The day has finally arrived, dear friends, when we get to finish our longest-running series of episodes. Istvan Csicsery-Ronay's "The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction" may have taken two-and-a-bit years to journey through, but every step of that journey has been rich (or dare we say, RIFE) with conversation. About what, prey? About what makes science fiction ... well, science fiction! We are so grateful for this book and the many new ways it has given us to frame this evergreen debate, and to move forward in critically and creatively engaging with this thing (genre/mode/cat) that we love.

So, thank you, Csicsery-Ronay!

What is the seventh beauty of science fiction? Well, Tony really struggled to pronounce the 'Technologiade,' so we're going to call it the Techno-Gatorade. We hope you don't mind.

We do also want to give shout-outs here in the show-notes to our previous episodes on the subject:

Beauty #1: Fictive Neology (Episode 5)

Beauty #2: Novums (Episode 12)

Beauty #3: Future History (MIA, hard drive failure)

Beauty #4: Imaginary Science (Episode 34)

Beauty #5: The Sublime (Episode 55)

Beauty #6: The Grotesque (Episode 71)

You can find all of our back episodes on YouTube once they have shuffled off these earthly coils of their SoundCloud first life.

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