Illustrator and science fiction connoisseur Danielle Pajak describes her ideas on the art of sci fi, the means of communicating t…
Young Arkady Darell is crazy about the history of the Foundation and her grandmother Bayta's historic duel with the Mule. When he…
A conversation with science fiction author, media scholar, and musician Paul Levinson about the history and legacy of the Star Tr…
Always wanted to do a full season 1 analysis of the Apple TV version of Foundation and finally found a co-analyst. Priya from the…
I get back to the mic to talk about an especially exhausting ski adventure, getting Covid afterward, and the Ukraine war before s…
Something a little different. I read a work of fan fiction from a listener named Sarita1046. It's an intriguing and poetic piece …
The ambitious and confident Bail Channis thinks he is on the trail of the Second Foundation. General Han Pritcher is consumed by …
Two visionary authors of independent science fiction share their visions of possible human futures. Tobias Cabral has humans livi…
The Mule dominates the galaxy and controls the planets and technology of the Foundation. He is not a happy conqueror, for he is u…
Isaac Asimov's time-travel masterpiece The End of Eternity ends with a profound philosophical statement about the future of human…
Isaac Asimov loved history and used many important lessons from the past in writing his stories, including his greatest epic Foun…
A little holiday sampler collecting some of my favorite scenes from the series so far including; Seldon maneuvering Ling Chen int…
A wide-ranging conversation with astrophysicist Stephen Webb, owner of all the canonical works of Isaac Asimov save for a couple …
A brief look at the three mysterious Greek goddesses who were imagined to shape human destiny, and how Hari Seldon chose to chall…
Bayta & Toran Darell, Ebling Mis, and Magnifico arrive on the ruined former capital planet of Empire, Trantor. Mis searches frant…
Foundation has fallen to the Mule and the proud citizens of Terminus are shocked and dismayed. Haven is under siege and our heroe…
I share some thoughts on the new AppleTV+ adaptation of Isaac Asimov's Foundation series from the perspective of someone who love…
We begin the grand story of the unconsidered variable in Hari Seldon's equations, a mutant being of indescribable powers known on…
This brief episode is for any prospective watchers of the new Apple TV+ Foundation television series who have not yet read the bo…
We go a little deeper on the theme of The General, the opposing forces of psychohistorical determinism vs the futile efforts of B…
We pick up where we left off with the meager Foundation reeling from the onslaught of the Empire's great general Bel Riose. The E…
Brief comments in the interval between episodes, thoughts on the intended audience, and an explanation for shift to a more relaxe…
Seldon Crisis returns with the second in the seven novel saga, Foundation and Empire, and the opening of The General, which tells…
In this short episode we summarize the major characters and events of Season 1 covering the first novel, Foundation, in Isaac Asi…