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
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
In this Episode of Science Fiction Double Feature, I talk to author V E Schwab about A Conjuring of Light, the third and final installment of the Shades of Magic Series. Then we find out what 18th century London would have really been like with Professor of Urban History, Tim Hitchcock. Continue reading
In this episode of Science Fiction Double Feature, I talk to author Carrie Patel about The Buried Life and its sequel Cities and Thrones. We then find out what it takes to build things underground with Crossrail Project Manager Linda Miller.
In this Episode of Science Fiction Double Feature, I talk to Becky Chambers about A Closed and Common Orbit, the sequel to A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet. I then speak to Professor Blay Whitby about where we’re at with artificial intelligence right now. Continue reading
In this episode of Science Fiction Double Feature, I talk to Malka Older, author of the science fiction mystery-action-thriller, Infomocracy. We then find out about the state of e-democracy and e-participation with Stefan Strauß from the Institute of Technology Assessment in the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Continue reading
In the first episode of Science Fiction Double Feature, I talk to Paige Orwin about the amazing The Interminables and discuss the history of magic with Professor Frank Klaassen. Continue reading
