This is acid man.

Hello and welcome to ACFM, the home of the weird left.

I'm Jeremy Gilbert and I'm here for this special microdose episode with my good friend Keir Milburn.

Hello!

And we are going to be talking about a subject which is related to the subject of our most recent

main episode. That is a discussion on the idea of the future. And what we're going to be

doing today is we're going to be talking a bit about the history and actuality of science fiction,

the fictional genre most obviously associated with ideas of the future and

futurity. But Keir, I think this was initially your idea. So where are we going to start talking

about sci-fi? I do this podcast so I can talk about all the things I'm interested in and pretend

I'm working,

as I've said many times before.

And we've already done a podcast where we went through films about aliens,

so we're going to steer clear a little bit away from that.

I think we should sort of start by trying to give some sorts of definitions of what science fiction is, you know, where

the boundaries are perhaps, although not always the most interesting, but like what holds

it together this category of science fiction, perhaps even the history of the term, you know,

the history of the genre to some degree. So there are various offerings about what science fiction,

what the core of science fiction is.

Perhaps actually early sort of definitions,

we're all about literature,

initially literature obviously then goes on to be film and TV and etc.,

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