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EXIT PodcastHow to Build a Great House (pt 3 of 4)This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit blog.exitgroup.us[Part 1][Part 2]In this episode of the Great Houses series, Greg discusses the “feudal instinct” — a different way of viewing the obligations between employers and employees, or patrons and clients.The feudal instinct is the drive to fulfill one’s obligations within the ordo amoris: the concentric obligations to God, family, community, country, etc. People want to follow leaders and serve patrons who empower them to meet those obligations more fully than they could alone.Oth...2025-05-2827 min
Tintenliebe - Wir schreiben Bücher(078) Science Fiction und die Subgenres der ZukunftDiese Woche geht es um das Genre, das sich meistens mit der Zukunft beschäftigt: der Science Fiction. Dafür hat sich Stephan wieder jemanden eingeladen. Ihr kennt Katja Jansen bereits aus der Folge 65, als die beiden über Kurzgeschichten gesprochen haben. Sie selbsrt schreibt Science-Fiction und hat einen wissenschaftlichen Background, weshalb sie sich super als Gesprächspartnerin für diese Folge eignet. Es geht unter anderem darum, ob die Science Fiction in Deutschland gut zugänglich ist, was die Science Fiction ausmacht und was für Subgenres sich hinter ihr verstecken.
Links zu Katja:
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Dev Game ClubDGC Ep 394: Vacation Mailbag!Welcome to Dev Game Club, where this week we're both unavailable, but we catch you up on the mailbag! Dev Game Club looks at classic video games and plays through them over several episodes, providing commentary. Issues covered: a review prompting discussion of Majora's Mask, some discussion of time loop games, a very difficult to find character, hard to find stuff in older games, Easter Eggs in games we've put in or in games we knew, the Jar-Jar model, the hidden command-line, keeping the love alive, teaching a bit of a design course, should have gone into...2024-06-191h 20
The New AbnormalTom Lombardo ‘Review: The Most Inspiring/Informative Futures Books’Series Four This episode of The New Abnormal podcast features the renowned futurist Tom Lombardo, Director at the Center for Future Consciousness, Exec Board Member of the World Futures Studies Federation, and Editor at the Journal of Futures Studies. He returns to the series to give an overview of his choices of the top futures books in science fiction (author/topic clustered) which are roughly chronologically sequenced as follows: Late Nineteenth Century Classics (Future of Human Society): Albert Robida: The Twentieth Century, Jules Verne: Paris in the Twentieth Century, & John Jacob Astor: A Jo...2024-06-131h 00
Innovating Leadership: Co-Creating Our FutureS9-Ep18: Working Together: Leading a Hybrid AI-Human WorkforceGuest: Greg Moran
Odds are Artificial Intelligence isn’t going to replace you at work. It’s going to join you.
Greg Moran sees AI integrating much the same way breakthrough technologies always have. It will help us be more efficient, and help leaders make better decisions. Of course, it’s not all rasterized rainbows and Unix unicorns; to thrive, people will have to be able and willing to continually learn new skills and processes. In short, the obsessively curious will rise to the top. Greg shares the details in this episode.
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Midnight Facts for InsomniacsLasers, Steam, and Chrome: The History of Science FictionWho wrote the first ever science fiction novel? Why is Isaac Asimov hiding his middle initial? And which psychedelic author attempted to murder the most wives?
In the latest MFFI episode, Shane snd Duncan answer all of the burning sci-fi-history questions that you never cared enough to ask.
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In this episode:
The Epic of Gilgamesh?
Johannes Kepler’s 1634 “Somnium” (The Dream)
Mary Shelly and the Mad Scientist Trope
Frankenstein
The Last Man
Roger Dodsworth: the Reanimated...2021-12-1645 min
The Superhero Show Show#400: Happy 400th Episode to Us!The Superhero Show Show #400Happy 400th Episode to Us!The Taste Buds, along with all of their friends, choose the greatest TV show of the Superhero Show Show era!On an all-new episode of The Superhero Show Show, Cassie, Ryan, and Mike have invited Unnatural 20's panelist Katelynn, Movie of the Year host Greg Heinlein, former Superhero host Taylor Wilhite, and the one and only Producer Dave team up to finish the Bracket 400 and determine the greatest comic book show of the...2021-11-022h 43The Superhero Show Show#400: Happy 400th Episode to Us!The Superhero Show Show #400Happy 400th Episode to Us!The Taste Buds, along with all of their friends, choose the greatest TV show of the Superhero Show Show era!On an all-new episode of The Superhero Show Show, Cassie, Ryan, and Mike have invited Unnatural 20's panelist Katelynn, Movie of the Year host Greg Heinlein, former Superhero host Taylor Wilhite, and the one and only Producer Dave team up to finish the Bracket 400 and determine the greatest comic book show of the...2021-11-022h 43
Firearm Trainer's Podcast For American Firearm InstructorsEP-129 Building An Ammunition BusinessIn today’s episode we talk with Justin Nazaroff from Fenix ammunition about the benefits and challenges in establishing a profitable ammunition business.
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This episode is also brought to you by t...2021-09-0140 min
SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #640 - READALONG: Wang's Carpets by Greg Egan
The SFFaudio Podcast #640 – Jesse, Paul Weimer, and Scott Danielson talk about Wang’s Carpets by Greg Egan
Talked about on today’s show:
Greg Bear, its been a while, a story about scientists doing science in a science fiction story, really pleasant, a lot of philosophy and a lot of scientific ideas, establishes themes, distilled, some real questions about the world, many worlds to conquer, sense of wonder, fractals, not conquer, contact is conqueror, very Prime Directivey, a Sterling thing, the Shaper Mechanist stories, biological and technological, parallel lives, they’ve mastered biology, they’re digital...2021-07-261h 27
Extremo CentroExtremo Centro YT #24 Amar la Ciencia Ficción, con Pablo el Tecno CentristaPre Ciencia Ficción: Louis-Sébastien Mercier : “El año 2440:Un sueño como no ha habido otro” (1770). En 1770, el programa de la Ilustración. Mary Shelley: “Frankenstein o el moderno Prometeo”. Julio Verne y H.G Wells Las tres Anti-Utopias Clásicas: Yevgeny Zamyatin, “Nosotros” Aldous Huxley, “Un mundo Feliz” George Orwell, “1984” Olaf Stapeldon: “Hacedor de Estrellas”. La ciencia ficción cósmica en su forma más desarrollada. La Edad de Oro: 1945-1973 Isaac Asimov: el ultimo Ilustrado. La saga de la Fundación (“Fundacion”, “Fundacion e Imperio”,”Segunda Fundación”). Determinismo histórico e ingeniería social en la escala de siglos. Robots—Cuentos de...2020-11-152h 06
Genre!Genre #2: Hard SF, un paradoxe en soi ?Pour ce second podcast et à l'occasion de notre premier cycle SF, intéressons nous aujourd'hui à la méconnue **hard science-fiction**, ses films majeurs, ses caractéristiques, tout en se demandant si sa rigueur scientifique typique ne constitue pas quelque peu un repoussoir pour les spectateurs...l'occasion de reparler aussi de l'insupportable Youtube game et sa vision médiocre du cinéma!20 films représentatifs de la hard SF: [Destination Lune](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042393/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_17) (1950), [2001 L'Odyssée de l'espace](https://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm_gen_cfilm=27442.html) (1968), [Marooned](https://www.allocine.fr/film/fiche...2020-11-0923 minSFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #436 - READALONG: When Worlds Collide by Edwin Balmer and Philip Wylie
The SFFaudio Podcast #436 – Jesse, Paul Weimer, Bryan Alexander, and Maissa Bessada talk about When Worlds Collide by Edwin Balmer and Philip Wylie
Talked about on today’s show:
1933, Ira Levin, Gladiator, the first superhero novel, Odd John by Olaf Stapledon, Superman, fleeing a dead world, the sequel: After Worlds Collide, the illustrations in The Passing Show (magazine) serialization, not the only ship, Bronson Beta, Blue Book, the very last page (February 1933), “these daring pilgrims”, remake a world, George Pal’s plans for a sequel, Cecil B. DeMille’s plans for a film, Pal’s would pale, th...2017-08-281h 41
The Smartest Man in the WorldFezzes
Live from Toomler in Amsterdam, Greg recalls Robert Heinlein, rain and Rihanna.
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TV Guidance CounselorTV Guidance Counselor Episode 80: Greg ProopsFebruary 15-21, 1969 (sort of)
This week Ken welcomes comedian, actor, author and smartest man in the world Greg Proops to the show.
Ken and Greg discuss Fantasy on Television, The Avengers, The Adams Family, The Wild Wild West, Kids television, exactly when England got black people, The Black and White Minstrel Show, Star Trek, The psychedelic 60s, San Francisco, Star Trek, Dad movies, War, Zulu, speaking German, learning that sometimes there are no good guys, Chuck Connors, Branded, breaking a sword over your knee, The Prisoner: the original mindfuck, James Bond, questioning your government, Who's...2015-05-062h 16
Futility ClosetThe Devil's Hoofmarks
On Feb. 9, 1855, the residents of Devon in southern England awoke to find a bewildering set of footprints in the newfallen snow. "These are to be found in fields, gardens, roads, house-tops, & other likely and unlikely places, deeply embedded in snow," ran one contemporary account. "The shape was a hoof."
In this episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll examine the surviving descriptions of the odd marks and consider the various explanations that have been offered. We'll also revisit the compassionate Nazi fighter pilot Franz Stigler and puzzle over how to sneak into Switzerland across a...2014-08-1835 min
Get Best Sellers Audiobooks in Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Short Stories & AnthologiesWar of the Worlds: Global Dispatches Audiobook by Kevin J. Anderson (editor), Robert Silverberg, Connie Willis, Walter Jon Williams, Gregory Benford, David Brin, Mike ResnickListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttp://hotaudiobook.comTitle: War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches
Author: Kevin J. Anderson (editor), Robert Silverberg, Connie Willis, Walter Jon Williams, Gregory Benford, David Brin, Mike Resnick
Narrator: MacLeod Andrews
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-24-13
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 138 votes
Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Short Stories & Anthologies
Publisher's Summary:
Nineteen gut-wrenching reports from the front lines of the War of the Worlds, as logged by Albert Einstein, Mark Twain, Theodore Roosevelt, H.P. Lovecraft, Winston Churchill, Jules Verne, and many of the other...2013-09-2412h 05SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #205 - NEW RELEASES/RECENT ARRIVALS
The SFFaudio Podcast #205 – Jesse, Tamahome, and Jenny talk about NEW RELEASES and RECENT ARRIVALS.
Talked about on today’s show:
Oz Reimagined, Orson Scott Card, John Joseph Adams, Marissa Vu, The Mad Scientist’s Guide To World Domination, Daniel H. Wilson, Alan Dean Foster, Seanan McGuire, Scott loves lists!!, Microcosmic God by Theodore Sturgeon, the cruel god, about Science Fiction, mad scientists, steampunk, urban fantasy, superheroes, supervillians, Lex Luthor, Infinivox, Steampunk Specs, Cherie Preist, Cat Rambo, Margaret Ronald, Sean McMullen, do stage actors make the best narrators?, themed anthologies, Extinction Point (Book 1) by Paul Anthon...2013-03-251h 44SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #171 - NEW RELEASES/RECENT ARRIVALS
The SFFaudio Podcast #171 – Jesse, Tamahome, Jenny, Julie Hoverson, and Matthew Sanborn Smith talk about the latest NEW RELEASES and RECENT ARRIVALS in audiobooks and paperbooks.
Talked about on today’s show:
Matt is sorry, audiobooks and paperbooks, The Mongoliad (Book 1) by Greg Bear, Neal Stephenson, Mark Teppo, Erik Bear, Joseph Brassey, Cooper Moo, E.D. deBirmingham, Luke Daniels, Brilliance Audio, “speculative history”, shared worlds, Jenny appreciates the effort, Mongolian food yum!, Genghis Kahn And The Making Of The Modern World by Jack Weatherford, swordplay, Blackbirds by Chuck Wendig, Angry Robot Books, “our hirsute friend”, “Clyde Bruckman...2012-07-301h 28
Sci-Fi Saturday NightTalkcast 41 – Our Third of July SpectacularOur special guests for the 3rd. of July Mike Dougherty and Miriam Pultro from Browncoats Redemption. The Four Colour Vault of Comics was over run by some of our devoted fans and Empress Sith and Mr. Washey came by to talk about some of the burning Sci-Fi issues of the week. Discussion began with Wonder Woman’s makeover and her lack of Iconic status, Greg Peltz’s new graphics of StarWars characters and SyFy’s latest Sautrday Night Movie, Mega-Python Vs. Gatoroid. Kriana mentioned True Blood’s new blog on HBO featuring baby Jessica. In other headlines this week, A former Tr...2010-07-0600 min
The Future And YouFebruary 4, 2009 EpisodeJerry Pournelle (author, journalist, editor, technology columnist, and military textbook writer) is today's featured guest. (This is the second portion of our two-hour interview. The third and final portion will be provided next week.)
Topics today include: How he contributed to President Ronald Reagan's State of the Union Address in 1980, and became part of Reagan's group of advisers concerning the Strategic Defence Initiative (which Ted Kennedy, by the way, dubbed Star Wars because he did not believe it would ever be possible to shoot down an incoming missile with one of our own missiles). And how this...2009-02-0447 min