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Nicholas Keating Casbarro on World-Building in 'Vitalerium'
Season 3 Episode 61
Marty speaks to Nicholas Keating Casborro about the hard-scrabble, dystopian world portrayed in his book 'Vitalerium: Descent into the Void'. This i…
1 year, 1 month ago
Chris Kulp on Artificial Intelligence in 'Lost Origins'
Season 3 Episode 60
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 P…
1 year, 2 months ago
Adrian Tchaikovsky on Dark Ecology in 'Shroud'
Season 3 Episode 59
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…
1 year, 3 months ago
Julius Csotonyi on Dark Ecology in 'Dark Eden' - Part 2
Season 2 Episode 58
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 '…
1 year, 4 months ago
Julius Csotonyi on Dark Ecology in 'Dark Eden' - Part 1
Season 2 Episode 57
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 …
1 year, 4 months ago
Chris Beckett on Dark Ecology in 'Dark Eden'
Season 2 Episode 56
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 …
1 year, 5 months ago
Susan MacKinnon on Ursula K. LeGuin in 'The Left Hand of Darkness' and 'The Dispossessed'
Season 2 Episode 55
Holly and Marty get together with their friend Susan MacKinnon to discuss the science fiction of Ursula K. LeGuin, literary icon of speculative ficti…
1 year, 5 months ago
Douglas Phillips on Extra Dimensions in 'Quantum Time'
Season 2 Episode 54
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 talke…
1 year, 6 months ago
Douglas Phillips on Extra Dimensions in 'Quantum Space'
Season 2 Episode 53
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…
1 year, 6 months ago
Barron Wenham on Cosmology and Astrophysics in the Mind of a Super Smart Kid
Season 2 Episode 52
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 …
1 year, 7 months ago