In a lively discussion filled with enthusiasm for Michael Crichton’s blend of science fiction and historical intrigue, Eric and Chris delve into the depths of “Timeline.” They explore the intricate dance between reality and fantasy as...
Welcome, cosmic travelers and curious minds! You’re tuning in to another thrilling episode with your favorite interstellar guides, Eric and Chris. Today, we’re diving into the mesmerizing world crafted by the legendary Ray Bradbury in...
This show features a detailed discussion on Robert Heinlein’s 1958 short story ‘All You Zombies,’ exploring its intricate themes related to time travel, paradoxes, and identity. Lifedeathscifi.com investigates the...
Two timelines. One buried secret.Detective Beth McDade thinks her worst days are behind her—until a bloodstained 1970 Mustang turns up in a desert cave. What begins as a strange cold case unravels into a time-bending mystery born from a failed...
Welcome to Lifedeathsifi.com, where hosts Eric and Chris dive deep into the wonders of time travel. In today’s episode, we unravel the enigmatic threads of time through the lens of Before the Coffee Gets Cold. Imagine a quaint café where time...
This week, Eric and Chris delve into the intriguing universe of Charles Yu’s How to Live Safely in a Science-Fictional Universe. “Holy Heinlein!”: time machines as ordinary as phone booths, multi-universes at your fingertips, and time...
In this episode, we’ll be dialing up another mind-bending adventure — one that promises wonderful hallucination born in cyberspace; cyberpunk. Visions that Gibson uses to take us even further into the future. Whether you’re a long-time sci-fi reader...
Welcome to Life, Death, Sci-Fi, where hosts Chris and Eric dive deep into the realms of speculative fiction. In this episode, we delve into Philip K. Dick’s mind-bending novel Now Wait for Last Year. This story is a chaotic fusion of drug...
Can time travel be all in your head? A hallucination? Or does time travel need a device? A button to push? Hosts Eric and Chris wrangle over this impossible conundrum in this goofy romp through the horrible history of WWII. How is it possible to...
Your apartment door clicks, locking itself behind you as you enter the shared stairwell. You make your way down, cement step after cement step, descending past the dusty, yellowing walls, walls plastered with license-plate-sized stencils in black or...
Our heros yo-yo back and forth through time meeting the future and the past and then the future in magnificent ships floating through the sea of time. Lifedeathscifi hosts Chris and Eric try to make sense of what is happening in Stephen...
Chris and Eric try to wrap their minds around a planet Mars with a host of characters that may appear again in The Lion, Witch, and Wardrobe. This mind-bending experience takes our hero on a journey of kidnapping, ransom, escape, and...
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...
Mark Watney is marooned on Mars, not the first literary lost on the red planet, and probably not the last. Lifedeathscifi talks about how he McGivers his way out of some life-or-death spots and earns his spot to the spaceman’s ball. The world...
Space travel, Mars settlement, and planet-building on a grand scale, Kim Stanley Robinson takes us on an epic journey that extends our lifetime and shows us what humans can make and take apart. Would you take the treatment? Image: Cover photograph...
Finally, space is more like 21st-century space in this wacky ride to Mars. Eric and Chris talk about Demogorgons, wispy beards, the Stalin lounge, HT serum made from bears, The Mary Poppins, and much more about this near-future vision of space...
Okay. This is part of the chronological journey of Martian stories. We began in 1912 and now seven stories later, We’re in 1988. So far, most of, if not, all these stories use Mars in name only; like a stage backdrop, meaning it could have...
A wild-west walkabout on the thirsty surface of Mars. Our heroes travel a path of time-travel and mind, balancing between the now and madness.Image: Martian Time Slip by Philip K. Dick (1964) Got It CoveredMusic: (Alien 1963) Music No Copyright...
War, invasion, conquest all happening again on Mars. Beautifully written and one of our favorites. Bradbury makes the unbelievable believable with his poetry-like prose. Image: photo of cover by E. Bueschlen Music:(Alien 1963) Music No Copyright...
Margaret Atwood gives us a memoir and some insights into the sci-fi genre. We talk about gizmos, definitions, feminism, censorship, and more. And finally, we reveal the them for the next season of life death sci-fi! Image: linkMusic:(Alien 1963)...
Another turn of the 19th century Russian author writing about space travel and life on other planets, mainly Mars. Because this story was written by one of the founders of the Bolshevek movement, of course there is a connection to Ukraine. Shout out...
Chris and Eric talk about Aelita by Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy. Mysterious and wonderful in its fantasy sprinkled with some surprising sci-fi tidbits. Think about how long Russia has been enthralled with space and Aelita may have been the twinkle...