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SF3

94 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 9 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratings

Three science fiction fans review and discuss a different science fiction ("scifi") or fantasy book every week.

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Episodes

SF3-092: Middlegame

March 28, 2024 12:00 - 24 minutes - 33.5 MB

Meataphor! We review and discuss "Middlegame" by Seanan McGuire. In the process, we cross our own timelines, discuss our own godlike powers, and talk about SF Bay Area locations. Originally recorded June 28, 2020. 00:04 Intro, summary, reviews  06:55 Discussion 07:04 Topic: The title 08:29 Topic: Save points, power management 12:30 Topic: Imaginary books 15:08 Favorite scenes 18:49 Usual questions 23:46 Conclusion

SF3-091: A Memory Called Empire

March 21, 2024 12:00 - 31 minutes - 44.1 MB

I am a spear in the hands of the sun! We review and discuss "A Memory Called Empire" by Arkady Martine.

SF3-090: The Light Brigade

March 14, 2024 14:00 - 30 minutes - 42.6 MB

Combat madness! We review and discuss The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley. Recorded June 14, 2020.

SF3-089: Gideon the Ninth

March 07, 2024 13:00 - 29 minutes - 41.2 MB

Bonelords, attend! We review and discuss Gideon the Ninth [2019] by Tamsyn Muir. Originally recorded May 9, 2020.

SF3-088: The City In The Middle of the Night

February 29, 2024 19:00 - 25 minutes - 35.2 MB

Milk and gin! We review and discuss The City In The Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders [2019]. Originally recorded 2020-04-26.

SF3-087: The Stone Sky

August 03, 2018 19:00 - 32 minutes - 44.7 MB

Rusting reviews! We review and discuss "The Stone Sky" by NK Jemisin.

SF3-086: Provenance

July 19, 2018 19:00 - 37 minutes - 51.4 MB

FIDDLESTICKS! We review and discuss "Provenance" by Ann Leckie.

SF3-085: The Year of the Flood

July 14, 2018 05:50 - 53 minutes - 73.7 MB

Gang. Gang who? Gangrene! We review and discuss "The Year of the Flood" by Margaret Atwood.

SF3-084: The Collapsing Empire

July 07, 2018 03:32 - 32 minutes - 45 MB

Flow! We review and discuss "The Collapsing Empire" by John Scalzi.

SF3-083: The White Mountains

June 28, 2018 19:00 - 50 minutes - 69.9 MB

Tripods! We review and discuss "The White Mountains" by John Christopher.

SF3-082: New York 2140

June 22, 2018 03:34 - 35 minutes - 48.4 MB

Bears, Bears, Bears, oh my! We review and discuss "New York 2140" by Kim Stanley Robinson.

SF3-081: Raven Stratagem

June 14, 2018 19:00 - 43 minutes - 60.4 MB

Heretical calendrical erotica! We review and discuss "Raven Stratagem" by Yoon Ha Lee.

SF3-080: The Map of Bones

May 19, 2018 04:53 - 27 minutes - 38 MB

Blast from the past? We review and discuss "The Map of Bones" by Francesca Haig.

SF3-079: The Eyes of the Overworld

May 12, 2018 05:01 - 46 minutes - 64.3 MB

By no means! We review and discuss "The Eyes of the Overworld" by Jack Vance.

SF3-078: The Genius Plague

May 04, 2018 19:00 - 40 minutes - 55.3 MB

Mycelium! We review and discuss "The Genius Plague" by David Walton.

SF3-077: The Library at Mount Char

April 19, 2018 19:00 - 41 minutes - 56.7 MB

Reissak ayrial! We review and discuss "The Library at Mount Char" by Scott Hawkins.

SF3-076: Ready Player One

April 06, 2018 19:00 - 54 minutes - 74.7 MB

Hop in Ecto-1 and activate the flux capacitor! We review and discuss "Ready Player One" by Ernest Cline. (Well, sort of. We also indulge in a huge amount of our own pop culture and Internet nostalgia.)

SF3-075: Strange the Dreamer

March 22, 2018 19:00 - 41 minutes - 56.9 MB

Tizerkane! We review and discuss "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor.

SF3-074: Last Year

March 16, 2018 16:40 - 31 minutes - 43.9 MB

Futurity! We review and discuss "Last Year" by Robert Charles Wilson.

SF3-073: All Systems Red (The Murderbot Chronicles)

March 08, 2018 20:00 - 25 minutes - 35.7 MB

Murderbot! We review and discuss "All Systems Red" by Martha Wells.

SF3-072: The Left Hand of Darkness

February 15, 2018 20:00 - 34 minutes - 47.9 MB

Shifgrethor! We review and discuss "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. LeGuin.

SF3-071: The Atrocity Archives

February 08, 2018 20:00 - 29 minutes - 41.1 MB

CASE NIGHTMARE GREEN! We review and discuss "The Atrocity Archives" by Charles Stross.

SF3-070: Dungeon Born

February 01, 2018 07:18 - 51 minutes - 70.2 MB

Gazebo! We review and discuss "Dungeon Born" by Dakota Kraut.

SF3-069: Pilot X

January 25, 2018 20:00 - 33 minutes - 46 MB

There are no pineapples on the Pineapple Planet! We review and discuss "Pilot X" by Tom Merritt.

SF3-068: The Water Knife

January 11, 2018 20:00 - 36 minutes - 49.6 MB

Sicarios! We review and discuss "The Water Knife" by Paolo Bacigalupi.

SF3-067: The Bear and the Nightingale

December 28, 2017 20:00 - 35 minutes - 48.8 MB

Domovoi! We review and discuss "The Bear and the Nightingale" by Katherine Arden.

SF3-066: Replay

December 21, 2017 20:00 - 38 minutes - 53.3 MB

Perform the appeasement! We review and discuss "Replay" by Ken Grimwood.

SF3-065: Children of Time

December 14, 2017 20:00 - 33 minutes - 45.5 MB

My monkeys! We review and discuss "Children of Time" by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

SF3-064: Artemis

December 07, 2017 20:00 - 31 minutes - 43.4 MB

Welding! We review and discuss "Artemis" by Andy Weir.

SF3-063: The Warrior's Apprentice

December 01, 2017 10:59 - 26 minutes - 36.2 MB

Forward momentum! We review and discuss "The Warrior's Apprentice" by Lois McMaster Bujold.

SF3-062: The Andromeda Strain

November 23, 2017 20:00 - 36 minutes - 50.7 MB

Squeeze! We review and discuss "The Andromeda Strain" by Michael Crichton.

SF3-061: The Book of Strange New Things

November 16, 2017 20:00 - 24 minutes - 33.3 MB

Jesus Lover One! We review and discuss "The Book of Strange New Things" by Michel Faber.

SF3-060: Paradox Bound

November 09, 2017 20:00 - 35 minutes - 49.3 MB

Clown masks! We review and discuss "Paradox Bound" by Peter Clines.

SF3-059: We Are Legion (We Are Bob)

November 02, 2017 19:00 - 28 minutes - 38.7 MB

Bob me! We review and discuss "We Are Legion (We Are Bob) " by Dennis E. Taylor.

SF3-058: Null States

October 26, 2017 19:00 - 39 minutes - 53.6 MB

Microdemocracy! We review and discuss "Null States" by Malka Older.

SF3-057: The Necronomicon 2

October 19, 2017 19:00 - 36 minutes - 49.8 MB

Nameless antiquarian horror! We review and discuss the second half of "The Necronomicon", a selection of short stories and novellas by H. P. Lovecraft. These included "The Music of Erich Zahn", "The Shadow Out of Time", "The Dunwich Horror", "The Haunter of the Dark", "The Outsider", "The Shunned House", "The Unnamable", "The Thing on the Doorstep", and "Under the Pyramids".

SF3-056: The Necronomicon 1

October 12, 2017 19:00 - 41 minutes - 56.6 MB

Hideous! We review and discuss "The Necronomicon", a confusingly-titled collection of stories by H. P. Lovecraft. This includes the stories/novellas Dagon, Herbert West: Reanimator, The Lurking Fear, The Rats in the Walls, The Whisperer in Darkness, Cool Air, In the Vault, The Call of Cthulhu, The Colour Out of Space, and The Horror at Red Hook.

SF3-055: Leviathan Wakes

September 28, 2017 19:00 - 30 minutes - 41.4 MB

Space zombies! We review and discuss "Leviathan Wakes" by James S. A. Corey.

SF3-054: Arkwright

September 15, 2017 19:00 - 46 minutes - 64.1 MB

WorldCon! We review and discuss "Arkwright" by Allen Steele.

Moving to Thursday release

September 07, 2017 19:00

Hello all-- We've normally (ish) been releasing the ScifiScifiScifi podcast on Tuesdays, but we're moving to Thursdays. So, uh... yeah. Enjoy.

SF3-053: The Book of the Unnamed Midwife

September 01, 2017 04:00 - 30 minutes - 41.3 MB

Hive! We review and discuss "The Book of the Unnamed Midwife" by Meg Elison.

SF3-052: The Player of Games

August 22, 2017 19:00 - 32 minutes - 44.7 MB

Drone, do my bidding! We review and discuss "The Player Of Games" by Iain M. Banks.

SF3-051: Meg Elison Interview

August 15, 2017 19:00 - 31 minutes - 43.2 MB

An interview with Meg Elison, author of "The Book of the Unnamed Midwife" and "The Book of Etta".

SF3-050: 50th Episode!

August 08, 2017 19:00 - 30 minutes - 42.5 MB

FIFTY EPISODES! We look back on our favorite (and least favorite) books that we've reviewed over episodes 1-50.

SF3-049: Company Town

July 26, 2017 19:00 - 33 minutes - 46.5 MB

Roko's Basilisk! We review and discuss "Company Town" by Madeline Ashby.

SF3-048: You

July 19, 2017 06:30 - 52 minutes - 72 MB

Grind the Arch-Lich! We review and discuss "You" by Austin Grossman.

SF3-047: Hugo 2017

July 11, 2017 19:00 - 29 minutes - 40.4 MB

In a special very-few-edits episode, we go through our ballot picks for the 2017 Hugos.

SF3-046: Ninefox Gambit

July 04, 2017 23:06 - 30 minutes - 41.4 MB

Calendrical rot! We review and discuss "Ninefox Gambit" by Yoon Ha Lee.

SF3-045: Sleeping Giants

June 27, 2017 19:00 - 23 minutes - 32.1 MB

Hands in the place where you live. We review and discuss "Sleeping Giants" by Sylvain Neuvel.

SF3-044: The Midwich Cuckoos

June 21, 2017 19:00 - 31 minutes - 43.4 MB

Obligate brood parasites! We review and discuss "The Midwich Cuckoos" by John Wyndham.