S&L Video - Ernest Cline - Bonus interview
/Author and screenwriter Ernie Cline (Ready Player One) sticks around for a few more questions from the audience in our bonus video!
S&L Video - #04 - Interview with Ernest Cline & our Hyperion wrap-up!
/Author and screenwriter Ernest Cline joins us today to talk about Ready Player One, and we wrap up our May pick, Hyperion!
Learn more about our guest and book pick!
Ernest Cline: http://www.ernestcline.com/
Ernie on Twitter: twitter.com/erniecline
Ready Player One: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9969571-ready-player-one
Hyperion: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77566.Hyperion
Show Notes:
SCOTT LYNCH - THE BASTARDS AND THE KNIVES TO BE PUBLISHED, SUMMARY AND COVER ART REVEALED
John W. Campbell Memorial Award Finalists
Video Review by Dr. P:
YouTube Direct Link: http://youtu.be/7FkioqeLtyg
S&L Podcast - #80 - All Hallow's Read
/We wrap up Ready Player One, give away a Kindle, get psyched up for NaNoWriMo, and discuss whether virtual worlds will lead to the decline of cvilization. Ready Player One spoiler's ahead!
QUICK BURNS
These Are the Greatest Geek Books of All Time, Readers Say
WINNERS: 2011 World Fantasy Awards and Lifetime Achievement Winners
CALENDAR
See what's coming up.
Sean sent in an email and an MP3 with some books to add to the calendar.
Hey T&V,
Here are a few upcoming books that would make interesting additions to the calendar:
15 November - Ten Billion Days and a Hundred Billion Nights by Ryu Mitsuse
13 December - Spice and Wolf Novel 5 by Isuna Hasekura
24 January - Book Girl and the Corrupted Angel by Mizuki Nomura
BARE YOUR SWORD
Virtual Reality and the end of Civilization
Was I-rok underused, or overused?
TV, Movies and video games
James Cameron's Fantastic Voyage is a doomed 'love story'
WILD CARDS optioned for a movie
BOOK Wrap-up
Giveaway Announcement? Winner! Icelord!
NEW MEMBER HELLOS
Casey, Amanda, Michael, Ian, Erik, Scotty, MonkeyButler, Michael, Michael, Alan, Rich, Ben, Noel, Jay, NCGrimbo, Robert, Micah, Philip, Vaugh, Andy, Zach, Stephen, Nathaniel, Domenico, Ken, Joshua, Sean, Matthew, Bill, Kyle (aka Khet), Nick, Eric, Erica, Ed, Quasar, Richard, Jon and Maxwell!
ADDENDUMS
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S&L Podcast - #79 - Sell me this Doctor
/Wherein Tom decides to spend $1,000 on an Alastair Reynolds book, Veronica decides to become an author, and we remember "that comedian". It's a chatty episode, a little longer than some have been, but we hope you find it chock full of goodness.
QUICK BURNS
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (3rd Edition) goes live
Agatha H and the Airship City: Girl Genius book is a cross between a comic and a prose novel
Cover art for BLUE REMEMBERED EARTH by Alastair Reynolds --- Tom's excited about this series
SF Authors Predict Computing's Future
CALENDAR
Oct. 18 2011
Aloha from Hell, Richard Kadrey (Harper Voyager)
Zone One by Colson Whitehead
Oct. 20 2011
The Iron Jackal by Chris Wooding
Oct. 25 2011
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
Oct. 27 2011
The Kingdom of Gods, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit)
Initiate’s Trial by Janny Wurts
Nov. 8 2011
The Alloy of Law: A Mistborn Novel by Brandon Sanderson
Stands a Shadow by Col Buchanan
Endurance, Jay Lake (Tor)
Get the full calendar
BARE YOUR SWORD
Siri brings nerd humor to iPhone
TV and Movies
Who watched The Walking Dead?
Giveaway Announcement
Write a pitch for a NaNoRiMo story, we'll pick a winner randomly from this thread. You have until October 31st to post, and you could win a Kindle!
Tom and Veronica,
Every once in a while Tom mentions that he's always looking for books. I've also come to the conclusion from a few subtle hints that have been dropped here and there that he's a baseball fan. So I'd like to add the following to Tom's reading/listening queue (as the Audible version of this is a fine performance: Summerland by Michael Chabon, winner of both a Hugo and a Pulitzer (not too shabby and a thoroughly uncommon combination). YA fantasy (though as a middle-aged geek, I enjoyed the heck out of it as well) about trans-dimensional travel, elves, dwarves, magic, good, evil, and baseball. Not just baseball, but baseball as a metaphor for life.
Who knows, it might even be an excellent selection for S&L.
Love the podcast, even though I can't always keep up on the reading.
Yours in geekdom,
George Van Wagner, occasionally known as GVDub in various places on teh intarwebs.
NEW MEMBER HELLOS
Dave, David, Louise, Mike, Amir, Jason, Ben, Cappy, Rebecca, Gregory
ADDENDUMS
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S&L Podcast - #78 - I fixed it!
/It's time for SciFi writers to get up and help science, according to Neal Stephenson. We also seem to have had the idea of starting a wiki for Ready Player One. Now if we only had the energy to do it. And one broken link gets two podcast hosts into an epic battle of fixing.
QUICK BURNS
Science fiction writers have a job, and it’s time to do it, says Neal Stephenson
TV and Movies
Ready Player One to become a movie?
Game of Thrones casting: Ygrette
CALENDAR
Oct. 18 2011
Oct. 20 2011
Oct. 25 2011
BARE YOUR SWORD
Virtual Online Schools .. Why not?
Play Ready Player One online (quest spoilers)
BOOK CHECK-IN
Looks like we'll wrap up Ready, Player ONe either next week or the week after. Which would you rather?
And Tom gives a quick review of The Magicians by Lev Grossman.
EMAILS
Hi, I just discovered your podcast and I'm listening from the first episode. It's full of geeky goodness and I've enjoyed every episode so far. However, I discovered that the MP3 for podcast 25 is unavailable. Would you be able to check the link in your spare time or perhaps send the MP3 via email?
Thanks,
Chris
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Macrologia: @Veronica I think that, whenever on @swordandlaser, you should be referred to as Deathstalker Commander by @acedtect.
NEW MEMBER HELLOS
Jim, Franck, Wes, Corey, Garrett, Gordon, Ramon, Anthony!
ADDENDUMS
This podcast is brought to you by Audible.com the internet’s leading provider of audiobooks with more than 75,000 downloadable titles across all types of literature, including fiction, non-fiction and periodicals. For a free audiobook of your choice, go to audiblepodcast.com/sword.
S&L Podcast - #77 - Ready Player One and Reamde Kick-off
/It's an episode chock full of twists and turns with an incredible ending you won't see coming. Unless you've listened before. We end with the email address. But HOW do we get there? Well for one, we talk about video games as storytelling. For another we kick off Ready Player One and Reamde as our new books. And finally..... well that would be a spoiler.
QUICK BURNS
FLOWCHART: Navigating NPR's Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books
Ursula K. Le Guin has a brand new reason to be scared of immortality
CALENDAR
10/4/2011
10/7/2011
10/11/2011
10/18/2011
10/20/2011
10/25/2011
PS The calendar is now available on the website.
BARE YOUR SWORD
Most accessible Stephenson book?
Games as Storytelling
Jason from Bethesda comments
TV and Movies
The Enders Game movie puts out casting calls for 10 characters — including Ender!
GAME OF THRONES Season 2 promo
BOOK Kick-Off
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
EMAILS
Hey Veronica and Tom,
The reason I'm writing is because after 2 years, I finished my 3rd book, first fiction, a novella titled Trapped in My Zombie Body. The cover is being designed now, and I will have it going out digitally in mid-October, paperback in November. Moreover, I'm donating 50% of royalties to Child's Play Charity.
Synopsis:
Imagine your body no longer listened to you. You were trapped, experiencing the world in a new way: without any control over your actions. It's a world filled with sleep deprivation, mind games, and unthinkable acts. Welcome to my world.
By the way, I publish under my legal first name, Mario, rather than my nickname, Andy, just FYI. I look forward to hearing from you guys!
Cheers,
Mario Lurig, aka Andy in Colorado
NEW MEMBER HELLOS
York, Brandon, Kyle, Matt, Joshua, Another Brandon, Lindsey, Rob, Walter, Simon, Esther, Joe, Brian, The Duchess, Adiel, Sophie, Another Joshua
ADDENDUMS
This podcast is brought to you by Audible.com the internet’s leading provider of audiobooks with more than 75,000 downloadable titles across all types of literature, including fiction, non-fiction and periodicals. For a free audiobook of your choice, go to audiblepodcast.com/sword.
