Lifedeathscifi looks into the well of time and sees H.G. Wells spinning a tale of science and time. The excitement of the first to travel into the vast beyond. Is it science fiction or just another fantasy of the 19th century? If you were sitting in the time machine’s chair, would you push the lever?
Some definitions of science fiction:
Ray Bradbury: “Science fiction is about the possible, whereas fantasy is about the impossible.”
Richard Matheson” Science fiction is about changing one thing.”
Kim Stanley Robinson: “Sci-fi is historical fiction.”
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Show Notes & Links
The DeLorean time machine (from the film, Back to the Future)
Edgar Rice Burroughs’s A Princess of Mars (Listen to our episode here.)
Alexi Tolstoy’s Aelita (Listen to our episode here.)
Alexander Bogdanov’s Red Star: The First Bolshevik Utopia (Listen to our episode here.)
C.S. Lewis’s Out of the Silent Planet (Listen to our episode here.)
Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake
Was Edgar Allan Poe a time traveller?
Henry James
Houdini said on his death he would return to a particular place every year?
It’s a Wonderful Life
Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol
Octavia E Butler’s Kindred
Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend
Kim Stanely Robinson
Science Fiction cliff notes
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Matrix
Star Trek
Podcast Gun Dog
Anachronistic time travelers?
Ray Bradbury’s “A Sound of Thunder” (We’ll link to our discussion of his story once it’s published.)
