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Now in Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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My family is moving this week, which means packing up all the junk that has accumulated over five years in our current place. It also means my spouse and I have been doing a lot of lamenting over teleportation still not being a thing. We wondered what a move might look like in a future with such technology. Would you still have to organize everything into neat piles and boxes and just beam it to the next location, à la Star Trek? Wouldn’t it be easier to just recycle and replace your stuff via a replicator? To that end, why not just use a holodeck to redesign your space at every whim? I’m not sure, but all possibilities are infinitely more fun to ponder than the current task at hand.
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Sam
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Science is nonfiction, too
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These two new podcast series explore the possibilities, limits, and overall hilarity of emerging technology. In What Could Go Wrong?, Scott Z. Burns—the screenwriter of Contagion—tasks a team of AI creatives with helping him develop a compelling sequel, to surprising and mixed effect. And in Future Tense, comedians and actors Richard Ayoade (The IT Crowd) and Warwick Davis (Willow, Star Wars, Harry Potter) debate whether tech like AI, self-driving cars, or lab-grown meat is revolutionary or terrifying. Or both?
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The horror hit of the summer
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Writer-director Nyasha Hatendi has taken a familiar horror trope—dysfunctional family vacation gone awry—and dialed up the stakes, creating a tense thriller that delivers both a terrifying supernatural threat and a haunting reflection on familial trauma. The performances are all incredible, but Caleb McLaughlin (Stranger Things) shines in his Audible Original debut. A must-listen for any horror fan this summer. Plus, check out this insightful interview with Hatendi.
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What grows when you bury the bones
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Told across three timelines, V.E. Schwab’s latest listen is layered and intimate, with characters whose lives twist around each other in ways that are heartbreaking, brilliant, and just a little toxic (okay, okay, a lot toxic). Julia Whelan, Katie Leung, and Marisa Calin bring it all to life with performances that flow together as seamlessly as the stories of María, Charlotte, and Alice.
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Also of note:
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🏳️🌈 Celebrate Pride Month with sci-fi & fantasy listens from queer creators. I’m currently listening to The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy.
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🤖 Can’t get enough of the new Murderbot AppleTV+ show? Catch up with the full series, narrated by the amazing Kevin R. Free.
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💀 Joe Abercrombie, author of The Devils, shares the 5 audiobooks he thinks his characters would love.
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🧜♀️ Emilia Hart explores the connection between women and the sea in The Sirens—check out our interview with the author.
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