The Podcasters of the Apocalypse, on the My Internet Has Stopped Working podcast, take on A Season of Wonder, a holiday collection that swaps cozy nostalgia for time travel as confrontation—using the past not as escape, but as a proving ground for faith, grief, and identity. These stories ask why holidays pull us backward in time and what it costs when technology makes that pull literal. In Harlan Ellison’s “Go Toward the Light,” a future scientist intervenes during the desecration of the Temple in Jerusalem, reframing the Hanukkah miracle as an act of choice rather than myth. Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s “Loop” turns the lens inward, using a holiday marked by loss to show that even infinite do-overs can’t erase grief—only clarify it. It’s science fiction that challenges tradition, unsettles comfort, and gives the season of wonder real teeth.