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Science Fiction 101 Podcast @sf101.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We're back . . . in time . . . to 1983 . . . Prompted by a contemporary review that suggested 1983 was a particularly bad year for science fiction film, we review the best and the worst movies from that year. How many of these have you seen lately? 101sf.blogspot.com/2026/09/a-ye...

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A Year Can Do A Lot To A Person (episode 70)

Triumph or disaster? Vintage or trainwreck? These are some of the questions we ask ourselves as we consider the year 1983 in science ficti...

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Science Fiction 101 Podcast @sf101.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

New episode! We discuss the new magazine SMALL PLANET (about SF translation), and two great movies: La Jetée (Chris Marker, 1962) and Resurrection (Bi Gan, 2025). 101sf.blogspot.com/2026/07/lost...

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Lost in Translation (episode 67)

This episode was intended to be a grab-bag of different topics, but we inadvertently dug up a show with a strong theme: translation! We star...

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Science Fiction 101 Podcast @sf101.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Thanks to FEEDSPOT, who now rank us at #5 in their global list of "100 Best Sci-Fi Podcasts" - just below CLARKESWORLD and just above LIGHTSPEED! 🎉🎉 podcast.feedspot.com/sci_fi_podca... And we're still at #2 in their UK list, "20 Best UK Sci-Fi Podcasts"! podcast.feedspot.com/uk_sci_fi_po...

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100 Best Sci-fi Podcasts to Listen to in 2026

Best Sci-fi Podcasts to Listen to ⋅ 1. Welcome to Night Vale ⋅ 2. Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A Science Fiction Podcast ⋅ 3. Fun City ⋅ 4. Clarkesworld Magazine ⋅ 5. Science Fiction 101

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Science Fiction 101 Podcast @sf101.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

New episode! We review the birth of modern science fiction, in the form of the one hundred year old Amazing Stories magazine. Learn all about this new fangled thing called... scientifiction. It will surely never catch on with a name like that. 101sf.blogspot.com/2026/04/were...

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Scientifiction One Hundred and One (episode 65)

We're back. Waaaaaayyyy back, at the birth of science fiction. Or should that be "scientifiction"? We're celebrating 100 years of Amazing St...

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Science Fiction 101 Podcast @sf101.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Any guesses what our next episode is about?

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Science Fiction 101 Podcast @sf101.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Woohoo, we're number two! According to Feedspot's "20 Best UK Sci-fi podcasts" chart, that is. Thanks to everyone who listens and reviews our little offering. And there's more to come - we're recording this afternoon in fact! podcast.feedspot.com/uk_sci_fi_po...

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Science Fiction 101 Podcast @sf101.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

What other timey-wimey movies should we have discussed in our BACK TO THE FUTURES episode? I'd always pick TIME AFTER TIME. - Phil

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Science Fiction 101 Podcast @sf101.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

New episode - and it's our modern mag read: we review the Nov/Dec 2025 issue of ASIMOV'S science fiction magazine. How good are the stories? How does the magazine of today compare with how it was when it started, 40-odd years ago? Colin and Phil investigate... 101sf.blogspot.com/2026/02/asim...

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Asimov's Lore (episode 62)

Traditionally on Science Fiction 101 , we follow up our "old magazine" review with a review of its modern counterpart - and this year is no ...

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Science Fiction 101 Podcast @sf101.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Due to a glitch in them thar Googles, we weren't receiving notification of comments on our blog - 101sf.blogspot.com This has now been fixed. If you've commented in the past but not seen your comment appear, my apologies. But normal service has now (I believe) been restored. - Phil

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Science Fiction 101 Podcast @sf101.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Coming soon on Science Fiction 101, we do our "let's review an old magazine" thing. If you want to read along, here's the issue we're covering: Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Feb 15 1982 - which is available from Luminist using this download link: s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/luminist/SF/...

Image shows our robot mascot as an on-air deejay, reading the February 1982 issue of Asimov's magazine.

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Science Fiction 101 Podcast @sf101.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Our latest episode - with Colin's Worldcon report, and a trivia quiz from returning guest Seth (Hugos There) Heasley. Any resemblance between Seth and the depicted SETH-3P0 is purely coincidental... 101sf.blogspot.com/2025/09/triv...

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Trivia Travails. Or, It's a Con! (episode 59)

Join us for a trivia quiz bonanza! Making a return visit to the pod is Colin's co-host from another podcast, Seth Heasley, who is here to ad...

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Science Fiction 101 Podcast @sf101.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Our next episode will drop on 28 August, and here's a heads-up on our topic: BBC series SURVIVORS (1975-7), created by Dalek creator Terry Nation! It's about a plague and its aftermath. Click the link for our playlist of online SURVIVORS episodes. 101sf.blogspot.com/2025/08/get-...

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Get ready for... SURVIVORS!

Our next podcast episode will drop on 28th August, and we'd like to give you a heads-up on what we're covering - in case you'd like to do th...

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Science Fiction 101 Podcast @sf101.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Of course, it may just be a temporary glitch in the matrix... but Feedspot has promoted us to number FOUR in its list of "25 Best UK Sci-Fi Podcasts"!

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Science Fiction 101 Podcast @sf101.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

While you're waiting for the next SF101 (coming real soon now!), check out our OTHER podcasts. Colin and friends discuss Murderbot on TAKE ME TO YOUR READER: pavementpodcast.com/archives/pod... Phil discusses Ray Bradbury's short stories on BRADBURY 100: bradburymedia.blogspot.com/2025/08/new-...

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Science Fiction 101 Podcast @sf101.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Coming soon... our annual review of the shortlisted Hugo short stories! Episode drops Thursday, 12 June 2025.

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Science Fiction 101 Podcast @sf101.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

New episode! This time we review the beautiful animated film FLOW and have our fingers crossed that Apple TV's MURDERBOT isn't a sitcom. Available wherever you get your pods, and from here: 101sf.blogspot.com/2025/04/go-w...

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Go With The Flow (episode 53)

Flow (2024) is an extraordinary film - Latvia's most successul of all time, and winner of the Oscar for Best Animated Film. Colin and Phi...

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Science Fiction 101 Podcast @sf101.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Anyone who has used the Tube in London will be familiar with the repeated phrase "Mind the gap!" Quatermass is always drawn to a gap...in knowledge, in the fossil record, you name it. Our new episode, looking at the finest Quatermass movie and its TV precursor: 101sf.blogspot.com/2025/03/mind...

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Mind The Gap, Professor Quatermass! (episode 52)

Discovery of a buried skull turns a London building site into a palaeontological dig. Until, in a geological layer that's five million years...

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Science Fiction 101 Podcast @sf101.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Coming very soon: SF101 goes underground... five million years underground...😁

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Science Fiction 101 Podcast @sf101.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

We're back - first episode of 2025, and our 50th episode overall! This time we review a recent issue of ANALOG science fiction magazine. How does it stack up against its online competitors? How does it stack up against the Analog of old? Find out here: 101sf.blogspot.com/2025/01/anal...

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Analog Solutions (episode 50)

Woo-hoo, we've reached FIFTY EPISODES! This time we have another one of our (made-up) time-honored traditions: reviewing a current science f...

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Science Fiction 101 Podcast @sf101.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Continuing our countdown to Xmas with some out-takes...

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Science Fiction 101 Podcast @sf101.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Counting down to Xmas with some out-takes 😀

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Science Fiction 101 Podcast @sf101.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Our latest podcast episode... ...in which we travel back 50 years to read and review a 1974 issue of Analog Science Fiction magazine. Be like that robot: don your flares, grab your ghettoblaster, and ride back with us! 101sf.blogspot.com/2024/12/in-d...

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In Days of Old (episode 49 of the podcast)

In time-honored tradition, for our December episode we go hurtling back in time to review a science fiction magazine from the past. Get your...

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Science Fiction 101 Podcast @sf101.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

New episode! Colin gives an eyewitness account of the 2024 Worldcon, while Phil tries to britsplain cockney rhyming slang... Available wherever podcasts are given away. 101sf.blogspot.com/2024/09/conv...

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Conventional Wisdom (episode 46 of the podcast)

August 2024 saw the World Science Fiction Convention, held in Glasgow, Scotland. Phil stayed at home, but intrepid traveller Colin crossed a...

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