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...
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...
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...
Lifedeathscifi hosts Chris and Eric explore the humorous side of science fiction with John Carter’s Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs. This giggly sci-fi romp gives us more fantasy adventure than sci-fi but we both agree that it is...
Hosts Chris and Eric talk about The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke. Sri Lanka, Taprobane is the setting for this story and real-life home to the author. Questions about whether the myths and illusions that fill the early history of the...
Would you want to live forever? In this episode, we are awed by the scope of this setting and the diversity of the cast of characters in Larry Niven’s Ringworld. Luck, free will, and destiny are surprise guests in this space opera. Think big...