Constellation: Making the Graphic Novel
Enter a simulated universe where software beings engage in classic human struggles for belonging, status, and attention, and old certainties like death and gravity are just settings to be negotiated. You can be the god of your own private world, but if find yourself feeling lonely, you might be tempted to give away some of your precious control. This podcast will take you behind the scenes with comic book authors and veteran podcasters Jon Perry (@perryjon) and Ted Kupper (@tedkupper) as they write and develop a science fiction graphic novel called Constellation, set in a metaverse unlike any you’ve seen before: neither a utopia nor a dystopia, neither real nor virtual, it is a simulation where everyone knows they are being simulated and no one much cares, where there’s no hope of leaving and no reason to, just an endless supply of human-designed worlds to create and explore.
- Update frequency
- every 17 days
- Average duration
- 53 minutes
- Episodes
- 161
- Years Active
- 2013 - 2023
c08: The Legend of Jerry
Final DEVS, Eating and Sleeping, Regeneration, Default Homeworld
00:22:13 |
Wed 01 Jul 2020
c07: The Intergalactic Space Phone
Devs, Ted Chiang, No Interworld Communication
01:21:22 |
Fri 19 Jun 2020
c06: The Standard Clock Rate of Everything
Newborn Rights, Money World, Interworld Communication
01:48:51 |
Thu 11 Jun 2020
c05: Babies Are Being Born with God Powers
Upload, Having Kids and Copying Minds, AI limits
Wed 03 Jun 2020
c04: The Simple Answer is Monkeys
Deleting Worlds, Personal Avatars, The Transition, Mental Aging
01:03:07 |
Tue 26 May 2020
c03: A Low Amount of Pain for All Eternity
Ejection, Entrance Contracts, Religions Inside the Constellation.
00:54:52 |
Fri 15 May 2020
c01: Building an Original Science Fiction World
Introducing the broad science fiction concepts and writing principles behind our next graphic novel.
01:15:09 |
Thu 30 Apr 2020
099: Review of Review the Future
After nearly 100 episodes, we've decided to dramatically change the format of the podcast: this episode will be the last traditional Review the Future episode! We are taking this opportunity to refle…
00:54:06 |
Wed 18 Mar 2020
098: Review of WALKAWAY
Cory Doctorow's novel WALKAWAY is the subject of this episode. Ted and Jon discuss the novel's plot (and this one is full of spoilers, so if you haven't read it yet beware!) and the wild sci fi ideas…
01:04:15 |
Wed 22 Jan 2020
097: Review of I AM MOTHER
Jon and Ted review I AM MOTHER, a Netflix movie directed by Grant Sputore and written by Michael Lloyd Green. The story is about a robot that raises a human child. We cover the more and less believab…
00:44:59 |
Wed 27 Nov 2019
096: Review of BLACK MIRROR Season 5, Part 3
This episode is about Smithereens, the second episode in season 5 of Black Mirror. The episode features a hostage situation caused in part by social media addiction. Jon and Ted use this episode to d…
00:52:14 |
Thu 03 Oct 2019
095: Review of BLACK MIRROR Season 5, Part 2
This episode is about "Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too," the third episode in season 5 of Black Mirror. Sure, it's another story with emulated brain technology where it's only applied in one narrow way, …
00:37:10 |
Thu 22 Aug 2019
094: Review of BLACK MIRROR Season 5, Part 1
If you were waiting for an episode in which Jon says "shooting orgasmic fireballs," today's your lucky day. This episode we look at the STRIKING VIPERS episode of Black Mirror season 5. In it, two fr…
00:34:54 |
Fri 09 Aug 2019
093: Review of EXHALATION, Part 2
In this episode we review the story The Lifecycle of Software Objects from the collection Exhalation by Ted Chiang. The story is about a pair of startup employees who train and bond with software bei…
00:58:11 |
Wed 24 Jul 2019
092: Review of EXHALATION, Part 1
In this episode we review the story The Truth of Feeling, The Truth of Fact from the collection Exhalation by Ted Chiang. The story is both a philosophical inquisition into memory and technology, and…
01:04:11 |
Fri 12 Jul 2019
091: Review of Philip K Dick’s ELECTRIC DREAMS
Crazy Diamond, the fourth episode of Amazon's anthology of Philip K Dick adaptations, is the subject of this week's episode. We discuss the primary technical supposition in the story, chimeric geneti…
00:25:03 |
Wed 03 Jul 2019
090: Review of AUTONOMOUS
We discuss Annalee Neuwitz's novel Autonomous, a sci fi story set in a world of biotech and aggressive patent enforcement. The book is a two hander about a drug pirate named Jack Chen and a robot nam…
01:07:03 |
Thu 20 Jun 2019
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