Megan, Debra, and Lance celebrate crossing 100 YouTube subscribers with viewer shoutouts, comment responses, and a little appreciation for the people helping the podcast grow. Then science fiction takes over the shop, asking how much of the genre belongs to real science, how much belongs to imagination, and how much comes from the fears people are carrying at the time. H. G. Wells’ The Invisible Man, Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary, the French comic Valerian, and Olivia Waite’s Murder by Memory shape a conversation about invisibility, alien communication, poppycock science, dystopian fiction, and climate anxiety. Some science holds up. Some really doesn’t.

How much bad science are you willing to forgive if the story works?

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📖 The Covered Pages

The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells

The Time Machine by H. G. Wells

Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott

Relativity The Special and the General Theory by Albert Einstein

The Space Trilogy by C. S. Lewis

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

Valérian and Laureline by Jean Claude Mezieres and Pierre Christin

The Fifth Element by Luc Besson

Operation Bounce House by Matt Dinniman

Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman

After the Fall by Edward Ashton

The Danger of Small Things by Carol Lewis

Murder by Memory by Olivia Waite

Nobody’s Baby by Olivia Waite

And Another Thing by Eoin Colfer

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Divergent by Veronica Roth

The Maze Runner by James Dashner

Silvercloak by L. K. Steven

Strange Buildings by Uketsu

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