Science Fiction
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The First Dystopia
14 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin is a novel written at the beginning of the future. It’s hard to remember today, after Logan’s Run, The Handm...
HG Wells vs Vladimir Lenin
07 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The year is 1920. The Empires of Europe have spent the last half decade blowing each other up with bombs, guns and heavy artillery. As World War 1 b...
A note for listeners of the Science Fiction podcast
06 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
We are in a war on podcasting. Podcasts are one of the last survivors of Web1.0, the era that gave us cool things like Wikipedia and the Blogosphere, ...
Project Hail Mary is a Male Pattern Fantasy
01 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
It's Scifi. It's Romance. It's Fantasy. It's SciMANtasy 😱 Let's see if we can make Gary an Amazon bestseller so he doesn't ask for his money back...
The Matrix is the movie the Matrix makes to keep you in the Matrix
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The best way to understand the broken, crazed, indulgent filmography of the Wachowski’s is as a quest to make the Matrix movie the Matrix would ...
People are a TEENY bit confused about “woke” Starfleet Academy
26 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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Alex Garland’s DREDD is just a little bit…fascist?
18 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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They want to make DUNE real
11 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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Where did the future go?
05 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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Why are right-wing grifters all like Batman villains?
26 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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The Avatar franchise is empty spectacle
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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The Epstein / Kubrick theory is worse than you think
16 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Science fiction’s most terrifying prediction
07 Dec 2025
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Plur1bus : what’s it all about?
14 Nov 2025
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The 7 scifi books that ALMOST made me a believer
05 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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The Alien franchise is finally dead
13 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Frankenstein : the first myth for the age of science
07 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Is a World State inevitable? Damien Walter vs Feral Historian
23 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Psychohistory : Isaac Asimov’s greatest idea
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We are in a crisis… …of crises. We are in a crisis of geopolitics as we move from a unipolar world of one global hegemon to a multipolar w...
The most HATED science fiction writer
24 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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The greatest 226 minutes in scifi television
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Star Trek is propaganda
12 Jun 2025
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What are you rebelling against, Andor?
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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The De-Terminator : free will vs determinism in the Terminator
29 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Terminator is an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie Arnold’s physique is the star of the film The progressive decay of the Body into the Machine is his co-...
The science fiction novel that destroyed socialism
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin is a novel written at the beginning of the future. It’s hard to remember today, after Logan’s Run, The Handm...
The cyberpunk comic that kicked neoliberalism in the nuts
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Did George Orwell see Big Elon coming?
04 Mar 2025
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The only true Philip K Dick movie
22 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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The Last Marxist
08 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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10 Science Fiction books to read in 2025
30 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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When HG Wells met Vladimir Lenin
04 Dec 2024
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Modernity is done
30 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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Joker is a masterpiece of radical cinema
08 Oct 2024
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Megalopolis and its discontents
02 Oct 2024
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50,000 Subscriber Question & Answer
22 Sep 2024
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Zardoz and the humiliation of Sean Connery
18 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Why do we love science fiction movies? Sometimes it’s because they take us to strange new worlds. Other times they just have the best effects, the...
The 1970s science fiction classic that actually deserves a reboot
01 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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Ken MacLeod on The Culture of Iain M Banks
21 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
SF author Ken MacLeod on his lifelong friend Iain Banks. Become a member of the Science Fiction community to continue the discussion Website - https...
The 3 Body Problem, Problem
07 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Does it matter that the Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin is a work of propaganda? I think it does. But it's going to take 2 hours to explain. Become a...
Dune part 2 is the savior of science fiction
10 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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Prof. Elana Gomel on Stanislaw Lem
26 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
00:00:57 Introduction 00:03:39 Professor Elana Gomel 00:09:55 Charles Dickens as scifi writer 00:14:17 Stanislaw Lem and The Other ...
The church of science fiction FANDOM
14 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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Iain McGilchrist interview
22 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
00:00:00 Introduction 00:01:50 Is Iain McGilchrist a scifi fan? 00:07:05 Iain McGilchrist's work and philosophy 00:17:34 Reason vs...
The 3 Stigmata of Elon Musk : review of the year in Science Fiction 2023
27 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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The Verhoeven Paradox with Olga Yakimenko
16 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Olga Yakimenko is a filmmaker who sometimes answers questions in the Science Fiction community https://www.facebook.com/groups/324897304599197/ Becom...
The Age of the Rockstar Critic
11 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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J G Ballard vs Andreessen Horowitz
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Watch J G Ballard's Towering Inferno https://youtu.be/XYjjaalZHlY Music 'Sensula' by Ralph Cree https://soundcloud.com/ralphcree/sensula The Techno...
Loki Who?
20 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
PS - man with midlands accent is Alan Moore There is an ancient English ritual, performed in the grey and rainy times (which is the entire year save ...
Isaac Asimov’s Foundation and Hegelian history
11 Oct 2023
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The dangerous philosophy of Ursula Le Guin
17 Sep 2023
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The mythos of Star Trek with John Vervaeke
03 Sep 2023
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The philosophy of science fiction | Interview with Brendan Myers
11 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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The deep meaning of Denis Villeneuve’s DUNE
03 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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Oppenheimer : why do we fear intelligence?
24 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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In search of a Metamodern mythos
16 Jul 2023
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The postmodern destruction of Star Trek
12 Jul 2023
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The neo-religions of science fiction
24 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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Philip K Dick’s handbook of narrative warfare
26 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Philip K Dick's The Man In The High Castle is a novel about one of the most complex ideas in our world. The way stories shape perception, and the war ...
The latent spaces of Neuromancer
26 Feb 2023
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A very metamodern Batman
20 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What would a metamodern Batman movie look like? Find out in this audio commentary to accompany the Incel Batman video essay on the Science Fiction cha...
The philosophy of Video Games
05 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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SEASON 1 FINALE : Writing the 21st Century Myth
25 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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What does a metamodern future look like?
15 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We’re in a civilisational war between the pre-modern, the modern, and the post-modern. Or to give them their “culture war” names – the Reactio...
Why ‘The Boys’ failed – thoughts on mythopathic storytelling
08 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman – The High Cost of Fantasy
28 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There's a reason why Neil Gaiman is the most famous writer scifi, horror & fantasy ever made. That rockstar reputation didn't start with appearanc...
Psychohistory : we are in a Seldon Crisis
10 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Psychohistory is among the most important ideas born in science fiction. A science that allows us to predict the future of human civilisation. It's ...
The anti-human religion of Transhumanism
08 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Transhumanism makes grand claims about the future of humankind, from genetic engineering and artificial wombs to immortality and uploading humanity to...
The Superman archetype and American Imperialism
21 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When did Superman get so "Dark"? He's as American as apple pie, coca-cola and black-ops interventions in the politics of other sovereign nations. Su...
LitFic vs SciFi – the consilience position
08 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Why does science fiction not get the respect it deserves...from literary fiction? It’s the East coast vs West cost gangster rap rivalry but fiction...
The Northman : a map of the Unfathered man (with intro)
30 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Batman. Luke Skywalker. Conan. Paul Atreides. And now The Northman. Just a few of the Unfathered men that dominate our storytelling. Why are we obsess...
Arthur C Clarke’s forgotten masterpiece of hard SF
17 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's Arthur C Clarke's greatest novel and a classic of "hard" science fiction. The Fountains of Paradise is a brilliantly realized story of humankind'...
The true history of science fiction
19 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“With Jules Verne and the publisher Hugo Gernsback, H.G. Wells invented the genre of science fiction.” Tweet by @nytimesbooks, November 2021 A ba...
Lord of the Rings and the fascist fantasy
06 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Fascism lures people in with a fantasy of return to older, better times. A golden age before the modern world. Nazi Germany had the fantasy of the Thi...
A science fiction history of World War 3
26 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Humankind had it within our grasp to become a K1 civilization, the first stage of the Kardashev scale. But we allowed K1 to slip through our fingers. ...
Severance – what does it mean?
23 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Severance is sophisticated science fiction for grown up audiences in the style of J G Ballard, Philip K Dick or Haruki Murakami. But what does it mean...
An interview with Adam Roberts
13 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“It’s trying to thread that needle between the wonder and the splendour in this mythology without being beguiled into actual fascism.” ~Adam Rob...
The thematic genius of Iain M Banks
23 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the Science Fiction podcast is re-published from an original video essay first published in September 2018. I spent years searching, ...
What is Solarpunk?
16 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Solarpunk is the newest genre of science fiction, a joyous and optimistic vision of a future where humans and our technology live in balance with natu...
The prophetic visions of Philip K Dick
31 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We are living in strange times. Politics. Society. Culture wars. Things have gone weird. We're looking for knowledge and wisdom to guide us in strange...
The best Scifi & Fantasy of the 21st century (Part 1 of 2)
24 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We are 21 years into the 21st century. What better time to look at the century we are living in...the century of science fiction. A special double ep...
The Matrix and the archetypes of Carl Jung
19 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
There's a question about The Matrix I've been asking myself since the franchise established itself in the collective unconscious of humanity back in t...
Kim Stanley Robinson | Interstellar travel is a religious fantasy
08 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Science fiction is fighting a doctrinal war. Between those who believe that humankind's future is still the stars, and those - like Kim Stanley Robins...
The most powerful scene in scifi cinema Blade Runner’s Tears in Rain
10 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Rick Deckard is a Replicant. And Rick Deckard is also not the hero of Blade Runner...but is the villain. But the obvious questions about Blade Runner ...
The failure of Foundation is a lost opportunity for Apple
29 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Stories that last through the ages aren't just great storytelling, they also serve the power structures of their time. Powerful people have always pat...
Thoughts after watching Denis Villeneuve’s DUNE (2021)
20 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If science fiction is a gateway to the psychedelic, then DUNE is a portal to...awakening. Frank Herbert's seminal novel and David Lynch's baroquely we...
The true meaning of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 A Space Odyssey
16 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It's more than a little ironic that the motion picture widely called the greatest science fiction story ever told was made by an artist who hated scie...
There Is No Antimemetics Division – an interview with Qntm
06 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It's logical that the best science fiction being written today has its origins online and in collaborative forums. There Is No Antimemetics Division b...
What is science fiction?
20 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Look at a list of the 20th century's most important artistic and cultural movements and you won't find science fiction listed. Why not? We need a bett...