Scifi Thoughts

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In the time it takes to receive a Starbucks coffee, SciFi author Lancer Kind covers what's happning in popular science fiction film, tv, and books.

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  • 146 How being a publishing science fiction writer affects how you teach English, plus a tip from George Saunders

    20/07/2021 Duración: 14min

    FREE for Kindle Unlimited is Bill Preston's first book of the Old Man Series: https://www.amazon.com/Helping-Them-Take-Down-Clockworks-ebook/dp/B008BC4EME/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=old+man+william+preston&qid=1626623750&sr=8-2 Contact Bill Preston via Twitter: https://twitter.com/wmpreston Bill (William) Preston's author page on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B008BTWZ1Y Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken: https://poets.org/poem/road-not-taken The following users have contributed sound bites via FreeSound.org: footsteps wood floor by ralph.whitehead

  • 145 Much ado about Genre, Ray Bradbury, and Early American Writers

    14/07/2021 Duración: 11min

    Contact Bill Preston via Twitter: https://twitter.com/wmpreston Bill (William) Preston's author page on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B008BTWZ1Y

  • 144 Author and Educator Bill Preston talks Literary Science Fiction, Ray Bradbury, and Spock

    07/07/2021 Duración: 16min

    Contact Bill Preston via Twitter: https://twitter.com/wmpreston Bill (William) Preston's author page on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B008BTWZ1Y

  • 143 Tiki Al’s brush with Mouse Jail

    30/06/2021 Duración: 14min

    First off, if today's date is around May there is a Tiki market place in North Hollywood at Kahuna Tiki Tu: http://www.kahunatiki.com http://www.kahunatiki.com/?fbclid=IwAR1cXcHUCC-jvP6Jbf8eNyiSR4yJxTLvBDcrdUzoHfWcJ0pNyh9ZUKK-Q7k Tiki Al's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tikialz59/ Tiki Al's FB page: https://www.facebook.com/al.zequeira From Al: These are the Akira shirts I did 30 years ago, before starting to work for streamline pictures. I guess they liked my artwork and decided to hire me: AKIRA 90's Vintage T-shirt Tetsuo Kaneda size L black single stitch made in USA | eBayebay.com

  • 142 Props Master Al Zequeira reveals his Secrets to getting into the Props Biz

    23/06/2021 Duración: 15min

    First off, if it's around May there is a market place in North Hollywood at Kahuna Tiki Tu: http://www.kahunatiki.com http://www.kahunatiki.com/?fbclid=IwAR1cXcHUCC-jvP6Jbf8eNyiSR4yJxTLvBDcrdUzoHfWcJ0pNyh9ZUKK-Q7k An instructional video from Tiki Al on using Tiki Spears: https://m.facebook.com/groups/282420449138382/permalink/773696823344073/?sfnsn=mo Tiki Don's FB page:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/282420449138382/permalink/773696823344073/ From Al: These are the Akira shirts I did 30 years ago, before starting to work for streamline pictures. I guess they liked my artwork and decided to hire me: AKIRA 90's Vintage T-shirt Tetsuo Kaneda size L black single stitch made in USA | eBayebay.com

  • 141 Tiki Al and the Goods and Bads of Shanghai

    17/06/2021 Duración: 09min

    First off, if it's around May there is a market place in North Hollywood at Kahuna Tiki Tu: http://www.kahunatiki.com http://www.kahunatiki.com/?fbclid=IwAR1cXcHUCC-jvP6Jbf8eNyiSR4yJxTLvBDcrdUzoHfWcJ0pNyh9ZUKK-Q7k From Al: These are the Akira shirts I did 30 years ago, before starting to work for streamline pictures. I guess they liked my artwork and decided to hire me: AKIRA 90's Vintage T-shirt Tetsuo Kaneda size L black single stitch made in USA | eBayebay.com Attributions: The steel drums were free but copyrighted : Copyright © 2011 Varazuvi™ www.varazuvi.com Love Cyberpunk? Read Honolulu Hottie by Lancer Kind A surfer, a beautiful activist, and corporate sponsored ecoterrorism. Enjoy this Hawaiian cyberpunk novelette. Nafi is a retired pro surfer who works security at a pineapple plant. He falls for a girl who uses him to break security so she can investigate a conspiracy to destroy Hawaii’s pineapple crop. Unfortunately she gets caught, Nafi gets in trouble, and the epidem

  • 140 Tiki Al goes to Hollywood

    08/06/2021 Duración: 12min

    First off, if it's around May there is a market place in North Hollywood at Kahuna Tiki Tu: http://www.kahunatiki.com http://www.kahunatiki.com/?fbclid=IwAR1cXcHUCC-jvP6Jbf8eNyiSR4yJxTLvBDcrdUzoHfWcJ0pNyh9ZUKK-Q7k From Al: These are the Akira shirts I did 30 years ago, before starting to work for streamline pictures. I guess they liked my artwork and decided to hire me: AKIRA 90's Vintage T-shirt Tetsuo Kaneda size L black single stitch made in USA | eBayebay.com Love Cyberpunk? Read Honolulu Hottie by Lancer Kind A surfer, a beautiful activist, and corporate sponsored ecoterrorism. Enjoy this Hawaiian cyberpunk novelette. Nafi is a retired pro surfer who works security at a pineapple plant. He falls for a girl who uses him to break security so she can investigate a conspiracy to destroy Hawaii’s pineapple crop. Unfortunately she gets caught, Nafi gets in trouble, and the epidemiologist who is behind the pineapple virus is out to kill them. Honolulu Hottie is a cyberpunk, action-

  • 139 From high school to Hollywood, Life of a Hollywood Props Master

    26/05/2021 Duración: 16min

    First off, if it's around May there is a market place in North Hollywood at Kahuna Tiki Tu: http://www.kahunatiki.com http://www.kahunatiki.com/?fbclid=IwAR1cXcHUCC-jvP6Jbf8eNyiSR4yJxTLvBDcrdUzoHfWcJ0pNyh9ZUKK-Q7k From Al: These are the Akira shirts I did 30 years ago, before starting to work for streamline pictures. I guess they liked my artwork and decided to hire me: AKIRA 90's Vintage T-shirt Tetsuo Kaneda size L black single stitch made in USA | eBayebay.com Attributions: The steel drums used in the podcast are from : Copyright © 2011 Varazuvi™ www.varazuvi.com Love Cyberpunk? Read Honolulu Hottie by Lancer Kind A surfer, a beautiful activist, and corporate sponsored ecoterrorism. Enjoy this Hawaiian cyberpunk novelette. Nafi is a retired pro surfer who works security at a pineapple plant. He falls for a girl who uses him to break security so she can investigate a conspiracy to destroy Hawaii’s pineapple crop. Unfortunately she gets caught, Nafi gets in trouble, and the

  • 138 Al Zequeira Hollywood Master of Props

    02/05/2021 Duración: 14min

    First off, if it's around May (specifically May 2nd in 2021) there is a tiki market place in North Hollywood at Kahuna Tiki Tu: http://www.kahunatiki.com and there you'll find details. Interested in reading a space opera? Check out MEMORY'S VICTIMS by Lancer Kind Arcadie struggles with the rest of his shipmates to become immigrants rather than settlers. He adapts better than his sister who seems always involved with lost causes and he becomes part of space force. But he gets mixed up in a mystery about a woman who is breaking interstellar treaties by tampering with generation ships, and her reasons for doing so sound similar to his sister's affliction—an out-of-control savior complex. Find more great content in the SciFi Thoughts show archive here.

  • 137 Love is the Key Ingredient to the Survival of our Human Civilization

    07/04/2021 Duración: 11min

    This episode is part of an ongoing series that started on episode 133.  Here is the show archive: https://LancerKind.com/series/scifi-thoughts/ Here is the show's RSS Feed: View feed  or you can subscribe via webpage. A Statistical Estimation of the Occurrence of Extraterrestrial Intelligence in the Milky Way Galaxy, by Xiang Cai, Jonathan H. Jiang, Kristen A. Fahy, Yuk L. Yung : https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.07902 Author Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep is an excellent SciFi book to pair with the above paper: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernor_Vinge Background: Learn about the formation of stars and the main sequence of stars: https://byjus.com/physics/life-cycle-of-stars/ Star types: https://www.zmescience.com/other/feature-post/the-types-of-stars/ How Galaxies are formed: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11534 What is Ambiogenesis: https://www.britannica.com/science/abiogenesis Enrico Fermi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Fermi The Drake equation was discussed in Sc

  • 136 The Time and Location of Peak Civilization—Life initiated by Love then ends in Self Destruction

    30/03/2021 Duración: 16min

    This episode is part of an ongoing series that started on episode 133.  Here is the show archive: https://LancerKind.com/series/scifi-thoughts/ Here is the show's RSS Feed: View feed <https://lancerkind.com/feed/podcast> A Statistical Estimation of the Occurrence of Extraterrestrial Intelligence in the Milky Way Galaxy, by Xiang Cai, Jonathan H. Jiang, Kristen A. Fahy, Yuk L. Yung : https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.07902 The Doomsday Clock: https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/ Background: Learn about the formation of stars and the main sequence of stars: https://byjus.com/physics/life-cycle-of-stars/ Star types: https://www.zmescience.com/other/feature-post/the-types-of-stars/ How Galaxies are formed: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11534 What is Ambiogenesis: https://www.britannica.com/science/abiogenesis Enrico Fermi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Fermi The Drake equation was discussed in SciFi Thoughts episode 098, during the topic of BLAZESKY, a space opera game

  • 135 Civilization Self Destruction is the most Influential Parameter in Why there’s a Fermi Paradox

    24/03/2021 Duración: 16min

    This episode is part of an ongoing series that started on episode 133.  Here is the show archive: https://LancerKind.com/series/scifi-thoughts/ Here is the show's RSS Feed: View feed A Statistical Estimation of the Occurrence of Extraterrestrial Intelligence in the Milky Way Galaxy, by Xiang Cai, Jonathan H. Jiang, Kristen A. Fahy, Yuk L. Yung : https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.07902 Learn about the formation of stars and the main sequence of stars: https://byjus.com/physics/life-cycle-of-stars/ Star types: https://www.zmescience.com/other/feature-post/the-types-of-stars/ Discussed in this episode: Robin Hanson's Great Filter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter#The_Great_Filter How Galaxies are formed: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11534 What is Ambiogenesis: https://www.britannica.com/science/abiogenesis Enrico Fermi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Fermi In SciFi Thoughts episode 098 we talk about space opera game BLAZESKY and the Drake equation: https://lancerkind.com/

  • 134 The Factors to Intelligent Life on Planets in the Milky Way

    17/03/2021 Duración: 24min

    A Statistical Estimation of the Occurrence of Extraterrestrial Intelligence in the Milky Way Galaxy, by Xiang Cai, Jonathan H. Jiang, Kristen A. Fahy, Yuk L. Yung : https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.07902 Learn about the formation of stars and the main sequence of stars: https://byjus.com/physics/life-cycle-of-stars/ Star types: https://www.zmescience.com/other/feature-post/the-types-of-stars/ How Galaxies are formed: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11534 What is abiogenesis: https://www.britannica.com/science/abiogenesis Enrico Fermi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Fermi In SciFi Thoughts episode 098 we talk about space opera game BLAZESKY and the Drake equation: https://lancerkind.com/podcast/098-blazesky-role-plays-why-no-aliens/ Interested in reading a space opera? Check out MEMORY'S VICTIMS by Lancer Kind Arcadie struggles with the rest of his shipmates to become immigrants rather than settlers. He adapts better than his sister who seems always involved with lost causes and he

  • 133 JPL scientist Jonathan Jiang Investigates the Fermi Paradox

    10/03/2021 Duración: 13min

    Enrico Fermi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Fermi A Statistical Estimation of the Occurrence of Extraterrestrial Intelligence in the Milky Way Galaxy, by Xiang Cai, Jonathan H. Jiang, Kristen A. Fahy, Yuk L. Yung : https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.07902 In SciFi Thoughts episode 098 we talk about space opera game BLAZESKY and the Drake equation: https://lancerkind.com/podcast/098-blazesky-role-plays-why-no-aliens/ Interested in reading a space opera? Check out MEMORY'S VICTIMS by Lancer Kind Arcadie struggles with the rest of his shipmates to become immigrants rather than settlers. He adapts better than his sister who seems always involved with lost causes and he becomes part of space force. But he gets mixed up in a mystery about a woman who is breaking interstellar treaties by tampering with generation ships, and her reasons for doing so sound similar to his sister's affliction—an out-of-control savior complex.

  • 132 Novelist Tom Doyle tells us about American Craftsman

    03/03/2021 Duración: 19min

    Tom's books on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tom-Doyle/e/B00A77W3KQ?ref=dbs_m_mng_rwt_byln Tom Doyle's Border Crosser novel: http://tomdoyleauthor.com/border-crosser/   Tom offers links to free text and audio of his short fiction, including Small Small Press Award winner “The Wizard of Macatawa”: http://tomdoyleauthor.com Tom's books on Ring of Fire Press, a good source for alternate ebook formats: https://ringoffirepress.com/authors/doyle-tom/ Tom's work on Graphic Audio: https://www.graphicaudio.net/our-productions/authors/s-z/tom-doyle.html Mentions: Tom has published an award winning short story called Thieves of the Fallen World in an anthology called Tales from the Magicians Skill #4: Find more great content in the SciFi Thoughts show archive here.

  • 131 Novelist Tom Doyle Reads from Space Opera BORDER CROSSER

    24/02/2021 Duración: 16min

    Tom Doyle's Border Crosser novel: http://tomdoyleauthor.com/border-crosser/   Tom offers links to free text and audio of his short fiction, including Small Small Press Award winner “The Wizard of Macatawa”: http://tomdoyleauthor.com Mentions: Author Jacqueline Carey: http://www.jacquelinecarey.com/all-books/ The following users have contributed sound bites via FreeSound.org: snore from passAirmangrace, kiss from trijohnstone, 

  • 130 Novelist Tom Doyle describes the psychological foundation of his novel Border Crosser

    17/02/2021 Duración: 09min

    Tom Doyle's Border Crosser novel: http://tomdoyleauthor.com/border-crosser/   Tom offers links to free text and audio of his short fiction, including Small Small Press Award winner “The Wizard of Macatawa”: http://tomdoyleauthor.com Mentions: Author Jacqueline Carey: http://www.jacquelinecarey.com/all-books/

  • 129 Tom Doyle talks of Eris’s Borderline Personality Disorder

    09/02/2021 Duración: 15min

    Tom Doyle's Border Crosser novel: http://tomdoyleauthor.com/border-crosser/   Tom offers links to free text and audio of his short fiction, including Small Small Press Award winner “The Wizard of Macatawa”: http://tomdoyleauthor.com Mentions: About the Clarion Writers Workshop: http://clarion.ucsd.edu/#apply More about Tim Powers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Powers

  • 128 Space Opera that JG Ballard would have wanted, authored by Tom Doyle

    01/02/2021 Duración: 14min

    Tom Doyle's Border Crosser novel: http://tomdoyleauthor.com/border-crosser/   Tom offers links to free text and audio of his short fiction, including Small Small Press Award winner “The Wizard of Macatawa”: http://tomdoyleauthor.com Mentions: About the Clarion Writers Workshop: http://clarion.ucsd.edu/#apply More about Tim Powers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Powers

  • 127 There are those who write Short Stories and then there are Garrulous Bastards who write Novels

    26/01/2021 Duración: 10min

    Bud Sparhawk's author page on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Bud-Sparhawk/e/B00BH17R3O Bud Sparhawk's blog: https://www.budsparhawk.com Bud Sparhawk on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud_Sparhawk Bud Sparhawk video interview Fast Forward: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcgFWq3Szx4 Bud Sparhawk video interview with Buzzy Magazine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN43VdjJelg A Bud Sparhawk and Paul Levinson reading at AmazingCon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prN06V22rs4 Mentioned in this episode: Walter Hunt: http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/hunt_walter_h Tuckerization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuckerization William Tucker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson_Tucker

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