In this special episode, I got to ask a really smart person lots of questions. Specifically, the author, voice actor, puppeteer, and science communicator Mary Robinette Kowal, author of the Lady Astronaut series— starting with The Calculating Stars, The Fated Sky, and the new novel coming out July 14th - The Relentless Moon. We talk about why her books are set in the past, how she researches her novels and more.
Karly’s Recommendations
The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal (novel)
Monstress by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda (graphic novel)
The Vast of Night dir. Andrew Patterson (film)
Mary Robinette’s Recommendations
Avenue 5 (TV) available on HBO and Amazon Prime
The War I Finally Won by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley (audiobook)
The Light from Other Stars by Erika Swyler (book)
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The Relentless Moon hits shelves on July 14, celebrate the book launch at this Zoom event and get a paperback copy with your ticket.
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I was going to create a podcast episode on afrofuturism but I found that this genre/aesthetic/artform can speak for itself so instead I'm going to link all my research sources and then make a pledge to ensure all @FactandScifi eps from now on include black and non-black POC media rep. Afrofuturism, broadly defined, imagines a future, past or present of the African diaspora freed from colonialism (and from white people.) It's not just black characters in science fiction, it centers the black experience. It challenges western, white-centric ideas of sci-fi
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In this episode I discuss real examples of cyborgs, cybernetic organisms living today, human or otherwise, and these examples may surprise you. I’ll define what exactly cybernetic means, and why exactly cybernetics is an exciting industry to watch.
New Segment! Recommendations:
-Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel (book, 2016)
-Color out of Space dir. Richard Stanley (movie, 2019)
-She-Ra and the Princesses of Power cr. Noelle Stevenson (TV, 2018-2020)
-Prophet cr. Rob Liefeld (comic)
-ArchAndroid by Janelle Monae (music, 2010)
Research from MIT News, Forbes, CyborgAnthropology, and Where are the Cyborgs in Cybernetics?
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Disaster movies can be fun. They can be scary or thought-provoking. And they can be really, really bad. But how close are they to the science of real disasters? I talk about recent landslides and earthquakes, my own experience with natural disasters, and a model for risk communication.
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In this episode of Fact and Science Fiction, I'm discussing the science and science fiction of parallel universes. I review the famous Many Worlds Interpretation, the theory of bubble universes and more. I use examples from The Dark Tower, Golden Compass and Spider-man: Into the Spider-verse to understand why parallel universes are just so fascinating to science fiction fans.
I used research from the Khan Academy course video on Quantum Wavefunction, The Case for Parallel Universes in Scientific American and PhilosophyNow.org
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