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  1. Neal Stephenson on Stranger Than Fiction

    Welcome to Stranger Than Fiction, a new six-episode podcast from Slate, the New America Foundation, and Arizona State University. Each week, Tim Wu—a Future Tense fellow at New America, the author of The Master Switch, and a professor at Columbia Law School—talks to a contemporary science fiction writer about whether we’re living in the future.

    In the debut episode, Wu talks to Neal Stephenson, the award-winning science fiction author of Snow Crash, The Diamond Age, Cryptonomicon, and more. They discuss the purpose of science fiction, geek culture, and whether—contrary to our constant hand-wringing about “everything changing so fast”—innovation has really slowed down.

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  2. A new look at Dr Who - The Science Show - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

    Dr Who has been described as a significant part of British popular culture, and has developed a cult following amongst viewers. The Dr and his companions have in a way represented humanity as they face foes and work to save civilisations. Since its inception in 1963, Dr Who has been played by 11 actors. This has been represented as a regeneration. But curiously Dr Who has always been played by a white male. In the course of her in-depth study, Lindy Orthia has watched every episode of Dr Who and considers the place of race in this all-time television favourite.

    Guests: Lindy Orthia, Lecturer; Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University, Canberra ACT

    http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/a-new-look-at-dr-who/4649676

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  3. William Gibson at The New York Public Library

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  4. SF Crossing the Gulf (Episode 11): “Star Maker” by Olaf Stapledon

    In this episode of SF Crossing the Gulf, we tackle Star Maker, the 1939 classic by Olaf Stapledon.

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  5. Hell is the Absence of God | Ted Chiang

    An unbeliever struggles with the question of faith when God is scientific fact and angels routinely visit the earth. Hugo, Locus, Nebula Awards (Best Novelette).

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  6. This isn’t your grandfather’s science fiction | MetaFilter

    A simple time machine undermines the concept of free will, with disastrous consequences.

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  7. Exhalation | Ted Chiang

    A non-human scholar relates the dissection of his own brain, and the implications his discoveries hold for his curious clockwork universe. Locus, Hugo Awards (Best Short Story).

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  8. The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate | Ted Chiang

    An ancient alchemist introduces a traveling merchant to a mysterious time-traveling gateway. Hugo, Nebula Awards (Best Novelette).

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  9. Fireworks by Headrush

    Improvised scifi music by Sydney band, Headrush (Soner Sahan and Luke Bacon). Performed on guitars, recorded with a mobile phone July 2011.

    Find the artwork and download in other formats at http://headrush11.bandcamp.com/track/fireworks

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  10. Guardian book club: Iain M Banks on Use of Weapons

    As the latest novel in the Culture series hits the bookshops, we look at the third of Iain M Banks’s best-selling SF novels, The Use of Weapons. Known for writing in two separate strands – science fiction and literary novels – Banks explains how the two inspired each other, with the Culture emerging from his work on the first draft of his debut novel, The Wasp Factory.

    He also explains the role that a misunderstanding of structuralism played in the construction of his fictional multiverse, and reveals that the dual chronology he uses in the novel was not in fact his idea at all …

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