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A new series and a new format - wary of two middle class middle aged men discussing gender issues and sexuality the morose pairing of Matt and Kehaar have got in reinforcments in the form of 'little witch' Amy from 'Birds of Geek.'   With no blows barred they take a good hard look at sexuality and espically gender issues in Super hero fiction - principally comics. On the way there is considerations of such things as - is Black Canary/Green Arrow's relationship the only real one in comics? The Oracle character arc, is The Joker a rapist? Gail Simone's Women in Refrigerators article, Sue Storm's decisions in Civil War, Mary Wollenstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Women, Sucker Punch get's a kicking and Matt admits a deep dark desire.   There's some strong language and some strong opinions in this episode. (So let's hear yours.)   Link's Amy mentions http://www.superdickery.com/ http://www.unheardtaunts.com/wir  And you can hear more of her hear http://birdsofgeek.libsyn.com/    Come on the forums with

Wewlcome to Timelore Addendum a short stopgap to keep you going till the next epsidoe of Timelore.  In theis ep I and field agent Ant look at the Big Finish audio adventures that slot in and around the first series of dr Who and I interview Stephen North who played the father iin the family on The Christmas Carol, the latest Dr Who Christmas special.   hope you enjoy   David

  Ant and Amaechi once again bring you the latest news from the gaming world. In this episode Amaechi finally plays his first ever MMO in Champions Online, and not one to do anything by half’s promptly downloads another MMO, Lord of the Rings Online. In the news ·         PS3 shipments get frozen in Europe thanks to LG’s law-suit ·         The Mexican Government calls for Ubisoft’s Call of Juarez to be banned due to the 6000 drugs related  murders in 2 years in the real life Juarez ·         MCM Expo joins forces with Gamespot UK to bring more games to its Expo’s ·         iPad 2 gets launched ·         Playstation Home may be getting a multiplayer social network upgrade Main feature In our main feature we discuss the growth and latest developments in the world of handheld/mobile gaming. With 2011 bringing 2 new major handheld console releases in the Nintendo 3DS and Sony NGP (PSP2), the continued growth in mobile phone games and the predicted explosion of tablet PC’s with iPad 2, Android tablets, Windows 7

Welcome guys and gals to episode 29 of Small Press Big Mouth. This episode Stace and Lee LOVE Ian Culbard and review both The Sign of the Four and The Mountains of Madness, also reviewed are two anthologies; Tales of the Spiffing and Solipsistic Pop 3 as well as Hermit by the rather wonderful Andy Waugh. Lee also reviewed another comic but I can't spell it...I mean it's a surprise ooooohhh surprises are cool!  

Welcome to Episode 2 of Timelore - your review of Dr Who from the very beginning.  Join our slightly foolish team of watchers as they review the 2nd half of Dr Who's first ever season. In this episode there is a fair bit of character assasination as we find ourselves getting alittle bit of Susan overload and we review the following stories The Keys of Marinus The Aztecs The Sensorites The Reign of Terror   Please send us comments to watchers@timelore.co.uk or follow us on twitter at www.twitter.com/time_lore

Join the lads for another romp through ye olde town of Geekdom. News: Wonder Woman TV Casting and MCM Expo News Week that Was: Clone Wars, Nemesis, Brightest Day Volume One, The Expendables, RED and Megamins Main: In this week's main we have a special interview with the co-creator of the Primeval TV series Adrian Hodges. We discuss with Adrian how Primeval came back to TV after it's cancellation, the new cast members, fan reaction and news on the potential North America Spin off and the Primeval movie. Enjoy!

Have aspirations of Starting Out as writer?  Want to hear the experiences of veterans and newly established authors?  Look no further.Seizing the unique opportunity provided by the SFX Weekender this year, we collected an array of interviews from authors at various stages of their careers for your aural delectation.  We probe into achieving a publishable standard through proof-readers and tinkering, the benefits (and not) of Agents, and dealing with rejection; gleaning insights along the way on their writing and editorial processes and the mysterious mechanics of the publishing world.Huge thanks to the contributing authors for their time and their trust.  If you have enjoyed their work, or if you would like to ask them any follow up questions having heard these interviews, please post messages at the following sites:Joe Abercrombie - http://www.joeabercrombie.com/Scott Andrews - http://www.eclectica.info/Jonathan Green - http://www.jonathangreenauthor.blogspot.com/Peter F Hamilton - http://theunisphere.com/Ja

FEEDBACK; A HERO’S CALLING Episode Six; "What Was Lost" written by Kim Gianopoulos, Alan White, C. Alexandria Schwarz, and Richard Brooks II.   Feedback and Tech Support scramble to find a cure for their stricken friend and teammate Tom, but the answer may lead to the most devastating weapon of all – Sarah!!  Can Feedback survive the most soul-crushing challenge of his life?   Featured in this episode were the voice-acting talents of Mike Winters  as TOM Elie Hirschman as CONSOLE Mark Kalita as BLACKTHORN Kim Gianopoulos as K2 Andrey Kuznetsov as REBOOT Tanner Karns as ROUTER C. Alexandra Schwartz as COURTNEY    Tim O’Donnell as BACK-UP   Paeter Frandsen as PRE-FETCH Rebecca Pryor as Forthright’s RECEPTIONIST  Steve Anderson as ALEXANDER FORTHRIGHT Richard Brooks II as  BROOKS   Robin Carlisle  as DRAGONRYDER MJ Cogburn as WOLF-GIRL Phill Moxley as EMERALD KNIGHT Colin D. Snow as BREAK BREAKOUT Steve Hykes as ARCHIVE Rich Frost as MAINFRAME Adam Ledzion as ADAM/ARC Brandon Cole as FREAKOPA

The terrible twosome wrap up their miltiary series with a general chin wag about what've learned over the last 6 weeks.   Not a lot, but in the course of this they consider does SF ever really tell miltiary stories? Where there is space to tell such stories?. How do Computer games fit in to genre military fiction?. Is there a miltiary fiction genre of it's own? Why is Outcasts so poo?    They also consider  modern British casualty sensitivity and consider the allogorical power of science fiction and how it's sometimes wasted in miltary SF. Matt is unkind to Footfall while discussing asymetrical warfare and Kehaar is as always the steady voice of wise counsel (not.)    Needless to say they bounce around such  historical matters as comedy Nazis, Northern Ireland and the British Indian Army.   The low tech colony book mentioned is actually Seeds of Earth by Michael Cobleyhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/Seeds-Earth-Humanitys-Michael-Cobley/dp/1841496316/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1297596904&sr=1-1   Deta

Amaechi is rejoined by Ant this week, following his harrowing ordeal at the hands of EPOCH. The guys catch up on their gaming weeks and missed opportunities before looking at this week's news. Buy, Rent Avoid returns this episode with a look at MMO DC Universe Online and action-platformer Enslaved.  

Join the guys at the SFX Weekender convention and hear their thoughts on the show. iPhone extra:  PDF with a small preview of the latest issue of the Chloe Noonan comic.  For more information head to http://www.marcellerby.com

Welcome to Episode 28 of Small Press Big Mouth, we have a load of fabulous small press related news this episode, and in a slight change to the usual review format, Stace and Lee have a couple of joint reviews: Fallen Heroes and Slaughterman's Creed. Go on you know you want to!   Iphone app extra: You can read a 12 page preview of Slaughterman's Creed. Be warned this preview contains graphic/adult content.

After almost a year of the North East accents, squabbles and over-the-top jingles, the festivities end with North East Geek Feast episode 8… STARTER - Daniel and Lily introduce the last episode of North East Geek Feast and thank everyone that helped out with the podcast over the last year. MAIN COURSE - The fan-favourite artist of Button Man and Judge Anderson, Arthur Ranson, grants North East Geek Feast the first audio interview of his career. Recorded in November to celebrate the successful ‘Let’s Get Mazeworld Back in Print’ Facebook campaign, Arthur chats openly about his work for Look-In, 2000AD and Marvel and DC. Dessert - The ‘Ultimate Crisis of Comics’ with Martin Eden. With all the comics in the universe being wiped out of existence, Spandex and O Men creator, Martin, is given the opportunity to save 4 single comic book issues to treasure forever - and one issue he would make sure gets destroyed. What will he pick? Well, listen and find out… Find North East Geek Feast on Facebook or email Daniel and

With a flash of light and a cloud of smoke the Scrolls Book Group reappears on stage to entertain and amaze you.  (Or at the very least distract you from the smelly tramp in the corner, the squalling kid in the back and that really creepy looking guy on the seat opposite - No, don't look!)Ably assisted by Kehaar from Dissecting Worlds and guest contributer Gazbox in their skin-tight golden bikinis, we take a focussed look at Chistopher Priest's most celebrated work,The Prestige.  You may have watched Christopher Nolan's film adaptation and think you've seen this trick before but trust us, there's a whole lot more going on in the wings.There are spoilers throughout - we couldn't really avoid them - but have we really revealed the authors secrets... or has he left us bamboozled and looking in the wrong direction?Read the book, listen in to our thoughts, then let us know what you think.  E-mail scrolls@hotmail.co.uk or tweet @scrollscast Iphone app Extra: The first two chapters of The Sentinel Mage, the beginnin

The boys are back this week but all is not well as EPOCH carry out a cyber attack on Ant while we are recording forcing him out of the episode. Not wanting EPOCH to defeat us Amaechi and Barry carry on like the troopers they are. Barry impulse buys his latest gadget toy…… a Kinect system to go with his brand new iPad. In the news ·         Metal Gear Solid trilogy coming to PS3 ·         The 3DS gets an official US and European release date and pricing ·         Virtua Tennis 4 and Top Spin 4 get Move and Kinect functionality ·         MMO City of Heroes goes free to play ·         A Battlestar Galactica MMO is on its way Main feature In our main feature we discuss the future of gaming looking at how the likes of the Move and Kinect will affect it, how will console technology change, will digital distribution dominate the next generation of consoles. We also discuss cloud gaming, streaming games and the types of games we can expect in the future.  

Iz and Barry are back with their first episode of Good Morning Geekdom for 2011. There's usual news, gossip and Gateway to Geekdom picks. In the their big review to honour it's recent release on Blu -Ray/DVD the positive twosome review Scott Pilgrim Vs the World.

This week Dave and Barry throw the usual format out of the window to record a special episode dedicated to upcoming SFX Weekender 2 convention. The lads dissect the panels and events taking place and pick out what they're looking forward. There's also an interview about the show with SFX's editor and head honcho Dave Bradley. Enjoy!

In which the most abominable, darkest, nastiest, blackest, vilest, most repellant, disgusting and disgraceful podcasters return to chat about baddies.  Duh! Technically we take a shifty at what makes for a good villain and how they've changed through the years, then we run amok trying to pin down all the different types and sub-types. In reality of course, we ramble off topic, fudge our lines and make things about as difficult for an editor as you can hope to imagine.  It was all them, yer honour.  Honest...   Out of pure spite I've left a c-bomb in so you can all hear what a filthy brute Mattie is in real life.  For shame!   I could list out all the books and occasional films mentioned so you know what you're getting into, but where would be the fun in that?  Discover what weird and random directions our twisted talk takes us by downloading this episode and injecting us... into your brains!   You can send your outraged tweets to us @Scrollscast or @Dion_Scrolls Alternatively you can send your splenetic e-ma

This week the bi-polar pair of good and EVIL tackle a big beast in the form of Middle Earth and it's greatest war.   In the course of their discussions they'll discuss the Fellowship as a commando strike force, logistics, Romans, how many Orcs is a lot and where are the Rangers hiding in history.   This leads to rants on Longbow fetishish, pondering Saruman as a power gaming wargamer, what do the Harad get out of all this and of course Romans.   On the way they discuss The First Law Trilogy and Legend as alternative views of fantasy warfare and a bit of Swords and Scorcery too.   Of and there is also a  discussion of kinds of Magic.   Please talk about it on the forums, talk to us about it on twitter (@DissectingWrlds, @Clarkythecruel for Kehaar and @theGrampus for Matt or email Dissectignworlds@yahoo.co.uk   We also welcome suggestions for new series and epsiode topics are next series being on gender and sexuality.   If anyone knows any Tolkien or fantasy fan groups please let them know about the epsiode.

Welcome to another episode of the very finest geek entertainment around with your hosts Dave and Barry. News: Leaked X-Men: First Class image, big announcements for The Dark Knight Rises, A ray of hope for Stargate Universe. Week that Was: Superman Earth One and Walking Dead Hard Cover - Vol 4 Main: In this week's main we chat with Howard Overman creator of the BAFTA award winning Misfits. We learn how Howard got into writing and how he developed the concept of the show. There's also talk about some of the aspects of series 2 (just how did he keep all that time travel in his head without going mad?). There is also an exclusive, never before revealed secret as which member of the Misfits cast who was never meant to make it through the first series. There's a brief chat about series 4 before Howard lets us in on an event  the Misfits team will be hoping to attend this year and we've got the scoop people! Geek Syndicate iPhone app extra: This week we have a pdf containing  the first issue of Villainous, from Ob