Episode 5: "Fifty Degrees Below" 3, Indecision, Mutual Aid, Election Theater, and Bailiwicks
09 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
First, the name of the Buddhist climate activist who self-immolated in front of the Supreme Court was Wynn Bruce. Matt forgets his name when he mentio...
Green Earth, Episode 4: Permaculture, the Commons, Destiny
05 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
NOTE: This episode was recorded in early April. In this episode we focus on “Is There a Technical Solution?,” “Autumn in New York,” and “Opt...
Green Earth, Episode 3: "Fifty Degrees Below," Robinsonades, Realism, Lama-Grooming
30 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we talk about the first three chapters of Fifty Degrees Below, "Primate in Forest," "Abrupt Climate Change," and "Return to Khembalung...
Green Earth, Episode 2: Sweatpants, Buddha Nature, and Nukes
07 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we talk about the second half of the first volume of Green Earth, Forty Signs of Rain from "Athena on the Pacific" to "Broader Impacts...
Green Earth, Episode 1: "The Buddha Arrives" to "Science in the Capital": Setting the Table, the Literature of Banality, and Science in the W. Era
19 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We're back! This season we're tackling Green Earth, KSR's revised, single-volume edition of the Science in the Capital trilogy. The trilogy was origin...
2312 Episode 14: "Kiran on Ice" to "Epilogue': The Final Countdown!, Crossword Puzzles, Exile, Pair Bonding, Pronouns!
05 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our final episode of our 2312 season is here! First, we talk about the topic on everyone's mind, the New York Times Crossword puzzle and how bad it is...
2312 Episode 13: "Swan and Pauline and Wahram and Genette," and Diane Keaton and Joe Manchin and Sonny Crockett and Jerry Seinfeld
26 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Back to hot opens, in another episode where we ask important questions like, “what is time? Is it just a number? Is a wristwatch like handcuffing yo...
2312 Episode 12: "Extracts (17)" to "ETH Mobile" (I'm not even going to try to spell it): Utopias of Gender, Virginia Woolf, the Long Stare of the Tenured Professor
19 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hilary and The Good German are back! We're talking animals, qubes, and consciousness, embodiment and emotion, landscape and economic miracles, long st...
2312 Episode 11: "Extracts (15)" to "Lists (14)": Piloerection, Multispecies Solidarity, Land Art, Freedom
05 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hello again! First a massive apology for taking so long to get this episode out. As Matt explains in the opening, this was relatively unavoidable and ...
2312 Episode 10: "Swan in the Vulcanoids" to "Wahram on Earth": Political Economy, Aggressive Charity, Gifts
29 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We start with more news from Maine: There's lithium in them thar hills! Will Elon Musk coup the governor? Stay tuned, and find out more here. We ask w...
2312 Episode 9: "Swan and the Inspector" to "Extracts (12)": Totalities, Interpretability, and The Sad Planet
16 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We spend the first ten minutes or so of this episode talking about an issue in Maine politics that presents a conundrum that's characteristic of the f...
2312 Episode 8: "Lists (7)" to "Quantum Walk (1)": Noir, Late Feudalism, and the Long Postmodern
28 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week's episode features coughing, an apology (not for the coughing), and cat-talk. Also we discuss science communication, agency and historical p...
2312 Episode 7: "Swan and the Inspector," Swan in Wonderland, Post-Scarcity Conspiracies, and the Nature of Evil
12 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s episode is the second half of our conversation from last week’s episode, and concerns the “Swan and the Inspector” chapter. Genett...
2312 Episode 6: "Lists (4)" to "Lists (6)": Patterns, Agency, Cops, Detection
07 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We had to split this episode up into two because we talked so long! The following episode (Episode 7, or maybe 6.2?) will deal with "Swan and the Insp...
2312 Episode 5: "Wahram and Swan:" A bird and a toad go for a walk and whistle Beethoven
22 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This long episode is devoted to the "Wahram and Swan" chapter of 2312, when the two characters attend a Beethoven concert and the tracks on which Term...
2312 Episode 4: "Extracts (3)" to "Extracts (6)": Rainbows, Frogs, Worms, and Heterogeneous Economies
10 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We talk about the form of the "Extracts" chapters, the importance of Earth in the relationships in the story, the sky, living on the side of a planet,...
2312 Episode 3: Intentions, Aporia, Freedom
30 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We continue our conversation from last week, ending right before the chapter "Extracts (3)." Matt and Hilary talk about art, chemistry, repetition, in...
2312 Episode 2: "Extracts (1)" to "Wahram and Swan": Decadence, Dragons, Seizing the Day in the Pseudoiterative
23 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we talk about chapters from Extracts (1) to Wahram and Swan (yes, only two chapters, how decadent of us!). We talk about the "Ascensio...
2312 Episode One: Attachment, Habit, Gender, and Purloined Letters
12 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we read from the first chapter after the prologue up to "Swan and Alex." First, Hilary and Matt start by discussing the work of Lauren...
2312 Episode Zero: "Prologue," Far-Future Posthumanism, Narrative, Gender, Habit, and Ritual
27 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We're back to reveal your desires to you! We're starting on our new season, which will focus on 2312. In this episode we talk about far-future science...
Marooned at the Movies! Escapes From New York and L.A.
01 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Matt and Hilary are joined by their boon companion Bill Hutchison to discuss John Carpenter's (identical) films ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK (1981) and ESCAPE...
Shaman 8: "Shaman," Art-Making, Transmitting Knowledge, Portrait of the Shaman as a Young Man
12 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Based on Matt’s joke opening, your friendly hosts talk about JFK and JFK for the first ten minutes, so you can probably skip that to get to the good...
Shaman 7: "All the Worlds Meet," Anthropology, Home, Teaching, and the Bird's Eye View
29 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we discuss "All the Worlds Meet," in which Loon recuperates after his ordeal, Click haunts Thorn, Thorn dies, Loon builds a new pair o...
Shaman 6: "Hunted," Butt-Eating, Hermeneutics, and Barack Obama's Almonds
14 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The sixth chapter of Shaman by Kim Stanley Robinson, "Hunted," has Thorn, Click, Loon, and Elga fleeing from the northern jende people. It is an absol...
Shaman 5: "Under the Ice," Metabolics, Captivity, and Thermal Abundance
07 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we discuss "Under the Ice," where Elga is kidnapped, Loon goes to rescue her, he gets captured, and Thorn and Click rescue them. A lot...
Shaman 3 & 4: "Elga," "The Hunger Spring," Art-Making and -Experiencing, Neanderthals, and Poor Richard's Podcast
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Happy (belated) birthday, Kim Stanley Robinson! Is he the author of this podcast? Hilary says, in some ways, yes. Matt says, most certainly, no! You b...
Shaman 1 & 2: Loon's Wander, The Wolves at Home, Abundance, Scarcity, and Life Before Capitalist Ruins
14 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
[NB: We had some technical audio issues this week, especially on Matt's end. Something to do with Zoom, we presume. You probably won't notice most of ...
Shaman Episode Zero: Caves, Common Life, Adventure, and Fire
02 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hello! We are coming back, with a new season of discussing Kim Stanley Robinson novels! This season we'll be doing Shaman (2013), so get your copies r...
The Ministry for the Future: The Kim Stanley Robinson Interview
28 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We sit down with the one and only KSR to discuss The Ministry for the Future. Stan indulges Matt and Hilary as they ask about a wide range of question...
The Ministry for the Future 97-106: Promethean Authority, Invisible Revolution, Guggenmusik, No Fate, Dignity
05 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is our last, if not best, episode concerning The Ministry for the Future. (What does the phrase “if not” mean, anyway? We’ll never know!) W...
The Ministry for the Future 89-96: Mourning Myths, Taking Stock, Pyrrhic Defeat, Anti-Anti-Utopia
27 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We start this episode with Matt immediately blowing out the microphone with his holiday cheer, which didn't, this year, for him, include the solstice,...
The Ministry for the Future 76-88: Mourning, Loss, Followers, and the Tapestry of Shit
23 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Matt and Hilary are approaching the end! As is capitalism, but that's another story. Actually, it's this story, the one they're talking about The Mini...
The Ministry for the Future 71-75, 77: The Everything Feeling, Big Dickens Energy, and Sneezing Cats
12 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We're back! In this episode we achieve our lowest minutes-to-pages ratio yet, with 25 pages discussed in 90 minutes! Only for true KSR/ Marooned on Ma...
The Ministry for the Future 51-59: Happiness is a Cold Glacier, I Hate LA, Democracy?
13 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
One of the great things about this book is how it keeps you on your toes. Matt and Hilary do their best to keep up with its digressions and interrupti...
The Ministry for the Future 38-50: Metabolisms of Capital, the Family Form, and Pooping Angels
03 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In a shrewd bit of counter-programming, we're releasing this episode on the day of what we're told is the most important election of our lifetimes...s...
The Ministry for the Future 18-37: Impersonal Challenges, Charismatic Megafauna, Liberal Realism, Intention and Action
27 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this (very long) episode we discuss roughly chapters 18-37, with a special focus on Frank. What does Frank want? Does he know? The gap between inte...
The Ministry for the Future 1-17: An Exercise for the Reader
16 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We're back from the movies, ready to do our podcast old school, like a couple of old fools. We're SO EXCITED to start reading Kim Stanley Robinson's B...
Marooned at the Movies! They Live! (John Carpenter, 1988)
02 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We're still marooned at the movies, with John Carpenter, "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, our friend Bill, a very special guest all the way from Slovenia, and a b...
Marooned at the Movies!: Born in Flames (Lizzie Borden, 1983)
21 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hello! As we not-so-patiently await the publication of KSR's latest forthcoming masterpiece, The Ministry for the Future, Hilary and Matt embark on a ...
The Years of Rice and Salt 10: "The First Years," Circularity, Ending, Swerving, Becoming Fully Human
31 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Look, here we are again! We start our final episode on The Years of Rice and Salt by talking about what's up next for the podcast. Short answer: proba...
The Years of Rice and Salt 9: "Nsara," Feminism and Science, Scents and Scentsibility, Robot Voice and Patriarch, Cooking and Cleaning
27 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The penultimate episode on The Years of Rice and Salt! (I just like saying "penultimate." You've got to seize the opportunity when it presents itself....
The Years of Rice and Salt 8: "War of the Asuras," War, Necropolitics, Hope, Repetition
17 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Shout out to our great listeners, especially when they email us, and when they email us, their emails are always thoughtful and stimulating, and Hilar...
The Years of Rice and Salt 7: "The Age of Great Progress," Charisma, Air, and Empire (and Cats)
06 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's cat-heavy episode, we examine the Kerala's global anticolonial revolutionary empire. We ask lots of questions: are novels the original ...
The Years of Rice and Salt 6: "Widow Kang," the Fantastic, the Novel, Footbinding, Footnotes, Revelation, Recognition, Rice, Salt
23 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Book 6 of The Years of Rice and Salt is like a novel within the novel, depicting the intertwined lives of two brilliant figures in Robinson's alternat...
The Years of Rice and Salt 5: "Warp and Weft," Historicity, Futurity, Indigeneity, and Esports
14 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Warp and Weft" is one of the shorter of the books of The Years of Rice and Salt, taking place on Turtle Island/ Yingzhou nee North America, among the...
The Years of Rice and Salt 4: "The Alchemist," Discovery, Cleanliness, Love, and Tubing
08 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We're pack, the science fiction literature podcast equivalent of tubing down a lazy river with a six-pack of beer! This week we talk about Book 4 of T...
The Years of Rice and Salt 3: "Ocean Continents," the Real World, and Abundance Without Surplus
24 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this somewhat delayed episode we discuss Book Three of Kim Stanley Robinson's The Years of Rice and Salt, "Ocean Continents," in which a Chinese fl...
The Years of Rice and Salt 2: "The Haj [is] In The Heart," Puzzles, Knowledge, and What Happens in the World
15 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Warning: we will not be doing this book justice! Email us at [email protected] Follow us on Twitter @podcastonmars Leave us a voicemail ...
The Years of Rice and Salt 1: "Awake to Emptiness," Provincializing Europe, History, Modernity, and Structures of Feeling
08 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hello! We’re back. Sorry we’re late, but we’re back now, to discuss THE YEARS OF RICE AND SALT, book-by-book. We recommend you read this book th...
Aurora 6: "The Hard Problem," Love & Death, Meaning & Loneliness, Pepsi & Werner Herzog
21 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Pepsi Matt McDonald’s and Home Depot Hilary coming at you at the beginning of the after of the beforetimes, Phase 2 in full effect! The Hard Problem...
Aurora 5: “Homesick,” Time, Abundance, Living Systems, Ideology, and Sourdough
14 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, for the first 25 minutes or so we commiserate about corona quarantine and talk about how we feel upset. Matt and Hilary talk cooking ...
Aurora 4: "Reversion to the Mean," Parenthood, Sovereignty, Hobbes, Kropotkin, and Lasagna
30 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Lots of big and new thoughts in this one, where we discuss ship's sovereignty, the fantasy bribe of the future, constituting our selves politically af...
Aurora 3: "In the Wind," Planets, Aliens, and V's
25 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we try to avoid talking about the corona virus as much as possible. After the first ten minutes or so, anyway. We do talk about a lot...
Aurora 2: "Land Ho," Narrative Theory, Self-Reflexivity, and CORONAVIRUS
13 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Special coronavirus edition! "Land Ho," we can all agree, is a true masterpiece. There's far too much to talk about in this breathtaking chapter, and ...
No-rora: The Wandering Earth, the Martian Time-Slip, and the Devil (Matt)
28 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A very special episode of Marooned on Mars with Matt and a Beer finds Matt by himself talking at you through a microphone. If you like Hilary and you ...
Aurora 1: Starship Girl, Freedom, Scale, Ghosts, and These Kids Tomorrow
16 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Aurora kicks off in typically Robinsonian fashion, with a near disaster at sea...on a spaceship! Matt and Hilary talk about names and narratives, shi...
Aurora Zero: Science Fiction, Utopia, Socialism, and Bernie MFing Sanders
13 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hello! Matt and Hilary are back with a preview episode of the next season of Marooned! On [Fill in the Blank]. This season we’ll be discussing KSR’...
The Martians 30-31: A Meditative Something-or-Other and Equilibrium Punctuation
26 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Hello listeners and goodbye Mars! With this episode we leave KSR's Mars behind, as we conclude The Martians, the "apocrypha" of the Mars Trilogy. ...
The Martians 25-29: Brotherhood, Love, Naming, Writing, Cats
05 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It’s Hello! Marooned on Mars with Matt and Hilary. We're turning 50! Hilary is in stereo, I think, and Matt seems to be in mono? This may explain so...
The Martians 22-24: Whale Chimps, Rakes, and Fate
09 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We're back...again! We continue our discussion of The Martians, the stories "Sexual Dimorphism," "Enough is as Good as a Feast," and "What Matters." T...
The Martians 15-21: Perspective, Words, Surfing, and Science
12 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Again we have some technical issues, which we’ve done our best to ameliorate in post-production. For the first hour and twenty minutes or so Matt mi...
The Martians 11-14: Baseball, Myths, Laws, and Trees
27 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
DO NOT ADJUST YOUR PODCAST PLAYER. We're using a new recording scheme, so at one point, Hilary sounds like a scary robot. But we're powering through! ...
The Martians 10: "Green Mars," Romanticism, Existentialism, and the Four Pips
16 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We rejoin Roger Clayborne (no relation to Ann) and Eileen Monday as they're reunited for a climb up Olympus Mons, the tallest mountain in the solar sy...
The Martians 8-9: Coyote and Michel, Condemned to Freedom
07 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Hi! We’re still figuring out how best to handle our new remote recording and figuring out sound levels, etc., so if Matt is too loud and Hilary is t...
The Martians 5-7: Uneventfulness, Gray Paint Patch Lichen, and Balderdash
28 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Matt has overcome his rural inertia long enough to finally put out this episode! Hooray! This is the first episode that Matt and Hilary have rec...
The Martians, Parts 1-4: the Sublime, Negation, and Big Sky Country
13 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Hello! We’re back in Phase Two of “Marooned! on Mars” Matt and Hilary will be discussing the short stories, essays, fragments, poems, and other ...
A Nebula Award for a Double -- the Kim Stanley Robinson Interview
30 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Hello! We are so happy and proud to present this episode, our wide-ranging interview with the man himself! Kim Stanley Robinson, avid listener of our ...
Blue Mars, Part 14: "Phoenix Lake," Endings, Children, and Horizons on Mars, on Mars, on Mars, on Mars, on Mars
22 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We’re back! Reading, talking, and listening respectfully. And sometimes swearing. Being misheard and misunderstood. We talk about student papers and...