Big Picture Science - Science Fiction
ENCORE: No one knows what the future will
bring, but science fiction authors are willing to take a stab at imagining
it. We take our own stab at imagining them imagining it. Find out
why the genre of science fiction is more than a trippy ride through a bizarre,
hi-tech world, but a way to assess and vote on our possible shared
future.
Also, an astronomer learns how
many rejection slips it takes before becoming a published science fiction
author …. what author Bruce Sterling wants to get off his chest … and what the
joke about the neutron walking into a bar to ask the price of beer has in
common with H.G. Wells, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Ridley Scott.
Oh, and the price of beer?
Bartender: “For you, no charge.”
Guests:
- Ed Finn - Director of the Center for
Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University
- Andrew
Fraknoi – Chair of the astronomy department at Foothill College.
His story, "The Cave in Arsia Mons", is in "Building
Red", here. His list of
astronomically correct science fiction is here.
- Bruce Sterling - Science fiction author, journalist, and editor
- Brian Malow - Science comedian, science communication officer, North
Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh
This encore podcast was first released on May 16, 2016
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http://bigpicturescience.org/episodes/science-fiction
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