Exolore episodes and transcripts

Episode 10: The World of Blind Nomads

What would you do if you had two bony antennae sticking out of your head? Well, if you lived on this starless planet, you might use them...

Episode 9: Worldbuilding with Sofia Samatar

Olondria is a wonderfully complex and beautifully crafted fictional world created by Sofia Samatar, who was kind enough to answer all of...

Episode 8: The World of Watermelon Snow

We're essentially hotboxing our planet, so let's take a fun little trip to a snowball world covered in ice! Let's just hope we don't get...

Episode 7: The World of Tiny Cannibals

If you could eat one of your friends and absorb their strength and knowledge, who would you eat? That question might seem weird to you,...

Episode 6: The World of Freedom #BlackLivesMatter

Black people in the U.S. have never been free. This world is a glimpse at what could have been without our brutal history of slavery and...

Episode 5: The World of Matriarchal Squid

In an ocean surrounded by a miles-deep sheet of ice, the lady squid reign supreme. Don't let their artsy mating rituals and inverted ice...