Oren, Mike and Chris philosophize on the origins and meaning of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and other speculative fiction genres. They discuss stories that cross genres, and sow confusion about the definition of “punk” and “orthogonal.”
Show Notes
- Speculative Fiction
- New Wave Science Fiction
- SFWA
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
- Travel Literature
- The Hero’s Journey
- Lessons, Star Trek: The Next Generation season 6
- The Gonne from Terry Prachett’s Discworld
- Roman Concrete
- Timeline of Material Technology (The Romans actually had steel.)
- Underworld
- Cultural Zeitgeist
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- Ghost Ship Trope
- Psychotronic Video
- Literary vs Popular Fiction
- The World According to Garp
- Escapism
- Mary Sue Trope
- The Eye of the World, Book I of The Wheel of Time
- Cyberpunk, Steampunk, Dieselpunk, and Magepunk
- Neuromancer
- Ghost in the Shell
- Fire Nation from Avatar: The Last Airbender
- Wild Wild West
- Great Man theory
- Example Genre Venn Diagram
- Battlestar Galactica
- Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey
- Event Horizon
- Atlantis: The Lost Empire
- Tattoo, Star Trek: Voyager season 2
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Cay Reet