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What Next? Future Fiction Podcast

What Next? Future Fiction Podcast

Written by: Carl & Becca
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 Carl and Becca love anything that's set in the future. In this podcast, they review books, films, music - any kind of fiction that takes place ahead of now. Can we learn anything about tomorrow from the stories of today?

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Episodes
  • Downsizing (2017)

    Downsizing (2017)
    Oct 4 2022
    Becca has watched Downsizing, a science fiction comedy drama in which Paul Safrânek decides to undergo a recently-invented procedure to shrink his body so he can start a new life in an experimental community, which he ends up doing alone when his wife backs out at the last minute.

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    29 mins
  • Parable of the Sower (1993)

    Parable of the Sower (1993)
    Sep 20 2022
    Carl has read a near-future which feels a little close to home. It's 2024 and Lauren Olamina is a young woman who can feel the pain of others and becomes displaced from her home. Several characters from various walks of life join her on her journey north through a troubled USA.

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    28 mins
  • Don't Look Up (2021)

    Don't Look Up (2021)
    Sep 8 2022
    Becca has watched Don't Look Up, in which two astronomers go on a giant media tour to warn mankind of an approaching comet that will destroy planet Earth.

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    29 mins
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