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Classic SF with Andy Johnson

Classic SF with Andy Johnson

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  • May 14, 2026 — Fateful encounters in the long dawn of early humanity Neanderthals seem to have been a recurring theme here lately. They have shown up in Pat Murphy's The Shadow Hunter (episode 157), in Stephen Baxter's Mammoth trilogy (episode 179), and most recently...

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    #194 Where we come from: The Inheritors (1955) by William Golding
  • May 07, 2026 — Humans attempt to communicate with aliens - at any cost It's time to cover - for the first time here - a work by the Polish science fiction icon Stanislaw Lem. It's an unconventional entry point, as this episode focuses on his last novel, Fiasco,...

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    #193 Communication breakdown: Fiasco (1986) by Stanislaw Lem
  • Apr 18, 2026 — A challenging novel of mysticism, power, and alien contact This week brought the news that the British science fiction writer Ian Waton had passed away in Spain, where he had lived for some time. Coincidentally, I was reading Watson's 1977 novel Alien...

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    #192 Mind, body, spirit, space: Alien Embassy (1977) by Ian Watson
  • Apr 11, 2026 — An influential classic of power and revenge on Venus Like Kallocain, which I covered in episode 188, Fury is another SF novel which was published earlier than my usual jurisdiction - the 1950s to the 1990s. Written by Henry Kuttner and an uncredited C....

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    #191 Under the domes: Fury (1947) by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore
  • Apr 02, 2026 — An entertainingly wild aquatic adventure on two worlds A mid-period novel by Northern Irish SF writer Bob Shaw, Medusa's Children centres on a bizarre scenario. A dwindling group of humans struggle to survive inside a liquid planetoid, preyed upon by...

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    #190 Living in the abyss: Medusa’s Children (1977) by Bob Shaw