Yes, *those* ships! Welcome to our new latest miniseries on enclosed spaces in science fiction and fantasy, wherein we nerd out about all things ship, inside and out. Ye shall hear many things about design and function here, as well as laments, and diverse cheers.

Do you have a favorite spaceship design? Or a least favorite? We'd love to hear from you.

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Buckle up: it's time for our review of "Star Trek Discovery," the latest addition to the Trek franchise. Did we love it? Yes. Unreservedly? No. There's a lot to shop talk, from representation to technology to plot mechanics ... and much, much more.

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This was a hard episode to record. As you'll probably be aware, the incredible Ursula K. Le Guin passed away early this year, and in this podcast we set out to untangle just what it was that she did. Did she change science fiction? What will her legacy be?

Full disclosure: this will probably be just as difficult to listen to as it was to record. But it's worth it. Ursula K. Le Guin deserved it. She earned the right to demand our sincerity.

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Looking for the absolute BEST in science fiction and fantasy released in 2017? We've got you covered. Join us for this, the second of two podcasts covering everything from best SFF novel of 2017 to best television show to best book cover art as determined by our *totally impartial* (and *totally humble*) dynamic duo. We are posting these two episodes simultaneously!

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UPDATE: It has been pointed out to us by a listener (@bridgebury on Twitter) that "The Stars are Legion is not Kameron Hurley's debut novel. She has published 6 novels so far, the first of which was God's War in 2011. (Sorry!)" but if anyone owes an apology, it's us ... sorry guys! We got that one wrong! But we'll totally be reading Hurley's other books now.

Looking for the absolute BEST in science fiction and fantasy released in 2017? We've got you covered. Join us for this, the first of two podcasts covering everything from best SFF novel of 2017 to best television show to best book cover art as determined by our *totally impartial* (and *totally humble*) dynamic duo. We are posting these two episodes simultaneously!

You can find our back episodes on YouTube. Our Twitter handle is @imaginary_pod, our website www.imaginaries.net, and our email [email protected]. If you would like to help support our work, you can do so at www.ko-fi.com/imaginaries. And don't forget to vote on on our "Best of 2017" lists on Goodreads! See our Twitter for more information on that.

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Welcome to our final podcast of 2017! Yes, yes, we know it's showing up on the second day of 2018, and we apologize for the delay. This week, we're talking about the Weird in science fiction and fantasy, its intersections with Lovecraftian and other murders/unkindnesses/tribes/categories of SFF, and what to look for as we move into a future populated by Jeff VanderMeers and China Mievilles. It's a good future. It's a bit odd, but we like it that way.

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This is the third and final installment of our "planetary bodies" series, which began with the Moon (Ep. 37) and middled with Mars (Ep. 38). Here we cover a LOT of ground--everything from Kim Stanley Robinson's "Aurora" to Sheri Tepper's "Grass" to Nicola Griffith's "Ammonite" to Cixen Liu's "Three Body Problem." How do we present planetary bodies in science fiction as a landscape and a function? And what's this about "Cli-Fi" or climate-change exploratoriums in science fiction? We have a lot of questions, and a lot of thoughts, and cats. WHAAT.

You can find our back episodes on YouTube. Our Twitter handle is @imaginary_pod, our website www.imaginaries.net, and our email [email protected]. If you would like to help support our work, you can do so at www.ko-fi.com/imaginaries. Thanks for listening!

Mars has long been the focus of our science fictional imagination. So what's the deal? How is setting a book or a colony on the red planet different from setting it elsewhere in our solar system? We get into the nitty gritty of Percival Lowell, Edgar Rice Burroughs, "The Expanse," Mariner 1, Mark Watney's potatoes, and much much more. While you're reading this, you should look up K. Maria D. Lane's "Geographies of Mars" and Carl Abbott's "Frontiers Past and Future: Science Fiction and the American West." We promise you won't regret it!

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What does a lunar society give us that another society anywhere else can't? Is there something about the moon as a setting that makes for looney sci-fi? Join us as we double down on lunar settings, from Ian McDonald to Ursula K. Le Guin to N.K. Jemisin to James S.A. Corey--there's plenty to explore, and that's what we do! Thar's where we go!

You can find our back episodes on YouTube. Our Twitter handle is @imaginary_pod, our website www.imaginaries.net, and our email [email protected]. If you would like to help support our work, you can do so at www.ko-fi.com/imaginaries. Thanks for listening!