Hello, and welcome to Science Fiction University.

In our last episode, we spoiled a 50-year-old not nearly as good as Drift Glass remembered

it movie about an Android called Questor that laid the foundation for one of the most successful

and beloved characters in Star Trek.

That movie, The Quest Door Tapes, is available on DVD from Amazon.

We do not recommend you buy it. No, no. But maybe we'll

give our copy away as a prize. You know, we haven't figured out the contest yet, though. So

stand by for that. We're your writer and fan hosts. I'm Blue Gal. And I'm Drift Glass, and you can

visit Science Fiction University at our website,

Sciencefiction University.com, where you can also contribute to this podcast, and you really should.

There is a Patreon button at our website, or you can be also a letter and or contribution to Science Fiction University,

P.O. Box 9133, Springfield, Illinois, 62791. And since this podcast is in

fact called Science Fiction University, in this episode, we're going to take a step back and talk

about the ways science fiction distinguishes itself from other genres and ways it doesn't.

So to do the thing that has started

more fistfights in more convention suites than any other subject, we will now define for all

time with no discussion or debate the different genres under the umbrella of the term speculative fiction.

And if you don't agree with these definitions, then you're stupid.

And wrong.

According to the con suite.

That's right.

You're out.

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