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Episode 40 — Your Artificial Face Are Belong To Us

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http://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.archive.org/download/TheSkiffyAndFantyShow2.8–YourArtificialFaceAreBelongToUs/Sandf–Episode2.8–YourArtificialFaceAreBelongToUs.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSIt’s time for another week of wonderful news.  We cover all of the SF/F-related films coming out in March and some great news from the SF/F community (some of it Gaiman-esque and some of it Scalzian), all followed by a lovely discussion of the Holy Grail people and artificial skin.  Tune in and enjoy! Feel free to shoot us an email at skiffyandfanty [at] gmail [dot] com, leave a comment, or follow us on Twitter.  We hope you enjoy the episode! 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 40 — Download (MP3) Intro and News (0:00 – 29:07): Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (IMDB) Beastly (IMDB) Rango (IMDB) The Adjustment Bureau (IMDB) Battle:  Los Angeles (IMDB) Mars Needs Moms (IMDB) Red Riding Hood (IMDB) The Butcher, the Chef, and the Swordsman (IMDB) Limitless (IMDB) Paul (IMDB) Sucker Punch (IMDB) Help Nathan Fillion Buy Firefly! (Because he’s sexy — obviously.) Old Man’s War on its way to a movie! (Scalzi fans immediately plan an overthrow of the U.S. government…) Documentary about Andrew Norton in the works! Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman is coming to a screen! (Obsessed girls everywhere scream a collective cry of “OMG!”) Michel Gondry is adapting Ubik by Philip K. Dick (Shaun has a geeky joygasm.) Inkjet Printers Inspire Scientists to Make Skin (…and Hollywood has a plastic surgery fit…) Free Monty Python Videos on YouTube Lead to 23,000% DVD Sale Increase (Shaun’s repressed marching band memories reemerge.) 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.

Question of the Week

Question of the Week: What is your favorite forgotten or unknown fantasy series?

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Since we just talked about fantasy in our latest episode of the show, we think it would be fun to see what you all consider to be your favorite forgotten or relatively unknown fantasy series.  Let us know in the comments!  It doesn’t matter how obscure it is, because either way, we really want to know. But first, here are out favorites: Shaun My mother actually introduced me to one of my favorite series of fantasy novels, which also happens to be a series that very few people have heard of or read:  the Duncton Wood series by William Horwood.  The books focus on the lives of a complex society of moles, including their mythologies and interactions with other mole communities.  They are epic in scale, brilliantly characterized, and simply some of the best books I have ever read.  They’re also not typical animal fantasy novels.  The moles don’t carry swords and do ninja flips like they do in the Redwall novels or The Chronicles of Narnia.  Horwood takes the characters seriously as animals, and then develops a culture out of that framework.  I’d definitely recommend them to anyone who likes fantasy. Jen Damnit, Shaun!  You didn’t tell me the question was going to be a doozy when you texted me that the question was up and ready for me to answer! Forgotten or Unknown?!  I figure you have to have buried your head under a rock to have missed most of the series I have read.  Regardless, I think… errgh.  It has to be a toss-up between Barry Hughart’s Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox, Patricia Wrede’s Enchanted Forest Chronicles, and any series by Sean Russell (but particularly his Initate Brother duology).  I actually somewhat credit the Initiate Brother with my stationery obsession.  Hughart’s and Wrede’s series turn fairy tales on their heads in such brilliant (but entirely different) fashions that you can’t help but be impressed and the Initiate Brother books are epic in scope and blast all of that stupid Leo Grin’s arguments out of the water.  It isn’t often that you find an entire series that you can read over and over again (just wait until we have to answer this question about scifi, because I totally have my answer), but I’ve done that with all of the aforementioned titles.  Go find them.  Read them.  You’ll thank me later. There you go!  So, what’s your favorite forgotten or unknown fantasy series?

The Skiffy and Fanty Show Podcasts

Episode 39 — Your Nihilistic Delusional Fantasy (of Doom)

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http://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.archive.org/download/TheSkiffyAndFantyShow2.7–YourNihilisticDelusionalFantasyofDoom/Sandf–Episode2.7–YourNihilisticDelusionalFantasyofDoom.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSEveryone’s talking about it:  the recent Big Hollywood anti-contemporary-fantasy rant!  So, like good little specfic nuts, we’ve decided to join the discussion with our own take on fantasy and its supposed bankrupt nihilism.  We try to have a little fun while doing it, but fun is really hard to manage when you’re dealing with so much dumb! Feel free to shoot us an email at skiffyandfanty [at] gmail [dot] com, leave a comment, or follow us on Twitter.  We hope you enjoy the episode! 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 39 — Download (MP3) Intro and Main Discussion (0:00 – 33:05): “The Bankrupt Nihilism of Our Fallen Fantasists” (Also known as the Great Head in Sand “I’m Not Listening” Game) “Is Science Fiction Getting More Conservative?” (Alternatively, you might ask if it’s leaning the other way too!) 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.

Question of the Week

Question of the Week: Who would win — trolls or singing frogs?

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It’s about time we ask a silly question, and what’s more silly than deciding the victor in a fight between trolls and singing frogs? Here are our answers: Shaun Trolls are dumb.  Really dumb.  Singing frogs, on the other hand, are adept manipulators.  See here for evidence: See?  If you honestly think a troll (or even trolls) can outsmart a singing frog, then you are totally looney tunes. Jen Singing Frogs. Obviously. Here’s my rationale: In the grand scheme of things, the trolls could probably eat all the frogs and there you have it, but realistically speaking, the frogs probably out breed the trolls. So, really, all the frogs have to do is keep squirting out tadpoles and let the trolls kill themselves off (by getting tricked into staying out in the sun by gray wizards). Anyway, you know trolls totally have a weakness for singing (because I say they do) and the frogs could probably just sing them into a mesmeric daze until the sun comes up – gray wizards not necessary! Either way, the singing frogs win! Now we want your opinion!  Who do you think would win:  trolls or singing frogs?  Let us know in the comments!

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The Skiffy and Fanty Show 38 — Torture Cinema Meets the Last Airbender

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http://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.archive.org/download/TheSkiffyAndFantyShow2.6/Sandf–Episode2.6–TortureCinemaMeetsTheLastAirbender.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSThere’s nothing quite like watching someone’s career crash and burn like a WWI biplane at the end of a dogfight.  This week we talk about the (arguably) worst movie of 2010:  The Last Airbender (written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan).  We won’t ruin the episode for you, except to say that it’s quite painful.  Tune in and enjoy at your own expense! Feel free to shoot us an email at skiffyandfanty [at] gmail [dot] com, leave a comment, or follow us on Twitter.  We hope you enjoy the episode! 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 38 — Download (MP3) Intro and Torture Cinema Meets The Last Airbender (0:00 – 34:44): The Last Airbender (IMDB) (Where you can read up on all the acting careers that have now been destroyed…) Racebending (i.e., info about The Last Airbender‘s racefail moments) (Because we know you want to be pissed and in pain at the same time while you watch this crap…) 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.

Podcast Updates

A New Viking Amoeba Recruit from Ekaterina Sedia

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We’re adding to our numbers for the invasion.  Please welcome Astridora Protea (a.k.a. Ekaterina Sedia) to the ranks! The Weapons Smith — Astridora Protea Strength 4; Intelligence 4 Special Ability:  The Forge (+2 to Attack and Defense for all troops) (The Alchemy of Stone by Ekaterina Sedia) Interestingly enough, this is the first female warrior to join the army.  Hopefully there will be more in the future!

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