Inspired by The Super Mario Bros Movie, we're talking about a humble class of heroes whose lives are devoted to infrastructure maintenance and repair. There are heating engineer rogues and space janitors and, of course, plumbers. Later in the episode we’ll head down to Antarctica, where our guest Ariel Waldman spent her summer vacation studying the environment and the tiny creatures who live there – including tardigrades, the world’s greatest microscopic animals!
How to turn a story into a deadly weapon
Fascism and Book Bans (with Maggie Tokuda-Hall)
The Turing Test is bullsh*t (w/Alex Hanna and Emily M. Bender)
Queer Horror! (with Dr. Chuck Tingle)
Videogame movies are officially better than comic book movies
Encore Episode: Let's Obsess Over the Politics of Dune!
We Don't Give a F*ck About Canon
Encore Episode: The Incredibly Strange Career of Anne Rice
Encore Episode: Science Fiction Keeps Trying To "Fix" Disabled People with Elsa Sjunneson
Alien ecosystems and the algae menace
How Doctor Who Stood the Test of Time
Episode 142: Books That'll Get You Through The Winter Months
Episode 141: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Zines
Episode 140: Silicon Valley is doomed to misunderstand the future, with Dr. Joy Buolamwini
Episode 139: How To Write About Violence (with Fonda Lee and Lauren Beukes)
Episode 138: Battlestar Galactica, 20 Years Later
Episode 137: The Creativity Fallacy
Episode 136: Who Wants to Live on an Eyeball Earth? With Aomawa Shields
Episode 135: The Myth of Free Speech
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