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A Year Can Do a Lot to a Person (episode 70) (opens the original)
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Triumph or disaster? Vintage or trainwreck? These are some of the questions we ask ourselves as we consider the year 1983 in science fiction film - prompted by a contemporary review which suggested it might have been particularly terrible. You see, on the one the one hand, there's WarGames. But on the other, there's Krull. And somewhere in between sits Brainstorm. As well as mulling over these cinematic masterpieces, we have a science fiction transport quiz courtesy of friend of the show Andy Pa
That's So Dated (episode 69) (opens the original)
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Colin and Phil consider the significance of dates in science fiction. ...1984, 1999, 2001... all years that carry heavy connotations for the SF connoisseur. And we've got plenty more. Which ones will you recognise? We also have a women-in-science fiction quiz, and our usual recommendations of SF old and new. For more information, check out the shownotes at https://101sf.blogspot.com/2026/09/thats-so-dated-episode-69.html
Climate of Here (episode 68) (opens the original)
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In the midst of a long, hot summer, Colin and Phil turn their sci-fi attentions to the treatment of climate change in science fiction. Naturally, science fiction was there first: before human-caused climate change was recognised, science fiction had been considering what would happen if our planet became hotter. Or colder. To explore this topic, we discuss two films from earlier times - David Twohy's The Arrival (1996) and Val Guest's The Day The Earth Caught Fire (1961). We also have a Cli-Fi Q
Lost in Translation (episode 67) (opens the original)
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This episode was intended to be a grab-bag of different topics, but we inadvertently dug up a show with a strong theme: translation! We start off with a review of the hot-off-the-presses free magazine Small Planet , which discusses issues around translated science fiction. Even if you didn't know you were interested in languages and translating, you will be after you've heard our discussion. Next we review the classic short film " La Jeté e ", famously the basis for the film 12 Monkeys . And the
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