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Nicholas Keating Casbarro on World-Building in 'Vitalerium'
Season 3 Episode 61
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Marty speaks to Nicholas Keating Casborro about the hard-scrabble, dystopian world portrayed in his book 'Vitalerium: Descent into the Void'. This is a far future space opera where fas…
Published on 9 hours ago
Chris Kulp on Artificial Intelligence in 'Lost Origins'
Season 3 Episode 60
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Chris Kulp is a professional physicist and science fiction author, who has won the Mike Resnick award for his first published story ‘What Would You Pay for a Second Chance’. We talk ab…
Published on 4 weeks, 2 days ago
Adrian Tchaikovsky on Dark Ecology in 'Shroud'
Season 3 Episode 59
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Adrian Tchaikovsky is a bestselling British author whose work has taken the science fiction world by storm since his seminal sci-fi novel Children of Time, which won the Arthur C. Clark…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Julius Csotonyi on Dark Ecology in 'Dark Eden' - Part 2
Season 2 Episode 58
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This is the second part of Marty's conversation with Julius Csotonyi about dark ecology in relation to the dark rogue world of Chris Beckett’s book 'Dark Eden'. We discuss the extraord…
Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Julius Csotonyi on Dark Ecology in 'Dark Eden' - Part 1
Season 2 Episode 57
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Julius Csotonyi is a thermal vent biologist with expertise on organisms that thrive on geothermal energy in the dark depths of the ocean where there is almost no light from the sun. He…
Published on 3 months, 1 week ago
Chris Beckett on Dark Ecology in 'Dark Eden'
Season 2 Episode 56
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Holly and Marty speak with Chris Beckett about his Dark Eden trilogy, comprised of Dark Eden – which won the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2012, and was followed by Mother of Eden in 2015 a…
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Susan MacKinnon on Ursula K. LeGuin in 'The Left Hand of Darkness' and 'The Dispossessed'
Season 2 Episode 55
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Holly and Marty get together with their friend Susan MacKinnon to discuss the science fiction of Ursula K. LeGuin, literary icon of speculative fiction. We talk about her Hugo and Nebu…
Published on 4 months ago
Douglas Phillips on Extra Dimensions in 'Quantum Time'
Season 2 Episode 54
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This is part 2 of Marty's conversation with Douglas Phillips about his 'Quantum' Series of hard science fiction novels. In our last episode we talked about 'Quantum Space', and this ti…
Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Douglas Phillips on Extra Dimensions in 'Quantum Space'
Season 2 Episode 53
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This is one of those episodes that exemplifies what we try to do here on this show, going deep on some very big science ideas, and then going off the deep end to expand those ideas into…
Published on 5 months ago
Barron Wenham on Cosmology and Astrophysics in the Mind of a Super Smart Kid
Season 2 Episode 52
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This is a rather special episode, and something of a delightful experiment. Barron Wenham is on of the smartest and most well-informed 10-year-olds you are ever likely to encounter - e…
Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago