Extra Sci Fi
Date de parution : 31 octobre 2017
 | Saison 1 - épisode 1 | Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley's Frankenstein launched the entire genre of science fiction. What made it unique? What did Shelley create, and how did her view of the... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 2 | Frankenstein: The New Romantics Industrialization and the Age of Reason benefitted society in many ways, but also created an atmosphere of dehumanizing mass production. The... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 3 | Frankenstein: The Sorrows of Young Werther Frankenstein's monster discovered three books that shaped his understanding of the world, including the Sorrows of Young Werther. Werther's... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 4 | Frankenstein: Plutarch's Lives Mary Shelley drew heavily from the style of biography first pioneered by Plutarch, creating characters like Victor Frankenstein and the monster... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 5 | Frankenstein: Paradise Lost Paradise Lost told the story of Satan, a creation who rejected his creator just like Frankenstein's monster did. But even Satan had a loving... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 6 | Frankenstein: Radical Alienation What draws us to Frankenstein, and to sci fi as a whole? As the novel wraps up and our time with its characters draws to an end, Mary Shelley lays... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 7 | William Gibson: The 80s Revolution After Star Wars, the science fiction genre suddenly became a pop culture darling, and a flood of schlocky imitations followed. William Gibson led... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 8 | William Gibson: The Gernsback Continuum - Semiotic Ghosts Ways that we dream about the world sometimes create a shared vision that we start to believe is real. When William Gibson first explored these... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 9 | William Gibson: The Belonging Kind Would you give up what made you unique in order to fit in everywhere? This is the question posed by William Gibson's short story, The Belonging... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 10 | The Canals of Mars: Eye of the Beholder The Canals of Mars ignited so many imaginations, especially in science fiction stories, but they never really existed. What made us believe in them?... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 11 | The Martian Chronicles: A Dying Race We're diving into Ray Bradbury's short stories about life on Mars--and how that life reacts when it encounters human life, and what *their* reaction... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 12 | The Martian Chronicles: Too Human The second half of Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles can be described as "the human cycle"--a reflection on humanity's seemingly insatiable need to... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 13 | The Martian Chronicles: The New Martians Ray Bradbury's last Martian story, "The Million Year Picnic," offers a much more optimistic look at humanity. We have proven ourselves very capable... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 14 | The History of Sci Fi - Jules Verne Let's start our journey to the center of hard science fiction: the works of Jules Verne, who imagined the technological wonders humanity could--and... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 15 | The History of Sci Fi - H.G. Wells H.G. Wells brought his socialist perspective to science fiction, creating great works that really ask us to look at where the human condition will... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 16 | The History of Science Fiction - Pseudo-Science The turn of the 20th century brought a lot of new ideas and inventions to the world. Suddenly, nature's laws were not quite what they seemed. Thus,... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 17 | The Forgotten Foundations Part 1 - The History of Sci Fi This week, we explore the obscure authors from the turn of the 20th century whose weird and wacky stories impacted our modern-day sci fi... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 18 | The Forgotten Foundations Part 2 - The History of Sci Fi We're gonna dive into the TRULY wacky and wild stories of early science fiction, including a Czech play that invented the word "robot." |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 19 | Lord Dunsany - The History of Sci Fi Dunsany is arguably the "father of fantasy," bringing to life the classic worldbuilding tropes that inspired so many authors, from H.P. Lovecraft to... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 20 | Hugo Gernsback - Pulp! Amazing Stories Sci fi "pulp" stories sometimes have a reputation for being cheesy and over-dramatic, but they were extremely important for building up the sci fi... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 21 | Lovecraft & Howard - Pulp! Weird Tales Weird Tales was a pulp magazine that started out as a collection of detective stories before getting taken over by writers like H. P. Lovecraft and... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 22 | Comics and Hard-Boiled - Pulp! Noir Many sci fi writers, especially in the United States, had backgrounds in reading and writing detective stories. They introduced to the sci-fi genre... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 23 | John W. Campbell Reshapes Sci-Fi - Pulp! Astounding Stories Writer-turned-famous-editor of Astounding Stories, John W. Campbell helped usher in the golden age of science fiction, driven by a new authorial... |
| Saison 2 - épisode 1 | William Gibson: The 80s Revolution After Star Wars, the science fiction genre suddenly became a pop culture darling, and a flood of schlocky imitations followed. William Gibson led... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 2 | William Gibson: The Gernsback Continuum - Semiotic Ghosts Ways that we dream about the world sometimes create a shared vision that we start to believe is real. When William Gibson first explored these... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 3 | William Gibson: The Belonging Kind Would you give up what made you unique in order to fit in everywhere? This is the question posed by William Gibson's short story, The Belonging... | |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 4 | The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Modernity Begins The golden age of science fiction represents a very flawed but fascinating American view of the future; authors Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, and... |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 5 | Isaac Asimov - Master of Science Isaac Asimov didn't have a birthday. Nobody knew the exact date of his birth, so he picked one for himself at a young age--and that choice, quite... |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 6 | Isaac Asimov - Laws of Robotics Asimov is famous for coining the Three Laws of Robotics, but to him they weren't the "answer" to how robots could be used in the future--they were... |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 7 | Isaac Asimov - Foundation & Empire Asimov's Foundation stories were absolutely foundational for science fiction--they introduced the concept of a space empire, bringing along... |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 8 | Robert Heinlein - Rise Before we delve into Robert Heinlein's famous works, let's look at an overview of his writing career and the philosophical ideals he was known for:... |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 9 | Robert Heinlein - Highs and Lows Heinlein's novels made science fiction mainstream and even contributed to modern libertarianism. His novels vary widely in the philosophies they... |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 10 | The History of Virtual Reality - A New Place to Call Home From Aldous Huxley to Philip K. Dick, early references to virtual reality simulations abound in science fiction literature, and tremendously... |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 11 | The History of Virtual Reality - Cyberpunk, Anime, and the Movies |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 12 | Arthur C. Clarke - Master of Science Fiction |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 13 | Arthur C. Clarke - Beyond Human |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 14 | The True Frontier - Cordwainer Smith The godson of Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, Paul Linebarger led an exciting life of unusual achievements well before he got into writing science... |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 15 | The True Frontier - Alfred Bester Alfred Bester is known for bridging the gap between science fiction and detective comics, creating villains like Solomon Grundy in the Green Lantern... |
| Saison 3 - épisode 1 | The Canals of Mars: Eye of the Beholder The Canals of Mars ignited so many imaginations, especially in science fiction stories, but they never really existed. What made us believe in them?... | |
 | Saison 3 - épisode 2 | Tolkien and Herbert - The World Builders Mythic worldbuilding and intentionality just weren't staples of science fiction until the works of J. R. R. Tolkien and Frank Herbert were published.... |
 | Saison 3 - épisode 3 | Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring J. R. R. Tolkien wasn't *just* a fantasy author--he was a mythology master. As a result, he ended up inventing some of the most popular genre tropes... |
 | Saison 3 - épisode 4 | Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers Tolkien's writing was majorly influenced by the world he lived in--the concerns of World War II and the aftermath thereof were reflected in the... |
 | Saison 3 - épisode 5 | Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King Tolkien lived in a dark time in history, but he believed not only in having hope, but in sacrifice as a means to redemption, which is why we get... |
 | Saison 3 - épisode 6 | Dune - Origins Frank Herbert's epic novel Dune began as a photograph of the Oregon coastline--literally, the dunes themselves. From there it grew into a poem, then... |
 | Saison 3 - épisode 7 | Dune - Plots and Plans On the surface, Dune appears to be a peak demonstration of "the competent man" trope so popular in Golden Age science fiction, but Herbert... |
 | Saison 3 - épisode 8 | Dune - Wandering in the Desert Dune is an ecological novel. Nature isn't just the background setting, but firmly integrated into the science and systems of the world. Frank... |
| Saison 3 - épisode 9 | Dune - Wandering in the Desert | |
 | Saison 3 - épisode 10 | Dune - Muad'dib Charismatic leadership can conceal corruption, and Frank Herbert saw how dangerous this was in the political events he lived through. Leto Atreides,... |
| Saison 4 - épisode 1 | The Martian Chronicles: A Dying Race We're diving into Ray Bradbury's short stories about life on Mars--and how that life reacts when it encounters human life, and what *their* reaction... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 2 | The Martian Chronicles: Too Human The second half of Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles can be described as "the human cycle"--a reflection on humanity's seemingly insatiable need to... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 3 | The Martian Chronicles: The New Martians Ray Bradbury's last Martian story, "The Million Year Picnic," offers a much more optimistic look at humanity. We have proven ourselves very capable... | |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 4 | Brave New World - Dystopias and Apocalypses We kick off a new season of Extra Sci Fi exploring the theme of dystopias and apocalypses. We begin with Aldous Huxley's *Brave New World*--a very... |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 5 | 1984 - Dystopias and Apocalypses What makes 1984 still relevant to modern readers is that it serves as a warning against fascism in all its possible forms. George Orwell's service... |
| Saison 4 - épisode 6 | Earth Abides - Dystopias and Apocalypses The Cold War prompted science fiction to take a turn from the darkness of humanity, to the end of humanity itself. Earth Abides is a keystone novel... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 7 | Fahrenheit 451 - Dystopias and Apocalypses | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 8 | Player Piano - Dystopias and Apocalypses | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 9 | A Canticle for Leibowitz - Dystopias and Apocalypses |
