Looking at time travel stories generated by a main character waking from sleep.  More at sciencefictionuniversity.com.  (Episode contains spoilers and occasional swear words.) Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/scifiu)

Science Fiction University

Ep 7: While You Were Sleeping: Planet of the Apes, Idiocracy, Groundhog Day

HBO's 2020 series "The Outsider" meets the cult classics the 1972 made-for-TV movie/pilot for "The Night Stalker" and the 1958 Steve McQueen debut "The Blob."  These science fiction stories are connected by a truth-knower untrusted by the authorities.  Those authorities are the "system" designed to protect society from danger and crime.  And there is a danger in these tales beyond the ability of the system to protect us.  More at ScienceFictionUniversity.com  Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/scifiu)

Ep 6 System Failure -- The Outsider, The Night Stalker and The Blob

(Spoiler Alert, and we swear a little in this episode.)  We've watched the first two episodes of Season 3 of HBO's Westworld and are ready to call it a #fail as narrative science fiction.   But it provides a perfect example of WHY stories need a hero, a villain, a writer, and a story.  More at sciencefictionuniversity.com.  Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/scifiu)

Ep 5 How Westworld Went South

Artificial Intelligences:  Driftglass and Blue Gal talk about William Gibson's 1984 novel "Neuromancer," and Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film "2001: A Space Odyssey."  SPOILERS as always.  Support the show at our Patreon and thanks!  Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/scifiu)

Ep 4 Neuromancer and 2001: A Space Odyssey

Gods Among Us!  Driftglass and Blue Gal talk about Valentine Michael Smith in Robert Heinlein's 1961 novel "Stranger in a Strange Land" and Doctor Manhattan in HBO's 2019 series "The Watchmen."  Support the show on Patreon!  https://www.patreon.com/scifiu Support the show

Ep 3 Special Stranger in a Strange Land and HBO's The Watchmen

Driftglass and Blue Gal compare and contrast Isaac Asimov's 1955 book "The End of Eternity" with Rian Johnson's 2012 film, "Looper."  Support the show

Ep 2 The End of Eternity and Looper

Welcome to Science Fiction University!  Our premiere episode concerns Philip K. Dick's 1969 novel UBIK, and Christopher Nolan's 2010 film "Inception."  We'd love your feedback at sciencefictionuniversity.com or email the show at sciencefictionuniversity@gmail.com.  Support the show

Episode 1: UBIK and Inception

Each episode Driftglass and Blue Gal discuss one work of classic science fiction plus one science fiction movie. The two pieces share a theme, whether it be time travel, unreliable narrators, dystopias, etc. Join the adventure at sciencefictionuniversity.com

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