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The SF Signal Podcast (Episode 128): An Interview with Author Helen Lowe

SF Signal — Thu, 24 May 2012 05:29:37 +0000

In episode 128 of the SF Signal Podcast, Patrick Hester sits down to chat with Helen Lowe, award winning author of dozens of short stories and the new novel, The Heir of Night.

About Helen Lowe:

Helen Lowe is a novelist, poet, and interviewer. She has twice won the Sir Julius Vogel Award for achievement in SFF, for Thornspell (Knopf) in 2009 and The Heir of Night (The Wall of Night Book One) in 2011 and is currently the writer-in-residence at the University of Canterbury. Helen posts every day on her Helen Lowe on Anything, Really blog. on the 1st of every month on the Supernatural Underground and occasionally here on SF Signal. You can also follow her on Twitter: @helenl0we.

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The SF Signal Podcast (Episode 127): Panel Discussion: NASA vs. Star Trek

SF Signal — Mon, 21 May 2012 05:29:12 +0000

In episode 127 of the Hugo Nominated SF Signal Podcast, Patrick Hester asks our irregulars to weigh in on: NASA vs. Star Trek!

Expanded topic description:

Does science fiction, and specifically Star Trek, lead to unrealistic expectations by the general public of space exploration, and an overall dissatisfaction with NASA in general for a perceived ‘lack of progress’?

Recently, Scott Pace, the current director of the Space Policy Institute at The George Washington University and a former NASA associate administrator, was asked to comment on the April 12th failure of the North Korean rocket launch. He noted that sending a vehicle into space is still a significant technical challenge, and added, “In many ways, the worst enemy of NASA is Star Trek…Captain Picard says ‘engage’ and the ship moves. And people think ‘How hard can this be?’”

Filmmaker James Cameron supposedly made a similar comment about Star Trek’s depiction of space travel several years ago. This, so the argument goes, leads to unrealistic expectations in the public mind about where we should be these days on the Final Frontier. Reality has fallen far short of the galaxy-hopping future envisioned by Star Trek, and NASA takes the blame.

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The SF Signal Podcast (Episode 126): An Interview with Author Robert McCammon

SF Signal — Thu, 17 May 2012 05:29:16 +0000

In episode 126 of the SF Signal Podcast, Patrick Hester sits down to chat with Robert McCammon, author of 15 novels including Speaks the Nightbird, Mister Slaughter & The Providence Rider.

About Robert McCammon and The Providence Rider:

Robert McCammon is the New York Times bestselling author of fifteen novels, including the award-winning Boy’s Life and Speaks the Nightbird. There are more than four million copies of his books in print. The Providence Rider is the fourth standalone installment in the extraordinary series of historical thrillers featuring Matthew Corbett, professional problem solver. The narrative begins in the winter of 1703, with Matthew still haunted by his lethal encounter with notorious mass murderer Tyranthus Slaughter. When an unexplained series of explosions rocks his Manhattan neighborhood, Matthew finds himself forced to confront a new and unexpected problem. Someone is trying—and trying very hard—to get his attention. That someone is a shadowy figure from out of Matthew’s past: the elusive Professor Fell. The professor, it turns out, has a problem of his own, one that requires the exclusive services of Matthew Corbett.

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The SF Signal Podcast (Episode 125): Panel Discussion of eBook Pricing

SF Signal — Mon, 14 May 2012 05:29:04 +0000

In episode 125 of the Hugo Nominated SF Signal Podcast, Patrick Hester asks our irregulars to weigh in on: eBook Pricing!

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The SF Signal Podcast (Episode 124): Interview with Author Rachel Swirsky

SF Signal — Thu, 10 May 2012 05:29:26 +0000

In episode 124 of the Hugo Nominated SF Signal Podcast, Patrick Hester sits down to chat with author Rachel Swirsky.

About Rachel:

Rachel Swirsky’s short fiction has appeared in venues including Tor.com, Subterranean Magazine, Fantasy Magazine, Weird Tales, and the Konundrum Engine Literary Review, and been selected for inclusion in year’s best collections from Jonathan Strahan, Rich Horton, and the VanderMeers. In 2007, her poem, “The Oracle on River Street,” came in third place for the Rhysling Award, and “Fields of Gold” is nominated for a 2012 Hugo Award.

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The SF Signal Podcast (Episode 123): Military Science Fiction Mega Panel (Part 3) With Myke Cole, Joe Haldeman and David J. Williams

SF Signal — Mon, 07 May 2012 05:29:38 +0000

In episode 123 of the Hugo Nominated SF Signal Podcast, Andrew Liptak takes the helm to chat with Myke Cole, Joe Haldeman and David J. Williams about military science fiction.

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The SF Signal Podcast (Episode 122): An Interview with Nick Hurwitch and Phil Hornshaw

SF Signal — Thu, 03 May 2012 05:29:47 +0000

In episode 122 of the SF Signal Podcast, Patrick Hester sits down to chat with Nick Hurwitch and Phil Hornshaw, co-authors of the new book, So You Created A Wormhole (Berkley Trade; April 3, 2012; ISBN: 9780425245583; $15.00).

About the Book:

SO YOU CREATED A WORMHOLE is a hilarious blend of science fiction and science fact. It is the world’s first and only field manual to the possibilities of time travel. With self-proclaimed nerds Hornshaw and Hurwitch as guides, readers can now learn the do’s and don’ts—and pros and cons—before embarking on an adventure through time and space. SO YOU CREATED A WORMHOLE gives readers a firm grasp of the history and science of time travel, preparing you in every imaginable—or unimaginable—way to face whatever comes your way. It is the ultimate guide to preventing a horrible death or being trapped forever in another time or alternate reality

About Phil:

PHIL HORNSHAW moonlights as a technology blogger when he hangs up his lab coat. A sometimes fanatical consumer of television and film as well as part-time payer of attention to Science, he has had a known fascination with time travel and its horrific effects on the human mind and body all his life. He currently lives in Los Angeles, alternating between conducting chrono-displacement experiments on Nick Hurwitch and writing about playing video games on his cellular telephone.

About Nick:

NICK HURWITCH read his first book on theoretical physics at age twelve and ever since, has been both fascinated by the Universe’s mysteries and content to let someone else figure that crap out. He is now a writer and filmmaker living in early-twenty-first-century Los Angeles. The imagination is his metaphysical realm of choice and although he technically lacks the credentials of a time scientist, he is happy to lend said imagination to the world of quantum physics. He hopes that publishing this book will mean no future time travelers will have to relive his awful experience in Budapest, 1903.

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The SF Signal Podcast (Episode 121): Panel Discussion – 2012 Summer Movies

SF Signal — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 05:29:37 +0000

In episode 121 of the SF Signal Podcast, Patrick Hester asks a panel of guests and SF Signal Irregulars:

Q: Which movies are you looking forward to seeing this summer?

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Some of the movies discussed:

The Avengers (May 4th)
Dark Shadows (May 11th)
Battleship (May 18th)
Men in Black 3 (May 25th)
Show White and the Huntsman (June 1st)
Prometheus (June 8th)
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (June 22nd)
G.I. Joe Retaliation (June 29th)
The Amazing Spider-Man (July 3rd)
The Dark Knight Rises (July 20th)
Total Recall (August 3rd)

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The SF Signal Podcast (Episode 120): An Interview with Claude Lalumière and Don Pizarro from Dagan Books

SF Signal — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 05:29:32 +0000

In episode 120 of the SF Signal Podcast, Patrick Hester sits down to chat with Claude Lalumière and Don Pizarro from Dagan Books.

About Claude Lalumière:

Claude Lalumière is the author of two books from CZP — the collection Objects of Worship and the mosaic novella The Door to Lost Pages — the co-creator of Lost Myths, and the Fantastic Fiction columnist for The Montreal Gazette.

About Don Pizarro:

Don writes, works, and lives in a nice little college town in upstate New York. He has fiction online at Fantasy Magazine, Reflection’s Edge, Byzarium, Six Sentences, and the occasional non-fiction thing here and there. His stories have also appeared in Cthulhurotica, Rigor Amortis, and Crossed Genres.

About Bibliotheca Fantastica (Dagan Books):

Stories having to do with lost, rare, weird, or imaginary books, or any aspect of book history or book culture, past, present, future, or uchronic. Any genre. Stories should evoke a sense of the fantastic, the unknown, the weird, wonder, terror, mystery, pulp, and/or adventure, etc.

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The SF Signal Podcast (Episode 119): Panel Discussion – What Are You Reading?

SF Signal — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 05:29:35 +0000

In episode 119 of the SF Signal Podcast, Patrick Hester asks a panel of SF Signal Irregulars: What are you reading?

This week’s panel:

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List of books mentioned in this episode…

The Troupe by Robert Jackson Bennett (Orbit)
Dancing With Bears (Darger & Surplus Novels) by Michael Swanwick (Night Shade Books)
And Blue Skies From Pain by Stina Leicht (Night Shade Books)

The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch (Spectra)
Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch (Spectra)
Cold, Cold Ground by Adrian McKinty (Serpents Tail)

The Grass King’s Concubine by Kari Sperring (DAW)
Raylan: A Novel by Elmore Leonard (William Morrow)
The Heir of Night: The Wall of Night Book One by Helen Lowe (Harper Voyager)

Mind Storm: A Strykers Syndicate Novel by K.M. Ruiz (Thomas Dunne Books)
Throne of the Crescent Moon (Crescent Moon Kingdoms) by Saladin Ahmed (DAW)
Nocturnal: A Novel by Scott Sigler (Crown)

Fevre Dream by George R.R. Martin (Bantam)
Night Sessions by Ken MacLeod (Pyr)
Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room by Geoff Dyer (Pantheon)

Nine Inches by Colin Bateman
Planesrunner (Everness, Book One) by Ian McDonald (Pyr)

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The SF Signal Podcast (Episode 118): An Interview With Sword and Laser Hosts Veronica Belmont and Tom Merritt

SF Signal — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 05:29:22 +0000

In episode 118 of the SF Signal Podcast, Patrick Hester sits down to chat with Veronica Belmont and Tom Merritt, co-hosts of the Sword and Laser podcast which recently joined Felicia Day’s Geek and Sundry channel on YouTube.

About Veronica:

Veronica Belmont is a technology and gaming-centric video host who works on a variety of projects including Tekzilla, a weekly tech-help and how-to show on Revision3.com, the Sword and Laser book club podcast, and the Vaginal Fantasy book club and Google Hangout Show. She has also written for Slate, DoubleX, MaximumPC and PC Gamer, and was the original host of Qore on the PlayStation Network.

About Tom:

Tom Merritt anchors the daily tech news show Tech News Today on the TwiT network as well as hosting special live news coverage and other events. Tom also co-hosts several independent podcasts. Sword and Laser is a science fiction and fantasy podcast and book club with Veronica Belmont. FourCast is a talk show with Scott Johnson that invites guests to predict the future.

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Veronica Belmont
Veronica on Twitter
Tom Merritt
Tom on Twitter
Sword and Laser (Geek and Sundry Channel)

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The SF Signal Podcast (Episode 117): Panel Discussion – Is Mars Cursed?

SF Signal — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 05:29:48 +0000

In episode 117 of the SF Signal Podcast, Patrick Hester asks a panel of SF Signal Contributors: Is Mars cursed?

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The SF Signal Podcast (Episode 116): Thank You for the Hugo Nomination For Best Fancast

SF Signal — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 05:29:08 +0000

In episode 116 of the SF Signal Podcast, Patrick Hester takes a moment to thank everyone involved with the podcast, and our listeners, for the 2012 Hugo Award Nomination.

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The SF Signal Podcast (Episode 115): Military Science Fiction Mega Panel, Part 2

SF Signal — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 06:29:46 +0000

In episode 113 of the SF Signal Podcast, Andrew Liptak takes the helm to chat with Myke Cole, Jean Johnson and T.C. McCarthy about military science fiction.

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The SF Signal Podcast (Episode 114): Interview with Robert Jackson Bennett

SF Signal — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 06:29:12 +0000

In episode 114 of the SF Signal Podcast, Patrick Hester chats with author Robert Jackson Bennett!

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Robert Jackson Bennett (website)
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The SF Signal Podcast (Episode 113): Military Science Fiction Mega Panel, Part 1

SF Signal — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 06:29:15 +0000

In episode 113 of the SF Signal Podcast, Andrew Liptak takes the helm to chat with authors about military science fiction.

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The SF Signal Podcast (Episode 112): 2012 Sword and Sorcery Mega Panel, Part 3

SF Signal — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 06:29:13 +0000

In episode 112 of the SF Signal Podcast, Patrick Hester and Jaym Gates (continuing the discussion from Part 1 and Part 2) sit down with a mega panel of authors to discuss modern Sword and Sorcery with the authors who are currently writing it.

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The SF Signal Podcast (Episode 111): An Interview with Author Lavie Tidhar

SF Signal — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 06:29:49 +0000

In episode 111 of the SF Signal Podcast, Patrick Hester sits down to chat with author Lavie Tidhar.

About Lavie Tidhar:

Lavie is a prolific writer, keeping up a steady stream of highly-regarded novels, novellas and short stories. He has been described as an “emerging master” by Locus Magazine, with his work compared to the late, great Philip K. Dick’s in both the Guardian and the Financial Times. His novels include the Bookman Histories trilogy of steampunk novels – comprising The Bookman (2010), Camera Obscura (2011), and The Great Game (2012) – which borrow equally from mythology, classic literature, pulp fiction and noir and kung-fu cinema – and the ground-breaking alternative history novel Osama (2011), shortlisted for the BSFA Award.

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Lavie Tidhar (website)
Lavie on Twitter

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The SF Signal Podcast (Episode 110): 2012 Sword and Sorcery Mega Panel, Part 2

SF Signal — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 05:29:08 +0000

In episode 110 of the SF Signal Podcast, Patrick Hester and Jaym Gates (continuing the discussion from Part 1) sit down with a mega panel of authors, editors and artists to discuss Sword and Sorcery for the modern reader.

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The SF Signal Podcast (Episode 109): Interview with Author David D. Levine

SF Signal — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 06:50:28 +0000

In episode 109 of the SF Signal Podcast, Patrick Hester sits down to chat with author David D. Levine!

From David D. Levine’s Website:

I am a science fiction and fantasy writer who’s sold over forty short stories so far. I have won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story, Endeavour Award, Writers of the Future Contest, James White Award, People’s Choice Award for Best Drabblecast Story of the Year, and Phobos Fiction Contest, and I have been nominated or shortlisted for the Nebula Award, Theodore Sturgeon Award, Aeon Award, Jim Baen Memorial Writing Contest, an earlier Hugo Award, and the John W. Campbell Award (twice). Thanks to everyone who nominated and voted for me!

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David D. Levine (author’s website)
David (on Twitter)
David (on Livejournal)

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