The 10th Annual City Tech Science Fiction Symposium on “Image in SF” was a great success!
If you missed it, you can watch each session in the videos embedded below.
The original call for papers is here and the program with participant bios can be found here.
Videos of the 10th Annual City Tech Science Fiction Symposium
9:00AM Opening Remarks Jason Ellis and Justin F. Vázquez-Poritz
9:20AM Paper Session 1 Moderator: Kel Karpinski Jason Ellis, “10 Year Retrospective” Mary Billyou, “Pocket Paperback & Pulp Magazine Covers of Important LGBTQIA+ Texts in the City Tech Science Fiction Collection” Frank Wu, “Images of Aliens and Strange Creatures in Astounding and Analog Science Fiction and Fact“
10:50AM Paper Session 2 Moderator: Wanett Clyde Richard Rivera, “Cli-Fi and Community Alliance and Reporting Environmental Systems (CARES)” Jason Ellis, “City Tech SF Collection” Jim Keen, “Hallucinated Cities: Designing Cognitive Environments Through Image and Imagination”
1:10PM Student Panel: “‘Never did I behold a vision so horrible’: Frankenstein Reimagined” Moderator: Vivian Zuluaga Papp Gal Ben Baruch, Gilberto Martinez, Michael Peterkin Jr., Yudesh Ramphal, Chandler Wu, Kaiwei Yu, and Elijah Zindoga
2:10PM Analog/Asimov’s Artists and Writers Panel Moderator: Emily Hockaday Donato Giancola Aleksandra (Ola) Hill Kris Dikeman Frank Wu
The event is free and open to the public. Pre-registration for this in-person event is not required. Participants and attendees who are not affiliated with the college will need to sign-in at the security desk before entering. Room A-105 is down the hallway to the right of the turnstiles on the right side (street-facing side of the building).
Program
9:00AM Opening Remarks
Jason Ellis and Justin F. Vázquez-Poritz
9:15AMBreak
9:20AMPaper Session 1
Moderator: Kel Karpinski
Jason Ellis, “10 Year Retrospective”
Mary Billyou, “Pocket Paperback & Pulp Magazine Covers of Important LGBTQIA+ Texts in the City Tech Science Fiction Collection”
Frank Wu, “Images of Aliens and Strange Creatures in Astounding and Analog Science Fiction and Fact“
10:40AMBreak
10:50AM Paper Session 2
Moderator: Wanett Clyde
Jason Ellis, “City Tech SF Collection”
Jim Keen, “Hallucinated Cities: Designing Cognitive Environments Through Image and Imagination”
Richard Rivera, “Cli-Fi and Community Alliance and Reporting Environmental Systems (CARES)”
12:10PM Lunch
1:10PMStudent Panel: “‘Never did I behold a vision so horrible’: Frankenstein Reimagined”
Moderator: Vivian Zuluaga Papp
Gal Ben Baruch, Dante Florian, Jonathan Kayumov,
Gilberto Martinez, Michael Peterkin Jr., Matthew Ramirez, Yudesh Ramphal, Chandler Wu, Kaiwei Yu, and Elijah Zindoga
Savonne Andrews designed this year’s event poster. He is a graphic designer specializing in branding and visual storytelling. He believes that thoughtful creative decisions develop lasting memories in our mind without us realizing. His mission is to craft interactive art experiences that inspire large audiences through his experience in animation and writing. Connect with him on linkedin.com/in/savonneandrews and savonnea.myportfolio.com.
Jill Belli is Associate Professor of English at New York City College of Technology, CUNY, where she happily teaches science fiction and utopian studies often. She’s working on long-standing projects on well-being & happiness in education and writing & revising in speculative fiction. Newer interests include nature writing, healing & illness, tarot & astrology as storytelling / intuitive literacy, and grief. Learn more about Jill and her interdisciplinary research and teaching:jillbelli.org.
Gal Ben Baruch is a BTech in Emerging Media Technology student at City Tech.
Mary Billyou is a writer and lens-based artist who examines the archive, social practice, and the resonances of landscapes. She is currently attaining a dual degree in Information Studies and History at CUNY Queens College and is working as an archival research assistant on the City Tech Science Fiction Collection.
Wanett Clyde is the Collections Management Librarian at CUNY’s New York City College of Technology, where in addition to managing the library’s collection she oversees the university archives. Her research seeks to explore the intersection of Black history and fashion history, drawing out under credited African-American contributors, their critical innovations and accomplishments, and other meaningful connections in the overlapping research spheres.
Kris Dikeman lives and works in New York City. Her stories have appeared in Sybil’s Garage, All Hallows, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, Strange Horizons, and Year’s Best Fantasy 9. She is currently at work on a novel about life, love, and zombie hordes in Manhattan. You can read more of her work at her website: www.krisdikeman.com.
Dante Florian is an AAS in Computer Engineering Technology student at City Tech.
Donato Giancola is a freelance artist whose oil paintings over a 33 year career have graced the covers of over three hundred novels, appeared in scores of exhibitions, and landed him numerous peer honors notably including three Hugo Awards, and twenty-three Chesley Awards, and the prestigious Hamilton King Award from the Society of Illustrators. Formative years in the early nineties were spent as the studio assistant to the preeminent figure painter Vincent Desiderio, and long days of study in the museums of New York.
Donato recognizes the significant cultural role played by visual art and makes personal efforts to contribute to the expansion and appreciation of the narrative genre that extend beyond the commissions of his clients. To those ends he taught at the School of Visual Arts in New York City for twenty-five years and now mentors artists online and appears at various institutions, universities, workshops, and events worldwide where he performs demonstrations, exhibits work, and lectures on his aesthetics.
Donato is currently engaged on multiple fronts with his genre themed works for exhibition, book projects for J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, ongoing commercial book assignments, and explorations on his developing themes of Empathetic Robots and astronauts.
Donato lives and works with his wife in Brooklyn, New York.
Leigh Gold (she/her) is a Doctoral Lecturer in the English Department at City Tech. She teaches composition, fiction, poetry, women’s studies, and American literature. Her doctoral work explored mourning in the work of Else Lasker-Schüler using several theoretical approaches, among them feminist, trauma, and poetic theories. Since then, she has deepened her focus on interdisciplinary work such as writing about Ursula K. Le Guin, Mary Shelley, Octavia Butler, Judith Merril, Eastern philosophies and ethics, trauma and healing in women’s science fiction, and the role of the body in poetry. Leigh contributed an essay to the 2025 anthology Jewish Women Writers Create Science Fiction: Gender, Temporality–and Yentas, edited by Marleen S Barr. She also writes fiction and poetry and is developing new courses on journal writing and dreams in literature. She is thrilled to be a part of this wonderful Symposium and grateful to have been a part of all of the Symposia over the past ten years!
Carlos Hernandez is the New York Times best-selling author who wrote the critically acclaimed short story collection The Assimilated Cuban’s Guide to Quantum Santeria (Rosarium, 2016), the novel Sal and Gabi Break the Universe (Disney Hyperion, 2019), which won the 2020 Pura Belpré Award, and its sequel, Sal and Gabi Fix the Universe. He’s also written dozens of short stories, poems, and works of drama, usually in the SFF mode. Recently, Carlos has written several comics for Marvel, including the characters America Chavez, Spider-man, Spider Punk, and Miles Morales.
Carlos earned his Ph. D. in English, with an emphasis in Creative Writing, from Binghamton University in 2000. He is Professor of English at the City University of New York (CUNY), where he teaches Composition, Creative Writing, Science Fiction, and other courses at BMCC, and, at the CUNY Graduate Center, teaches in the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Program, where his academic interests have centered around game-based learning in postsecondary environments.
That work in particular has led Carlos to work extensively in game writing and game design. He has served as lead writer and a game designer on the CRPG Meriwether, as a writer and designer for the installation art of Mary Miss, and as literary curator on the Apple Arcade game Dear Reader, among other video games. As a co-founder of the CUNY Games Network and of the Board Game Designers Group of New York, he’s contributed to the development of many board and card games, both educational and commercial. With his wife, author C. S. E. Cooney, he released in 2025 GM-less roleplaying game Negocios Infernales, published by Outland Entertainment.
Aleksandra (Ola) Hill is a Polish-Canadian writer and the founder and editor-in-chief of khōréō, a quarterly magazine of speculative fiction by immigrant and diaspora writers. Her stories have appeared in Analog, Writer’s Digest, Uncharted Magazine, and others. In a past life, she was a computational biologist fascinated by machine learning. You can find her slinking around NYC bookstores and online at www.aleksandrahill.com.
Emily Hockaday is the senior managing editor of Analog Science Fiction and Fact and Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine. She coedited the horror anthology Terror at the Crossroads with Jackie Sherbow and is the editor of the speculative poetry anthology Heartbeat of the Universe. Hockaday is the author of Naming the Ghost, Blood Music, and In a Body. She has received grants from the De Groot Foundation, Café Royal Cultural Foundation, NYFA City Artist Corps, and Queens Council on the Arts. You can find her at www.emilyhockaday.com.
Kel R. Karpinski (they/he) is the IT/ILL Librarian and Associate Professor at the New York City College of Technology, CUNY. Their research focuses on mid-century queer films and novels as they relate to sailors and hustlers in Times Square and how these texts map queer desire onto the city. Kel is also a zine maker and a NY Queer Zine Fair organizer.
Jonathan Kayumov is an AAS in Computer Information Systems student at City Tech.
Jim Keen is an architect, illustrator, and speculative fiction author exploring how visual design and spatial systems shape narrative and cognition. With over 25 years of experience leading civic and cultural architecture projects across North America, Europe, and Asia, he brings a unique design sensibility to speculative worldbuilding. His hand-drawn architectural illustrations have been featured by Apple, and his Alice Yu series—set in a fractured 2055 New York—treats the city as a cognitive system that drives behavior, memory, and story. Keen’s creative process blends sketching, 3D modeling, and generative AI to develop environments that don’t just reflect fictional realities but shape them. His current research investigates how images and designed spaces act as recursive tools for exploring trauma, control, and emergent narrative logic in science fiction.
Lucas Kwong is a writer, musician, and associate professor of English at New York City College of Technology. He’s written at eschatontwist.substack.com, Institute for Christian Socialism’s Bias Magazine, Public Books, Journal of Narrative Theory, and Victorian Literature and Culture. His podcast series, Monster In The Mirror, is a spinoff of Straight White American Jesus. His music can be found at brotherkmusic.com.
Gilberto Martinez is a BTech in Computer Engineering Technology student at City Tech.
Vivian Zuluaga Papp is a Doctoral Lecturer in the English Department here at City Tech. She has a BA in English from Columbia University, an MA in British and American Literature from Hunter College, and her Ph.D. is in Eighteenth-Century British Literature from Fordham University. Previously, she taught classes in Satire, Women in Science Fiction, Afrofuturism, and Imaginary Travel Narratives while a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at Fordham University. She has also taught a course on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and The Last Man for the Rosenbach Museum in Philadelphia, Pa. Her research interest is in the field of visual epistemology in seventeenth-century scientific texts and early forms of the novel. She is the author of a short science fiction story “Catbot’s in the Cradle,” which was published in Behind the Yellow Wallpaper: New Tales of Madness, and has a chapter entitled “Picturing Air: The Rhetoric of Nondescription in Robert Boyle’s New Experiments Physico- Mechanicall and Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year” included in Histories of Science: Natural Philosophy in the Eighteenth-Century World (UVA Press) available now.
Michael Peterkin, Jr. is a BFA in Communication Design student at City Tech.
Matthew Ramirez is an AAS in Communication Design student at City Tech.
Yudesh Ramphal is an AAS in Environmental Control Technology student at City Tech.
Richard Rivera is a PhD Student in the CUNY Graduate Center’s Environmental and Geological Sciences program. He is dedicated to building community resilience against climate threats. With a background that includes service in the U.S. Navy as a rescue swimmer and engineer, bringing a multi-disciplined, mission-oriented approach to safeguarding vulnerable populations in NYC. His work now focuses on hydro-magnetic, environmental justice and citizen science, with particular attention to highly vulnerable areas like East Harlem. He aims to empower residents with tools like NOAA’s mPING app (and flood tools that are being developed) to bridge the gap between hyperlocal experience and national forecasting. His mission is to translate complex climate data into actionable strategies, ensuring communities are prepared, informed, and resilient in the face of an ever changing planet.
Justin F. Vázquez-Poritz is the Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at New York College of Technology, CUNY.
Chandler Wu is a BTech in Mechanical Engineering Technology student at City Tech.
Frank Wu is a science fiction author and artist living near Boston, Massachusetts. His art has won four Hugo Awards, and his stories have appeared in Analog magazine eight times. Most recently, his novella co-written with Jay Werkheiser, “Under the Moons of Venus: A Tale of a Princess Altivolant”, an Edgar Rice Burroughs-inspired frolicsome sword-and-planet adventure, appeared in the July-August 2025 issue of Analog.
Kaiwei Yu is a BTech in Computer Engineering Technology student at City Tech.
Elijah Zindoga is a BTech in Mechanical Engineering Technology student at City Tech.
Symposium Co-Organizers
This year’s symposium was co-organized by Jill Belli, Wanett Clyde, Jason W. Ellis, Leigh Gold, Kel Karpinski, Lucas Kwong, and Vivian Zuluaga Papp.
Special Thanks
We would like to thank Analog Science Fiction and Fact and Asimov’s Science Fictionfor providing magazine issues to give to attendees, and a special thank you to Emily Hockaday for organizing the artists and writers panel.
Science Fiction Collection
The New York City College of Technology, CUNY (City Tech) holds an extensive collection of genre literature and scholarship focusing primarily on Science Fiction, and secondarily on Mystery and Horror. Inaugurated in 2016 as the City Tech Science Fiction Collection, it contains over 600 linear feet of magazines, anthologies, novels, monographs, and scholarly journals. Thanks to its founding anonymous donor, it features near-complete runs of the major SF magazines. The collection has continued to grow thanks to donations from David Mead, Aaron Barlow, and Charlie Seelig.
The City Tech Science Fiction Collection is held in the Archives and Special Collections of the Ursula C. Schwerin Library. In addition to the collection serving as a locus for an annual symposium on Science Fiction and supplementing student research in City Tech’s ENG2420 Science Fiction course, it is a public collection, so scholars are invited to visit and make use of the collection’s holdings in their research.
Notably, the collection includes a library of texts that contains more than 4,000 science fiction magazine issues from complete or near-complete titles, including Amazing Stories, Astounding/Analog, Fantastic, Future, Galaxy, Galileo, If, Imagination, Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Omni, Spaceway, Thrilling Wonder Stories, Vertex, and Worlds of Tomorrow. An inventory is available at https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/sciencefictionatcitytech/librarycollection/.
To inquire about the collection’s holdings or arrange a visit, contact Collections Management Librarian Wanett Clyde (wclyde@citytech.cuny.edu) and Jason Ellis (jellis@citytech.cuny.edu).
The annual City Tech Science Fiction Symposium is held each year in celebration of the collection, which in turn provides the foundation for exploring different themes and issues through interdisciplinary conversations. We have been honored by symposia keynote addresses by Samuel R. Delany, Mike Flynn, Jonathan W. Gray, Ximena Gallardo C. and Ann Matsuuchi, Jeremy Brett, Ytasha L. Womack, Marleen S. Barr, and this year, Carlos Hernandez.
On Thursday, Oct. 16 from 3:00pm-4:00pm, we hosted four visitors to the Archives and Special Collections @ NYCCT Open House for New York Archives Week 2025. It was organized and setup by Wanett Clyde, Kel Karpinski, Jennifer Hoyer, and Keith Muchowski. For the event, they displayed artifacts from the archive, including artwork, photos, student newspapers, and books. During the event, Jason Ellis gave a presentation on the City Tech Science Fiction Collection. Our discussions ranged from maintaining archives, challenges to growing special collections, sustainability, and practical advice for entering the field.
On June 14, 2023, City Tech Foundation Executive Director Beth Farryn Levine and Brooklyn Waterfront Research Center Director and English Professor Richard Hanley visited the City Tech Science Fiction Collection while Jason Ellis and Wanett Clyde were moving eight new boxes of donated material from Charlie Seelig into the Archives and Special Collections.
On Monday, May 8, Prof. Jason Ellis brought his ENG3790 Information Architecture students in the Professional and Technical Writing Program to the City Tech Science Fiction Collection to learn about how IA principles were employed to quickly make it accessible using DIY strategies. Also, the students gathered metadata from recently donated and shelved material for the collection’s finding aid. Many thanks to the students who were able to contribute to this invaluable City Tech research and teaching resource: Khaled Akam, Tiana Beatty, Kahini Chauhan, Jaida Clouden, Sphear Forde, Sandy Fougeres, Ronald Hinds, Khemraj Persaud, and Nikka Rosenstein.
In the previous post, we finally were able to relocate all of the materials donated to the City Tech Science Fiction Collection during the pandemic into the Library’s Archives space. On Thursday, April 20, 2023, Prof. Jason Ellis was able to shelve the material thanks to the efforts of Prof. Wanett Clyde and the librarian staff to open 30 shelves for the additional material.
The first step involved cleaning each shelf of accumulated dust and letting it dry before shelving any material.
Then, each box was opened in turn and its contents shelved in the stacks. The primary objective was to get the materials out of the boxes and onto the shelves, because some of the boxes had been damaged during shipping and the materials were exposed and/or smashed together. With limited time and uncertainty about how much material there was of each type, a strategy was adopted to put like materials together: hard cover fiction, paperback fiction, and periodicals/fanzines/ephemera. Later, a photographic inventory will be made of each shelf and each item will be entered into the finding aid.
Thank you again to Charlie Seelig, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, City Tech Professor Lucas Bernard and his father Kenneth Bernard, the experimental playwright and English professor whose materials were donated, and Emeritus Professor of English at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi and former president of the Science Fiction Research Association David Mead!
During the pandemic, we received a lot of new material for the City Tech Science Fiction Collection, including magazines, novels, collections, academic journals, and monographs. These materials were donated by Charlie Seelig (~20 boxes of EVERYTHING), Analog Science Fiction and Fact(~4 boxes of magazines from their old office space), City Tech Professor Lucas Bernard (2 boxes of material that belonged to his father Kenneth Bernard, the experimental playwright and English professor), and Emeritus Professor of English at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi and former president of the Science Fiction Research Association David Mead (1 box of Jack Vance materials), The Special Collections and Archives in the City Tech Library unfortunately were unable to open enough shelf space for these materials, so Wanett and Jason stored everything in their offices–with most of it being in Jason’s office (see below).
This semester, however, Wanett was able to work with library staff to open up additional shelf space in the archives for the donated materials (in the photo below, the background stacks are the City Tech Science Fiction Collection).
On Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023, Jason coordinated with Wanett to begin moving the materials one cart load at a time into the archives.
It took about two-and-a-half-hours to move 22 boxes of material into the archives. The first few cart loads were successful–an elevator ride from the fifth floor of Namm to the fourth floor, and then walk to the fourth floor of the Library Building to take the service elevator up to the fifth floor of the Library Building and a short walk to the archives room. Unfortunately, the service elevator died before the last load was delivered, so Jason toted those 40 pound boxes one at a time on the last leg of the journey. Now, all of the material has been relocated to the archives room.
The next phase of integrating the materials will involve unboxing and shelving like materials on the available shelf space, which will be followed by a photographic inventory of each shelf and inventorying the items into the finding aid, which as we know from past experience, will take the most time and energy. However, Jason has plans to bring his Professional and Technical Writing students in his Spring 2023 Information Architecture class to the archives to perform some of the inventorying work as part of a discussion of database construction, categorization, and metadata.
Mark Noonan, my colleague in the English Department at City Tech, is running an NEH Summer Institute on the topic, “City of Print: New York and the Periodical Press.” I’ll be contributing to the Digital Methods Workshop on Wednesday, June 24 with my experience working on the City Tech Science Fiction Collection and using digital tools to make archival materials available to students and researchers. See the link below for all the sessions and apply to join us in Brooklyn!
City of Print: New York and the Periodical Press
(NEH SUMMER INSTITUTE) (June 21 – July 3, 2020)
New York City College of Technology-CUNY will host a two-week NEH Summer Institute for college and university faculty in the summer of 2020 (June 21 – July 3).
Applications to participate will be accepted via our online application system until March 1, 2020.
The Institute will focus on periodicals, place, and the history of publishing in New York. As an institute participant, you will take part in discussions led by cultural historians, archivists, and experts in the fields of American literature, art and urban history, and periodical studies; participate in hands-on sessions in the periodicals collection of the New-York Historical Society; visit sites important to the rise of New York’s periodical press, such as Newspaper Row, Gramercy Park, the New York Seaport, the East Village, and the Algonquin Hotel; and attend Digital Humanities workshops.
You will also be asked to read a rich body of scholarship and consider new interdisciplinary approaches for researching and teaching periodicals that take into account the important site of their production, as well as relevant cultural, technological, aesthetic, and historical considerations. Sessions will be held across New York City including New York City College of Technology, the Brooklyn Historical Society, The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Pace University, and the New-York Historical Society.
We encourage applicants from any field who are interested in the subject matter. Scholars and teachers specializing in periodical studies, journalism, urban history, art history, American studies, literature, and/or cultural studies will find the Institute especially attractive.
Independent scholars, scholars engaged in museum work or full-time graduate studies are also urged to apply.
Librarian Morris Hounion and the City Tech Library’s Exhibit Committee were kind enough to offer us all four entrance displays–the large display outside the library and the three smaller displays inside the library’s entrance.
The exhibits were a collaboration between City Tech and Analog Science Fiction and Fact. City Tech Student Design Intern Julie Bradford created the symposium poster, Prof. Ellis designed posters on the City Tech Science Fiction Collection and the history of the City Tech Science Fiction Symposium, Analog designed posters highlighting the symposium speakers, a timeline of the magazine’s long history, and Analog supplied the cover artwork that fills in the background of each display case. Artifacts in each case were pulled from the City Tech Science Fiction Collection, including the Jan. 1934 issue of Astounding.
Main Display case highlighting the 4th Annual City Tech Science Fiction Symposium in celebration of 90 years of Analog SF.
Display case highlighting the published work of speakers at the 4th annual City Tech Science Fiction Symposium.
Display case highlighting the history of the annual City Tech Science Fiction Symposium.
Display case highlighting the City Tech Science Fiction Collection.
Prof. Jason W. Ellis appeared on the May 30, 2019 episode of Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson’s StarTalk Radio program on “Creating Science Fiction, with Gale Anne Hurd.” Representing City Tech and the City Tech Science Fiction Collection, Prof. Ellis shared his expertise on science fiction and its cultural influence in a wide-ranging discussion connecting popular ideas about science and technology, SF’s influence on the popular imagination, and SF’s overlapping roles as entertainment, social commentary, and imaginative inspiration. Listen to the episode embedded below or available on the StarTalk website here.
The StarTalk Radio Website describes the episode as:
The Terminator, The Walking Dead, Aliens, and a lot more. Those are just some of the producing credits for this week’s main guest on StarTalk Radio. Neil deGrasse Tyson sits down with producer-extraordinaire Gale Anne Hurd to explore what it takes to bring great science fiction to life. Neil is joined by comic co-host Chuck Nice, science fiction expert Jason Ellis, PhD, and volcanologist Janine Krippner, PhD.
Because science fiction comes in many different forms and through many different avenues, there are many ways to get into it. You’ll learn how Gale’s childhood love of Marvel comic books and science fiction novels translated into a career “making what she likes to see.” She tells us how she served as a science fiction consultant to her local library to make sure their stock was up to date. Jason shares why not being able to see Star Wars in the theater sparked a rebellious love for science fiction.
You’ll hear about the history of science fiction and how it combines the STEM fields and the humanities. We debate if science fiction informs the future of every technological invention. You’ll find out about a lawsuit H.G Wells brought upon military figureheads because he claimed they stole his idea from one of his science fiction stories. Explore using science fiction as social commentary. Discover more about the famous kiss between Captain Kirk and Lt. Uhura, and how William Shatner and Nichelle Nichols purposely flubbed takes to make sure it stayed in the episode.
We take a deep dive into Dante’s Peak as volcanologist Janine Krippner stops by to share her take on the film. She explains why she thinks it’s still the best volcano movie even with its flaws. Gale gives us a behind-the-scenes look on how she fought for even more scientific realism to be in the film but encountered pushback from the studio. Neil also confronts Gale on the famous scientific inaccuracies of Armageddon. Chuck shares his love for The Expanse, we discuss Interstellar, and Neil tells us about his involvement in The Europa Report.
Lastly, you’ll also find out the differences between creating science fiction for television and film. According to Hugo Gernsback, the father of science fiction, sci-fi should be 75% romance and 25% science – is that still the goal? All that, plus, Jason caps it off with a story on how he was criticizing the film Sunshine right in front of director Danny Boyle’s family.
