Episode 1: Stranger than Fiction

Today's show considers some of the ways that science fiction has drawn inspiration from planetary science. Guest essay by Megan Healy on how well the depiction of women scientists in 1950s American sci-fi films matched up against the reality of women scientists' lives at that time. Host essay on the "discovery" of canals on Mars in the late nineteenth century and its impact on the writing of H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds . Show notes available here: http://missinglinkp...