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[032] Social Science Talks: Warhammer and The Eisenhorn Trilogy, by Dan Abnett

2017-04-2848:45

‘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. Does knowledge require […]

[031] Social Science Talks: 1984, by George Orwell

2017-03-2859:09

‘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 round to covering 1984 […]

[030] Social Science Talks: His Dark Materials, by Philip Pullman

2017-03-0148:43

“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

2017-01-2748:25

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 together to […]

[028] Social Science Talks: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams

2016-12-2146:58

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, and episode […]

[026] Social Science Talks: The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood

2016-10-2654:39

“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

2016-09-2101:03:32

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 Star Trek franchise. […]

[024] Social Science Talks: Dune, by Frank Herbert

2016-08-23--:--1

“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 of reaching out to grasp […]

[023] Social Science Interviews: Penny Fielding, on Spies and Genre Fiction

2016-07-29--:--

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 fiction. It’s a great follow up […]

[022] Social Science Talks: Independence Day

2016-06-30--:--1

After a film night at Social Science Towers, Alex, Matt, Jess and Bleddyn discuss the beginning of the large-scale disaster film, Independence Day. Join us as we discuss 90s pop […]

[021] Social Science Talks: Utopia, By Thomas More

2016-05-31--:--

“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 beings, […]

[20] Social Science Talks: Embassytown, by China Miéville

2016-04-25--:--

“Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.” This month we discuss Embassytown, by China Miéville. […]

[019] Social Science Talks: Woman on the Edge of Time, by Marge Piercy

2016-03-2401:22:37

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 in this episode, recorded […]

[018] Social Science Talks: The Player of Games, by Iain M. Banks

2016-02-22--:--

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 Games, […]

[017] Social Science Talks: Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson

2016-01-20--:--

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 spread […]

[016] Social Science Talks: Slaughterhouse Five, by Kurt Vonnegut

2015-12-22--:--

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

2015-11-24--:--

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 of the […]

[014] Social Science Talks: War of the Worlds, by HG Wells

2015-10-21--:--

“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 than man’s and yet as […]

[013] Social Science Talks: Watchmen, by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons

2015-09-1841:35

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 had the bright idea of doing […]

[012] Social Science Interviews: Georg Loefflmann, on the Pentagon vs. Aliens

2015-09-07--:--

It’s conference season, and we dispatched our one-man-army Matt to interview a series of scholars studying science fiction at the British International Studies Association 2015 conference in London. This time […]

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