Sci-Fi Carnival

Wakanda Forever! It's official. JULY 8th 2022 is the release date for the Black Panther Sequel. In this episode of Sci-Fi  Buzz Shots, hosts Maryck Allyson, James Robinson, and guest host Mel nerd-out for fifteen minutes plus over the Wakanda Forever release date announcement.

Under His Fu$!#king Eye! June and the Handmaid crew are back for another season of Gilead's Bullsh#%*t.  Hulu graciously released the first three episodes of the Fourth Season of The Handmaid's Tale and Sci-Fi Carnival is here for it.  In this episode, Maryck Allyson, James Robinson, and guest host Mel, nerd-out with impunity over...

• How to manage dirty old Commanders,
• Frail Aunt Lydia,
• June the budding chemist.
• What became of the Waterfords?
• And Fu***king Nick!

The intrepid trio is back to nerd-out over the blurred lines between hard sci-fi and soft sci-fi.  Hosts Maryck Allyson, James Robinson, and guest host Mel pick through some of their favorite sci-fi storylines and in the process answer some real key sci-fi questions such as:

• What's the deal with Chris Nolan's Twilight world?
• What happens when you keep pissing off the community robot?
• And why Avenue 5 should be considered hard science.

Did you know you could live forever?  In this episode of Sci-Fi Buzz Shots, hosts Maryck Allyson and James Robinson nerd-out over a blog post published in the Nerdist titled "Dyson Sphere May Be the Key to Human Immortality" by Matthew Hart. 

For 15 minutes we cover:

• How the sun can power your retirement simulation.
• The striking resemblance between a Dyson Sphere and the Death Star.
• And Cyborg Life

Memories, sweet sweet memories. In this episode of Sci-Fi  Buzz Shot episode, hosts Maryck Allyson and James Robinson nerd-out for fifteen minutes over the encroaching topic of cancel culture into the sci-fi realm. Are we all just a blizzard of snowflakes, or do some narratives need to be wished away into the Smithsonian?

The Lord has opened! Last week Hulu dropped a trailer for Season Four of the Handmaid's Tale, and Sci-Fi Carnival is here for it.

In a new series, we call Sci-Fi Buzz Shots, the gang at Sci-Carnival will nerd-out with impunity for 15 minutes over buzz in the sci-fi community. That being said, tune in for our first Sci-Fi Buzz Shot:  The Revenge of the Handmaids.

*Blessed Be The Fruit Loops*

Lift every voice and shout! In honor of Black History Month, Sci-Fi Carnival is nerding-out with impunity over black people in science fiction. Hosts Maryck Allyson, James Robinson, and guest host Mel dive into:

• Black Sci-Fi before Black Panther,
• Cosmic Slop, the sunken place, and equisapiens,
• Dark Matters,
• Reconstructing the deconstructed black narrative,
• And why planet Earth is not our home.

Sadly, we barely touch the surface of black people and the sci-fi genre, but on a positive note, we barely touch the surface of black people and the sci-fi genre.

Blessed Day! Hosts Maryck Allyson, James Robinson, and guest host, 'Just Mel', are back for the first Sci-Fi Carnival podcast of the year. And what a year it has been! In acknowledgment of the attempted coup on the U.S. government earlier this month, we are nerding-out with impunity over the Handmaid's Tale Hulu series. In this episode, we cover:

• Signs your country may be the next Gilead
• Other people's babies
• Handmaids, Martha's, Commanders, and Shaman
• Fake facts and totalitarian governments
• Playing the long game: something to consider when you didn't get out in time.
• What to do when your commander doesn't want to play scrabble anymore.
• Serena Joy and the art of outsmarting yourself.

*Warning: Because of the events on January 6, 2021, this episode will be more political than usual. 

No one could have ever guessed that 2020 would play out like the prequel to a dystopian novel. Yet here we are. In this episode of Sci-Fi Carnival, hosts Maryck Allyson, and James Robinson welcomes back guest host 'Just Mel' to close out this murder hornet of a year. We nerd-out over the many parallels between our favorite Sci-Fi stories, and the s***t show that is 2020, which includes:

• Octavia's America:
• Pandemics, Elections, and Kente Cloth.
• Will Smith 
•  Antebellum: Not quite what we thought it was.
• Hopeless Justice
• Twenty Twenty Won.

2020 came at us with impunity and we nerded-out with impunity because that's what we do. See you in 2021!

Back when COVID-19 was barely a whisper, hosts Maryck Allyson and James Robinson gathered in a Chicago Public Library and nerded-out over the feature sci-fi film "Gemini Man".  Although this mic free episode was Sci-Fi Carnival's first episode, it somehow got buried in the 'This is just a test' vault. But after the year we had, it's time the Gemini Man episode has its day.

So, in this forgotten episode, we lose our nerd minds over:

• Sniper retirement goals
• Alternatives to pension payments
• To clone or not to clone
• And how to be your own dad.