Hello and welcome to Science Fiction University.

Hello and welcome to Science Fiction University.

This week, Science Fiction University is going to look at the Netflix series, Bodies,

which is Time Travel Story. We're your writer and fan hosts. I'm Blue Gow. And I'm Drift Glass,

and yes, we have talked about time travel before. Longtime fans know we're big fans of

time travel all the way back in episode two where we pitted

Isaac Asimov's 1955 novel, The End of Eternity, against Ryan Johnson's 2012 film Looper.

Also in episode eight, destroy the timeline versus save the timeline.

And there are a couple of reasons why we're taking another big dive into time travel

to this week.

First, bodies was recommended to us by friends.

Second, we enjoyed it enough to watch all eight episodes over three days, which is not something we usually do.

We liked it.

It was a good show.

Third, along with various types of apocalypsees and multiverses, time travel has become one of the most dominant subgenres of science fiction.

Once upon a time when outer space was much more mysterious than it is now, writers like H.G. Wells and J. Verne could plausibly imagine that the moon could be home to an extraterrestrial civilization called the Selenites.

And everyone from Edgar Rice Burroughs to Ray Bradbury could populate Mars with wise and ancient races of Martians.

Oh, yeah.

There were the canals of Mars full of wine.

There were towers on Mars and minarets.

It was a wonderful, mysterious, distant place that does not exist.

And now we know what Mars really looks like.

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