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Red Horizons is a bold and revolutionary podcast that explores science fiction through a leftist lens. Each episode dives deep into classic and contemporary sci-fi, unpacking the political ideologies and power structures that shape imagined worlds—and our own. From interstellar empires to post-apocalyptic rebellions, Red Horizons reveals how speculative fiction can challenge capitalism, colonialism, and conformity.
mcphizzle66 hosts Red Horizons, a society show with 12 episodes published.
Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Word for World is Forest begins with conquest and ends with a reckoning. Terran colonizers arrive on Athshe to strip its forests, enslaving its people in the name of progress. But when the Athshea
On Gethen, winter never ends. Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness imagines a world without fixed gender, where survival depends on loyalty and warmth shared across difference. But this isn’t just a story of ice
The Dispossessed is Ursula K. Le Guin’s great anarchist novel. A story about walls, worlds, and what it means to live without masters. In this episode of Red Horizons, we explore Le Guin’s vision of an anarchist society
Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle didn’t just write bestselling science fiction, they built survival fantasies for empire. The Mote in God’s Eye, Lucifer’s Hammer, and Footfall wrapped authoritarian order and militarized “
I’ve gone back to the beginning. Episodes 1–3 of Red Horizons have been remastered to better match the audio quality of later episodes. No re-recordings — just hours of careful cleanup to polish some of those early rough
In Larry Niven’s Known Space, freedom isn’t crushed by armies or tyrants — it’s quietly managed out of existence. At the center of this system is the ARM, the Amalgamated Regional Militia: a covert force that governs by
Larry Niven’s Ringworld is one of science fiction’s grandest spectacles — a megastructure so vast it reshapes our sense of scale. But beneath its glittering surface lies a different kind of engineering: the redesign of h
In this episode of Red Horizons, we return to the domes, deserts, and dreams of Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars Trilogy—but this time with a critical lens. We explore how its vision of revolution, ecology, and post-capitalis
What happens after the revolution? In the final installment of our Mars Trilogy arc, we explore how Blue Mars grapples with memory, mourning, ecological crisis, and the possibilities of radical democracy. Utopia isn’t a
As revolt simmers beneath the Martian soil, Green Mars reveals the long road to revolution—from hidden labor and cultural memory to full-scale insurgency and the uncertain aftermath. Drawing on thinkers like Silvia Feder
In the first full episode of Red Horizons, we dive into Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Mars to explore how revolution begins—on Earth and on Mars. Through a leftist lens, we examine the social, political, and material condit
Welcome to Red Horizons, where science fiction meets revolutionary critique. In this prologue, host Steve McPhail sets the stage for a podcast that digs into the politics of power, ideology, and resistance in speculative
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