Science Fiction 101 Podcast
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Monthly podcast about the past, present and future of science fiction, hosted by Colin Kuskie and Phil Nichols. Find us at: https://101sf.blogspot.com/ We're in Feedspot's TOP FIVE of SF podcasts, both in the UK and worldwide!
New episode! We discuss the new magazine SMALL PLANET (about SF translation), and two great movies: La Jetée (Chris Marker, 1962) and Resurrection (Bi Gan, 2025). 101sf.blogspot.com/2026/07/lost...
Lost in Translation (episode 67)
This episode was intended to be a grab-bag of different topics, but we inadvertently dug up a show with a strong theme: translation! We star...
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Thanks to FEEDSPOT, who now rank us at #5 in their global list of "100 Best Sci-Fi Podcasts" - just below CLARKESWORLD and just above LIGHTSPEED! 🎉🎉 podcast.feedspot.com/sci_fi_podca... And we're still at #2 in their UK list, "20 Best UK Sci-Fi Podcasts"! podcast.feedspot.com/uk_sci_fi_po...
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New pod episode, in which we review the short stories nominated for this year's Hugo Awards. 101sf.blogspot.com/2026/06/be-v...
Be Vewwy Quiet, We're Hunting Hugos (episode 66)
It's awards season again, so Colin and Phil hunt out this years short story Hugo nominees: the six best stories from the science fiction a...
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New episode! We review the birth of modern science fiction, in the form of the one hundred year old Amazing Stories magazine. Learn all about this new fangled thing called... scientifiction. It will surely never catch on with a name like that. 101sf.blogspot.com/2026/04/were...
Scientifiction One Hundred and One (episode 65)
We're back. Waaaaaayyyy back, at the birth of science fiction. Or should that be "scientifiction"? We're celebrating 100 years of Amazing St...
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Woohoo, we're number two! According to Feedspot's "20 Best UK Sci-fi podcasts" chart, that is. Thanks to everyone who listens and reviews our little offering. And there's more to come - we're recording this afternoon in fact! podcast.feedspot.com/uk_sci_fi_po...
New episode: discussing whether SF and history are one and the same! 101sf.blogspot.com/2026/04/hist...
History Mystery (episode 64)
This time we react to a fascinating article from Strange Horizons , which claims that all SF writers are... historians! You can read the art...
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What other timey-wimey movies should we have discussed in our BACK TO THE FUTURES episode? I'd always pick TIME AFTER TIME. - Phil
New episode! We go time-travelling as we review the Back to the Future series, plus two other time-travel favourites. 101sf.blogspot.com/2026/03/back...
Back to the Futures (episode 63)
This time on Science Fiction 101 , we take some trips down memory lane to revisit classic time travel movies. We mostly focus on the Back to...
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New episode - and it's our modern mag read: we review the Nov/Dec 2025 issue of ASIMOV'S science fiction magazine. How good are the stories? How does the magazine of today compare with how it was when it started, 40-odd years ago? Colin and Phil investigate... 101sf.blogspot.com/2026/02/asim...
Asimov's Lore (episode 62)
Traditionally on Science Fiction 101 , we follow up our "old magazine" review with a review of its modern counterpart - and this year is no ...
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Due to a glitch in them thar Googles, we weren't receiving notification of comments on our blog - 101sf.blogspot.com This has now been fixed. If you've commented in the past but not seen your comment appear, my apologies. But normal service has now (I believe) been restored. - Phil
As promised, our new episode, reviewing an old issue of ASIMOV'S magazine from 1982. 101sf.blogspot.com/2025/12/gimm...
Gimme That Old-Time Magazine (episode 61)
We're back! With our annual trek into the archives to read an old science fiction magazine, to see if and how our field has changed over the...
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Coming soon on Science Fiction 101, we do our "let's review an old magazine" thing. If you want to read along, here's the issue we're covering: Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Feb 15 1982 - which is available from Luminist using this download link: s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/luminist/SF/...
New episode! In which our intrepid co-hosts act upon the recommended reading and viewing suggested by each other! 101sf.blogspot.com/2025/10/toyn...
Toynbee Convecting for Beginners (episode 60)
Back in episode 57 , Colin and Phil recommended books and movies to each other. Now they act on those suggestions, reporting back with their...
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Our latest episode - with Colin's Worldcon report, and a trivia quiz from returning guest Seth (Hugos There) Heasley. Any resemblance between Seth and the depicted SETH-3P0 is purely coincidental... 101sf.blogspot.com/2025/09/triv...
Trivia Travails. Or, It's a Con! (episode 59)
Join us for a trivia quiz bonanza! Making a return visit to the pod is Colin's co-host from another podcast, Seth Heasley, who is here to ad...
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New episode! In which we review the 1970s Terry Nation-created BBC post-apocalyptic drama series SURVIVORS! 101sf.blogspot.com/2025/08/surv...
Surviving SURVIVORS (episode 58 of the podcast)
Fifty years ago, schoolboy Phil was knocked out by a British science fiction TV show, the post-apocalyptic Survivors . Created by Terry Na...
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Our next episode will drop on 28 August, and here's a heads-up on our topic: BBC series SURVIVORS (1975-7), created by Dalek creator Terry Nation! It's about a plague and its aftermath. Click the link for our playlist of online SURVIVORS episodes. 101sf.blogspot.com/2025/08/get-...
Get ready for... SURVIVORS!
Our next podcast episode will drop on 28th August, and we'd like to give you a heads-up on what we're covering - in case you'd like to do th...
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Of course, it may just be a temporary glitch in the matrix... but Feedspot has promoted us to number FOUR in its list of "25 Best UK Sci-Fi Podcasts"!
While you're waiting for the next SF101 (coming real soon now!), check out our OTHER podcasts. Colin and friends discuss Murderbot on TAKE ME TO YOUR READER: pavementpodcast.com/archives/pod... Phil discusses Ray Bradbury's short stories on BRADBURY 100: bradburymedia.blogspot.com/2025/08/new-...
New episode! In which your humble co-hosts serve up things we think each other hasn't read but should! 101sf.blogspot.com/2025/07/serv...
Serving Suggestions (episode 57)
For this episode, we decided to challenge each other with books, stories and films that we thought the other hadn't read or seen. The result...
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New Episode! Our annual review of the short stories in the Hugo Award shortlist! 101sf.blogspot.com/2025/06/revi...
Reviewing the Hugo Short Stories (episode 55)
Every year, we review the short stories shortlisted for the famous Hugo Awards. It's our way of keep abreast of trends in the field of scien...
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Coming soon... our annual review of the shortlisted Hugo short stories! Episode drops Thursday, 12 June 2025.
Hey, did we really forget to share this link? Our most recent episode, all about IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE (1953). 101sf.blogspot.com/2025/05/it-c...
It Came From Outer Space! (Episode 54)
Sometimes the podstreams just cross, and this episode is a prime example. When Colin suggested reviewing It Came From Outer Space , the clas...
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New episode! This time we review the beautiful animated film FLOW and have our fingers crossed that Apple TV's MURDERBOT isn't a sitcom. Available wherever you get your pods, and from here: 101sf.blogspot.com/2025/04/go-w...
Go With The Flow (episode 53)
Flow (2024) is an extraordinary film - Latvia's most successul of all time, and winner of the Oscar for Best Animated Film. Colin and Phi...
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Anyone who has used the Tube in London will be familiar with the repeated phrase "Mind the gap!" Quatermass is always drawn to a gap...in knowledge, in the fossil record, you name it. Our new episode, looking at the finest Quatermass movie and its TV precursor: 101sf.blogspot.com/2025/03/mind...
Mind The Gap, Professor Quatermass! (episode 52)
Discovery of a buried skull turns a London building site into a palaeontological dig. Until, in a geological layer that's five million years...
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Coming very soon: SF101 goes underground... five million years underground...😁
Check out our latest podcast episode, in which we assess the cracking sci-fi that is... Wallace & Gromit! 101sf.blogspot.com/2025/02/crac...
Cracking Sci-Fi! (episode 51 of the podcast)
We once claimed Tintin: Destination Moon was science fiction, because an animated white dog accompanied an animated human to the moon on a ...
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We're back - first episode of 2025, and our 50th episode overall! This time we review a recent issue of ANALOG science fiction magazine. How does it stack up against its online competitors? How does it stack up against the Analog of old? Find out here: 101sf.blogspot.com/2025/01/anal...
Analog Solutions (episode 50)
Woo-hoo, we've reached FIFTY EPISODES! This time we have another one of our (made-up) time-honored traditions: reviewing a current science f...
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