A dive into propaganda in science fiction, particularly those instances where aliens take over the world to the advantage of the privileged. What? Links for this episode: Ray Nelson, "Eight O'Clock In the Morning" available via the Internet Archive (free registration required) https://archive.org/details/sciencefictioncl0000unse_z5i2 Images of Arthur C. Clarke's "I Remember Babylon" https://imgur.com/gallery/i-remember-babylon-by-arthur-c-clark-2BX7I6R Recorded live from the Cornfie...
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A dive into propaganda in science fiction, particularly those instances where aliens take over the world to the advantage of the privileged. What? Links for this episode: Ray Nelson, "Eight O'Clock In the Morning" available via the Internet Archive (free registration required) https://archive.org/details/sciencefictioncl0000unse_z5i2 Images of Arthur C. Clarke's "I Remember Babylon" https://imgur.com/gallery/i-remember-babylon-by-arthur-c-clark-2BX7I6R Recorded live from the Cornfie...
Multiversal success and failure. Success? Star Trek TOS episode "Mirror, Mirror," and the 2017 Starz series, "Counterpart." Failure? It pains Driftglass to say it, but Robert Heinlein's "The Number of the Beast" is well-known as a massive fail in the multiverse and just plain science fiction novel genre. And you can hear Patton Oswalt's magnificent Parks and Rec filibuster concerning "multiverses" here. More at sciencefictionuniversity.com. Sup...
Science Fiction University
A dive into propaganda in science fiction, particularly those instances where aliens take over the world to the advantage of the privileged. What? Links for this episode: Ray Nelson, "Eight O'Clock In the Morning" available via the Internet Archive (free registration required) https://archive.org/details/sciencefictioncl0000unse_z5i2 Images of Arthur C. Clarke's "I Remember Babylon" https://imgur.com/gallery/i-remember-babylon-by-arthur-c-clark-2BX7I6R Recorded live from the Cornfie...