Science Fiction 101 Podcast
@sf101.bsky.social
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/
https://101sf.blogspot.com/
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...
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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October 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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...
In which our intrepid co-hosts act upon the recommended reading and viewing suggested by each other!
101sf.blogspot.com/2025/10/toyn...
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...
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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September 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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...
Any resemblance between Seth and the depicted SETH-3P0 is purely coincidental...
101sf.blogspot.com/2025/09/triv...
New episode! In which we review the 1970s Terry Nation-created BBC post-apocalyptic drama series SURVIVORS!
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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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August 28, 2025 at 8:14 AM
New episode! In which we review the 1970s Terry Nation-created BBC post-apocalyptic drama series SURVIVORS!
101sf.blogspot.com/2025/08/surv...
101sf.blogspot.com/2025/08/surv...
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-...
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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August 13, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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-...
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-...
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"!
August 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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-...
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-...
August 7, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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-...
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...
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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July 31, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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...
In which your humble co-hosts serve up things we think each other hasn't read but should!
101sf.blogspot.com/2025/07/serv...
New Episode! Our annual review of the short stories in the Hugo Award shortlist!
101sf.blogspot.com/2025/06/revi...
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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June 12, 2025 at 7:41 AM
New Episode! Our annual review of the short stories in the Hugo Award shortlist!
101sf.blogspot.com/2025/06/revi...
101sf.blogspot.com/2025/06/revi...
Coming soon... our annual review of the shortlisted Hugo short stories!
Episode drops Thursday, 12 June 2025.
Episode drops Thursday, 12 June 2025.
June 9, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Coming soon... our annual review of the shortlisted Hugo short stories!
Episode drops Thursday, 12 June 2025.
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).
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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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June 3, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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...
101sf.blogspot.com/2025/05/it-c...
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...
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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April 16, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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...
Available wherever you get your pods, and from here:
101sf.blogspot.com/2025/04/go-w...
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...
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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March 20, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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...
Our new episode, looking at the finest Quatermass movie and its TV precursor: 101sf.blogspot.com/2025/03/mind...
Coming very soon: SF101 goes underground... five million years underground...😁
March 19, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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...
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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February 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Check out our latest podcast episode, in which we assess the cracking sci-fi that is... Wallace & Gromit!
101sf.blogspot.com/2025/02/crac...
101sf.blogspot.com/2025/02/crac...
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...
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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January 9, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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...
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...
Continuing our countdown to Xmas with some out-takes...
December 21, 2024 at 11:47 AM
Continuing our countdown to Xmas with some out-takes...
Counting down to Xmas with some out-takes 😀
December 20, 2024 at 7:42 PM
Counting down to Xmas with some out-takes 😀
Our latest podcast episode...
...in which we travel back 50 years to read and review a 1974 issue of Analog Science Fiction magazine.
Be like that robot: don your flares, grab your ghettoblaster, and ride back with us!
101sf.blogspot.com/2024/12/in-d...
...in which we travel back 50 years to read and review a 1974 issue of Analog Science Fiction magazine.
Be like that robot: don your flares, grab your ghettoblaster, and ride back with us!
101sf.blogspot.com/2024/12/in-d...
In Days of Old (episode 49 of the podcast)
In time-honored tradition, for our December episode we go hurtling back in time to review a science fiction magazine from the past. Get your...
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December 17, 2024 at 10:15 PM
Our latest podcast episode...
...in which we travel back 50 years to read and review a 1974 issue of Analog Science Fiction magazine.
Be like that robot: don your flares, grab your ghettoblaster, and ride back with us!
101sf.blogspot.com/2024/12/in-d...
...in which we travel back 50 years to read and review a 1974 issue of Analog Science Fiction magazine.
Be like that robot: don your flares, grab your ghettoblaster, and ride back with us!
101sf.blogspot.com/2024/12/in-d...
And here's our latest episode, on the subject of: books!
Well, what did you THINK "uniquely portable magic" referred to? 😆
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Well, what did you THINK "uniquely portable magic" referred to? 😆
101sf.blogspot.com/2024/11/uniq...
Uniquely Portable Magic (episode 48)
It occurred to us that although we have discussed many specific books on the show, we've never devoted an episode to the idea of the book - ...
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November 12, 2024 at 7:58 PM
And here's our latest episode, on the subject of: books!
Well, what did you THINK "uniquely portable magic" referred to? 😆
101sf.blogspot.com/2024/11/uniq...
Well, what did you THINK "uniquely portable magic" referred to? 😆
101sf.blogspot.com/2024/11/uniq...
New episode!
Colin gives an eyewitness account of the 2024 Worldcon, while Phil tries to britsplain cockney rhyming slang...
Available wherever podcasts are given away.
101sf.blogspot.com/2024/09/conv...
Colin gives an eyewitness account of the 2024 Worldcon, while Phil tries to britsplain cockney rhyming slang...
Available wherever podcasts are given away.
101sf.blogspot.com/2024/09/conv...
Conventional Wisdom (episode 46 of the podcast)
August 2024 saw the World Science Fiction Convention, held in Glasgow, Scotland. Phil stayed at home, but intrepid traveller Colin crossed a...
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September 11, 2024 at 8:30 AM
New episode!
Colin gives an eyewitness account of the 2024 Worldcon, while Phil tries to britsplain cockney rhyming slang...
Available wherever podcasts are given away.
101sf.blogspot.com/2024/09/conv...
Colin gives an eyewitness account of the 2024 Worldcon, while Phil tries to britsplain cockney rhyming slang...
Available wherever podcasts are given away.
101sf.blogspot.com/2024/09/conv...
Our latest podcast episode, looking at two great women science fiction writers: Zenna Henderson and Pauline Ashwell!
101sf.blogspot.com/2024/08/zenn...
101sf.blogspot.com/2024/08/zenn...
Zenna's People and Pauline's Lizzie (episode 45 of the podcast)
The first women to appear (as "soloists") on the ballot for science fiction's Hugo Awards were Zenna Henderson and Pauline Ashwell , in 195...
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August 22, 2024 at 2:41 PM
Our latest podcast episode, looking at two great women science fiction writers: Zenna Henderson and Pauline Ashwell!
101sf.blogspot.com/2024/08/zenn...
101sf.blogspot.com/2024/08/zenn...