Feral Historian
Stories are cultural artifacts, whether it's epics on clay tablets or big-budget films. Those artifacts can tell us a lot about the time and culture that made them if we take a few minutes to shake them and see what falls out. To that end, an independent scholar goes rogue from academic respectability, wanders out into the wild, and talks to the trees and rocks about science fiction and its place in historical study.
Grab your hiking pack and get your nerd-on, we've got a lot to talk about.
Also, I'm just going to say there's a blanket spoiler warning for the entire channel.
The Chronicles of Riddick : a Treatise on Political Machinery
Plur1bus : First Impressions
District 9 and the Story of “Race”
Star Trek - Section 31
Ghostbusters : Ignore the Rules, Save the World
Footfall and Cultural Blindspots
Sci-Fi, Satire, and the Post-WWII Mythos
Escape From LA : Peak ‘90s Sequel/Spoof
Star Trek : The Maquis
The Mote in God’s Eye : A No-Win Scenario
Babylon 5 and Mass Effect : Rising Powers
Starship Troopers : Service Isn’t The Point
D’Joan, C’Mell, and the Rediscovery of Man
Is a World State Inevitable? Feral Historian vs Damien Walter
Red Star : The Dawn of Soviet Sci-Fi
A Fire Upon The Deep and the Identity Gradient
The Running Man : Prescient Subversive Shlock
Starships and Walls : Which Shall We Build?
The Terminator and the Determinism of Narrative
Julia : A Feminist Retelling of 1984?
I, Robot : The Ellison Script
Andor : The Cause Consumes
Gattaca : Layers of Dystopia
The T’au : Greater Good? Lesser Evil?
Biggs and the “End of History”
Communism, Socialism, and Star Trek
The Human Reach : Think “The Expanse with no Alien Tech”
A Boy and His Dog, Fallout, and Apocalyptic Myths
"Living Witness" : Interpreting the Past
Warhammer 40000 : Cultural Relevance