Science Fiction 101 Podcast

Trivia Travails. Or, It's a Con! (episode 59) Join us for a trivia quiz bonanza! Making a return visit to the pod is Colin's co-host from another podcast, Seth Heasley, who is here to ad...

Our latest episode - with Colin's Worldcon report, and a trivia quiz from returning guest Seth (Hugos There) Heasley.

Any resemblance between Seth and the depicted SETH-3P0 is purely coincidental...

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Surviving SURVIVORS (episode 58 of the podcast) Fifty years ago, schoolboy Phil was knocked out by a British science fiction TV show, the post-apocalyptic Survivors . Created by Terry Na...

New episode! In which we review the 1970s Terry Nation-created BBC post-apocalyptic drama series SURVIVORS!

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Get ready for... SURVIVORS! Our next podcast episode will drop on 28th August, and we'd like to give you a heads-up on what we're covering - in case you'd like to do th...

Our next episode will drop on 28 August, and here's a heads-up on our topic:

BBC series SURVIVORS (1975-7), created by Dalek creator Terry Nation!

It's about a plague and its aftermath.

Click the link for our playlist of online SURVIVORS episodes.

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Of course, it may just be a temporary glitch in the matrix... but Feedspot has promoted us to number FOUR in its list of "25 Best UK Sci-Fi Podcasts"!

While you're waiting for the next SF101 (coming real soon now!), check out our OTHER podcasts.

Colin and friends discuss Murderbot on TAKE ME TO YOUR READER: pavementpodcast.com/archives/pod...

Phil discusses Ray Bradbury's short stories on BRADBURY 100: bradburymedia.blogspot.com/2025/08/new-...

Serving Suggestions (episode 57) For this episode, we decided to challenge each other with books, stories and films that we thought the other hadn't read or seen. The result...

New episode!

In which your humble co-hosts serve up things we think each other hasn't read but should!

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I was sure I had posted it, but I can't see it anywhere. So I've just posted it again! - Phil

It caught on in a flash!

Science and/or Fiction (episode 56) What on earth does science have to do with science fiction? Is science fiction about science? Is it fiction that takes a scientific approac...

New episode from us! We talk about science AND fiction!

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We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read - Lightspeed Magazine This is our story, simplified: Life. Loss. Transformation. Love. Death. Iteration. The first time you get our message, you only / find one thread. It mimics your language in / its simplest form, a sin...

Interesting. I suspected that listening first wouldn't work too well. Let us know how you get on with the text version! (www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/we-w...)

What I like about the story (and Le Guin's original) is that every reader finds something different in it. I do love that it engages readers so well.

- Phil

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Reviewing the Hugo Short Stories (episode 55) Every year, we review the short stories shortlisted for the famous Hugo Awards. It's our way of keep abreast of trends in the field of scien...

New Episode! Our annual review of the short stories in the Hugo Award shortlist!

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Coming soon... our annual review of the shortlisted Hugo short stories!

Episode drops Thursday, 12 June 2025.

It Came From Outer Space! (Episode 54) Sometimes the podstreams just cross, and this episode is a prime example. When Colin suggested reviewing It Came From Outer Space , the clas...

Hey, did we really forget to share this link? Our most recent episode, all about IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE (1953).

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Go With The Flow (episode 53) Flow (2024) is an extraordinary film - Latvia's most successul of all time, and winner of the Oscar for Best Animated Film. Colin and Phi...

New episode! This time we review the beautiful animated film FLOW and have our fingers crossed that Apple TV's MURDERBOT isn't a sitcom.

Available wherever you get your pods, and from here:

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Mind The Gap, Professor Quatermass! (episode 52) Discovery of a buried skull turns a London building site into a palaeontological dig. Until, in a geological layer that's five million years...

Anyone who has used the Tube in London will be familiar with the repeated phrase "Mind the gap!" Quatermass is always drawn to a gap...in knowledge, in the fossil record, you name it.

Our new episode, looking at the finest Quatermass movie and its TV precursor: 101sf.blogspot.com/2025/03/mind...

Coming very soon: SF101 goes underground... five million years underground...😁

Cracking Sci-Fi! (episode 51 of the podcast) We once claimed Tintin: Destination Moon was science fiction, because an animated white dog accompanied an animated human to the moon on a ...

Check out our latest podcast episode, in which we assess the cracking sci-fi that is... Wallace & Gromit!

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To paraphrase a British comedian, "You can't have been born in 1985 - that only just happened!"

- Phil

Turns out both us co-hosts love Wyndham - and I remain amazed at how well Midwich and Chrysalids hold up.

- Phil

That's great to hear. Thanks, Bob!

Fascinating article! This kind of account is something JMS should really have included in TLDV. (What's the phrase? They also serve, who only stand and wait...)

It would be great to see the Pangborn, Piserchia, Zoline, and Buck stories, even if they turned out to be sub-par or dated.

Analog Solutions (episode 50) Woo-hoo, we've reached FIFTY EPISODES! This time we have another one of our (made-up) time-honored traditions: reviewing a current science f...

We're back - first episode of 2025, and our 50th episode overall!

This time we review a recent issue of ANALOG science fiction magazine. How does it stack up against its online competitors? How does it stack up against the Analog of old? Find out here:

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Continuing our countdown to Xmas with some out-takes...

Counting down to Xmas with some out-takes 😀

You pre-suppose that we have READ some Iain M. Banks... 😆

I'll bring it up at our next board meeting!

In Days of Old (episode 49 of the podcast) In time-honored tradition, for our December episode we go hurtling back in time to review a science fiction magazine from the past. Get your...

Our latest podcast episode...

...in which we travel back 50 years to read and review a 1974 issue of Analog Science Fiction magazine.

Be like that robot: don your flares, grab your ghettoblaster, and ride back with us!

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Good to know that our somewhat abstract discussion was appreciated. Thanks!

Uniquely Portable Magic (episode 48) It occurred to us that although we have discussed many specific books on the show, we've never devoted an episode to the idea of the book - ...

And here's our latest episode, on the subject of: books!

Well, what did you THINK "uniquely portable magic" referred to? 😆

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