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
Blubbers So this is the sequel to Becky Chambers’ The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet and it was so good. I think it was better than the first book – though the first book is necessary for this one being so good. Essentially, in the first book you get the world building, you know … Continue reading
Connie gets trapped in a mental institution but has started to escape to the future with Luciente – however it’s important that Connie fights her real world battles so Luciente’s future can exist at all. Continue reading
A smart sci-fi thriller, set in the election year after the world has been divided into micro-democracies. But is the election under threat, and with that threat, the undermining of the entire micro-democracy system? 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
Jan Amos is veterinarian to large alien creatures. The first mission we find him in the bowels of a giant sea worm, kilometres long, trying to find the bracelet of the wife of a governor. It could be funny but it isn’t really. Continue reading
There’s a secret at the heart of this colony on an alien planet. It eventually all begins to unravel and the entire colony have to face up to the delusion they’ve been living in. Continue reading
There’s a guy who can steal time and spend time (and hence is basically immortal) and the conceptual ghost of World War One…who live in the world, where an ancient immortal from the past basically disrupted time/space/other dimensions. It is 100% amazing. Continue reading
An ex-princess, now mercenary is thrown back into her former regal life when her family is murdered. Can a gun runner run an empire? Continue reading
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