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A Science Fiction Father/Daughter podcast. We called it "History in Reverse", because history is about the past and science fiction is about the future, so it's like history but going in reverse direction. Get it? Caroline, the daughter, got hooked on science fiction by Richie, the father, when we both used to watch Star Trek Voyager. Captain Janeway is still Caroline's favorite captain. Starting this podcast is part of a secret plan by Richie to get Caroline to read books by Stanislaw Lem. ...
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History in Reverse Sci Fi Podcast Ep. 25: "Dune - part 2"
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Caroline and Richie went to see "Dune - Part 2" and in this episode we discuss our impressions. Seems like we liked Part 1 better, although we believe this part is worth seeing as well. Here is a link to the conversation between Steven Colbert and Neil DeGrass Tyson, re: physics of Dune. As always you can write us at history.in.reverse.podcast@gmai…
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History in Reverse Sci-Fi Podcast Ep. 24: "Andromeda Strain"
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In this episode we discuss the book and the movie "Andromeda Strain", This book was the first novel that Micheal Crichton published under his own name, and it was made into a movie in the early 1970s. This was the first time Caroline saw this movie and she liked it. Both the book and the movie were very suspenseful and quite exciting at times, even…
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History in Reverse Sci-Fi Podcast Ep. 23: "Forbidden Planet"/"The Tempest"
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In this episode of "History in Reverse" we compare the 1956 movie "Forbidden Planet" to the play "The Tempest". "Forbidden Planet" was one of the early big budget science fiction movies. In fact it was nominated for its special effects. "Forbidden Planet" was loosely based on "The Tempest", so that's why we decided to compare the two. We want to me…
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History in Reverse Sci Fi Podcast Ep. 22: "The Last Of Us"
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WARNING: this podcast contains SPOILERS!!!So we spent last 9 weeks watching the HBO series "The Last Of Us". Caroline wanted to see it because she had played game that inspired the show. Richie wanted to see if because there was so much hype about the series. In this episode we discuss the details of the plot and our impressions. If you have not se…
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History in Reverse Sci-Fi Podcast Ep. 21: "Avatar: The Way of Water"
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Over the holidays we went to see "Avatar: The Way of Water" and decided to discuss our impressions. We both avoided reading most of the reviews, so that we would not be influenced by other opinions. Basically we liked the movie, but Caroline had a lot criticism of the plot. If you haven't seen the movie, don't worry about any spoilers as the story …
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History in Reverse Sci-Fi Podcast Ep. 20: "Psalm for the Wild Built"
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In our 20th episode of "History in Reverse" we are discussing a book by Becky Chambers titled "Psalm for the Wild Built". The book is a story of a monk and robot on a trip in the woods :) We both enjoyed the book a lot and highly recommend it to everyone. It's different from other stuff we discussed, as this book is was only published in 2021, so i…
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History in Reverse Sci-Fi Podcast Ep. 19: Time travel stories by Chang and Lem
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Continuing our time-traveling theme, we discuss two time-travel stories: "The Merchant and the Alchemist Gate" by Ted Chiang, and "The Seventh Voyage" from Star Diaries by Stanislaw Lem. Our discussions include many spoilers, so you should read the stories first. They are not that long.Turns out that someone made a short play/movie from Lem's story…
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History in Reverse Sci-Fi Podcast Ep. 18: "All You Zombies/Predestination"
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We are back with the discussion of the Robert Heinlein story "All You Zombies" and the movie "Predestination". We also briefly talked about Futurama episode "Rosewell that ends well". Now if you haven't read the story or seen the movie, go read and watch it first, since our discussion is full of spoilers.After you read the story, check out the time…
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History in Reverse Sci-Fi Podcast Ep. 17: "The Time Machine"
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Once again we are combining book and a movie. This time we picked H.G. Well's classic "The Time Machine". Then we watched the 1960 movie, "The Time Machine" and finally, just for fun, we watched a Futurama episode "The Late Philip J. Fry", which also had a time machine in it. It was kind of interesting to see how the book and the movie considered d…
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History in Reverse Sci-Fi Podcast Ep. 16: "Minority Report"
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Since we liked discussing books and movies at the same time, we decided to do it again. This time we picked "Minority Report" the Philip K. Dick story and the 2002 movie. We consider the differences between the movie and the story - in this case there are many. Maybe the funniest is that it takes less time to read the story than to watch the movie.…
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History in Reverse Sci-Fi Podcast Ep. 15: "Dune - the movie"
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After a long wait we went to see the new "Dune" movie. In this podcast we discuss the new movie. We liked the movie a lot, but Caroline always has some interesting criticism. Since we both read the book "Dune" before, we tried not to talk about what will be in Part 2 of the movie, when it comes out in the future. We tried to stop talking once we pa…
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History in Reverse Sci-Fi Podcast Ep. 14: Cyberiad
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After a long hiatus "History in Reverse" is back with another episode. Once again we are discussing Lem. This time we read several whimsical stories from the "Cyberiad". Even though some of the stories are pretty silly (eg. stupid machine that insists that 2 + 2 = 7), Lem manages to weave in some deep philosophical ideas - like does the appearance …
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History in Reverse Sci-Fi Podcast Ep. 13: Dystopia Roundup
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In this episode we discuss and compare the dystopias we read and try to answer question such as "Was Katniss a martyr?", "How was Hal Bregg like John Savage?" and other such questions. We also talk about which dystopias we liked, and why dystopias are so popular. Also, don't forget to listen to the out-takes at the very end of the podcast.As always…
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History in Reverse Sci-Fi Podcast Ep. 12: Ambiguous Dystopias
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In this episode we discuss two short stories: "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" by Ursula LeGuin and "Truth of Fact, Truth of Feeling" by Ted Chiang. These two stories are not your classic dystopias, but stories with some dystopian features. We discuss how they differ from some of the other dystopias we read, in what ways they are dystopias and …
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History in Reverse Sci-Fi Podcast Ep. 11: "Handmaid's Tale"
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By Richie and Caroline B.
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History in Reverse Sci-Fi Podcast Ep. 10: -"The Hunger Games"
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History In Reverse Sci-Fi Podcast Ep. 9 "Return From The Stars"
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Welcome back to "History in Reverse", a father/daughter science fiction podcast. In this episode we continue our dystopia series with Stanislaw Lem's "Return From The Stars". This one turns out to be a more ambiguous dystopia/utopia. We discuss the plot and compare it to "Brave New World". We both liked the opening chapter, but were somewhat undeci…
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History in Reverse Sci-Fi Podcast Ep. 8 "1984"
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Welcome back to History in Reverse, a father/daughter science fiction podcast. The next book in our dystopia series is George Orwell's "1984". It's a classic political dystopia, that has had large influence on our culture. We discuss the plot and then consider if this was the most depressing book ever written.We briefly mention another podcast, "Cl…
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History in Reverse Sci-Fi Podcast Ep. 7 - "Brave New World"
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Welcome back to History in Reverse, a father/daughter science fiction podcast. Today we are starting a new theme - dystopias. We begin with the classic "Brave New World". We discuss the plot and the characters and consider some deep questions - like, what's a dystopia and what is free will? The Greek philosophers would have been proud of us!We ment…
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History in Reverse Sci-Fi Podcast Ep. 6 - "Aliens, Aliens everywhere"
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Welcome back to History in Reverse, a father/daughter science fiction podcast. Today we compare the aliens that were present in the 5 books we read in our first five podcasts.We mentioned "The Great Moon Hoax" of 1935 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Moon_Hoax) and also couple of other books: "Fire Upon the Deep" - by Vernor Vinge and "Embassyt…
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History in Reverse Sci-Fi Podcast Ep. 5 - "War of the Worlds"
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Welcome back to History in Reverse, a father/daughter science fiction podcast. Today we are discussing the classic SF book, "War of the Worlds" by H.G. Wells. We believe that his was the first SF book that have aliens from another planet invade Earth. In the podcast we mention the Orson Wells radio broadcast of "War of the Worlds" in 1938, which is…
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History in Reverse Sci-Fi Podcast Ep. 4- "Speaker for the Dead"
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Welcome back to History in Reverse, a father/daughter science fiction podcast. Today we discuss the book by Orson Scott Card "Speaker for the Dead". There are many spoilers in the podcast, so you should probably read the book first. This episode run long, because we could not stop talking about the book, even though we did leave out a lot of observ…
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History in Reverse Sci-Fi Podcast Ep. 3 "Arrival/Story of Your Life"
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Welcome back to History in Reverse, a father/daughter science fiction podcast. In this episode we discuss the novella "Story of your life" by Ted Chiang, and the movie "Arrival, which was an adaptation of Ted Chiang's story.Links to things we mentioned in the discussion:TED Talk on language and thinking:https://www.ted.com/talks/lera_boroditsky_how…
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History in Reverse Sci Fi Podcast Ep. 2 "Solaris"
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Welcome back to History in Reverse, a father/daughter science fiction podcast. In this episode we discuss the novel "Solaris" by Polish writer Stanislaw Lem.Links:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1tnAyARsmA - TV version of Solaris from the 60s.http://www.earnovertheweb.com/solaripedia/activity.html - some features of Solaris's ocean imagined in art…
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History in Reverse - a Sci Fi Podcast. Ep1. "The Left Hand Of Darkness"
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Welcome to History in Reverse, a father-daughter science fiction podcast. In this premiere episode we discuss Ursula LeGuin's "The Left Hand of Darkness". Music from B-52's song "Planet Claire".You can contact us at history.in.reverse.podcast@gmail.comBy Richie and Caroline B.
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