Science Fiction Double Feature

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In Science Fiction Double Feature I interview an author about their science fiction novel. But why stop there? I also interview an expert about some aspect of the book - whether the science behind it, the history or anything else that I find interesting.

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    • Aug 14, 2019 LATEST EPISODE
    • infrequent NEW EPISODES
    • 43m AVG DURATION
    • 15 EPISODES


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    Phyllis Esposito: Interdimensional Private-Eye

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 14, 2019 37:48


    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

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 7, 2019 37:48


    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

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2019 61:45


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

    Exit Strategy

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 9, 2019 25:49


    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

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 25, 2018 50:52


    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

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 9, 2018 50:52


    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

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2017 33:08


    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

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 3, 2017 46:25


    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

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2017 46:55


    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

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2017 36:02


    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

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 31, 2017 45:15


    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

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 27, 2017 46:52


    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

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 5, 2017 44:49


    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

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 30, 2016 42:49


    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

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 30, 2016 40:41


    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.

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