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[032] Social Science Talks: Warhammer and The Eisenhorn Trilogy, by Dan Abnett


‘In the grim darkness of the far future…’   This month, we try and take on the Warhammer universe by reading the Eisenhorn Trilogy, by Dan Abnett. Does knowledge require […]


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 April 28, 2017  48m
 
 

[031] Social Science Talks: 1984, by George Orwell


‘It was a bright cold morning in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen…’ After much pressure, and the election of Donald Trump, we finally get round to covering 1984 […]


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 March 28, 2017  59m
 
 

[030] Social Science Talks: His Dark Materials, by Philip Pullman


“I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for […]


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 March 1, 2017  48m
 
 

[029] Social Science Talks: Babylon 5


The Babylon Project was a dream given form… It’s a new year, and carrying through on a resolution that we’ve had since we started the podcast, we got together to […]


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 January 27, 2017  48m
 
 

[028] Social Science Talks: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams


So long, and thanks for all the fish! As we wind down for Christmas, we crank up the improbability drive to a level where it produces, fully formed, and episode […]


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 December 21, 2016  46m
 
 

[026] Social Science Talks: The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood


“We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in […]


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 October 26, 2016  54m
 
 

[025] Social Science Talks: Star Trek


Following the 50th Anniversary and the recent film Star Trek: Beyond, we sit down at Social Sci-Fi towers to discuss what we love and hate about the Star Trek franchise. […]


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 September 21, 2016  1h3m
 
 

[024] Social Science Talks: Dune, by Frank Herbert


“The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called “spannungsbogen” — which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp […]


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 August 23, 2016  52m
 
 

[023] Social Science Interviews: Penny Fielding, on Spies and Genre Fiction


It’s conference season once again, and Matthew got the long train to Edinburgh in order to talk to Professor Penny Fielding about spies and genre fiction. It’s a great follow up […]


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 July 29, 2016  32m
 
 

[022] Social Science Talks: Independence Day


After a film night at Social Science Towers, Alex, Matt, Jess and Bleddyn discuss the beginning of the large-scale disaster film, Independence Day. Join us as we discuss 90s pop […]


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 June 30, 2016  55m