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deep futures

I spent part of my pandemic year working on a podcast called Deep Futures, produced by Campside Media and Mailchimp, which is all about how to get to a better world — even when the one we’re in feels hopeless. Each of the six episodes is a profile of someone who is trying to improve the world, whether that’s by inventing new organ transplant technologies or unionizing agricultural workers. You’ll meet incredible, creative thinkers and discover how their visions of the future motivate their work in the present. Listen to all six episodes here, and please leave a review on Apple Podcasts!

npr's science friday

I appear semi-regularly on Science Friday to discuss recent news, books, and more. (Listen)

 

Our opinions are correct

I host this Hugo Award-winning biweekly podcast with Charlie Jane Anders, where we explore the meaning of science fiction, and its relevance to real-life science and civilization. Find it on Libsyn, Stitcher, and iTunes.

 

Courtesy of Live Wire! Radio

Courtesy of Live Wire! Radio

various other radio and podcast bits

2022

I’ve done some hosting for On the Media. Listen to me discussing the myths of Hong Kong’s history with journalist Louisa Lim, and the joys of queer country life with archivist Rae Garringer, host of the Country Queers podcast. I also co-hosted an episode all about Neanderthals.

I was on the Hysteria podcast, talking about the joys of science fiction in this dark time.

2021

I was on KPFA’s Up Front, talking about my new book, Four Lost Cities (Listen)

I talked about lost cities on Factually with Adam Conover (Listen)

I was on Reading Glasses, talking about what counts as “reading.” (Listen)

I was on Slate Money, talking about the history of urban life — and electric cars (Listen)

I was on Dear Prudence, talking about bad parents and nice nonbinary people (Listen)

2020

I chatted with Jonathan Strahan for 10 Minutes with Coode Street podcast (Listen)

I was on Recode/Decode talking to Kara Swisher about science, technology, and time travel (Listen)

My award-winning short story “When Robot and Crow Saved East St. Louis” was adapted into an incredible radio play called “Robot and Crow” by TH Ponders for Open World (Listen)

2019

On Warm Regards, I talked about using stories to help people understand climate change (Listen)

I talked about time travel and feminism on Feminist Frequency (Listen)

Bill Radke interviewed me on KUOW’s The Record (Listen)

Peter Kaufmann interviewed me about The Future of Another Timeline and Chicago history on WGN in Chicago (Listen)

I talked about my writing process on Fictitious (Listen)

I talked to physicist Brian Keating on his podcast Into the Impossible (Listen)

2018

I talked to Sean Carroll on Mindscape about science fiction, economics, and neurosis. (Listen)

I had a blast talking all things books on Reading Glasses (Listen)

2017

I talked about human/robot relationships on Imaginary Worlds. (Listen)

My ideas were woven into another astonishing episode of Rose Eveleth's Flash Forward, called "Piraceuticals." (Listen)

I had a fascinating conversation with Vice Radio about themes in Autonomous, including consent and slavery. (Listen)  

I had a blast talking about my novel Autonomous on the book podcast Sword & Laser. (Listen

I talked about whether AI will replace human writers on Word of Mouth from New Hampshire Public Radio. (Listen)

I was a guest on Marketplace Tech, discussing the massive rise in searches on the term "Reichstag Fire" on Google. (Listen)

I talked about joining an archaeological dig at a lost medieval city outside St. Louis called Cahokia, on NHPR's Word of Mouth (Listen)

2015

I talked to NPR's On the Media to talk about breaking the Ashley Madison bot story. (Listen)

2014

I told a story about dealing with my father's death by visiting a Neolithic city at Story Collider. (Listen)

decrypted

In 2016 and 2017, I hosted two season of Decrypted, Ars Technica's podcast devoted to the television that we're obsessed with.

Decrypted: American Gods. A weekly podcast where an invited guest joins me to discuss different aspects of this Starz series based on Neil Gaiman's famous novel. Guests include critic/comic book writer Evan Narcisse, fantasy author Amal El Mohtar, and Old Norse scholar Jackson Crawford. (Listen)

Decrypted: Westworld. A weekly podcast with invited guests, including defense tech expert Peter Singer, game designer/author Jane McGonigal, Westworld writer Charles Yu, and scifi/fantasy author Charlie Jane Anders. (Listen)