We discuss tragic heroes and utopias in science fiction, then we turn to the possiblity of future Dune movies.  More at sciencefictionuniversity.com.  

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Alternate title:  'Mother Nature, USMC'.  A subgenre of science fiction in which humans try to bend nature to their will, sometimes with disastrous results.  

Also, an ocean creature theme.  Movies discussed include 

• 1973's 'The Day of the Dolphin'
• Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and 
• The Incredible Mr. Limpet

(Yes, The Incredible Mr. Limpet).   More at sciencefictionuniversity.com.

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Driftglass took Blue Gal to see Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1 for her birthday.  During the movie, Driftglass noticed many plot points that connect this blockbuster to William Gibson's 1984 novel, "Neuromancer."  So we did a podcast about it.  (No Fair Remembering Stuff returns next week.)  More at sciencefictionuniversity.com. 

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Multiversal success and failure.  Success?   Star Trek TOS episode "Mirror, Mirror," and the 2017 Starz series, "Counterpart."  Failure?  It pains Driftglass to say it, but Robert Heinlein's "The Number of the Beast" is well-known as a massive fail in the multiverse and just plain science fiction novel genre. 

And you can hear Patton Oswalt's magnificent Parks and Rec filibuster concerning "multiverses" here.
 
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Science Fiction "versus"  Fantasy – When Genres Collide

Robert Heinlein’s “Glory Road”

Babylon 5: The Technomages.

Star Wars

John Varley’s Wizard/Demon Trilogy

The Dragonriders of Pern 

Arthur Clarke’s Third Law

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We look at a 1970's pilot, "The Questor Tapes," which was a scratchpad for the invention of the TNG character known as Data.  More at sciencefictionuniversity.com. 

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The 1970 film, "Colossus: The Forbin Project" and the "uh oh, we shouldn't have done that" genre of science fiction.   More at sciencefictionuniversity.com .

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We discuss our re-watching of Patrick McGoohan in "The Prisoner," perhaps the most influential science fiction single-season show ever.  

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We discuss what can go wrong, and right,  when adapting a much-loved science fiction story to the big or big-ish screen.  Examples include Foundation, Dune, and the more recent Kindred.  More at ScienceFictionUniversity.com. 

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We discuss Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film, "2001:  A Space Odyssey,"  Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972 film, “Solaris,”  and Denis Villeneuve’s 2016 film, “Arrival.”    More at ScienceFictionUniversity.com.  Support our ad-free show at our Patreon!  Patreon.com/scifiu

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