Podcast
Story Soil - Worldbuilding Science Fiction and Fantasy
Hosted by Lauren Harris · EN
Each episode, long-time worldbuilding duo Lauren Harris and Adryn Erickson pair with Farm to Taber's plant medicine PhD, Dr. Sarah Taber to interview experts on topics like Ancient Trade Routes or 3D Printing in Space, then use what they learned to brainstorm a sci-fi or fantasy world listeners can use and make their own.
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Power Bee unto the Queen - Build Episode
Oct 20, 202100:29:39Tap to summarizeNo description available
Transcribe →What the Eff are Bees? Discussion with Dr. Sarah Taber
Oct 6, 202100:28:35Tap to summarizeIn which Lauren and Adryn grill Sarah on her apiological knowledge, and what the eff is up with bees.
Transcribe →Wizard with a Corned Beef Sandwich (3D Printing in Space Build ft. Susan Martinez)
Sep 29, 202100:56:10Tap to summarizeIn which Lauren, Adryn, Sarah, and special guest Susan Martinez of NASA create a science-fantasy world involving questionable solar mining practices, wizard cloning, a sidebar into Adryn's brain boner for Dyson spheres, and a potential foray into space piracy.
Transcribe →3D Printing in Space (with NASA Engineer Susie Martinez)
Sep 22, 202100:49:48Tap to summarizeIn which Lauren, Adryn, and Sarah thinly conceal their excitement at having a NASA Additive Manufacturing Engineer on the show, space radishes make a comeback, and the story of Food Safety's advent has its gut-rumbling beginnings in a shitty little story that put Pilsbury on the....F.O.D. map.
Transcribe →Build Episode - Lightning Bolt their Ships (Electric Reefs)
Aug 9, 202100:30:42Tap to summarizeIn which Lauren, Adryn, and Sarah waffle over genre, diss colonialism (again), and create a culture of displaced lightning mages living on the ocean. The writers consider writing in this world themselves...
Transcribe →Electric Reefs - They're the Tits! (with Dr. Sarah Taber)
Jul 29, 202100:35:05Tap to summarizeIn which Adryn finds a new way to annoy Lauren, and Sarah describes the advent of electric reefs (spoilers: it has to do with oil rigs), what makes current breakwater construction ineffective, and why municipalities are so hesitant to adopt electric reefs as protection for their coastlines. It's like no one told them electric reefs are the tits!
Transcribe →Cursed City Trade Route Build & Archivos Collaborative Worldbuilding
Jul 14, 202101:03:02Tap to summarizeThe Story Soil Crew and guest Dave Robison chat about Dave's awesome collaborative worldbuilding app, ARCHIVOS, then brainstorm several cities along a fictional trade route, including one with an AnCieNT cUrsE~
Transcribe →Underrated Trade Routes of History (with Guest Creator Dave Robison)
Jul 7, 202100:42:45Tap to summarizeSarah regales Lauren, Adryn, and Dave with her favorite trade routes that nobody talks about, plus some juicy worldbuilding tidbits like celery's slutty cousin, cocaine mummies, and why you should always bring a bird with you on long trips.
Transcribe →Poultices and Poison - Build Episode - Herby Space Monks!
Apr 21, 202100:48:14Tap to summarizeThe Story Soil trio and guest host, herbalist Isaac Vars, brainstorm a science fiction world involving herby space monks. So, basically, Isaac. Listen in for the process of going from information to inspiration to full-on idea as we build the bones of a sci-fi system and religious group you can take and make your own.
Transcribe →Poultices and Poisons - A Discussion with Herbalist Isaac Vars
Apr 7, 202100:53:15Tap to summarizeEver want to know what a trained herbalist would keep in his saddle bag, or how he might poison an evil witch king? In this episode, Lauren, Adryn, and Sarah interview their first guest--herbalist and spiritual cunning man, Isaac Vars of Deep Earth Arts and the Three of Cups Podcast.
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