Science Fiction Double Feature

Phyllis Esposito: Interdimensional Private-Eye

sillypunk@gmail.com — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 20:00:00 +0000

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.

Book of M

sillypunk@gmail.com — Sun, 7 Jul 2019 14:00:00 +0000

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.

The Rewind Files

sillypunk@gmail.com — Sun, 9 Jun 2019 20:00:00 +0000

This month we speak to author of The Rewind Files, Claire Willett and professor at Columbia Journalism School, Michael Schudson.

Exit Strategy

sillypunk@gmail.com — Wed, 9 Jan 2019 21:00:00 +0000

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.

Certain Dark Things

sillypunk@gmail.com — Mon, 26 Mar 2018 00:19:14 +0000

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 off a vampire.

Provenance

sillypunk@gmail.com — Sat, 10 Feb 2018 00:19:14 +0000

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.

Strange Practice

sillypunk@gmail.com — Sun, 01 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Raven Stratagem

sillypunk@gmail.com — Mon, 04 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000

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.

American War

sillypunk@gmail.com — Fri, 25 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Waking Gods

sillypunk@gmail.com — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000

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.

A Conjuring of Light

sillypunk@gmail.com — Sat, 01 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Science Fiction Double Feature, we talk to V E Schwab about the final book in the Shades of Magic Series and then Professor Tim Hitchcock about what it was like in 18th century London.

The Buried Life

sillypunk@gmail.com — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 20:44:15 +0000

In this episode of Science Fiction Double Feature, we talk to Carrie Patel about her novels The Buried Life and its sequel Cities and Thrones. We then find out what it is like to currently build things underground, with Crossrail Project Manager Linda Miller.

A Closed and Common Orbit

sillypunk@gmail.com — Sun, 05 Feb 2017 18:58:38 +0000

In this episode of Science Fiction Double Feature, we talk to Becky Chambers about A Closed and Common Orbit and Professor Blay Whitby from the University of Sussex about the social and ethical implications of computing and AI.

Infomocracy

sillypunk@gmail.com — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 18:28:13 +0000

In this episode of Science Fiction Double Feature, we talk to Malka Older about Infomocracy and Stefan Strauß from the Institute of Technology Assessment of the Austrian Academy of Sciences about e-democracy and e-particpation.

The Interminables

sillypunk@gmail.com — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 18:28:13 +0000

In this episode of Science Fiction Double Feature, we talk to Paige Orwin about The Interminables and Professor Frank Klassen about the history of Magic.