146. Artificial Intelligence and You w/ Mary Robinette Kowal (A Discussion)
http://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/archive.org/download/SandFEpisode146ArtificialIntelligenceAndYouWMaryRobinetteKowal/SandF%20–%20Episode%20146%20–%20Artificial%20Intelligence%20and%20You%20w%20Mary%20Robinette%20Kowal.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSRunaway robots, evil computers, and automatons, oh my! Mary Robinette Kowal, author of the recently released Without a Summer, joins us to discuss one of science fiction’s longest-lived concepts: artificial intelligence. We explore the motivations behind their prevalence in SF, early examples of AI (pre-Victorian Era), and more. Plus, we talk a little bit about Mary’s new book, which we’re sure a lot of you will love! 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 146 — Download (MP3) Intro and Discussion (0:00 – 1:28:58) Mary’s Website Mary’s Twitter The Year Without a Summer (Wikipedia) Shades of Milk and Honey (UK Edition) The (Mechanical) Turk (Wikipedia) Eerie, Indiana (IMDB) Auguste Villiers de l’Isle-Adam (Wikipedia) The Future Eve by Auguste Villiers de l’Isle-Adam (Wikipedia) de l’Isle-Adam on Project Gutenberg (all in French, I’m afraid) Check out Mary’s books! They are awesome! You can also support this podcast by signing up for a one month free trial at Audible. Doing so helps us, gives you a change to try out Audible’s service, and brings joy to everyone. 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.
145. Teaching SF/F w/ David Annandale (A Discussion)
http://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/archive.org/download/SandFEpisode145TeachingSFWDavidAnnandale/SandF%20–%20Episode%20145%20–%20Teaching%20SFF%20w%20David%20Annandale.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSSpace, monsters, and wooden desks, oh my! Author David Annandale joins the crew to answer the following question: What SF/F properties do you think should be taught? We discuss books, short stories, film, and much more (plus, there’s a little discussion of some recent films, such as Oblivion). Feel free to leave a comment with your own suggestions! We hope you enjoy the episode! (I will make a list of all the stuff mentioned this weekend, along with lists of all the other stuff I’ve been meaning to make for previous episodes.) 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 145 — Download (MP3) Intro and Discussion (0:00 – 1:21:10) David’s Website David’s Twitter The Black Library Charles A Tan on teaching SF Check out David’s books! They are awesome! Here’s the list of stuff mentioned on the show (minus things we named as jokes): Books Robert Heinlein The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” by Ursula K. Le Guin Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe The Female Man by Joanna Russ “When It Changed” by Joanna Russ One For Sorrow by Christopher Barzak “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories by Susanna Clarke Gormenghast Series by Mervyn Peake Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon “Bloodchild” by Octavia Butler Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor “Hello Moto” by Nnedi Okorafor The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction by Justine Larbalestier Dauthers of Earth by Justine Larbalestier The Road to Science Fiction by James Gunn “The Girl Who was Plugged In” by “The Calorie Man” by Paolo Bacigalupi “The Paper Menagerie” by Ken Liu “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” by Harlan Ellison “The Cold Equations” by Tom Godwin “Making the Woman” by Lucy Taylor “Lost in the Funhouse” by John Barth The Princess Bride by William Goldman Titus Andronicus The Tempest Movies 2001: A Space Odyssey A Clockwork Orange The Lord of the Rings 2081 Pumzi District 9 Metropolis Attack the Block Pans Labyrinth Tsotsi War of the Worlds (2005) Close Encounters of the Third Kind Harry Brown Enemy Mine The Haunting (1963) The Haunting (1999) Princess Mononoke Legend The Princess Bride The Neverending Story Blade Runner The Texas Chainsaw Massacre The Exorcist The Thing Dawn of the Dead The Celebration Titus Forbidden Planet Comics The Watchmen by Alan Moore You can also support this podcast by signing up for a one month free trial at Audible. Doing so helps us, gives you a change to try out Audible’s service, and brings joy to everyone. 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.
144. Eragon (2006) — A Torture Cinema “Adventure”
http://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/archive.org/download/SandFEpisode144TortureCinemaMeetsEragon/SandF%20–%20Episode%20144%20–%20Torture%20Cinema%20Meets%20Eragon.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSDragons, cliches, and bad acting, oh my! Our next Torture Cinema feature is finally here, and this time we’re looking at the 2006 film adaptation of Christopher Paolini’s Eragon, in all its terrible glory. So sit back and enjoy the ride (we sure didn’t). 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 144 — Download (MP3) Intro and Discussion (0:00 – 1:38:16) Eragon (IMDB) You can also support this podcast by signing up for a one month free trial at Audible. Doing so helps us, gives you a change to try out Audible’s service, and brings joy to everyone. 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.
Call for Authors / Filmmakers / etc.: We Want You (Aug. to Dec. 2013)
Once again, we’re putting out a call for authors with upcoming books, etc. for interviews and discussions. If you have something dropping at some point between Aug. and Dec. 2013, please send an email to skiffyandfanty[at]gmail[dot]com letting us know what you’ve got going on (or have your publicist yell at us). What we’re looking for: New novels, short stories, video games, movies, or related books (science, some non-fiction, etc.). With rare exception, we prefer traditionally published books, whether from a small or large press or transferred over from a different format to the traditional model. Works that are either broadly defined as science fiction or fantasy (the “literary” is just as desired as “standard genre,” whatever that means) OR that are related or of interest to SF/F fans (biographies, science books, some history, and so on). The book must have a release date in either August, September, October, November, or December of this year. We’ll put out another call for 2014 stuff later this year (things are changing for us). Books written by anyone. We do our best to have as wide a range of authors as we can manage. As such, we want authors who are women, men, people of color, Westerners, non-westerns, QUILTBAG, and anything else I can’t think of right now. Things we’d like to see more of: Space opera Cyberpunk YA SF/F New Weird or General Weird Fantasy Literary SF/F (like Jane Rodgers, Samuel R. Delany, Kurt Vonnegut, Joanna Russ, Margaret Atwood, Thomas Pynchon, John Crowley, etc. — yes, this category is flawed, so I hope the names will give you a sense of what I mean by “literary”) SF/F from perspectives other than the West Feminist SF Ninjas We have a limited number of interview slots, but that doesn’t mean we can’t do our best to include you in discussion episodes, etc. If you are not an author, please spread the word. There are all kinds of things being published these days, so we don’t want to miss out on something great!
143. Paul Cornell (a.k.a. The Cricket Whisperer) — London Falling (An Interview)
http://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/archive.org/download/SandFEpisode143InterviewWPaulCornell/SandF%20–%20Episode%20143%20–%20Interview%20w%20Paul%20Cornell.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSCoppers, monsters, and blood blisters, oh my! This week, the multi-talented Paul Cornell joins us to talk about his latest fantasy novel, London Falling, the power of London for fantasy writers, the supernatural vs. the real world, Doctor Who, and so much more. 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 143 — Download (MP3) Intro and Discussion (0:00 – 1:19:21) Paul’s Website The SF Squeecast Check out Paul’s book! It’s good stuff! You can also support this podcast by signing up for a one month free trial at Audible. Doing so helps us, gives you a change to try out Audible’s service, and brings joy to everyone. 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.
142. Brian McClellan (a.k.a. Das Schwarzpulver) — Promise of Blood (An Interview)
http://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/archive.org/download/SandFEpisode142InterviewWBrianMcClellan/SandF%20–%20Episode%20142%20–%20Interview%20w%20Brian%20McClellan.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSMuskets, magic, and books, oh my! Brian McClellan, author of Promise of Blood, joins us to talk about his new novel, writing fantasy set in industrializing cultures, cultural changes, and much more. 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 142 — Download (MP3) Intro and Discussion (0:00 – 1:15:07) Brian’s Website Check out Brian’s book! It’s good stuff! You can also support this podcast by signing up for a one month free trial at Audible. Doing so helps us, gives you a change to try out Audible’s service, and brings joy to everyone. 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.
