[YouTube] [Apple] [Spotify] [Download] Lisa Yaszek, John Kessel, and Robby Soave join us to discuss Robert Heinlein’s classic novelStranger in a Strange Land, about a human being raised by Martians. Please support us onPatreonor sign up as asponsor. ...
576. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein Book Club (with Lisa Yaszek, John Kessel, Robby Soave) 575. Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke Book Club (with Matthew Kressel, Anthony Ha, Sara Lynn Michener) 574. A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge Book Club (with S...
From “Space Oddity” through “Blackstar,” David Bowie was pop music’s ambassador to the realms of science fiction and fantasy. Jason Heller explains how the shapeshifting Starman was inspired by the dark sci-fi experiments of the space age.
I’m going to breeze through the history, issues, and elements from the perspective of sci-fi interfaces, and then return to the three examples in the survey. If you want to goreallyin depth on the topic (and encounter awesome words like “psychophysics” and “egomotion” in their natura...