New podcast episode: It Came From Outer Space!

Sometimes the podstreams just cross, and this episode is a prime example. When Colin Kuskie, co-host of my other podcast suggested reviewing It Came From Outer Space, the classic 1953 science fiction movie created by Ray Bradbury, it was right up my alley - and so this new episode of Bradbury 100 is a crossover with the new episode of Science Fiction 101!

The discussion ranges from Bradbury's contribution to the screenplay to the quality of the 3D, and takes in your humble hosts' views on whether or not screen creatures should be revealed or concealed.

I also express my amazement that Kathleen Hughes gets such prominent billing at the end of the film, despite having hardly any dialogue or close-ups in the film itself. I also give the real reason why she is featured in this way.

In which way? Why, in this way, of course:

 

 

 

Also mentioned in the episode:

• The recently completed OMSI Film Festival, Oregon
• Which US states have the best chance of surviving an alien invasion?
• 75 years of Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles
• Science Fiction 101 podcast
• Colin's other pod, Take Me To Your Reader

I also mentioned in the episode that I would provide links to other Bradbury-related pods that Colin Kuskie and I have taken part in. So here they are - they're all episodes of Take Me To Your Reader, and consist of a comparative review of book versus movie:

• A Sound of Thunder
  
• Fahrenheit 451 (1966 Truffaut movie)
  
• Fahrenheit 451 (2018 HBO movie)
  
• The Halloween Tree
  
• The Illustrated Man
  
• Something Wicked This Way Comes

 

Finally, here's the new episode... or look for it in your podcast app of choice (see list of possible pod sources below).

Bradbury 100 · Bradbury 100 - episode 64 - It Came From Outer Space

 

 

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Main platforms:

 
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Science Fiction 101

My other podcast, which I co-host with Colin Kuskie, is Science Fiction 101. It's a general SF show, with talk about books, short stories, films, TV and more. I even mention Ray Bradbury from time to time (try and stop me!)

In the latest episode, I put Colin on the spot with some fiendish quiz questions, we review two of the Nebula Award short stories, and give our usual run-through of what appeals to us in past, present or future science fiction.

You can pick us up via your podcast app - we're on all the major platforms, and quite a few minor ones. And you can listen via the website:

https://101sf.blogspot.com/2021/06/quizzers-revenge.html

Science Fiction 101 New Episode

My other podcast, Science Fiction 101 which I co-host with Colin Kuskie, has a new episode out today. There's a very, very brief, passing mention of Ray Bradbury, but most of the time we're talking about science fiction in general. News, a discussion of space and why it's an obsessively recurring motif in science fiction, and our usual round of suggestions and recommendations of what to read and what to watch.

You can find Science Fiction 101 by clicking right here.

Science Fiction 101 - episode 2

Just a quick note that the second episode of my non-Bradbury podcast dropped a few days ago. Science Fiction 101 is a general SF podcast in which Colin Kuskie and I review science fiction books, films, TV and anything else that crosses our radar.

You can pick up episode 2 through your podcast app, or via the Science Fiction 101 blog: https://101sf.blogspot.com/2021/03/its-about-time-episode-2-of-podcast.html

New Podcast: Science Fiction 101!

I'd like to introduce you to a new podcast I've been working on: Science Fiction 101.

It's something of a spin-off from Bradbury 100 (podcast) and Bradbury 101 (Youtube series)... but without the Bradbury specificity. That doesn't mean that Ray is off-limits; on the contrary, he gets mentioned a couple of times in the first episode!

If you already subcribe to Bradbury 100 on your podcast app, you will shortly be served up with the first, sample episode of Science Fiction 101. If you like it, you can then search for it and subscribe separately.

You can also pick up new episodes of Science Fiction 101 directly from  the companion blog, which is here: https://101sf.blogspot.com

And to make it even easier, here's the first episode, right here:

 

Do please let me know what you think of this first episode - and if you have suggestions of what you'd like to hear in future episodes,  please send them my way!