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Lair Of SecretsSci-Fi & Fantasy Summer Reading List 2024In the latest episode of the Lair of Secrets podcast, we delve into our summer reading lists, exploring a mix of thrilling, nostalgic, and intellectually stimulating books. Ken kicks things off with Action Park by Andy Mulvihill, reminiscing about the notorious amusement park of his youth. David follows with a dive into sci-fi novels, including Larry Niven's Ringworld Engineers and Cixin Liu's The Dark Forest.
After the reading lists, we've got the obligatory Overlord banter, with Ken's 20-mile hike, David's ongoing writing course, and our upcoming Fallout 2d20 actual play RPG game.
Need more books? Check out our previous summer...2024-07-2638 minLair Of SecretsSci-Fi & Fantasy Summer Reading List 2024In the latest episode of the Lair of Secrets podcast, we delve into our summer reading lists, exploring a mix of thrilling, nostalgic, and intellectually stimulating books. Ken kicks things off with Action Park by Andy Mulvihill, reminiscing about the notorious amusement park of his youth. David follows with a dive into sci-fi novels, including Larry Niven's Ringworld Engineers and Cixin Liu's The Dark Forest.
After the reading lists, we've got the obligatory Overlord banter, with Ken's 20-mile hike, David's ongoing writing course, and our upcoming Fallout 2d20 actual play RPG game.
Need more books? Check out our previous summer...2024-07-2638 min
The Wonder Dome#137 The Dao and the Dragon (with Ken Liu)Ken Liu is a multi-award winning speculative fiction author and third-time guest of The Wonder Dome. Even if you haven't read one of his dozens of stories, it’s likely you’ve seen work he’s contributed to on places like Netflix and AMC. His writing has reached a tremendous influence in the zeitgeist when we think about questions of humanity; identity; artificial intelligence; creativity; innovation and the future. In today’s conversation, Ken and I discuss two of his recent pieces of work. The first is an achingly beautiful short story called The Passing of the Dragon...2024-02-071h 14
Metacast: Behind the scenes49. Our favorite books, podcasts, products and experiences of 2023To close off 2023, Arnab and Ilya sat down for a lighthearted review of our favorite books, podcasts, products and experiences of 2023.
Segments
[01:51] A lesson in geology
[03:16] Our top books of 2023
[23:46] Our favorite podcasts of 2023
[41:04] Our favorite products
[49:34] Experiences of the year 2023
Show notes
Books
Arnab’s
The Ministry for the Future: A Novel by Kim Stanley Robinson
Project Hail Mary: A Novel by Andy Weir
Open: An Autobiography by Andre Agassi
The Mom Test: How to talk to...2024-01-0359 min
Long Overdue: A Franklin Public Library PodcastBook Clubs, Hunger, Crooks, and AssistantsIn this episode librarians Andy and Sam discuss some of their recent reads.
In this episode we talked about:
The Lonely Hearts Book Club by Lucy Gilmore
Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead
A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe by Mark Dawidziak
The World's Worst Assistant by Sona Movsesian
The Hunger by Alma Katsu
We also mentioned:
When We Were Animals by Joshua Gaylord
One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories by B...2023-08-3044 min
Retro Movie RoundtableThe Legend of Drunken Master (1994)RMR 0150: Join your hosts Chad Robinson, Dustin Melbardis and Russell Guest for the Retro Movie Roundtable as they revisit The Legend of Drunken Master (1994) [R]
Genre: Marital Arts, Action, Fighting, Comedy
Starring: Jackie Chan, Lung Ti, Anita Mui, Felix Wong, Chia-Liang Liu, Ken Lo, Kar Lok Chin, Ho-Sung Pak , Chi-Kwong Cheung, Yi-Sheng Han, Andy Lau, Wing-Fong Ho, Kar-Yung Lau, Siu-Ming Lau, Suki Kwan
Director: Chia-Liang Liu
Recoded on 2022-02-23
2023-02-201h 33
The Wonder Dome#101 Change Begins in Art (with Ken Liu, Tochi Onyebuchi, and Ray Nayler)Back for our second episode of the Summer Celebration Series are Ken Liu, Tochi Onyebuchi, and Ray Nayler. All three of these writers add so much depth and richness to the tapestry of our lives. When you leave this conversation today, I encourage you to listen to my other interviews with them and to read their work. Their writing has the potential to change your relationship to what's possible for the future of our species.Ursula K. Le Guin said that “Change begins in art.” The divine rights of kings seemed to be a permanent fact...2022-06-301h 56
Long Overdue: A Franklin Public Library PodcastBlack History Month 2022In this episode of Long Overdue librarians Andy, Briony, Keri, and Sam discuss a wide range of books and celebrate Black authors for Black History Month 2022.
In this episode we talked about:
Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas
Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People by Kekla Magoon
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
Read This to Get Smarter: About Race, Class, Gender, Disability, and More by Blair Imani
Black Buck by Mateo...2022-02-1155 min
Say Podcast and Die!S02E12 - Are You Terrified Yet? (Goosebumps Series 2000 #9)Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps Series 2000 #9: Are You Terrified Yet? Along the way, they discuss Battleship Potemkin, the meaning of bravery, crushing, strange bets, Stanley Milgram's Obedience to Authority, changing schools, There's Someone Inside Your House, runaway babies, The Witches, Louise Erdrich's "I'm a Mad Dog Biting Myself for Sympathy," being caught up in someone else's bet, the Rocky movies,The Phantom Menace, faking scares, Extremity, the big giant head, Imposter Syndrome, Galaxy Quest, Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, Ken Liu's "The Litigation Master and the Monkey King," heroism, maintaining your reputation on the middle school junk heap...2022-01-241h 06
The Climate QuestionIs science fiction holding back climate action?For centuries, we’ve been reading, watching and listening to science fiction. And all too often, it’s pretty pessimistic about our future, especially when it touches on the topic of climate change.
This is leading some to ask whether these doom and gloom stories are doing the climate fight more harm than good - causing us to feel so anxious and powerless that we don’t take action.
So for this week's climate question, Graihagh Jackson is asking: Is sci-fi holding us back?
First broadcast on 5th April 2021.
Graihagh Jackson is joined by:
Amy Brady, editor-in-chief of the Chicag...2022-01-0327 minLong Overdue: A Franklin Public Library PodcastEnd of the 2021 Wrap Up EpisodeIn this episode librarians Andy, Keri, Sam, and Sarah talk about their favorite books they've read during 2021 and preview some books they're excited about in 2022.
In this episode we talked about:
Don't Believe It by Charlie Donlea
The Girl Who Was Taken by Charlie Donlea
The Suicide House by Charlie Donlea
Some Choose Darkness by Charlie Donlea
Twenty Years Later by Charlie Donlea
Sergeant Salinger by Jerome Charyn
Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture...2021-12-1754 min
Books To Last PodcastEp. 9 - Science Is Magic We Understand with Rachel from Let Me In The LibraryIn homage to the BBC's classic Desert Island Discs, the Books to Last Podcast challenges book lovers and readers from all over to select the five books they would take to their mystery remote locale. Tangents and anecdotes likely.This week we are joined by Rachel from Let Me In The Library and we had the most amazing discussion about sci-fi, YA tropes, feminism, books that make you cry, culture and everything in between. This was such a fascinating one and I hope you enjoy! Guest Details:Channel: Let Me In The...2021-05-041h 59
Math Ed PodcastEpisode 2009: Kenneth Frank & Jihyun KimKen Frank from Michigan State University and Jihyun Kim from Lehigh University discuss their article, "From interpretation to instructional practice: A network study of early-career teachers' sensemaking in the era of accountability pressures and Common Core State Standards," published in the American Educational Research Journal, co-authors Salloum, Bieda, Youngs.
Article URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.3102/0002831220911065
Ken's Professional Webpage
Jihyun's Professional Webpage
Other articles related to the project:
Bieda, K. N., Lane, J., Evert, K., Hu, S., Opperman, A., & Ellefson, N. (2020). A large-scale study of how districts’ curriculum policies and practices shape teachers’ mathematics lesson...2020-10-2628 min
The Wonder Dome#27 Making Our Home in a Story (with Ken Liu)My guest today is the speculative fiction author, futurist, and polymath, Ken Liu. Ken has one of the most beautiful minds I've ever encountered. As a novelist and storyteller, he's claimed just about every award there is here in America for his groundbreaking work in the realms of fantasy and science fiction. He's also received top genre honors in Japan, Spain, France, and many other countries. His work has been adapted into multiple film and television projects, including the Netflix breakout adult animated series LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS and AMC’s Pantheon.When he's not writing or...2020-10-131h 05
Bit of a Tangent022 | 6 Books You Need to Read in 2020… and 1 You Probably Shouldn’tGianluca presents his much-requested three non-fiction and three fiction recommendations for 2020. Jared recommends a book so long and gripping that you should probably avoid it if you have anything productive to do in the next six months. ---------------Shownotes:---------------Jared (twitter.com/jnearestn) and Gianluca (twitter.com/QVagabond) on TwitterBit of a Tangent on Twitter (twitter.com/podtangent) and Instagram (www.instagram.com/podtangent/)Last week’s episode: www.podtangent.com/e/021-the-top-19-ideas-from-2019/Gianluca on Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/user/show/56535709-gianluca2020-01-2100 min
Transmusic AirwavesTransmusic Airwaves (Episode #348) - December 13, 2019 - with Paul Ciminero (host)JOHN COLTRANE ( from newly released 1964 sessions), THE BAD PLUS, JULIAN LAGE, FIDEL FOURNEYRON, KEN NORDINE, and VASSAR CLEMENTS (with Dave Holland & John Abercrombie). Some of you might suspect I've gone a bit overboard with all the jazz I'm playing as part of today's TRANSMUSIC AIRWAVES (Episode #348) while others are perfectly excited about my choices this week. That's why doing this show is so much fun to make. In the end they'll all get blended into sets surrounded by other musical genres anyway, and the hope, as usual, is that you'll really enjoy the show' flow.Those 'other' genres...2019-12-123h 00
Broad Street Bait & TackleBroad Street Bait & Tackle 011 (Sep 21, 2019)Broad Street Bait & Tackle 011 (Sep 21, 2019)
Mixed live by Ken Liu
Episode 011 of the monthly Broad Street Bait & Tackle webcast
01. Di Saronno - Move The Crowd (Main) - Moiss
https://www.traxsource.com/track/6610944/move-the-crowd-main
02. Scott Diaz - Level Up - Myriad Black
https://www.traxsource.com/track/6606471/level-up-original-mix
03. Kool Bronson - Undisputed - Gents & Dandy's
https://www.traxsource.com/track/6476017/undisputed-original-mix
04. Jorn Johansen - About You - Moiss
https://www.traxsource.com/track/6593350/about-you-original-mix
05. Davelly - Next Level - Delve Deeper
https://www.traxsource.com/track/6589556/next-level-original-mix
06. Local Options - Sun Palace (Jude Brown Remix) - Moiss
https://www.traxsource...2019-09-221h 08
The Skiffy and Fanty ShowSpeculative Fiction in Translation #14: Biological and ArtificialApril brought us stories and books about the merging of the biological and artificial, zombification, organic routers, and much more. Plus we talk about what we’ve been reading, our favorite stories this month, and translations that we wish we could have yesterday. Remember: with new stories and books coming to their attention each week, make sure to check the SFT website for updates. Enjoy, and keep reading! A bientôt! P.S. It’s Jen’s fault this is late! Sorry about that, folks! Show notes: SFT Out in April Books we’re reading/want to read Waste Tide by Chen Q...2019-06-1459 min
The Skiffy and Fanty ShowSpeculative Fiction in Translation #14: Biological and ArtificialApril brought us stories and books about the merging of the biological and artificial, zombification, organic routers, and much more. Plus we talk about what we’ve been reading, our favorite stories this month, and translations that we wish we could have yesterday. Remember: with new stories and books coming to their attention each week, make sure to check the SFT website for updates. Enjoy, and keep reading! A bientôt! P.S. It’s Jen’s fault this is late! Sorry about that, folks! Show notes: SFT Out in April Books we’re reading/want to read Waste Tide by Chen Q...2019-06-1459 min
SF in TranslationSpeculative Fiction in Translation #14: Biological and ArtificialApril brought us stories and books about the merging of the biological and artificial, zombification, organic routers, and much more. Plus we talk about what we’ve been reading, our favorite stories this month, and translations that we wish we could have yesterday.
Remember: with new stories and books coming to their attention each week, make sure to check the SFT website for updates. Enjoy, and keep reading!
A bientôt!
P.S. It’s Jen’s fault this is late! Sorry about that, folks!
Show notes:
SFT Out in...2019-06-1459 minSF in TranslationSpeculative Fiction in Translation #12: Fantasy, Collections, and Korean SFTFebruary offered us more short fiction than anything else, though we did get the absolutely wonderful anthology of Chinese SFT edited and translated by Ken Liu: Broken Stars. In terms of the short fiction, fantasy dominated, with stories from the Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, and Korean. Rachel and Daniel also talk about the fiction they’re looking forward to in the upcoming months and the books they’re currently reading/teaching. Plus they discuss the great Korean SFT news from Neil Clarke!
Remember: with new stories and books coming to their attention each week, make sure to chec...2019-03-221h 06The Skiffy and Fanty ShowSpeculative Fiction in Translation #12: Fantasy, Collections, and Korean SFTFebruary offered us more short fiction than anything else, though we did get the absolutely wonderful anthology of Chinese SFT edited and translated by Ken Liu: Broken Stars. In terms of the short fiction, fantasy dominated, with stories from the Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, and Korean. Rachel and Daniel also talk about the fiction they’re looking forward to in the upcoming months and the books they’re currently reading/teaching. Plus they discuss the great Korean SFT news from Neil Clarke! Remember: with new stories and books coming to their attention each week, make sure to check the SFT webs...2019-03-221h 06The Skiffy and Fanty ShowSpeculative Fiction in Translation #12: Fantasy, Collections, and Korean SFTFebruary offered us more short fiction than anything else, though we did get the absolutely wonderful anthology of Chinese SFT edited and translated by Ken Liu: Broken Stars. In terms of the short fiction, fantasy dominated, with stories from the Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, and Korean. Rachel and Daniel also talk about the fiction they’re looking forward to in the upcoming months and the books they’re currently reading/teaching. Plus they discuss the great Korean SFT news from Neil Clarke! Remember: with new stories and books coming to their attention each week, make sure to check the SFT webs...2019-03-221h 06The Skiffy and Fanty ShowSpeculative Fiction in Translation #11: New Year, New Translations, plus Andy DudakIt’s a new year, and we have a lot of new and exciting SF in translation coming out. Chinese fantasy, Czech space opera, Argentine surrealism…Daniel and I tell you all about it. We also take a look back at November and December and briefly summarize what you might have missed when our beloved podcast took a brief wintry haitus. Daniel also talks about the wide variety of short fiction in January and why you should get excited about reading these stories from the Polish, Japanese, Spanish, and more. Extra exciting is the fact that you can also hear Rach...2019-02-151h 09The Skiffy and Fanty ShowSpeculative Fiction in Translation #11: New Year, New Translations, plus Andy DudakIt’s a new year, and we have a lot of new and exciting SF in translation coming out. Chinese fantasy, Czech space opera, Argentine surrealism…Daniel and I tell you all about it. We also take a look back at November and December and briefly summarize what you might have missed when our beloved podcast took a brief wintry haitus. Daniel also talks about the wide variety of short fiction in January and why you should get excited about reading these stories from the Polish, Japanese, Spanish, and more. Extra exciting is the fact that you can also hear Rach...2019-02-151h 09
The Future of Data Podcast | conversation with leaders, influencers, and change makers in the World of Data & AnalyticsEmergence of #DataOps Age - @AndyHPalmer #FutureOfDataIn this podcast @AndyPalmer from @Tamr sat with @Vishaltx from @AnalyticsWeek to talk about the emergence/need/market for Data Ops, a specialized capability emerging from merging data engineering and dev ops ecosystem due to increased convoluted data silos and complicated processes. Andy shared his journey on what some of the businesses and their leaders are doing wrong and how businesses need to rethink their data silos to future proof themselves. This is a good podcast for any data leader thinking about cracking the code on getting high-quality insights from data.
Timelines:
0:28 Andy's journey.
4:56 What's Tamr?
6:38 What's Andy's role in Tamr...2018-07-1256 min
SCIFI SNAKEp. 48: Andy Weir, ArtemisEfter en robinsonade på Mars, med The Martian, tænkte Andy Weir: “Hvad med en heist-roman på Månen?” Og det blev til Artemis! 290 sider, hvor du kan opleve sindrige og snedige kup-planer udspille i et lige så sindrigt og snedigt udtænkt rumbase-miljø. På den Kenyanske (!) rumstation Artemis lever vores protagonist Jazz en tilværelse på bunden af samfundet. Hun løber ærinder og bijobber med at skaffe smuglervarer til folk med illegale behov… for eksempel cigarer. Så da muligheden for det store kup byder sig slår hun til.
Med Artemis viser Andy Weir igen sin tæft for at skab...2018-02-1648 min
Book Lounge by LibbyEp. 198 - Comics Crew Part Deux!They have returned! We received a bunch of great feedback last time Kenny, Quinton and Jim were on to discuss comics that we decided we should probably run this back for another hour of good, good comic chat. Love Comics? Prefer Manga? Never read a comic and don't know where to start? If any of these are true, we've got your back! Titles mentioned in this episode Mouse Guard by David Petersen Flashpoint by Geoff Johns & Andy Kubert Brandon Sanderson's White Sand by Brandon Sanderson and...2018-02-081h 01
The Santez PodcastStar Wars The Last Jedi thoughts, Ocean's 8 trailer releasedSmall Talk segment:
Ocean’s 8 trailer released: Starring Cate Blanchett, Sandra Bullock, Mindy Khaling, Anne Hatheway and directed by Gary Ross. Releases on June 8th, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFWF9dU5Zc0
Sicario 2: Soldado trailer released: STarring Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin, and Matthew Modine Releases june 28th, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBkC83-vh9A
The Office Revival in the works at NBC
http://www.comingsoon.net/tv/news/910261-the-office-revival-in-the-works-at-nbc
Shareable:
Star Wars: the Legends of Luke Skywalker By Ken Liu
https://www.amazon.com/Journey-Star-Wars-Last-Jedi-ebook/dp/B075TJJW5T/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UT...2017-12-1956 min
Broad Street Bait & TackleHeadset Hi-Fi Radio on MHYH (Jan 15, 2017)Headset Hi-Fi Radio on MHYH (Jan 15, 2017)
Mixed live by Ken Liu
Originally broadcasted on the Jan 15, 2017 episode of the Headset Hi-Fi Radio Show
(Every other Sunday: 8p-10p CST) on www.myhouseyourhouse.net
01. Demarkus Lewis - Smoke - Headset
02. Rob Slac & Alec - Sounds Right (Pezzner Remix) - Chillin
03. Arnaud Le Texier - Blunt Edge (Sticky Fingers Mr. G Remix) - Safari Electronique
04. Moodymanc - Black Paint (Larry Heard's After Dark Mix) - Tsuba Colours
05. Bassfort - Dixtrit (Jimpster Remix) - Freerange
06. Sound Process - Apollo (Diego Infanzon Remix) - My Little Dog
07. Morizio - Deep Diggin - Raw Trax
08...2017-01-172h 15
Broad Street Bait & TackleHeadset Recordings Commuter Radio 23Welcome to the November 2016 episode of Headset Recordings Commuter Radio. Hit that FOLLOW button to stay updated on the latest mixes, previews and exclusives.
Headset Recordings Commuter Radio 23 (Mixed by Ken Liu)
01. Cesar del Rio & Tatsu - Trinity (Gaol Remix) - Cyanide
02. LongPlay - Lood Flute (Dub Mix) - Simma Black
03. Scott Diaz - WRKME - Simma Black
04. Matteo Rosolare & Jojo Angel - By Your Side - Country Club Disco
05. Peers and Upright - House Refugee - Something Else
06. Giacomo Pellegrino - Shoort - Gents & Dandy’s
07. Demarkus Lewis - Self Is Steam (Deez UGT Rinse Mix) - Viva
08. Ferry Ul...2016-11-181h 31
geekbytes's podcastLitRPG_Podcast_009.mp3 LitRPG Podcast 009 Oct. 21st, 2016 Welcome to Episode 9 of the LitRPG Podcast. The only podcast dedicated to LitRPG. I’m Ramon Mejia. I’m here to bring you the latest LitRPG news, reviews, and author interviews. Before we start the show I wanted to give a big shoutout to Heath Prather and Jay Taylor for supporting the podcast on Patreon. Thanks guys. It makes me feel all tingly to have your support. If anyone else wants to support the podcast on patreon and get e...2016-10-2118 min
Book Club (from The Incomparable Mothership)I Like Complicated Books, Glenn (The Incomparable Mothership 291)
Our Book Club returns to read two recent, highly praised science fiction novels. From Kim Stanley Robinson comes “Aurora,” the story of a spaceship sent from Earth to a far-off star in a trip that will take generations. And from Ian McDonald comes “Luna: New Moon,” a sort of “Dallas” (or is it “The Godfather”?) set on and under the surface of the moon. Plus, what else are we reading?
Host Jason Snell with Scott McNulty, Aleen Simms, Erika Ensign and Glenn Fleishman
Sponsors
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Three HoarsemenThe Three Hoarsemen Cometh! A Discussion of Iain M. Banks and Paper vs. Electronic ReadingIn the long and storied history of the SF Signal Podcast, never had the powers-that-be deigned it safe to allow John H. Stevens, Fred Kiesche, and Jeff Patterson to appear on the same panel discussion. “It would be like crossing the streams,” they said. “Violent weather would sweep the land, and cicadas emerge from the depths!”
Ah, well…
In this inaugural episode of The Three Hoarsemen we discuss Iain M. Banks, how our book format preferences dictate our reading (and buying) habits, and recommend some books and stories we’ve recently enjoyed.
(Originally SF Signal Po...2013-06-1745 min