The Skiffy and Fanty Show Podcasts

The Skiffy and Fanty Show Podcasts

The Skiffy and Fanty Show 16: You Sunk My Battleship with the Kindle, and Other Amusing Stories

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http://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.archive.org/download/EpisodeSixteen–YouSunkMyBattleshipWithTheKindleAndOtherAmusing/Sandf–EpisodeSixteen–YouSunkMyBattleshipWithTheKindleAndOtherAmusingStories.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSIt’s time to talk about eBooks, some of our good zombie friends, Suzanne Collins, and the new Battleship movie.  Yes, you heard that right.  There is going to be a Battleship movie, and it’s going to be a scifi flick.  Listen to the show to find out how… So tune in and enjoy! This week’s tagline was created by my dear friend Kelsey (known as Mercy on Young Writers Online).  Thanks, Kelsey! Question of the Week: We’re changing it up a little bit.  This week we have a question, but we’re giving it to you via a poll. If you’d like to give a more detailed 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! Here’s the episode (show notes are below): Episode Sixteen — Download (MP3) Intro and News (0:00 – 25:15): Suzanne Collins Sells 450,000 Books (in the first two weeks) Harper Collins to Create New Global SF Imprint Universal Dead Movie Rumors Confirmed! Details About the Battleship Movie Rihanna in the Battleship Movie The Main Event:  Ebooks — Savior or Curse? (25:16 – 53:57): U.S. Neighborhood Bookstores Thrive in Digital Age The ABCs of E-Reading E-Books Top Hardcovers at Amazon The Best e-Readers Compared:  Kindle, Kobo, Nook, and Reader Throw Down E-Book and Self-Publishing E-Books Will Overtake Paperbacks The End:  Reading and Writing (53:58 – 59:28) That’s all, folks!  See you next time, and thanks for listening.

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The Skiffy and Fanty Show 15: Literary Science Fiction vs. Literary Fantasy, and Torture Cinema One

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http://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.archive.org/download/TheSkiffyAndFantyShow15LiteraryScienceFictionVs.LiteraryFantasy/Sandf–LiterarySfVs.LiteraryFAndTortureCinemaOne.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSWe’re changing things up.  This week we discuss the difference between the literary science fiction and literary fantasy “fields” and review the dreadfully awful film, In the Name of the King.  It’s one part serious, one part hilarity, and two parts fun. If you like the show, please review us on iTunes!  We could use the love.  And, of course, we hope you enjoy this episode. Question of the Week: We actually have a request instead of a question.  You might recall that we have a tagline at the beginning of each episode.  Well, we’d like you to help us come up with the tagline for next week’s episode.  Come up with a funny, ridiculous, cool, or downright weird tagline and send it to us.  You can email your taglines 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!  (The only rule is that your tagline needs to be relatively clean; no curse words.) Here’s the episode (show notes are below): Episode Fifteen — Download (MP3) Intro:  Literary Science Fiction vs. Literary Fantasy (0:00 – 22:45): Main Event:  Torture Cinema — In the Name of the King (22:46 – 1:00:45): In the Name of the King (IMDB) Feel free to send us your suggestions for a terrible science fiction or fantasy movie that we should watch.  It doesn’t have to be a movie you’ve seen, by the way.  If you’ve heard that something is awful and want us to watch it for you, we will! The End:  Reading and Writing; the Question of the Week (1:00:46 – 1:03:44) That’s all, folks!  See you next week.

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The Skiffy and Fanty Show 14: Jason Sanford, Lord of Scifi Strange (Interview)

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http://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.archive.org/download/TheSkiffyAndFantyShow14JasonSanfordLordOfScifiStrangeinterview/Sandk–EpisodeFourteen–JasonSanfordLordOfScifiStrangeinterview.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSEpisode #14 is a doozy!  Author Jason Sanford, a two-time Interzone Reader’s Poll award winner and recent Nebula Award finalist, joins us for one heck of an interview!  We discuss the state of genre short fiction, literary short fiction, scifi strange, and much more. Thanks again to Jason for his time. Question of the Week: What book were you most pleased to have purchased on a whim? Feel free to email your answers 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! Here’s the episode (show notes are below): Episode Fourteen — Download (MP3) Intro and News (0:00 – 6:18): September 7th is National Buy a Book Day! Donate Books to Troops in Kabul The Main Event (6:19 – 55:31): Jason Sanford’s Website Jason Sanford’s Fiction (some available online) Interzone Magazine Intergalactic Medicine Show The End (55:31 – 59:25): Old Man’s War by John Scalzi David Gemmel’s Fiction That’s all, folks!  Thanks for listening.  See you next week.

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The Skiffy and Fanty Show 13: Mutant Boars, Reading Variety, and Scifi Subgenres

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http://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.archive.org/download/TheSkiffyAndFantyShow13MutantBoarsReadingVarietyAndScifi/Sandk–EpisodeThirteen–MutantBoarsReadingVarietyAndScifiSubgenres.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSAdam is back and on the attack. This week we discuss the oldest university in the history of planet Earth, mutant boars, whether readers or writers should read outside of their typical genres, science fiction subgenres, the end of the Best American Anthology series, and much more. Tune in and enjoy! Question of the Week What are your favorite books outside of your typical genres for reading? Feel free to email your answers 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! Here’s the episode (show notes are below): Episode Thirteen — Download (MP3) Intro and News (0:00 – 16:49): Best American Fantasy Series Ends Larry Nolen Offers His List of BAF Hopefuls The Oldest University on Earth to be Reborn Nick Sagan Signs Deal With the Science Channel Radioactive Boars Breeding Like Rabbits in Germany The Main Event (16:50 – 53:22) The End (53:23 – 1:05:30) That’s all, folks!  See you next time.

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The Skiffy and Fanty Show 12: The Rise of Fantasy, SyFy, and Other Craziness

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http://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.archive.org/download/TheSkiffyAndFantyShow12TheRiseOfFantasySyfyAndOtherCraziness/Sandk–EpisodeTwelve–TheRiseOfFantasySyfyAndOtherCraziness.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSTime to spend another hour listening to us talk about science fiction, fantasy, and all things related.  This week we discuss why we think fantasy is so popular today, the newly announced shows coming to SyFy, and something nifty that Google did.  Tune in and enjoy! Question of the Week What is the worst science fiction or fantasy movie you have ever seen or heard of? Feel free to email your answers 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! Here’s the episode (show notes are below): Episode Twelve — Download (MP3) Intro and News (0:00 – 27:10): Artifical Life Forms Evolve Basic Intelligence SyFy Announces Seven New Projects Google Discovers the Number of Books in the World The Main Event (27:11 – 53:30): Garth Nix on Fantasy The End (53:31 – 1:03:28) That’s all, folks!  See you next time! o What is the worst science fiction or fantasy movie you have ever seen or heard of?

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The Skiffy and Fanty Show 11: Inception, Favorites Movies, and STDs, Oh My!

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http://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.archive.org/download/TheSkiffyAndFantyShow11InceptionFavoriteMoviesAndStdsOhMy/Sandk–EpisodeEleven–InceptionFavoriteMoviesAndStdsOhMy.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSSo far we’re keeping with the weekly schedule.  We’ll see how long that lasts before one of us explodes or becomes incredibly boring. This week we talk about a lot of movies, particularly Christopher Nolan’s Inception, the new Del Toro/Lovecraft vehicle, our favorite science fiction movies, Battlestar Galactica, and much more! Question of the Week What creative way would you kill someone in the future (think the Saw movies, but in the future)? Feel free to email your answers 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! Here’s the episode (show notes are below): Episode Eleven — Download (MP3) Intro and News (0:00 – 21:52): Universal Dead to become feature length film! Universal Dead (webshow; three episodes available) The Crusader (webshow) The Legend of Neil (webshow) New Battlestar Galactica webshow coming! Del Toro to direct At the Mountains of Madness (Lovecraft) Gaiman completes the script for Anansi Boys The Main Event (21:53 – 1:04:03): Shaun’s Inception review (and his analysis of emotion in the film) The End (1:04:04 – 1:11:51) That’s all, folks!  See you next week!

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