Science fiction

Something that fits into cracks too twisted for the rest of us.

Fortunately, this is just science fiction and not at all like the real world.

So what draws you to these types of characters?

I wasn't so much drawn to it originally.

It happened like 18 months after they made that prediction.

So things are worse.

Things are, like, even my pessimistic science fiction posits a world that's in much better shape than the one we are actually headed for at this point.

There, my paper came out just a few years ago in Nature, a paper basically on forestry level things.

But I've put at number 11...

A track which wasn't supposed to be there when we started this series, but has landed there because of coverage as Science Fiction.

And it has gone there because I've never, I know you must, I figured when you sent me the clips that you sent me to play today, Simon, that you're a fan.

So I was like, oh shit.

And people might not like that, but that's where it is.

And it's moved up because of our coverage.

But science fiction just plummeted down.

And when I looked at the list, I was just like, it's the one that I don't ever want to listen to.

made a few films.

And the kind of like, I think thinking of someone, because you know, my dad's a boomer generation when they started to get those big actors from action films and start to bring them into science fiction, that's when it really blew up in terms of the genre.

So that's kind of how I started.

And then I started to, you know, read the classics, um, Brave New World, 1984, all those types of books that really get you into that science fiction space and went from there.

I need to read some of those.

I want to say I've read 1984.

Yeah.

I don't know.

Welcome to Sci-Fi Books Weekly from Curator.

The Curator team has sorted through the September 2026 science fiction stack, and these are the ten books we would actually put in front of you this month.

Each one earns its place with a real speculative question: alternate countries, power as currency, anti-universe physics, engineered assassins, living starships, animal minds, hard science, new species, story machines, and clone inheritance.

The useful thing is not agreeing with the exact order.

It is opening the show notes, following the public sources, and picking the two books you will actually finish.

Sci-Fi Books Weekly is one channel on Curator.

Curator turns the noise of feeds, newsletters, review pages, and release calendars into short briefings you can act on.

You follow the channels that matter to you, Curator does the reading and curating, and each week the signal comes to you with the reasoning attached.

And, and being one of the...

Was it still Sci-Fi back then or was it...

Had they rebranded? A- a...

'Cause that channel rebranded a couple times, so, um-

Was it Sci-Fi Channel still? It wasn't Sci-Fi with the S-Y-F-Y, was it? Or was it becoming that?

Skiffy.

Yeah.

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Um, I want to announce the winners of the Sci-Fi Challenge.

Since we know who the winners are.

And they will be announced in the announced video on Thursday.

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We're giving you the scoop.

Ladies and gentlemen, the winners of the Sci-Fi Challenge from the YouTube extravaganza put on by Dennis Terrell from Terrell Knife Works.

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