Lifedeathscifi looks into the well of time and sees H.G. Wells spinning a tale of science and time. The excitement of the first to travel into the vast beyond, is it science fiction or just another fantasy of the 19th century? If you were sitting in the time machine's chair, would you push the lever? Music: (Alien 1963) Music No Copyright Trovi Ali…

Mark Watney is marooned on Mars, not the first literary lost on the red planet, and probably not the last. Lifedeathscifi talks about how he McGivers his way out of some life-or-death spots and earns his spot to the spaceman's ball. the world watches as countries finally come together for the common good of another Robinson Crusoe on Mars, Mark Wat…

Space travel, Mars settlement, and planet-building on a grand scale, Kim Stanley Robinson takes us on an epic journey that extends our lifetime and shows us what humans can make and take apart. Would you take the treatment? Image: Cover photograph copyright by Detlev van Ravenswaay Science Photo Library Music: (Alien 1963) Music No Copyright Trovi …

Finally, space is more like 21st-century space in this wacky ride to Mars. Eric and Chris talk about Demogorgons, wispy beards, the Stalin lounge, HT serum made from bears, The Mary Poppins, and much more about this near-future vision of space travel. Image: Publication: Voyage to the Red Planet Authors: Terry Bisson Year: 1991-09-00 ISBN: 0-380-75…

Okay. This is part of the chronological journey of Martian stories. We began in 1912 and now seven stories later, We're in 1988. So far, most of, if not, all these stories use Mars in name only; like a stage backdrop, meaning it could have just as well happened on Mother Earth. This story is like visiting an art museum where you stumble on a galler…

Host, Chris and Eric review a wild-west walkabout on the thirsty surface of Mars. Our heroes travel a path of time travel and mind, balancing between the now and madness. Image: Martian Time Slip by Philip K. Dick (1964) Got It Covered Music:(Alien 1963) Music No Copyright Download Mp3 Trovi Alien 1963 Mp3 qui: https://www.file-up.org/1xyadit3u1ml…

War, invasion, and conquest all happening again on Mars. Beautifully written and one of our favorites. Bradbury makes the unbelievable believable with his poetry-like prose. Image: photo of cover by E. Bueschlen Music:(Alien 1963) Music No Copyright Download Mp3 Trovi Alien 1963 Mp3 qui: https://www.file-up.org/1xyadit3u1ml…

Chris and Eric try to wrap their minds around the planet Mars with a host of characters that may appear again in The Lion, Witch, and Wardrobe. This mind-bending experience takes our hero on a journey of kidnapping, ransom, escape, and enlightenment—all on a dare from the Inklings. Image: https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.…

Another turn of the 19th century Russian author wrote about space travel and life on other planets, mainly Mars. Because this story was written by one of the founders of the Bolshevik movement, of course, there is a connection to Ukraine. Shout out and solidarity for Ukraine! Lightly discussed are antimatter, quantum physics, and "The Theory of Eve…

Chris and Eric talk about Aelita by Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy. Mysterious and wonderful in its fantasy sprinkled with some surprising sci-fi tidbits. Think about how long Russia has been enthralled with space and Aelita may have been the twinkle in the Russian space program's eye. Image:https://www.hellofriki.com/resena-aelita-reina-marte/ Music…

Lifedeathscifi hosts Chris and Eric explore the humorous side of science fiction with John Carter's Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs. This giggly sci-fi romp gives us more fantasy adventure than sci-fi but we both agree that it is worth the ride. We explore the time and attitudes Burroughs penned his pulp fiction into original ideas still u…

Margaret Attwood gives us a memoir and some insights into the sci-fi genre. Life Death Sci-fi hosts Chris and Eric talk about gizmos, definitions, feminism, censorship, and more. The next season of Life Death Sci-fi is revealed! Image:https://www.google.com.hk/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebooks.com%2Fen-us%2Fbook%2F649544%2Fin-other-worlds%2Fmar…

Lifedeathscifi hosts Chris and Eric wonder about the near-time climate crisis sci-fi story, The Ministry of the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson. More utopian than dystopian? No shame in being a little of both. "Every problem has a solution and we had better hurry up or the solution changes, worse." "Chorus of Voices" by Robinson. Sounds like World W…

Lifedeathscifi with hosts Eric Bueschlen and Chris Herzberg talk about how they perceive life on the Feed. Feed by M.T. Anderson is a story written for young adults set in a near future where corporations know everything. Where water, air, and education are privatized and trademarked. Where you can take a vacation on the moon like a teenager can ha…

Hosts Eric Bueschlen and Chris Herzberg talk about The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke. Sri Lanka, Taprobane is the setting for this story and the real-life home of the author. Questions about whether the myths and illusions that fill the early history of the setting are told by a far distant narrator, Starglider perhaps, similar to the c…

Hosts Eric Bueschlen and Chris Herzberg hail The Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler. This is the third try for this episode. First, try Eric Didn't press record, second Chris didn't save, and this is the third try. This podcast starts out with how will this podcast start. We might be caught in a time loop. We talk about how this story is the…

Hosts Eric Bueschlen and Chris Herzberg talk about World War Z by Max Brooks. Is the movie better than the book or just different and just as good? This is a hard read during the time of the pandemic, especially the early chapters. Dog lovers will enjoy the dog heroes of this story. Survival: what tools would you bring to the zombie apocalypse? Ima…

Lifedeathscifi hosts Eric Bueschlen and Chris Herzberg discuss Ray Bradbury's sci-fi classic, Fahrenheit 451. Did the war in this story blow up the city at the end of the book? Our hosts consider war, education, the 1%, chaos, villains, and heroes. There is a "Wake up Moment" and Halloween costumes. Pondering about: Are we too reliant on devices? C…

Hosts Eric Bueschlen and Chris Herzberg relate to The Earth Abides by George R. Stewart. A 70-year-old story with relevance today. What was the earliest "last person on earth" story? Ish drives across the country looking for survivors and finds more than one kind of survivor. This review was recorded during the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic, and our hosts…

Hosts Eric Bueschlen and Chris Herzberg wonder about The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster. Our hosts get right into it with all of the sci-fi connections this story has and it was written in 1909! The Starship Enterprise has visited more than one planet that has problems because they forgot who built the machine that protects them; the same is true in…

Hosts Eric Bueschlen and Chris Herzberg talk about the sci-fi classic, Ringworld by Larry Niven. We are awed by the scope of this setting and the diversity of the cast of characters. Luck, free will, and destiny are surprise guests in this space opera. Think big, solar system big, it’s a galaxy-sized story. This episode includes a surprise discussi…

In this episode, we explore the first book of Jeff Vanderveer's Southern Reach Trilogy. Is it a story of first contact? Horror? A love story? Perhaps a fairy tale? What mysteries does the lighthouse represent? What are "Hyperobjects? And why doesn't anyone have a name?By Chris Herzberg and Eric Bueschlen

A lot of podcast production talk; music, scripts, and editing. Then some pandemic catch-up time it just felt like it had to happen. Finally, we get to Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, some of the best bits were about "Who IS Captain Nemo? A villain or a hero? Can you be both? Catch all of this and more in episode 4. The Nautilus submarine is …

Hosts Eric Bueschlen and Chris Herzberg argue about this "first contact" satire on religion and politics. We try to answer the questions: Is this story a classic? Does the misogyny of the era disqualify a story from becoming a classic?By chrisanderic