Jan 26, 20269 minS4
After a long pause, Seldon Crisis is back—with a new name, a broader focus, and a new home. What began as a Foundation -focused story + dramatization + commentary show is rebooting as Seldon Crisis: Beyond Foundation...
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Seldon Crisis: Beyond Foundation
Hosted by Joel McKinnon · fiction · EN
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From Asimov to AI, an exploration of the range of possibilities for life and intelligence in the near and distant future.
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What is Seldon Crisis: Beyond Foundation about?
From Asimov to AI, an exploration of the range of possibilities for life and intelligence in the near and distant future.
Who hosts Seldon Crisis: Beyond Foundation?
Seldon Crisis: Beyond Foundation is hosted by Joel McKinnon. The show has published 49 episodes to date.
What has Seldon Crisis: Beyond Foundation covered recently?
Recent episodes include "From Asimov to Planetary Intelligence: Rebooting Seldon Crisis" (26 January 2026, 9 minutes), "Being Bayta with Amanda Kreitler" (24 January 2025, 63 minutes), and "Beyond Asimov's Humanism with Jamie Woodhouse" (15 December 2024, 96 minutes).
How often does Seldon Crisis: Beyond Foundation publish?
Seldon Crisis: Beyond Foundation publishes roughly every few months, with episodes averaging 61 minutes across 49 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on Seldon Crisis: Beyond Foundation?
Booking probability for Seldon Crisis: Beyond Foundation is 39%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Seldon Crisis: Beyond Foundation requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Seldon Crisis: Beyond Foundation's contact route on record: public web form.
About the host
Joel McKinnon hosts Seldon Crisis: Beyond Foundation, a fiction podcast with 49 episodes published.
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Recent episodes
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Episode #46
Being Bayta with Amanda Kreitler
Jan 24, 20251h 3mS3In this episode of Seldon Crisis, host Joel McKinnon is joined by voice actor Amanda Kreitler, the talent behind Bayta Darell and several other key characters in the Foundation podcast series. Together, they reflect on...
- Dec 15, 20241h 36mS3
Ethicist Jamie Woodhouse has some challenging questions for humanity: should we care about the suffering of all sentient beings, or just the ones who run the show at the moment? What about when we're no longer running...
Episode #44
A Meeting at Stars End with Jon Blumenfeld
Oct 13, 20231h 46mS3Jon Blumenfeld - the voice of Homir Munn in our story episodes - is one of the three hosts of Stars End, a podcast obsessively focused on the works of Isaac Asimov, particularly Foundation. They have covered the core...
- Aug 19, 20231h 29mS3
Cora Buhlert is a Hugo award winning indy Sci Fi writer and an expert on the Golden Age of Science Fiction, from the 1930s to the 50s, the period when Asimov fell in love with Sci Fi and became one of its greatest...
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Episode #42
Who is Hari Seldon?
Jul 20, 202310 minS3Who is Hari Seldon really? Is the Apple TV+ Foundation TV series character (or characters) in line with the one Asimov created 80 years ago? What bearing does his project to create a science capable of predicting and...
Episode #41
Asimov and Reason
May 31, 202354 minS3Space based solar energy generation was originally imagined in 1941 by none other than Isaac Asimov, in the robot story Reason. This episode features a reading of the classic story and commentary about how relevant it...
Episode #40
AI and Humanity, a conversation with GPT-4
May 3, 202331 minS3Everyone is talking about AI these days, or talking to it. This episode features just such a conversation between myself and the latest version of the popular Large Language Model or LLM known as GPT-4, on the topic of...
Episode #39
Aurora and Hope
Mar 15, 202325 minS3I bask in the afterglow of the KSR episode and indulge in a special treat; a reading from Robinson's 2015 novel Aurora. I follow that up with some thoughts on the utopia - dystopia divide and introduce the ideas of some...
Episode #38
Future Visions with Kim Stanley Robinson
Feb 28, 20231h 49mS3An illuminating conversation with one of our greatest living science-fiction writers on topics as diverse as AI, climate change, interstellar travel, new forms of finance needed to avert catastrophe, memorable...
Episode #37
Mapping the Galaxy with Kevin Jardine
Dec 31, 202247 minS3What does our Milky Way really look like? Kevin Jardine is a cartographer working to answer that question by building galactic maps from ESA's Gaia space telescope data. Here he explains a little bit about his process...
Episode #36
The Human Future in Space with Robert Zubrin
Dec 24, 20221h 25mS3Dr. Robert Zubrin, President of the Mars Society, talks about his revolutionary Mars Direct proposal, along with the value of Mars settlement for science, industry, government, and for the human spirit. Transcript: Web...
- Nov 11, 20221h 15mS3
Our first returning guest to Seldon Crisis is the first ever, philosophy professor Nathaniel Goldberg. We discuss some of the prominent themes of the series introduced in the first three novels of Foundation, including...
Episode #34
Search by the Foundation, Part III
Oct 21, 20221h 16mS3It all comes together at last. The war begins, looking bad for the Foundation, but morale turns the tide against Kalgan. In the aftermath, Homir Munn and the others debate the true location of the Second Foundation with...
Episode #33
Planet and Sky, Part II
Oct 4, 202224 minS3I couldn't wait to tell the rest of the story, covering the last four songs of Planet and Sky, a cosmic love story. Things take a darker turn as the relatively small planet lacks sufficient gravity to hold onto its...
Episode #32
Planet and Sky, Part I
Sep 30, 202219 minS3A little diversion to introduce a true labor of love, my rock opera entitled "Planet and Sky, a cosmic love story." Written and recorded in the first decade of this millennium and inspired by my experience as a member...
Episode #31
Search by the Foundation, Part II
Sep 9, 202251 minS3Arkady Darell and Homir Munn arrive on Kalgan and get involved in high level intrigue in the palace of the First Citizen, Lord Stettin, who has eyes on following in the Mule's footsteps to master the galaxy. It seems he...
- Aug 2, 20221h 50mS3
Illustrator and science fiction connoisseur Danielle Pajak describes her ideas on the art of sci fi, the means of communicating truth and beauty to the readers and watchers of science fiction books, movies, and TV...
Episode #29
Search by the Foundation, Part I
Jul 25, 202248 minS3Young Arkady Darell is crazy about the history of the Foundation and her grandmother Bayta's historic duel with the Mule. When her father and friends conspire to uncover the hidden workings of the fabled Second...
Episode #28
Star Trek and Beyond with Paul Levinson
Jun 26, 20221h 23mS3A conversation with science fiction author, media scholar, and musician Paul Levinson about the history and legacy of the Star Trek franchise, including his thoughts on the latest entry to the canon, Strange New Worlds...
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