All Seasons

Season 1000

• S1000E01 Deep Futures: Democracy of Tomorrow

  • April 15, 2021

• S1000E02 Bonus Episode: The Future of Cities with Sarah Parcak

  • December 9, 2021

• S1000E03 Bonus Episode: The future of crime solving with Dr. Raychelle Burks

  • December 23, 2021

• S1000E04 Bonus Episode: The future of farming with Armando Elenes

  • January 6, 2022

Season 2018

• S2018E01 Episode 1: Hope, dread, and Star Trek: Discovery

  • March 15, 2018

• S2018E02 Episode 2: Propaganda and mind control in science fiction

  • March 29, 2018

• S2018E03 Episode 3: Books that stand the test of time

  • April 12, 2018

• S2018E04 Episode 4: Crisis on infinite superheroes

  • April 27, 2018

• S2018E05 Episode 5: Fear of robots

  • May 10, 2018

• S2018E06 Episode 6: Animal companions and magical beasts

  • May 24, 2018

• S2018E07 Episode 7: Imaginary immigrants and time-traveling refugees

  • June 7, 2018

• S2018E08 Episode 8: Science fiction has always been queer

  • June 21, 2018

• S2018E09 Episode 9: Horror of the One Percent

  • July 5, 2018

• S2018E10 Episode 10: Deep in the heart of fandom

  • July 19, 2018

• S2018E11 Episode 11: We're in the wrong timeline

  • August 2, 2018

• S2018E12 Episode 12: Why Are Utopias So Hard To Imagine?

  • August 14, 2018

• S2018E13 Episode 13: The Wiki-ization of television

  • August 30, 2018

• S2018E14 Episode 14: The rise of transgender science fiction

  • September 13, 2018

• S2018E15 Episode 15: The future of the city

  • September 27, 2018

• S2018E16 Episode 16: Can we survive capitalism?

  • October 11, 2018

• S2018E17 Episode 17: Democracy and its discontents

  • October 25, 2018

• S2018E18 Episode 18: Alien minds

  • November 8, 2018

• S2018E19 Episode 19: What's so bad about cultural appropriation?

  • November 22, 2018

• S2018E20 Episode 20: Why we're excited about Doctor Who again

  • December 6, 2018

• S2018E21 Episode 21: Pop culture nostalgia, or branding your memories

  • December 20, 2018

Season 2019

• S2019E22 Episode 22: Can science fiction still give us hope for the future?

  • January 3, 2019

• S2019E23 Episode 23: Sex, Lies, and Science Fiction

  • January 17, 2019

• S2019E24 Episode 24: We Have Many Feelings About Steven Universe

  • January 31, 2019

• S2019E25 Episode 25: Peering into the deep future of humanity

  • February 14, 2019

• S2019E26 Episode 26: The Bomb is back

  • February 28, 2019

• S2019E27 Episode 27: The future of futurism

  • March 14, 2019

• S2019E28 Episode 28: What's the Matter With Westeros?

  • March 28, 2019

• S2019E29 Episode 29: Real talk about the end of the universe

  • April 11, 2019

• S2019E30 Episode 30: Social media must die!

  • April 26, 2019

• S2019E31 Episode 31: Getting out of the Utopia/dystopia binary

  • May 9, 2019

• S2019E32 Episode 32: You're doing camp wrong!

  • May 21, 2019

• S2019E33 Episode 33: Science fiction explains our messed-up economy

  • June 6, 2019

• S2019E34 Episode 34: How to Write a Good Ending

  • June 20, 2019

• S2019E35 Episode 35: When science fiction gets censored

  • July 4, 2019

• S2019E36 Episode 36: The Laws of the Future!

  • July 18, 2019

• S2019E37 Episode 37: The history of Afro-futurism

  • August 1, 2019

• S2019E38 Episode 38: The new anti-capitalist science fiction

  • August 15, 2019

• S2019E39 Episode 39: Monstrous Women and Women Who Make Monsters

  • August 29, 2019

• S2019E40 Episode 40: What is TV criticism, anyway?

  • September 12, 2019

• S2019E41 Episode 41: The Multiverse Problem!

  • September 26, 2019

• S2019E42 Episode 42: It's time to stop quoting Clarke's Third Law

  • October 10, 2019

• S2019E43 Episode 43: The Myth of Rugged Individualism

  • October 24, 2019

• S2019E44 Episode 44: What Killed the Terminator?

  • November 7, 2019

• S2019E45 Episode 45: Worldbuilding For Beginners

  • November 21, 2019

• S2019E46 Episode 46: Four Technologies That Nobody Realizes Will Change the Future

  • December 6, 2019

• S2019E47 Episode 47: The legacy of scientific racism

  • December 19, 2019

Season 2020

• S2020E48 Episode 48: How Pulp Magazines Conquered Publishing

  • January 2, 2020

• S2020E49 Episode 49: What's the matter with Star Wars?

  • January 16, 2020

• S2020E50 Episode 50: The Power of Names

  • January 30, 2020

• S2020E51 Episode 51: The Delicious Significance of Food in Science Fiction

  • February 13, 2020

• S2020E52 Episode 52: Comedy, Death, and "The Good Place"

  • February 27, 2020

• S2020E53 Episode 53: F*ck Your Nihilism!

  • March 12, 2020

• S2020E54 Episode 54: Science fiction didn't prepare us for the pandemic

  • March 26, 2020

• S2020E55 Episode 55: How to write a plot that sucks people in

  • April 9, 2020

• S2020E56 Episode 56: 9 new shows you should be watching right now

  • April 23, 2020

• S2020E57 Episode 57: Why Science Fiction Needs Romance

  • May 7, 2020

• S2020E58 Episode 58: The nerd vs. jock fight was always a lie

  • May 21, 2020

• S2020E59 Episode 59: The Limits of Escapism

  • June 4, 2020

• S2020E60 Episode 60: Why stories need good dialogue

  • June 18, 2020

• S2020E61 Episode 61: The Reality of Virtual Reality

  • July 3, 2020

• S2020E62 Episode 62: Help! I'm in love with my starship!

  • July 16, 2020

• S2020E63 Episode 63: What is Indigenous Futurism?

  • July 30, 2020

• S2020E64 Episode 64: How Science Is Redefining the Penis

  • August 11, 2020

• S2020E65 Episode 65: We're Officially Done with Lovecraft and Campbell

  • August 27, 2020

• S2020E66 Episode 66: Portal Fantasies Are So Gay

  • September 10, 2020

• S2020E67 Episode 67: King Arthur Must Die

  • September 24, 2020

• S2020E68 Episode 68: Everything is literally on fire

  • October 8, 2020

• S2020E69 Episode 69: Let's Obsess Over the Politics of Dune!

  • October 22, 2020

• S2020E70 Episode 70: The nightmare of history

  • November 5, 2020

• S2020E71 Episode 71: Books That Will Get You Through the Winter

  • November 19, 2020

• S2020E72 Episode 72: Birth Control of the Future

  • December 3, 2020

• S2020E73 Episode 73: The rise of the cute ~aesthetic~

  • December 17, 2020

Season 2021

• S2021E74 Episode 74: Disobedient Bodies

  • January 2, 2021

• S2021E75 Episode 75: Has JK Rowling destroyed Harry Potter fandom?

  • January 14, 2021

• S2021E76 Episode 76: The Truth About Lost Cities

  • January 28, 2021

• S2021E77 Episode 77: The Stories That Are Helping Us With Our Collective Trauma

  • February 4, 2021

• S2021E78 Episode 78: Godzilla vs. Kong vs. America

  • February 25, 2021

• S2021E79 Episode 79: The War on Viruses

  • March 11, 2021

• S2021E80 Episode 80: How to write a fight scene

  • March 25, 2021

• S2021E81 Episode 81: Space Fantasy is a Thing. Deal With It!

  • April 9, 2021

• S2021E82 Episode 82: The resistance is not dead

  • April 22, 2021

• S2021E83 Episode 83: Summer Preview! What We're Pumped to Watch and Read This Season

  • May 6, 2021

• S2021E84 Episode 84: The eldrich horror of gentrification

  • May 20, 2021

• S2021E85 Episode 85: Science Criminals!

  • June 3, 2021

• S2021E86 Episode 86: Becoming One with the Hive Mind

  • June 17, 2021

• S2021E87 Episode 87: The Psychology of Loki

  • July 1, 2021

• S2021E88 Episode 88: How gender essentialism warped our view of science

  • July 15, 2021

• S2021E89 Episode 89: Do you suffer from historical amnesia?

  • July 29, 2021

• S2021E90 Episode 90: How To Use Research To Make Your Fiction Even More Irresistible

  • August 12, 2021

• S2021E91 Episode 91: Three Simple Tests That Reveal A.I. Consciousness

  • August 26, 2021

• S2021E92 Episode 92: How to imagine the next political uprising

  • September 9, 2021

• S2021E93 Episode 93: Lucifer Is Our Therapist Now

  • September 23, 2021

• S2021E94 Episode 94: Big biotech is watching you

  • October 7, 2021

• S2021E95 Episode 95: Science Fiction Keeps Trying To "Fix" Disabled People

  • November 4, 2021

• S2021E96 Episode 96: Nationalism is science fiction, with Wajahat Ali

  • November 18, 2021

• S2021E97 Episode 97: The internet is still weird, with Vinny Thomas

  • December 16, 2021

Season 2022

• S2022E98 Episode 98: Will the United States Survive Another 50 Years? We Ask Jamelle Bouie

  • January 13, 2022

• S2022E99 Episode 99: Gender Is Magic in the Wheel of Time, with C.L. Clark

  • January 27, 2022

• S2022E100 Episode 100: Journalist Superheroes

  • February 10, 2022

• S2022E101 Episode 101: Hell Yeah, We Want To Change the Timeline

  • February 24, 2022

• S2022E102 Episode 102: Money Is a Fantasy

  • March 17, 2022

• S2022E103 Episode 103: What Are Animals Trying To Tell Us? with Arielle Duhaime-Ross

  • March 24, 2022

• S2022E104 Episode 104: Action Princesses!

  • April 7, 2022

• S2022E105 Episode 105: Ghosts of the Cold War

  • April 21, 2022

• S2022E106 Episode 106: Waking up from the Illusion of Change

  • May 5, 2022

• S2022E107 Episode 107: Academia, Dark and Light

  • May 19, 2022

• S2022E108 Episode 108: How Science Fiction Sold Us the Automobile

  • June 2, 2022

• S2022E109 Episode 109: Work Is Not Your Friend, with Alan Henry

  • June 16, 2022

• S2022E110 Episode 110: The Future of Pizza! And Other Listener Questions

  • June 30, 2022

• S2022E111 Episode 111: Escape Into Musicals, with Laser

  • July 14, 2022

• S2022E112 Episode 112: Plastic Problems, with William Gibson

  • July 28, 2022

• S2022E113 Episode 113: Let's Get Sweetweird!

  • August 11, 2022

• S2022E114 Episode 114: Damnation Arcs

  • August 25, 2022

• S2022E115 Episode 115: Therapy, Good And Bad, with Theo Germaine

  • September 8, 2022

• S2022E116 Episode 116: Water Disasters

  • September 22, 2022

• S2022E117 Episode 117: What Makes a Story Feel "Fast" Or "Slow"?

  • October 6, 2022

• S2022E118 Episode 118: F*ck Your Space Empire! with Naseem Jamnia

  • November 3, 2022

• S2022E119 Episode 119: The Myth of Progress with Brad DeLong

  • November 17, 2022

• S2022E120 Episode 120: Who Owns Epic Fantasy?

  • December 1, 2022

• S2022E121 Episode 121: Books to Devour This Winter

  • December 15, 2022

• S2022E122 Episode 122: The Incredibly Strange Career of Anne Rice

  • December 29, 2022

Season 2023

• S2023E123 Episode 123: Why We Disagree About Avatar

  • January 12, 2023

• S2023E124 Episode 124: How To Build A Planet

  • January 26, 2023

• S2023E125 Episode 125: Silicon Valley vs. Science Fiction: ChatGPT

  • February 9, 2023

• S2023E126 Episode 126: It's a Great Time to Read (and Write) Short Stories!

  • March 23, 2023

• S2023E127 Episode 127: Silicon Valley vs. Science Fiction: "Difficult Geniuses"

  • April 6, 2023

• S2023E128 Episode 128: Dungeons & Dragons Gets Cozy

  • April 20, 2023

• S2023E129 Episode 129: Silicon Valley vs. Science Fiction: Smart Home Nightmares

  • May 4, 2023

• S2023E130 Episode 130: What to Watch and Read This Summer!

  • May 18, 2023

• S2023E131 Episode 131: The State of Star Trek, with Mike McMahan

  • June 1, 2023

• S2023E132 Episode 132: A Sense of Place with Jessica Johns

  • June 15, 2023

• S2023E133 Episode 133: Silicon Valley vs. Science Fiction: Ayn Rand

  • June 29, 2023

• S2023E134 Episode 134: The State of the Galaxy

  • July 13, 2023

• S2023E135 Episode 135: The Myth of Free Speech

  • August 24, 2023

• S2023E136 Episode 136: Who Wants to Live on an Eyeball Earth? With Aomawa Shields

  • September 7, 2023

• S2023E137 Episode 137: The Creativity Fallacy

  • September 21, 2023

• S2023E138 Episode 138: Battlestar Galactica, 20 Years Later

  • October 5, 2023

• S2023E139 Episode 139: How To Write About Violence (with Fonda Lee and Lauren Beukes)

  • October 19, 2023

• S2023E140 Episode 140: Silicon Valley is doomed to misunderstand the future, with Dr. Joy Buolamwini

  • November 2, 2023

• S2023E141 Episode 141: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Zines

  • November 16, 2023

• S2023E142 Episode 142: Books That'll Get You Through The Winter Months

  • November 30, 2023

• S2023E143 How Doctor Who Stood the Test of Time

  • December 14, 2023

• S2023E144 Alien ecosystems and the algae menace

  • December 28, 2023

Season 2024

• S2024E01 Encore Episode: Science Fiction Keeps Trying To "Fix" Disabled People with Elsa Sjunneson

  • January 11, 2024

• S2024E02 Encore Episode: The Incredibly Strange Career of Anne Rice

  • January 25, 2024

• S2024E03 The world's humblest heroes, from plumbers to tardigrades

  • February 8, 2024

• S2024E04 We Don't Give a F*ck About Canon

  • February 22, 2024

• S2024E05 Encore Episode: Let's Obsess Over the Politics of Dune!

  • March 4, 2024

• S2024E06 Videogame movies are officially better than comic book movies

  • March 7, 2024

• S2024E07 Queer Horror! (with Dr. Chuck Tingle)

  • March 21, 2024

• S2024E08 The Turing Test is bullsh*t (w/Alex Hanna and Emily M. Bender)

  • April 4, 2024

• S2024E09 Fascism and Book Bans (with Maggie Tokuda-Hall)

  • April 18, 2024

• S2024E10 How to turn a story into a deadly weapon

  • May 2, 2024

• S2024E11 How Surveillance Dystopias Came True (with Wole Talabi)

  • May 16, 2024

• S2024E12 Summer Entertainment Guide: What to Watch and Read this Summer!

  • May 29, 2024

• S2024E13 Romancing the Dragon, with Moniquill Blackgoose

  • June 13, 2024

• S2024E14 Secrets of the Planet of the Apes with Josh Friedman

  • June 27, 2024

• S2024E15 Immigration law in space, with Victor Manibo

  • July 11, 2024

• S2024E16 Dinosaurs and Furries, with Riley Black

  • July 25, 2024

• S2024E17 Our Advice Is Correct

  • August 8, 2024

• S2024E18 Encore Episode: Nationalism is science fiction, with Wajahat Ali

  • August 22, 2024

• S2024E19 When Fiction Becomes a Microaggression (with Evelyn Douek)

  • September 5, 2024

• S2024E20 Science Fiction is a normalization machine (with Rob Cameron)

  • September 19, 2024

• S2024E21 How to Raise the Stakes without Ruining Your Story

  • October 3, 2024

• S2024E22 Every Town Deserves a Library (with Ken Liu)

  • October 17, 2024

• S2024E23 10 Years After "Over the Garden Wall"

  • October 31, 2024

• S2024E24 Why Fantasy Is Going To Extremes (With Nghi Vo)

  • November 14, 2024

• S2024E25 These Books Will Help You Get Through the Cold, Cold Winter

  • November 27, 2024

• S2024E26 Manufacturing loneliness

  • December 12, 2024

• S2024E27 Encore Episode: Fascism and Book Bans (with Maggie Tokuda-Hall)

  • December 26, 2024