000: David Krakauer

SFI President and InterPlanetary Commander, David Krakauer, kicks this series off.

SFI President, David Krakauer, considers the producers of an object, the receivers of said object, and the qualities of the object itself in this first episode of Alien Crash Site...a sci-fi technology pod that pushes people out of their comfort Zones, and into Alien Crash Site Zones, in pursuit of a truly transformative object.

Learn more about everything referenced in this episode by clicking the links below:

• Roadside Picnic - Strugatsky Brothers

• Stalker - (trailer)

• Solaris - Lem and Tarkovsky

• 2001: A Space Odyssey - (trailer)

• War of the Worlds - Orwell - (radio broadcast)

• Andromeda Strain - (trailer)

• His Master’s Voice - Lem

• The Aleph - Borges

• Heights of Macchu Picchu - Neruda

• Faust - Goethe

• Contact - (trailer)

• Von Neumann - “Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata”

• W.G. Sebald’s Rings of Saturn

• Ted Chiang’s - The Story of Your Life

• The Glass Bead Game - Herman Hesse