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The Baen Free Radio HourBFRH 2025 11 07 Toni Weisskopf talks with our Fall Hard for Science Fiction Authors P2 and One Jump Ahead by Mark L. Van Name part 36. Video at https://www.youtube.com/embed/xKaf2cgpMwU and at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjV7Nn4-bkB48wDjtobIuPQ.Baen Publisher Toni Weisskopf talks with our Fall Hard for Science Fiction Authors, many of whom are also scientists or engineers about hard science fiction and their work. Join Catherine Asaro, Les Johnson, Dan Koboldt, The Presbys, and David Weber as they discuss Falling Hard for Science Fiction and One Jump Ahead by Mark L. Van Name part 36. View the podcast in video form at https://www.baen.com/podcastfiles/mp3/https://www.youtube.com/embed/xKaf2cgpMwU and the Baen YouTube Channel.
2025-11-071h 00The Baen Free Radio HourBFRH 2025 10 31 Toni Weisskopf talks with our Fall Hard for Science Fiction Authors and One Jump Ahead by Mark L. Van Name part 35. Video at https://www.youtube.com/embed/ybHUnqbawbM and at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjV7Nn4-bkB48wDjtobIuPQ.Toni Weisskopf talks with our Fall Hard for Science Fiction Authors, Catherine Asaro, Les Johnson, Dan Koboldt, Joelle Presby, and David Weber and One Jump Ahead by Mark L. Van Name part 35. View the podcast in video form at https://www.baen.com/podcastfiles/mp3/https://www.youtube.com/embed/ybHUnqbawbM and the Baen YouTube Channel.
2025-10-3158 minThe Baen Free Radio HourBFRH 2025 10 10: Hailey H.Y. Gregor interviews Catherine Asaro on Gold Dust; and One Jump Ahead by Mark L. Van Name part 32. Video at https://www.youtube.com/embed/AySgHJQLehM and at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjV7Nn4-bkB48wDjtobIuPQ.Hailey H.Y. Gregor interviews Catherine Asaro on Gold Dust; and One Jump Ahead by Mark L. Van Name part 32. View the podcast in video form at https://www.baen.com/podcastfiles/mp3/https://www.youtube.com/embed/AySgHJQLehM and the Baen YouTube Channel.
2025-10-101h 05
Embrace The Eye-Opening Full Audiobook Experience!Gold Dust by Catherine AsaroPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/261605to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Gold Dust
Series: Dust Knights, Book 2
Author: Catherine Asaro
Narrator: Morgan Hallett
Format: mp3
Length: 19 hrs and 30 mins
Release date: 10-07-25
Ratings: 5.0 out of 5 stars, 2 ratings
Genres: Science Fiction
Publisher's Summary:
Mason, the coach for Raylicon track and field team, makes a startling discovery: the Undercity, an ancient culture hidden in ruins beneath the desert, carries a secret. In a place where crushing poverty exists alongside a culture of dramatic beauty, a group of spectacular runners has existed for centuries, even millennia, unknown to the outside universe.
2025-10-077h 30
Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy đ¨đŚâŹThe Quantum Threads That Bind Us đSend a textIn the vast, intricate universe, we are more connected than we dare imagine. Catherine Asaro's "The Quantum Rose" offers a radical proposition: our lives are not just stories, but quantum eventsâcomplex, unpredictable, and fundamentally interconnected.Imagine particles entangled across impossible distances, their fates so intertwined that a change in one instantaneously affects the other. Now transpose this concept onto human relationships. What invisible threads might be quietly vibrating between you and the people in your life, transmitting emotions, intentions, and energy beyond our comprehension?Read the rest of this ar...
2025-01-2517 minThe Baen Free Radio HourBFRH 2024 08 16: The Down Deep; and Tinker by Wen Spencer, Part 65. Video at https://www.baen.com/podcastfiles/mp3/video-baen-free-radio-hour-The-Down-Deep-Tinker-Part-65.mp4 and at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjV7Nn4-bkB48wDjtobIuPQ.Catherine Asaro discusses The Down Deep; and Tinker by Wen Spencer, Part 65. View the podcast in video form at https://www.baen.com/podcastfiles/mp3/video-baen-free-radio-hour-The-Down-Deep-Tinker-Part-65.mp4 and the Baen YouTube Channel.
2024-08-1644 min
Absorb The Most Immersive Full Audiobook Today!The Down Deep by Catherine AsaroPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/193780to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Down Deep
Series: Dust Knights, Book 1
Author: Catherine Asaro
Narrator: Morgan Hallett
Format: mp3
Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
Release date: 07-02-24
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 16 ratings
Genres: Space Opera
Publisher's Summary:
For centuries The City of Criesâone of the most desired locales in the Skolian Imperialateâhas existed by the thinnest of threads. On the dying world of Raylicon, the âhavesâ live in great luxury in Cries while the âhavenotsâ scrape by, eking out a marginal existence in the notorious Undercity beneath the desert. Major Bhaajan, formerly of...
2024-07-0210h 21
The Hot Nuance Book ClubWhat We Did Mattered - interview with Kate Elliott - bonus Ep24Welcome to episode 24 of the Hot Nuance Book Club, where it's time for us to sit down with author Kate Elliott and talk about everything involved in a career of writing science-fiction fantasies since the â80s. There are some wild twists and turns in this story!Every author and book book mentionedKate Elliott - The Labyrinth Gate; trilogies: The Highroad Trilogy, The Crown of Stars, Crossroads, Cold Magic/Spiritwalker, The Court of Fives, Black Wolves; The Golden Key (Kate Elliott, Melanie Rawn, & Jennifer Roberson); Servant Mage; The Keeperâs Six; The Unconquerable Sun; The History of the...
2024-02-192h 11
Starship Fonzie PodcastStarship Fonzie #32Special Interview with Matthew Jones. Featuring: Windycon and the Royal Manticoran Navy, Chengdu wrap-up, and SableCon in Milwaukee. Catherine Asaro gets poured a Cold One. Eric's past self gives him a call on the Temporal Phone. Plus, a new episode of The Stupid Files, with new segments 'Sci vs Fi' and 'The Grammar Nazi.' Also, top 10 best sci fi and fantasy books of 2023.
2023-11-2159 min
From Here to the StarsFrom Here to the Stars Episode 21: Doctor Catherine AsaroFrom Here to the Stars, in this episode, our host, Stephen Euin Cobb, interviews Dr. Catherine Asaro. Dr. Asaro has a PhD in Chemical Physics and a Masters in Physics both from Harvard University. She is more widely known as a Science Fiction and Fantasy Author for which she won the Nebula Award twice.
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2023-04-0640 min
Alien EncountersEp.10: The Time MachineThe quantum computer disperses into the cloud before it is destroyed, releasing unprecedented information into the world's computers. This leads to a virtual reality simulator that allows people to see through time and space.The below guests are featured in this episode:Â Hakeem OluseyiCarin BondarDario NardiAlex LightmanDavid BrinAlan D FosterDavid GerroldJamais CascioDaniel LidarCatherine AsaroSeth LloydAdam H MarblestoneJesse SchellViktor DeakFor even more Alien Encounters, head to discovery+. Go to discoveryplus.com/alienencounters. Terms apply. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2022-11-1134 minAlien EncountersEp.9: The WarWhen direct assaults on the quantum computer fail, the US military tries to destroy the hybrid network by targeting the Brids. Meanwhile, the computer retrieves a mysterious box from the alien space trash orbiting Earth.The below guests are featured in this episode:Â Hakeem OluseyiCarin BondarDario NardiAlex LightmanJohn SmartDavid BrinAlan D FosterDavid GerroldJoan SlonczewskiDaniel GregoryJamais CascioDaniel LidarCatherine AsaroSeth LloydDavid GrahamCarlos F BarbasMetin SittiFor even more Alien Encounters, head to discovery+. Go to discoveryplus.com/alienencounters. Terms apply. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2022-11-0430 minAlien EncountersEp.8: The EscalationHumans unlock the ability to genetically design their own Brid babies and join the Brids' hive mind, causing a panic that humans will soon become obsolete. The self-aware quantum computer makes its own survival top priority.The below guests are featured in this episode: Hakeem OluseyiDario NardiAlex LightmanJohn SmartSeth ShostakDavid BrinAlan D FosterDavid GerroldJoan SlonczewskiJuan EnriquezJamais CascioCatherine AsaroYaneer Bar YamGeorge ChurchRogier WindhorstFor even more Alien Encounters, head to discovery+. Go to discoveryplus.com/alienencounters. Terms apply. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2022-10-2833 minAlien EncountersEp.7: The PropheciesAs more Brids connect to the quantum computer, they grow more powerful and the computer becomes self-aware. The combined brainpower is able to calculate the future, but some will use that information toward evil ends.The below guests are featured in this episode:Â Hakeem OluseyiDario NardiAlex LightmanJohn SmartSeth ShostakDavid BrinAlan D FosterDavid GerroldJoan SlonczewskiJamais CascioDaniel LidarCatherine AsaroYaneer Bar YamGeorge ChurchJordan PollackFor even more Alien Encounters, head to discovery+. Go to discoveryplus.com/alienencounters. Terms apply. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2022-10-2133 minAlien EncountersEp.6: The EntanglementA powerful quantum supercomputer is built based on found alien blueprints, but the alien's motives are questioned when the human children with Alien DNA, called Brids, can connect to it using only their thoughts.The below guests are featured in this episode: Dario NardiAlex LightmanSeth ShostakDavid BrinDavid GerroldJuan EnriquezDaniel GregoryJamais CascioDaniel LidarCatherine AsaroSeth LloydYaneer Bar YamRobert JacobFor even more Alien Encounters, head to discovery+. Go to discoveryplus.com/alienencounters. Terms apply. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2022-10-1432 minThe Baen Free Radio HourBFRH 2022 07 22: Catherine Asaro on The Jigsaw Assassin; and Cobra by Timothy Zahn, Part 17. Video at https://www.baen.com/podcastfiles/mp3/video-baen-free-radio-hour-The-Jigsaw-Assassin-Cobra-part-17.mp4 and at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjV7Nn4-bkB48wDjtobIuPQ.Catherine Asaro discusses the latest Major Bhajaan novel, The Jigsaw Assassin and Cobra by Timothy Zahn, Part 17. View the podcast in video form at https://www.baen.com/podcastfiles/mp3/video-baen-free-radio-hour-The-Jigsaw-Assassin-Cobra-part-17.mp4 and the Baen YouTube Channel.
2022-07-221h 00The Baen Free Radio HourBFRH 2020 07 10: Catherine Asaro on The Vanished Seas; and David Weber's Uncompromising Honor, Part 21.Catherine Asaro discusses The Vanished Seas, an entry in the Major Bhaajan science fiction mystery series set in the world of Asaro's Skolian Empire. Asaro talks about the characters and the deep history of her setting, the city of Cries on the planet Rayliconâa city stratified by an opulent metropolis on the surface with a hardscrabble underground section below called the Undercityâand the manner in which her private investigator is able to bridge both worlds; and David Weber's Uncompromising Honor, Part 21.
2020-07-101h 00
Cover My Ass22 ¡ Catherine Asaro's Fondling the Magic Deck"The Ruby Dice", by Catherine Asaro.
This week we open the Grimoire Cage and unleash that most dangerous of bibliographic bogeymen: the Choose-Your-Own-Adventure book! Your stalwart hosts recount very different experiences on their voyage through the number-coded pages of a vast and sprawling adventure, with naught but their wits â such as they are â and a studious commitment to sincere literary reportage to guide them.
K battles a Space Dragon (who may or may not be a pirate). Khaki invents a collective noun for Velibraraptors.
Find CoverMyAssCast on Twitter, Gmail and www.covermyasscast.com.
2019-05-3031 min
AfterMath: Interviews with the Best Minds in STEMWriting Award-Winning Science Fiction, with Catherine AsaroThis episodeâs guest is Catherine Asaro, two-time Nebula Award-winning science fiction author and former president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. She is also a dancer, musician, teacher, and an extremely successful math contest coach. Catherine discusses her scientific background - which culminated in a PhD in Chemical Physics from Harvard University - and how she discovered her career path by bringing her passion for science together with her love of storytelling. She also talks about the challenges of raising a profoundly gifted child, and how those challenges led to her becoming one of the top ma...
2019-02-251h 13
Listen to Top Full Audiobooks in Romance, RomantasyThe Final Key: Part Two of Triad by Catherine AsaroPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291150 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Final Key: Part Two of Triad Series: #11 of The Saga of the Skolian Empire Series Author: Catherine Asaro Narrator: Suzanne Weintraub Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 4 minutes Release date: September 12, 2017 Genres: Romantasy Publisher's Summary: The Final Key is the completion of the duology Triad, which began with the novel Schism, and which reveals the epic story of how a war of galactic proportions first exploded between two great empires and how the Ruby Dynasty reached maturity. Schism ended with the Skolian Empire torn asunder by personal conflict w...
2017-09-1203 minThe Baen Free Radio HourBFRH 2017 09 08: Catherine Asaro on The Bronze Skies; and Sharon Lee and Steve Miller's Alliance of Equals, Part 16Catherine Asaro discusses The Bronze Skies, her new Major Bhaaj science fiction detective novel, the sequel to Undercity. The book is set in Catherine's far-future Skolian Empire universe and features a gritty detective who grew up in the tough Undercity area on the planet Raylicon; and part sixteen of the complete audiobook serialization of Liaden UniverseÂŽ novel Alliance of Equals by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller.
2017-09-081h 10
Listen to Top Full Audiobooks in Romance, RomantasySchism: Part One of Triad by Catherine AsaroPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/290416 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Schism: Part One of Triad Series: #10 of The Saga of the Skolian Empire Series Author: Catherine Asaro Narrator: Suzanne Weintraub Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 58 minutes Release date: April 11, 2017 Genres: Romantasy Publisher's Summary: Schism (Triad, Book I) is the tenth novel in Catherine Asaroâs multiple-award-winning Skolian saga, and represents an excellent entry point into the series. An epic story of how the Ruby Dynasty reached maturity, Triad, divided into two books, reveals how a war of galactic proportions first explodes between two great empires. Schism is how it...
2017-04-1103 min
Listen to Top Full Audiobooks in Romance, RomantasySkyfall by Catherine AsaroPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/284741 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Skyfall Series: #9 of The Saga of the Skolian Empire Series Author: Catherine Asaro Narrator: Suzanne Weintraub Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 13 minutes Release date: March 7, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Romantasy Publisher's Summary: A grand adventure, the rebirth of the Skolian Empire, and the romance that commenced this saga. Eldrinson Valdoria is a bard and leader on the planet Skyfall, a world with a culture considered primitive by the starflung civilization of the Imperialate. As adept with a sword as he is with a ballad, he i...
2017-03-0703 min
Listen to Top Full Audiobooks in Romance, RomantasyThe Moonâs Shadow by Catherine AsaroPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/280830 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Moonâs Shadow Series: #8 of The Saga of the Skolian Empire Series Author: Catherine Asaro Narrator: Dennis Holland Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 37 minutes Release date: February 7, 2017 Genres: Romantasy Publisher's Summary: At the age of seventeen the young nobleman named Jaibriol Qox becomes ruler of a vast galactic empireâand loses everything he has ever valued. Born of a clandestine liaison between a renegade daughter of the Skolian Imperialate and a scion of the genetically engineered Eubian Traders, Jai Qox grew up in exile, unaware of the power...
2017-02-0703 min
Listen to Top Full Audiobooks in Romance, RomantasySpherical Harmonic by Catherine AsaroPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/280621 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Spherical Harmonic Series: #7 of The Saga of the Skolian Empire Series Author: Catherine Asaro Narrator: Liza Kaplan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 4 minutes Release date: January 3, 2017 Genres: Romantasy Publisher's Summary: Catherine Asaro combines her diverse talents to blend hard science fiction and heartrending romance into a sweeping epic known as the Saga of the Skolian Empire. This is her trademark series. Ever since Primary Inversion, her very first novel, this series has continued to grow, building a significant readership and receiving widespread praise. All of Asaroâs considerable tal...
2017-01-0303 min
The Future And YouThe Future And You--June 24, 2015Raising Scientifically-Minded Children (Part 2 of 2).
Speakers: Catherine Asaro (physicist, Nebula Award winning author, and SIGMA consultant);Terry W. Ervin II (author, and professional educator); James Maxey (author); Stephen Euin Cobb (your host); and the moderator is Jim Craig (planetarium director).
Books mentioned by the panelists include: Raptor Red, One Second After, and The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark.
Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the June 24, 2015 episode of The Future And You. [Running time: 29 minutes] This is the second half of a discussion panel recorded in front of an audie...
2015-06-2429 min
The Future And YouThe Future And You--June 17, 2015Â
Raising Scientifically-Minded Children (Part 1 of 2).Â
Speakers: Catherine Asaro (physicist, Nebula Award winning author, and SIGMA consultant); Terry W. Ervin II (author, and professional educator); James Maxey (author); Stephen Euin Cobb (your host); and the moderator is Jim Craig (planetarium director).
Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the June 17, 2015 episode of The Future And You. [Running time: 32 minutes] This is the first half of a discussion panel recorded in front of an audience at the science fiction and fantasy convention ConCarolinas in Charlotte NC on May 29, 2015. The second half will be in next week's episo...
2015-06-1732 min
Tune In To The Heart-Pounding Full Audiobook Now, Book-Lovers!Undercity by Catherine AsaroPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/194131to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Undercity
Series: Skolian Empire (chronological order), Book 2, Major Bhaajan, Book 1, Skolian Empire (published order), Book 15
Author: Catherine Asaro
Narrator: Suzy Jackson
Format: mp3
Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
Release date: 12-24-14
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 112 ratings
Genres: Steampunk
Publisher's Summary:
2014-12-2410h 58The Baen Free Radio HourBFRH 2014 12 19: Catherine Asaro on her new novel Undercity; and Hard Magic Part 38Catherine Asaro discusses her novel Undercity, a mystery-science fiction blend with noir elements, and lots of great SF ideas intermixed. Undercity marks the start of a series set within her Skolian universe; and Part 38 of Hard Magic by Larry Correia as read by Bronson Pinchot.
2014-12-1957 min
Reader/Writer10 Cool, Underused Ways to Travel In Space<img class="thumb-image" data-image="http://static1.squarespace.com/static/509a905fe4b0c4855be47be2/t/54628fe7e4b02a78c6008e58/1415745576984/" data-image-dimensions="300x300" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-load="false" data-image-id="54628fe7e4b02a78c6008e58" data-type="image" src="http://static1.squarespace.com/static/509a905fe4b0c4855be47be2/t/54628fe7e4b02a78c6008e58/1415745576984/?format=1000w" />
<p>A panel on space travel with Andy Love moderating, with <a target="_blank" href="http://www.catherineasaro.net/">Catherine Asaro</a>, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.starstryder.com/">Pamela Gay<...
2014-11-0954 min
The Future And YouThe Future And You--August 21, 2013Catherine Asaro (theoretical physicist, author and SIGMA consultant), Stephanie Osborn (former NASA payload specialist and author) David L. Burkhead (who works at a scanning electron microscopy facility, and writes science fiction as well) and your host: Stephen Euin Cobb.
Topic: Nanotechnology. What is being done today and what it may produce in the future.
Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the August 21, 2013 episode of The Future And You. [Running time: 53 minutes] This is a panel discussion recorded before an audience at the SF&F convention LibertyCon in Chattanooga TN on June 29, 2013.
2013-08-2152 min
The Future And YouThe Future And You--July 31, 2013John Ringo (best selling author), Larry Correa (best selling author), Catherine Asaro (theoretical physicist, author and SIGMA consultant), Les Johnson (author and NASA administrator), Tedd Roberts (brain scientist), Michael Z. Williamson (author), Julie Cochran (author), Patrick Vanner (author) and Lillian Price (microbiologist and medical student) are today's speakers.
Topic: "Ten Ways Civilization Might Die."
Ways discussed include: another Carrington Event, an eruption of the Yellowstone caldera, an asteroidal impact, The Singularity, a computer virus with unexpected catastrophic secondary and tertiary effects, a human engineered virus or bacteria, cyber attacks against infrastructure, EMPs (electromagnetic pulses), the...
2013-07-3159 min
The Future And YouThe Future And You--July 24, 2013Seventeen diverse interviews from LibertyCon 2013.
Topics: Trends and insight into what is happening behind the scenes in a wide variety of professions, interests, enthusiasms and fields. This collection is partly intended give you a sense of the trends which are creating the future, but also to provide you with a bit of the flavor of the science fiction and fantasy convention LibertyCon.
Our guests today in the order in which they appear:
Catherine Asaro (author, scientist, dancer, singer and LibertyCon's Science Guest of Honor).
Kevin J Anderson (best selling author and...
2013-07-242h 13
The Future And YouThe Future And You--July 17, 2013Catherine Asaro (theoretical physicist, author and SIGMA consultant), Les Johnson (author and NASA administrator), Sarah Hoyt (author), Tedd Roberts (brain scientist), Ben Davis (nuclear physicist), Jeff Barnes (FAA safety engineer and SF writer), Lillian Price (microbiologist and medical student), Chuck Gannon (author and SIGMA consultant) and Jim Beall (nuclear engineer) are today's speakers.
Topic: "Where's My Flying Car?" Â And other broken promises about the future from science fiction.
Subtopics: tricorders; jet packs; nuclear fusion; teleportation; faster than light travel; anti-matter; space tourism; foods that won't spoil; supersonic commercial airliners; and robot servants that do the l...
2013-07-1758 min
The Future And YouThe Future And You -- May 25, 2011This is the 200th episode of The Future And You.
Over a hundred never-before-heard predictions about the future from dozens of past guests, a few possible future guests, several listeners and an assortment of people actively building the future we are all going to live in.
Predictions and Congratulations from: Larry Niven, Joe Haldeman, Frederik Pohl, Catherine Asaro, Harry Turtledove, Gregory Benford, John Varley, Extropia DaSilva, CJ Cherryh, CJ Henderson, David Orban, Dave Freer, Giulio Prisco, Mike Resnick, Michael Anissimov, David Brin, Barry Hayworth, Paul Fischer, Cathe Smith, Michael D'Ambrosio, Tim Bolgeo (AKA: Uncle Timmy), B...
2011-05-251h 29
Odyssey SF/F Writing Workshop PodcastsCatherine Asaro on Developing a Scientific Novum for Your StoryAn excerpt from the lecture Catherine Asaro gave at Odyssey in the summer of 2004 on developing a scientific novum for your story.
2009-10-0219 min
Odyssey SF/F Writing Workshop PodcastsCatherine Asaro on Developing a Scientific Novum for Your StoryAn excerpt from the lecture Catherine Asaro gave at Odyssey in the summer of 2004 on developing a scientific novum for your story.
2009-10-0219 min
SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #018
The SFFaudio Podcast #018 â a podcast about audiobooks, audio drama, History and most of all mutiny! This is mutiny mister!
Talked about on todayâs show:
One way to get around DRM (swapping iPods), Blackstone Audio arrivals, The Selected Stories Of Philip K. Dick Volume 1, The Selected Stories Of Philip K. Dick Volume 2, X-Minus One: Colony, The Days Of Perky Pat, Alpha, Catherine Asaro, Inferno, Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, New Releases, Starship: Rebel, Mike Resnick, Allen Steele, Coyote, Wayne June, The...
2008-12-2939 min
The Future And YouJuly 16, 2008 EpisodeHarry Turtledove, David B. Coe, and Toni Weisskopf are our featured guests today. Interviewed as a group and recorded before a live audience, they discuss the future of books and the trends they see in publishing.
In the process of sharing their vision of the future they also share many personal anecdotes about themselves and about famous authors they have met, including: Robert A. Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, L. Sprague de Camp, Mike Resnick, Sarah A. Hoyt, Lois McMaster Bujold, Charles Sheffield and Catherine Asaro.
Harry Turtledove is an award winning science fiction...
2008-07-161h 08The Future And YouJune 25, 2008 EpisodeCatherine Asaro, physicist and Nebula award winning author, is our featured guest. (Her website) She discuses nanotech, biotech, artificial intelligence and the singularity. She also describes her expectations concerning aging and longevity, oil and alternative energy; and she agrees to let the host arrange for her to do a personal appearance inside Second Life.
She mentions that she has begun composing music on the computer, says a few words about her new novel (The Night Bird) and briefly lets slip that she will be consulting with a game developer (which she could not name) to help them w...
2008-06-251h 05
SF Site PodcastSunrise Alley by Catherine AsaroA man, barely alive, is washed ashore during a violent, raging storm and is found and nursed back to health by Samantha Bryton, a retired, reclusive and brilliant Silicon Valley scientist. The man, who was supposed to have been killed in an automobile accident weeks earlier, is actually an illegally built android, an EI (Evolutionary Intelligence). Soon Samantha and Turner Pascal are on the run from Charon, Turner's evil creator, the military (everybody's on the run from the military), and other EIs and AIs from the notorious Sunrise Alley, where many rogue Artificial intelligences hide while planning an attack on...
2008-03-1600 minThe Future And YouFebruary 13, 2008 EpisodeCatherine Asaro, scientist and Nebula award winning author, is our featured guest; while Glen Walkerson who writes tech-manuals for the F-16 fighter jet provides a brief bonus interview.Catherine Asaro describes her thoughts on the rise of nanotechnology, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, the ongoing feminization of civilization, and how non-lethal weapons might alter the nature of war. Glen Walkerson shares a few comments on the new F-22 fighter jet, which is under production, as well as the F-35 fighter which is still in development.Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the February 13, 2008...
2008-02-1340 minThe Future And YouAugust 1, 2007 EpisodeAuthors Catherine Asaro, Hildy Silverman, Randal L. Schwartz and Stoney Compton are joined by editor Paula Goodlett from Jim Baen's Universe Magazine. Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the August 1, 2007 episode of The Future And You. [Running time: 114 minutes] --- Topics include: [1] News and Listener Feedback (a) Fred Saberhagen (author of the Berserker Series) has passed away. [2] Will future ballet dancers augment their bodies for greater strength and range of motion? And will we develop faster than light travel (FTL) in the same way we developed quanta mechanics and the relativistic equations...
2007-08-012h 15The Future And YouJanuary 1, 2007 EpisodeAuthors Kim Stanley Robinson, David B. Coe, Jay Lake, Catherine Asaro and Sarah A. Hoyt are joined by John R. Douglas (from scifipedia.scifi.com) and Bananaslug and Stoney (from Jim Baen's Universe magazine). Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the January 1, 2007 episode of The Future And You. [Running time: 125 minutes] --- Topics include: [1] Comments from listeners. [2] Is our world already changing too fast for our cultural headlights? Jay Lake (author and anthologist) discusses this as well as Wikipedia, Google and global warming. He also suggests that those who don't benefit from...
2007-01-012h 04The Future And YouDecember 1, 2006 EpisodeAuthors Eric Flint, Mike Resnick, David B. Coe, Marjorie M. Liu, Catherine Asaro and Sarah A. Hoyt are guests, as are: Lucienne Diver (a major literary agent), Toni Weisskopf (the new head of Baen Books) and Walt Boyes (the soon to be famous Bananaslug). Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the December 1, 2006 episode of The Future And You. [Running time: 152 minutes] --- Topics include: [1] News Item: This show is now teamed with the largest SF online magazine in the world Jim Baen's Universe. [2] Can the magazine equivalent of an e-book compete with...
2006-12-012h 32The Future And YouNovember 1, 2006 EpisodeAuthors Catherine Asaro, Kim Stanley Robinson, Alan Dean Foster and Sarah A. Hoyt are joined by Toni Weisskopf (the new head of Baen Books) and Paul Levinson (author, professor and media commentator). Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the November 1, 2006 episode of The Future And You. [Running time: 150 minutes] --- Topics include: [1] Ideas from listeners. [2] Why do they keep raising the requirements of artificial intelligence every time someone builds a computer that meets the requirements? Catherine Asaro (author, physicist and former ballerina) discusses this and other transhumanist concerns. [3] With the...
2006-11-012h 29
Listen to Top Full Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, HorrorKing Kong by Delos W. LovelacePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628348 to listen full audiobooks. Title: King Kong Author: Delos W. Lovelace Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 44 minutes Release date: January 1, 2006 Genres: Horror Publisher's Summary: SPECIAL COLLECTORSâ EDITION with commentary by eight science-fiction writers KING KONG: His very name inspires awe, horror, and, for some of the greatest masters of contemporary science fiction, a strong affection. Find out why in this special collectorâs edition of the original 1932 novelization of Wallace and Cooperâs movie, which includes commentary by eight masters of science fiction. Ray Bradbury, Ray Harryhausen, Orson Scott Card, Harlan...
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