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

Colin and Phil consider the significance of dates in science fiction. ...1984, 1999, 2001... all years that carry heavy connotations for t...

In the midst of a long, hot summer, Colin and Phil turn their sci-fi attentions to the treatment of climate change in science fiction. Nat...

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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It's awards season again, so Colin and Phil hunt out this years short story Hugo nominees: the six best stories from the science fiction a...

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

This time we react to a fascinating article from Strange Horizons , which claims that all SF writers are... historians! You can read the art...

This time on Science Fiction 101 , we take some trips down memory lane to revisit classic time travel movies. We mostly focus on the Back to...

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

We're back! With our annual trek into the archives to read an old science fiction magazine, to see if and how our field has changed over the...

We're back! With our annual trek into the archives to read an old science fiction magazine, to see if and how our field has changed over the...

Back in episode 57 , Colin and Phil recommended books and movies to each other. Now they act on those suggestions, reporting back with their...

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...

Fifty years ago, schoolboy Phil was knocked out by a British science fiction TV show, the post-apocalyptic Survivors . Created by Terry Na...

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...

For this episode, we decided to challenge each other with books, stories and films that we thought the other hadn't read or seen. The result...

What on earth does science have to do with science fiction? Is science fiction about science? Is it fiction that takes a scientific approac...

This is our story, simplified: Life. Loss. Transformation. Love. Death. Iteration. The first time you get our message, you only / find one thread. It mimics your language in / its simplest form, a sin...

Every year, we review the short stories shortlisted for the famous Hugo Awards. It's our way of keep abreast of trends in the field of scien...