This month We talk to Christiana Ellis, author of Phyllis Esposito: Interdimensional Private-Eye and Professor Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, Emeritus professor of history at the University of Edinburgh. Continue reading
Category Archives: Podcast
Episode 14: Book of M
This month we speak to author of The Book of M, Peng Shepherd and Professor Michael Anderson from the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at Cambridge University. Continue reading
Episode 13: The Rewind Files
This month we speak to author of The Rewind Files, Claire Willett and professor at Columbia Journalism School, Michael Schudson. Continue reading
Episode 12: Exit Strategy
This month we talk to Martha Wells, author of the Murderbot Diaries. We also get a potted history of space law by your very own podcast editor. Continue reading
Episode 11: Certain Dark Things
This month we’re hanging out with the living dead, talking Certain Dark Things with Silvia Moreno-Garcia. Then, we talk to Deborah Hyde to find out why hanging out in your kitchen is the best place to fend of a vampire. Continue reading
Episode 10: Provenance
This month we talk to none other than Ann Leckie about her new book Provenance. And after that we have Paul Craddock, materials scientist from the British Museum to talk about what makes a historical object authentic. Plot of Provenance Following her record-breaking debut trilogy, Ann Leckie, winner of the Hugo, Nebula, Arthur C. … Continue reading
Episode 9: Strange Practice
This week, we talk to author Vivian Shaw about Greta Helsing, doctor to London’s monsters in Strange Practice. Then we talk to Tom Oates, Consult General Physician at the Royal London hospital about what its like treating the more human elements of the London population. Continue reading
Episode 8: Raven Stratagem
In this Episode of Science Fiction Double Feature, I talk to author Yoon Ha Lee about his second novel in the Machineries of Empire series, Raven Stratagem. Then we dive into all things heretical with Professor Claire Taylor from the University of Nottingham. Plot of Raven Stratagem Shuos Jedao is unleashed. The long-dead general, preserved with exotic … Continue reading
Episode 7: American War
In this Episode of Science Fiction Double Feature, I talk to author Omar El Akkad about his debut novel American War. Then we find out about what life was like for women in the actual American Civil War with historian Elizabeth Leonard. Continue reading
Episode 6: Waking Gods
In this Episode of Science Fiction Double Feature, I talk to author Sylvain Neuvel about Waking Gods, the second book in the the Themis File series. Then we find out how we’d actually try to translate an alien language with Professor of Linguistics Daniel Harbour. Continue reading