The Skiffy and Fanty Show, Interjection A: The World Fantasy Awards and Other Things
http://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.archive.org/download/TheSkiffyAndFantyShowInterjectionATheWorldFantasyAwardsAndOther/Sandf–InterjectionA–TheWorldFantasyAwardAndOtherThings.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSWe have a short episode this week due to computer problems (namely, with Jen’s). So instead of a full episode, I present to you sixteen minutes of zombies, fantasy awards, digital piracy nonsense, and silly things political talk show hosts say about science fiction books. Tune in and enjoy! Question of the Week: This week we have a poll: If you’d like to send us your answer to the question, you can email it to skiffyandfanty [at] gmail [dot] com! You can also leave a comment here or follow us on twitter. We’d love to hear your creative responses! Note: If you have iTunes and like this show, please give us a review on our iTunes page, or feel free to email us with your thoughts about the show! Here’s the episode (show notes are below): Interjection A — Download (MP3) Intro and Episode (0:00 – 16:10): Indie Comic is Pirated, Puts Everything Online For Free, and Makes Money Ebook Piracy Google Trends Are Massively Down Realms of Fantasy Closes Down (Again) The World Fantasy Awards Have Been Announced! Zombie Virus Possible (according to science; booyah suckers)! Indie Science Fiction Anthology Incurs Glenn Beck’s Wrath! That’s all, folks! See you next week!
The Skiffy and Fanty Show 22: The Pirates Are Coming to Get the Moon
http://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.archive.org/download/TheSkiffyAndFantyShow22ThePiratesAreComingToGetTheMoon/Sandf–EpisodeTwenty-two–ThePiratesAreComingToGetTheMoon.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSWe promised we’d be back, and so we are. This week we talk about The Hobbit, the recent events surrounding Elizabeth Moon’s Muslim comments, and evil media pirates and the evil people that want to stop them. Tune in and enjoy! Question of the Week: This week we have a poll: If you’d like to send us your answer to the question, you can email it to skiffyandfanty [at] gmail [dot] com! You can also leave a comment here or follow us on twitter. We’d love to hear your creative responses! Note: If you have iTunes and like this show, please give us a review on our iTunes page, or feel free to email us with your thoughts about the show! Here’s the episode (show notes are below): Episode Twenty-two — Download (MP3) Intro and News (0:00 – 19:00): The Hobbit is officially being made: the cast has been announced and Peter Jackson is directing! Elizabeth Moon booted from the Guest of Honor slot at WisCon The Main Event: Piracy (19:01 – 49:14): Machinarium suffers 90% piracy rate! Independent Filmmakers Feel the Squeeze of Piracy Piracy cutting into the comic book industry too! The Real Cost of Free (Cory Doctorow) (At one point Shaun says “France is much different than England.” The sentence should say “France is much different than the United States,” since Shaun directly refers to nationalized healthcare. Sorry about the confusion!) The End: Reading, Writing, and the Question of the Week (49:15 – 56:26): That’s all, folks! Thanks for listening.
No Episode — Lo siento!
Sorry, folks. We had an interview planned which fell through and no alternative topic due to Shaun’s other obligations (i.e. a really important Spanish test). We’ll be back next week, barring further disaster. Thanks for your patience!
The Skiffy and Fanty Show 21: Battlefield Earth and the Nobel Prize Go on a Date
http://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.archive.org/download/TheSkiffyAndFantyShow21BattlefieldEarthAndTheNobelPrizeGoOnA/Sandf–Episode21–BattlefieldEarthAndTheNobelPrizeGoOnADate.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSThe end is nigh! This episode we talk about the Nobel Prize for Literature, insane policies of the future, and one of the most hated science fiction movies ever made. If you’re not careful, your brain might melt. So put on your tinfoil hat and your anti-Scientology glasses and join us for an hour of good fun! Question of the Week: What are you doing to prepare for the come apocalypse? If you’d like to send us your answer to the question, you can email it to skiffyandfanty [at] gmail [dot] com or send us a voicemail at 206-203-1686! You can also leave a comment here or follow us on twitter. We’d love to hear your creative responses! Note: If you have iTunes and like this show, please give us a review on our iTunes page, or feel free to email us with your thoughts about the show! Here’s the episode (show notes are below): Episode Twenty-one — Download (MP3) Intro and New (0:00 – 11:54): Mario Vargas Llosa Wins the Nobel Prize for Literature (somewhere a baby book weeps) Orbit Books Introduces The Orbital Drop, a New eBook Program (coming soon: canned ninjas and a complimentary space marine) Pre-crime Becomes a Semi-reality (your Facebook will betray you like Emperor Palpatine’s apprentice!) The Main Event: Torture Cinema Meets Battlefield Earth (11:55 – 56:18): Battlefield Earth (IMDB) The End: Reading, Writing, and the Question of the Week (56:19 – 1:01:20) That’s all, folks! Thanks for listening. See you next week. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2010/
The Skiffy and Fanty Show 20: Harlan Ellison, Consumer Activism, and Science Fiction
http://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.archive.org/download/TheSkiffyAndFantyShow20HarlanEllisonConsumerActivismAndScience/Sandf–EpisodeTwenty–HarlanEllisonConsumerActivismAndScienceFiction.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSControversy attacks, and we’re on top of it like a fly waiting until the last second to get the leftovers from the dung beetles. This week we talk about Harlan Ellison’s last convention appearance and the problem (or lack thereof) of consumer activism in the science fiction community. Plus, the episode is full of gender stereotypes, ridiculous arguments made by other people, and general insanity. We had fun making it, and we’re sure you’ll enjoy listening! Question of the Week: Which science fiction technology would you like to see become a reality? If you’d like to send us your answer to the question, you can email it to skiffyandfanty [at] gmail [dot] com or send us a voicemail at 206-203-1686! You can also leave a comment here or follow us on twitter. We’d love to hear your creative responses! Note: If you have iTunes and like this show, please give us a review on our iTunes page, or feel free to email us with your thoughts about the show! Here’s the episode (show notes are below): Episode Twenty — Download (MP3) Intro and News (0:00 – 19:00): Harlan Ellison’s Last Convention Appearance was MadCon (because he says he’s dying) Alex Proyas to Direct Paradise Lost Movie Christopher Nolan is Making an Inception Video Game! Earth-ish Planet Discovered in the Habitable Zone Around Gliese 581! (Quick correction: Shaun said that the above planet has three times Earth gravity. It actually has 1.1 to 1.7 times Earth gravity, but is three to four times as large in terms of mass. This means that our assessment of the habitability of the planet might be a little off. That’s not to say that the planet has an atmosphere and all the other conditions that would make it habitable, just that gravity is not a factor that might make it less enjoyable to live on.) The Main Event: Consumer Activism and Science Fiction — Or How Elizabeth Moon Got Us Onto Capitalism (19:01 – 52:54): Crazy French Author Plagiarizes From Wikipedia World SF’s Coverage of Elizabeth Moon’s Anti-Muslim Rant (the comments are enlightening and contain some of the arguments we talk about in this segment) A Brief Linking to a Manifesto of No-Consequence (again, the comments are enlightening, and the links in the post take you to some things we talk in this segment; specifically, the comments of this post confirm that the argument being made is one of no-consequence) The End: Reading, Writing, and the Question of the Week (52:55 – 59:16): Stan Lee’s Superhumans That’s all, folks! Thanks for listening. We’ll see you next week!
