James Moriarty is the best villain in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Or is he a villain at all? In “Elementary, My Dear Data” and “Ship in a Bottle” the holographic character gains sentience–and wants freedom. Josh Jennings and Andrew Young…
Read MorePatrick McGoohan’s 1967 series “The Prisoner” is an avante-garde science fiction series about a secret agent abducted by nefarious forces and subject to psychological torment in an atavistic village. Jim Swift and Ron Hayden join to discuss the…
Read MoreJosh Jennings temporarily hosts the show in order to interview Andrew Heaton about what all goes into writing science fiction, a la his new book, “Inappropriately Human: 21 Short Stories.” Get your copy at: …
Read MoreFrom “Inappropriately Human: 21 Short Stories” by Andrew Heaton. Now available as an audio book! Get your copy at…
Read MoreIn “Vivarium,” starring Jesse Eisenberg and Imogen Poots, a young couple find themselves trapped in some kind of suburban pocket universe. Their captors leave an alien infant on with the instructions “Raise the child and you will be released.” …
Read MorePlease enjoy “Simulucrum,” one of the stories from my new book, “Inappropriately Human: 21 Short Stories”! Get a copy at: www.mightyheaton.com/books
Read MoreEnjoy this scifi piece from my new book “Inappropriately Human: 21 Short Stories.” Like it? Trust me to provide some solid scifi content? Then check it out! Go to: Or look for “Inappropriately Human” or “Andrew Heaton” on Amazon. Thanks!
Read MoreWhen does a science fiction go on too long, add too many new characters and odd plots, or just exhaust it’s fans in general? Scottish scifi enthusiasts Stone and Dickie Lynch return to discuss
Read MoreJoe Haldeman’s novel “The Forever War” is great science fiction in and of itself, involving aliens, time dilation, and how conflicts stretch out for centuries thanks to relativity. It’s also a great exploration of the nature and hopelessness of war, a…
Read MoreEarth is a Class 12 Deathworld–we just didn’t know it! To the rest of the universe it is violent and uninhabitable, and our amazing species grew up on this badass planet, and thought it was perfectly normal. Such is the premise of the Deathworld…
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