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Episode 60 — Science Fiction is Science Fiction (Period)!

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http://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.archive.org/download/TheSkiffyAndFantyShow4.7–ScienceFictionIsScienceFictionperiod/Sandf–Episode4.7–ScienceFictionIsScienceFictionperiod.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSOur first proper episode of August is part squee, part bitter rant, and part cringe-inducing horror.  It’s like a Shaun and Jen cocktail laced with acid inside a Philip K. Dick pie…topped with whip cream, of course.  (Don’t try to imagine what that would look like…) In 4.7, we talk about why Another Earth is science fiction (and why the person who says it isn’t is a moron), Adam’s nifty news, the SF Gateway, and a few other fun things, such as how scientists are ruining science fiction and Jen’s slurpie habit.  Tune in and enjoy! 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 60 — Download (MP3) News and Discussion (0:00 – 29:53) Adam’s Fantabulous News (Because Adam sometimes does something worth remembering…) Scientists Ruin Science Fiction By Proving Time Travel is Impossible (Thanks, jackasses.) Another Earth:  It May Look Like Science Fiction, But It Isn’t (Oh, how silly of me.  I thought maybe that whole other Earth thing was a scifi thing.  Guess I should go back to college…) Gollancz Opens the SF Gateway (Where all your science fiction and fantasy crack can be bought wholesale, digitally injected into your metaphorical veins…) You should also check out our friends at Adventures in Scifi Publishing.  The end of episode 4.6 has the new promo for their show, which you should listen to! Our new intro music is “Time Flux” by Revolution Void (CC BY 3.0). That’s all, folks!  Thanks for listening.  See you next week.

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Monthly Movie Madness #2 — August 2011

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http://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.archive.org/download/TheSkiffyAndFantyShow–MonthlyMovieMadness2–August2011/Sandf–MonthlyMovieMadness–August2011.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSHere it is, folks — the latest edition on our MMM feature. This weeks movies are a mixed bag of highly anticipated titles and utter drivel. Well, that’s what Shaun thinks anyway… Here’s the episode: MMM #2 — Download (MP3) The Movies: Rise of the Planet of the Apes (IMDB) Final Destination 5 (IMDB) Conan (IMDB) Fright Night (IMDB) Spy Kids:  All the Time in the World (IMDB) Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (IMDB) The big question:  which movies do you want to see and which would you rather throw in the dumpster?

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A Book By Its Cover: Grave Dance by Kalayna Price

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Book Cover Blurb: Darla Onomatopoeia  is an amateur Grave Dancer, one of the few people in Manhattan who still practices the ancient, misty art.  But unlike her mother, who once made a cemetery of Civil War veterans come to life and do the cha cha, Darla can barely raise her recently deceased grandmother long enough to teach the old bitty to line dance.  And with the 3,000th Annual Grave Dance Competition coming in two months, she’s desperate to spruce up her skills to show all her Grave Dancing friends that she’s not a loser after all… Enter Alex Craft, dance instructor extraordinaire.  Having out-danced the Grave Witch of Brooklyn, Alex might be the only one who can turn Darla into an effective Grave Dancer.  A half-immortal, half-fae wererabbit, Alex has the skills and determination Darla needs to teach the dead how to dance the “Thriller,” which hasn’t been done…ever.  But Darla has another problem:  an unexpected sexual tension between her and Alex.  Can she resist Alex’s misogynistic charm and rustic good looks?  Or will she let her baser instincts take over and sweep her wererabbit dance instructor off his furry little feet? Grave Dance is a dark tome which hides a great deal of its world in misty obscurity.  Price has created a remarkable piece of curvaceous eye-candy here, cleverly placing character traits at just right angle to direct the reader’s attention to the truly interesting aspects of Darla’s character.  But she has also attempted to hide Darla’s past in a shroud, leaving a great deal to be discovered by the reader in future books. One of the interesting aspects of the book is the fact that it is actually set on an alternate Earth.  Many readers may find

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Feed the Machine: Genetic Time

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Clicketh You all should realize now the the Long Now blog has some of the best story starters on the web, especially if you’re into concepts like time. This one is about the different times scales in our body, and what controls them, and what would happen if we could control them. What would happen if we could slow down our metabolism to barely above hibernation? Could we live for hundreds, thousands of years? When we got old, could we reverse our reproductive cycle to regress our bodies to their pubescent or even pre-pubescent state, rendering us immortal? Could we reverse this and make infants adults? What sort of cultural consequences would this have on issues such as marriage and sex? What sort of economic benefits would this reap for the creators? What would religious do in the face of legit immortality? Go explore young ones, old ones, and transitioning ones.  

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Episode 59 — Torture Cinema Meets War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave

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http://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.archive.org/download/TheSkiffyAndFantyShow4.6–TortureCinemaMeetsWarOfTheWorlds2The/Sandf–Episode4.6–TortureCinemaMeetsWarOfTheWorlds2theNextWave.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSWhat could be worse than a remake of a remake of a remake of a remake of an adaptation of a remade adapted adaptation remake based on a book?  A sequel… The title says it all.  We spend the whole episode trying to desperately to make it through our 5-by-5s.  Tune in to see if we succeeded.  (We have Eoghann Irving to thank for this month’s awful movie selection.  Thanks, jerk.) 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 59 — Download (MP3) Torture Cinema Meets War of the Worlds 2:  The Next Wave (0:00 – 47:05) War of the Worlds 2:  The Next Wave (IMDB) (Burn in hell, mutant movie!) You should also check out our friends at Adventures in Scifi Publishing.  The end of episode 4.6 has the new promo for their show, which you should listen to! Our new intro music is “Time Flux” by Revolution Void (CC BY 3.0). That’s all, folks!  Thanks for listening.  See you next week.

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Book of Interest: The Office of Lost and Found by Vincent Holland-Keen

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We’ll be posting about things like this every once in a while (i.e., promos for interesting books). Since we’ve already read one book from Anarchy Books (Serial Killers, Inc. — we loved it!), we figured it wouldn’t hurt to let you all know about another monstrosity to appear from their wicked coffers (of wickedness, no doubt)! Here you go: Thomas Locke can find anything. You know the hurricane that hit a while back? Word is he found the butterfly that started it. So, when a desperate Veronica Drysdale hires Locke to find her missing husband, it makes perfect sense. Except the world of Thomas Locke doesn’t make sense. It puts monsters under the bed, makes stars fall from the sky and leads little children to worship the marvels of road-works. This world also hides from Veronica a past far darker and stranger than she could ever have imagined. To learn the truth, Veronica is going to have to lose everything. And that’s where Locke’s shadowy business partner Lafarge comes in… FOCUS ON –

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