Scifi Thoughts

CONNECT Welcome to SciFi thoughts where for a few short minutes I’ll  tease and tantalize your mind with this genre from the future. Register your email address at LancerKind.com and you’ll get cool extras about science fiction such as convention schedules and other nifty stuff. ==>Lancer— Kind 048 PK Dick Award reading of AMBIGUITY MACHINES AND OTHER STORIES by Vandana Singh MCed by William Sadorus (https://www.facebook.com/william.sadorus) and Gordon Van Gelder (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Van_Gelder) PK Dick Award official website: https://www.philipkdickaward.org Award banquet video: https://youtu.be/cN_bcnNADi0 The Nominees: episode 44 TIME WAS by Ian McDonald (Tor.com) episode 45 ALIEN VIRUS LOVE DISASTER: STORIES by Abbey Mei Otis (Small Beer Press) THEORY OF BASTARDS by Audrey Schulman (Europa Editions) THE BODY LIBRARY by Jeff Noon (Angry Robot) read by Adam Kakoonis AMBIGUITY MACHINES AND OTHER STORIES by Vandana Singh (Small Beer Press) read by Brenda Cooper 84K by Claire

CONNECT Welcome to SciFi thoughts where for a few short minutes I’ll  tease and tantalize your mind with this genre from the future. Register your email address at LancerKind.com and you’ll get cool extras about science fiction such as convention schedules and other nifty stuff. ==>Lancer— Kind 047 PK Dick Award reading of THE BODY LIBRARY by Jeff Noon MCed by William Sadorus (https://www.facebook.com/william.sadorus) and Gordon Van Gelder (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Van_Gelder) PK Dick Award official website: https://www.philipkdickaward.org Award banquet video: https://youtu.be/cN_bcnNADi0 The Nominees: episode 44 TIME WAS by Ian McDonald (Tor.com) episode 45 ALIEN VIRUS LOVE DISASTER: STORIES by Abbey Mei Otis (Small Beer Press) THEORY OF BASTARDS by Audrey Schulman (Europa Editions) THE BODY LIBRARY by Jeff Noon (Angry Robot) read by Adam Kakoonis AMBIGUITY MACHINES AND OTHER STORIES by Vandana Singh (Small Beer Press) read by Brenda Cooper 84K by Claire North (Orbit)

CONNECT Welcome to SciFi thoughts where for a few short minutes I’ll  tease and tantalize your mind with this genre from the future. Register your email address at LancerKind.com and you’ll get cool extras about science fiction such as convention schedules and other nifty stuff. ==>Lancer— Kind 046 PK Dick Award reading of THEORY OF BASTARDS by Audrey Schulman MCed by William Sadorus (https://www.facebook.com/william.sadorus) and Gordon Van Gelder (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Van_Gelder) PK Dick Award official website: https://www.philipkdickaward.org Award Night video: https://youtu.be/cN_bcnNADi0 The Nominees: episode 44 TIME WAS by Ian McDonald (Tor.com) episode 45 ALIEN VIRUS LOVE DISASTER: STORIES by Abbey Mei Otis (Small Beer Press) THEORY OF BASTARDS by Audrey Schulman (Europa Editions) THE BODY LIBRARY by Jeff Noon (Angry Robot) read by Adam Kakoonis 84K by Claire North (Orbit) AMBIGUITY MACHINES AND OTHER STORIES by Vandana Singh (Small Beer Press) Philip Kindred D

CONNECT Welcome to SciFi thoughts where for a few short minutes I’ll  tease and tantalize your mind with this genre from the future. Register your email address at LancerKind.com and you’ll get cool extras about science fiction such as convention schedules and other nifty stuff. ==>Lancer— Kind 045 PK Dick Award reading of Alien Virus Love Disaster--Stories by Abby Mie Ottis MCed by William Sadorus (https://www.facebook.com/william.sadorus) and Gordon Van Gelder (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Van_Gelder) PK Dick banquet: PK Dick Award official website: https://www.philipkdickaward.org Award Night video: https://youtu.be/cN_bcnNADi0 The Nominees: TIME WAS by Ian McDonald (Tor.com) THE BODY LIBRARY by Jeff Noon (Angry Robot) 84K by Claire North (Orbit) ALIEN VIRUS LOVE DISASTER: STORIES by Abbey Mei Otis (Small Beer Press) THEORY OF BASTARDS by Audrey Schulman (Europa Editions) AMBIGUITY MACHINES AND OTHER STORIES by Vandana Singh (Small Beer Press) Norwescon has had the honor of hostin

CONNECT Welcome to SciFi thoughts where for a few short minutes I’ll  tease and tantalize your mind with this genre from the future. Register your email address at LancerKind.com and you’ll get cool extras about science fiction such as convention schedules and other nifty stuff. ==>Lancer— Kind 044 PK Dick Award reading of Time Was by Ian McDonald unavailable

CONNECT Welcome to SciFi thoughts where for a few short minutes I’ll  tease and tantalize your mind with this genre from the future. Register your email address at LancerKind.com and you’ll get cool extras about science fiction such as convention schedules and other nifty stuff. ==>Lancer— Kind 040 What Drives Joe Stech of Compelling Science Fiction magazine-1 Compelling Science Fiction is here: http://compellingsciencefiction.com This series about Compelling Science Fiction Magazine started in episode 38, then episode 39, and concluded in this episode 40. You can find these shows in the SciFi Thoughts archive: https://LancerKind.com/series/scifi-thoughts/ ​  

CONNECT Welcome to SciFi thoughts where for a few short minutes I’ll  tease and tantalize your mind with this genre from the future. Register your email address at LancerKind.com and you’ll get cool extras about science fiction such as convention schedules and other nifty stuff. ==>Lancer— Kind 039 Compelling Science Fiction's high-end Brain Trust  

CONNECT Welcome to SciFi thoughts where for a few short minutes I’ll  tease and tantalize your mind with this genre from the future. Register your email address at LancerKind.com and you’ll get cool extras about science fiction such as convention schedules and other nifty stuff. ==>Lancer— Kind 038 Compelling Science Fiction Magazine talks about Plausibility Wow, still? no complaints on the lyrics...Guess thats good  

    Clarksworld's kickstarter for translating a science fiction story written in Chinese: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/clarkesworld/a-hundred-ghosts-parade-tonight-and-other-stories​

CONNECT Welcome to SciFi thoughts where for a few short minutes I’ll  tease and tantalize your mind with this genre from the future. Register your email address at LancerKind.com and you’ll get cool extras about science fiction such as convention schedules and other nifty stuff. ==>Lancer— Kind 036 Amateur Detectives and the Faeries Who Love Them Manny Frishberg's website is MannyFrishberg.com. This concludes the series with editor, author Manny Frishberg. If you missed the beginning, the series started at episode 34. Next episode we speak with Joe Stech of Compelling Science Fiction. ​  

CONNECT Welcome to SciFi thoughts where for a few short minutes I’ll  tease and tantalize your mind with this genre from the future. Register your email address at LancerKind.com and you’ll get cool extras about science fiction such as convention schedules and other nifty stuff. ==>Lancer— Kind 035 Space Opera and Wolf Packs, with author editor Manny Frishberg Wordfire Press https://wordfirepress.com/our-books/ Sky Warrior Books http://www.skywarriorbooks.com @JulieCFrost. Pack Dynamics https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/pack-dynamics-julie-frost/1122625733?ean=9781614753599 ​https://mannyfrishberg.com​ ...

CONNECT Welcome to SciFi thoughts where for a few short minutes I’ll  tease and tantalize your mind with this genre from the future. Register your email address at LancerKind.com and you’ll get cool extras about science fiction such as convention schedules and other nifty stuff. ==>Lancer— Kind 034 Twilight Zone and Short Fiction, with author editor Manny Frishberg ​  

CONNECT Welcome to SciFi thoughts where for a few short minutes I’ll  tease and tantalize your mind with this genre from the future. Register your email address at LancerKind.com and you’ll get cool extras about science fiction such as convention schedules and other nifty stuff. ==>Lancer— Kind 033 Miss Wisenheimer Audio Drama Idea Radio drama achieved widespread popularity within a decade of its initial development in the 1920s. By the 1940s, it was a leading international popular entertainment. With the advent of television in the 1950s, USA based radio drama lost much of its popularity. In other countries, radio dramas continued being an important part of pop culture. Audio Drama Hub is a good place to connect with if your a creator, actor,... https://www.facebook.com/groups/747178725350066/ Stream classic SciFi radio shows at Spotify: http://www.radiodramarevival.com Since this interview, I've advanced on my experience with radio dramas. You can get a quick appetizer of an IT radio drama on the

CONNECT Welcome to SciFi thoughts where for a few short minutes I’ll  tease and tantalize your mind with this genre from the future. Register your email address at LancerKind.com and you’ll get cool extras about science fiction such as convention schedules and other nifty stuff. ==>Lancer— Kind 032 Dr. Who and Tony Jones ​Go here to find the Dr. Who volume 2, which contains an audio drama featuring Tony Jones's Tactics of Defeat: https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/the-second-doctor-volume-02-1721 And here: https://www.amazon.com/Companion-Chronicles-Second-Doctor-Who/dp/1787034879/ref=sr_1_fkmr3_1?keywords=THE+SECOND+DOCTOR+VOLUME+02&qid=1552177725&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmr3 ​

CONNECT Welcome to SciFi thoughts where for a few short minutes I’ll  tease and tantalize your mind with this genre from the future. Register your email address at LancerKind.com and you’ll get cool extras about science fiction such as convention schedules and other nifty stuff. ==>Lancer— Kind 031 Michael Moorcock's a book in three days, with author Tony Jones​ Doc Savage – what can we learn from 181 pulp magazines? https://tonyjoneswriter.wordpress.com/2014/04/05/doc-savage-learn-181-pulp-magazines/

CONNECT Welcome to SciFi thoughts where for a few short minutes I’ll  tease and tantalize your mind with this genre from the future. Register your email address at LancerKind.com and you’ll get cool extras about science fiction such as convention schedules and other nifty stuff. ==>Lancer— Kind ​030 Doc Savage Formula, with author Tony Jones-1 Doc Savage – what can we learn from 181 pulp magazines? https://tonyjoneswriter.wordpress.com/2014/04/05/doc-savage-learn-181-pulp-magazines/ ​

CONNECT Welcome to SciFi thoughts where for a few short minutes I’ll  tease and tantalize your mind with this genre from the future. Register your email address at LancerKind.com and you’ll get cool extras about science fiction such as convention schedules and other nifty stuff. ==>Lancer— Kind 029 Using Structures to help your Writing, with author Tony Jones Tony Jone's : https://tonyjoneswriter.wordpress.com/ Doc Savage – what can we learn from 181 pulp magazines? https://tonyjoneswriter.wordpress.com/2014/04/05/doc-savage-learn-181-pulp-magazines/ Tony Jone's on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tony-jones-a72534a/#oc-background-section Michael Moorcock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Moorcock ​

CONNECT Welcome to SciFi thoughts where for a few short minutes I’ll  tease and tantalize your mind with this genre from the future. Register your email address at LancerKind.com and you’ll get cool extras about science fiction such as convention schedules and other nifty stuff. ==>Lancer— Kind 027 Grim Oak Press Versus Medical Debt Our Patrick Swenson interviews ran from Episode 22 to 27.  You'll find them all in the SciFi Thoughts archive. About Grim Oak Press https://grimoakpress.com <- Welcome to Grim Oak Press, a new publishing press with a big dream In 2011, author and webmaster Shawn Speakman was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and did not have health insurance due to a pre-existing condition. To combat his fast-accruing medical debt, SF&F writers donated short stories that became the bestselling anthology Unfettered. It paid off more than $200,000 in medical bills. Unfettered launched Grim Oak Press, a brand new SF&F publishing press with the big dream of helping others. It h

CONNECT Welcome to SciFi thoughts where for a few short minutes I’ll  tease and tantalize your mind with this genre from the future. Register your email address at LancerKind.com and you’ll get cool extras about science fiction such as convention schedules and other nifty stuff. ==>Lancer— Kind 026 Fusing Music and Fantasy with Patrick Swenson There is no description here. Let lance know if you miss it.  

CONNECT Welcome to SciFi thoughts where for a few short minutes I’ll  tease and tantalize your mind with this genre from the future. Register your email address at LancerKind.com and you’ll get cool extras about science fiction such as convention schedules and other nifty stuff. ==>Lancer— Kind 025 Fairwood Press http://m.fairwoodpress.com/index.html​