S2E18: Catch-Up Episode #7: Sci-Fi Action Movies – A Reader's History of Science Fiction

In this episode, I give an overview of recent action movies in the sci-fi genre. Movie recommendation: Everything Everywhere All at Once Other movies discussed: Tenet Free Guy The Matrix: Resurrections

1. S2E18: Catch-Up Episode #7: Sci-Fi Action Movies 18:23
2. S2E17: Science Fiction in Video Games 36:50
3. S2E16: Catch-Up Episode #6: Children's Sci-Fi Movies 21:21
4. S2E15: Religion in Sci-Fi 26:17
5. S2E14: Margaret Weitekamp Interview 55:29

Dystopian fiction has become a popular subgenre of sci-fi in its own right, but the earliest dystopian novels shared some unique elements in common, inverting the standard tropes of the hero’s journey. In this episode, we explore what has made these stories so enduring.

Book recommendation: Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell.
My essay on the inverted hero’s journey.
Link to the Heroine’s journey.
Link to O’Brien’s speech.

Other books mentioned:
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

Check out this episode!