This week's episode of The User's Guide brings you the 5 most iconic chairs in all of science fiction.
We review Captain Kirk's chair, Commander Riker's approach to sitting in chairs, Davros' chair from Dr Who and the fixtures and fittings in the Millennium Falcon.

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In the first part of our guide to we cover the history of VR in film and print. Starting with The Matrix and heading back through highlights such as The Thirteenth Floor, Dr Who, William Gibson's Neuromancer, John Carpenter's Escape from New York and Rafe Fiennes in Strange Days. Also, we ponder Christopher Walken in Brainstorm and the amazingly prescient Pygmallion's Spectacles published in 1939.

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Welcome back to The User's Guide: Your Science Fiction Podcast.

In the second part of our User's Guide to Virtual Reality we venture onto the Holodeck to find out why Holodeck episodes are so bad and did Star Trek rip the idea off the X-Men? 

Also, we look at Virtual Realities of the mind, hallucinatory realities and have a look round some fake towns. We visit Star Trek, The Prisoner, Inception, Jeff Noon's Vurt novels, Marvel's Uncanny X-Men, Indiana Jones and The Crystal Skull and we'll delve into rather prescient old sci-fi.

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Welcome to The User's Guide to Science Fiction Dystopias. 

This week we cover the myriad ways in which sci-fi has dealt with political oppression, surveillance and government sticking it to us plebs. A veritable underground journey stopping at Thomas More's Utopia, The One State of Yevgeny Zamyatin's We, the London of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, George Orwell's Airstrip One from 1984 before we jump off and have a stroll around with Phillip K. Dick, Iain M. Banks, Neil Stephenson, Margaret Atwood and Ursula Le Guin.

A timely and terrifying journey through the worst in societal tits-uppery.

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