Oct 28, 2021
Welcome back to the Great Derelict!
This week in the run up to halloween Andy is joined by the master of the macabre Mr Jim Moon to discuss Alien invasion as a trope throughout the history of Sci-fi and why it has resonated and been presented as a horror trope more so than encountering Aliens out in Space, and how the...
Oct 21, 2021
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This week Andy is joined by Chris Dailey (or a very convincing artificial Intelligence posing as him) to discuss A.I’s, Machine learning and neural networks both in Sci-Fi an in Real life
You can find Chris on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/Dails08
and on this weeks Joint Geeks of...
Oct 14, 2021
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This week Andy is joined by Theresa Hitchens to talk about the new book ‘To Boldly Go’ a collection of essays about leadership through the lens of Sci-Fi and specifically about Trade in Sci-fi and the parallels between Jules Pierre Mao, the East India Company, and the race for...
Oct 7, 2021
Welcome back to the Great Derelict
This week Andy is joined by Eli Ramos to look back at Science Fiction from the past, and its views on the future. We look at how Sci-Fi was shaped by the society of the time, and in turn influenced the society we have today, and how revisiting older works can give new insights when...
Oct 1, 2021
Welcome back to the Great Derelict
This week Andy is joined from behind an opaque wall by a Heptapod called Medcalf as they dive into Denis Villeneuve's 2016 masterpiece 'Arrival'
Spoilers a plenty, so please do not listen unless you have watched the film (its excellent, do check it out) and as a Trigger Warning there...