Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

Episode details

World Service,6 mins

"Fables for the Future"

BBC World Service Archive

Available for over a year

Writers Pat Cadigan and John Clute talk about the purpose of science fiction. Also on the programme the theory of being revived after your death with cryonics and talking computers. This clip is taken from the programme To Boldly Go which was first broadcast in March 1999. Picture: Flying Saucer, Credit: Thinkstock

Programme Website
More episodes