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A podcast in which social scientists, philosophers and researchers discuss the themes and works of science fiction.
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31 Episoden[032] Social Science Talks: Warhammer and The Eisenhorn Trilogy, by Dan Abnett
‘In the grim darkness of the far future…’ This month, we try and take on the Warhammer universe by reading the Eisenhorn Trilogy, by Dan Abnett. Doe...
[031] Social Science Talks: 1984, by George Orwell
‘It was a bright cold morning in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen…’ After much pressure, and the election of Donald Trump, we finally get...
[030] Social Science Talks: His Dark Materials, by Philip Pullman
“I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for […]
[029] Social Science Talks: Babylon 5
The Babylon Project was a dream given form… It’s a new year, and carrying through on a resolution that we’ve had since we started the podcast, we got...
[028] Social Science Talks: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
So long, and thanks for all the fish! As we wind down for Christmas, we crank up the improbability drive to a level where it produces, fully formed, a...
[026] Social Science Talks: The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood
“We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in […]
[025] Social Science Talks: Star Trek
Following the 50th Anniversary and the recent film Star Trek: Beyond, we sit down at Social Sci-Fi towers to discuss what we love and hate about the S...
[024] Social Science Talks: Dune, by Frank Herbert
“The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called “spannungsbogen” — which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act...
[023] Social Science Interviews: Penny Fielding, on Spies and Genre Fiction
It’s conference season once again, and Matthew got the long train to Edinburgh in order to talk to Professor Penny Fielding about spies and genre fict...
[022] Social Science Talks: Independence Day
After a film night at Social Science Towers, Alex, Matt, Jess and Bleddyn discuss the beginning of the large-scale disaster film, Independence Day. Jo...
[021] Social Science Talks: Utopia, By Thomas More
“We did not ask if he had seen any monsters, for monsters have ceased to be news. There is never any shortage of horrible creatures who prey on human...
[20] Social Science Talks: Embassytown, by China Miéville
“Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.” This month we dis...
[019] Social Science Talks: Woman on the Edge of Time, by Marge Piercy
What would you do if your actions would change the course of history? Lydia, Charlotte, Sorana and Jess take the spotlight on the podcast this month i...
[018] Social Science Talks: The Player of Games, by Iain M. Banks
Common misconception that; that fun is relaxing. If it is, you’re not doing it right. Would you like to play a game? This month, we read the Player of...
[017] Social Science Talks: Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson
We are all susceptible to the pull of viral ideas. Like mass hysteria. Or a tune that gets into your head that you keep humming all day until you spre...
[016] Social Science Talks: Slaughterhouse Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not to fill them...
[015] Social Science Interviews: Georg Loefflmann, on Man in the High Castle
It’s been a rough month here at Social Science Towers, and we were unable to record a new episode. Luckily for you, we have an interview with friend o...
[014] Social Science Talks: War of the Worlds, by HG Wells
“No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater...
[013] Social Science Talks: Watchmen, by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
Never compromise. Not even in the face of Armageddon. That’s always been the difference between us, Daniel. Today, we deal with Watchmen, because Matt...
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[012] Social Science Interviews: Georg Loefflmann, on the Pentagon vs. Aliens
It’s conference season, and we dispatched our one-man-army Matt to interview a series of scholars studying science fiction at the British Internationa...
[011] Social Science Talks: Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
I have thus endeavoured to preserve the truth of the elementary principles of human nature, while I have not scrupled to innovate upon their combinati...
[010] Social Science Interviews: Matt Davies on Joss Whedon and Dollhouse
Even if this is something that isn’t saying ‘this is how you need to change your thinking about international politics’, it gives you a place to stand...
[009] Social Science Talks: Starship Troopers
Come on you apes, do you want to live forever? Continuing his march through the hostile environment of BISA 2015, Matt tracks down Malte Riemann, Seni...
[008] Social Science Interviews: Heroes, with Alexandra Martens
The biggest power a superhero has is to go beyond their society. It’s conference season, and we dispatched our one-man-army Matt to interview a series...
[007] Social Science Talks: Agent Carter
We talk Agent Carter today, a recent TV spin-off of Captain America that has made waves for making feminist science fiction possible in a commercial s...
[006] Social Science Talks: Zombies
In this episode, the discussion from Social SciFi Towers turns to Max Brooks’ World War Z, as well as Dan Drezner’s Theories of International Politics...
[005] Social Science Talks: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?/Blade Runner
The Social Science Talks team discusses Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? today, as well as the film adaptation, Blade Runner. While the film is we...
[004] Social Science Interviews: Ways of Knowing, Imagined Worlds and Teaching Using Science Fiction, with Patrick Thaddeus Jackson
“Students will say ‘I don’t know whether I’m reading a novel or a piece of theory.’ And I’ll say ‘Exactly, that’s the point.” We caught Patrick Thadde...
[003] Social Science Talks: Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
In this episode, we discuss Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley. What would society look like if we considered order the highest value to strive for? Tr...
[002] Social Science Talks: The Dispossessed, by Ursula K. Le Guin
In this episode, we talk about The Dispossessed, by Ursula K. Le Guin. In laying out two societies, one anarchist and poor, the other capitalist and o...
[001] Social Science Talks: Neuromancer by William Gibson
Today we’re discussing Neuromancer by William Gibson. Published in 1984, the novel follows the activities of the hacker Case and his associates as the...