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Bestsellers ClubThe Mote In God’s Eye: An Engaging Audio Summary of a Sci-Fi Classic
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"The Mote in God’s Eye" by Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven explores themes of communication, misunderstanding, and the challenges of first contact with an alien species. Set in a future where humanity has colonized other planets, the story follows a human expedition that encounters the mysterious Moties, an alien race with unique societal structures and evolutionary traits. As humanity grapples with the implications of this encounter, the novel delves into ethical dilemmas, the nature of intelligence, and the potential consequences of misinterpretation between vastly different civilizations. The narrative un...
2025-12-0803 min
The Pulp Writer ShowEpisode 275: The Praetorian Guard of Ancient Rome & Fantasy NovelsIn this week's episode, we take a look at the Praetorian Guard of the Roman Empire, and consider how ancient history can inspire fantasy novels. This coupon code will get you 25% off the ebooks in the Silent Order series at my Payhip store: SILENT2025 The coupon code is valid through November 10, 2025. So if you need a new ebook this fall, we've got you covered! TRANSCRIPT 00:00:00 Introduction and Writing Updates Hello, everyone. Welcome to Episode 275 of The Pulp Writer Show. My name is Jonathan Moeller. Today is October 31...
2025-11-0314 min
Red HorizonsEpisode 7 - The Stars Are Right: Reactionary Realism and the Imperial Imagination of Niven & PournelleLarry Niven and Jerry Pournelle didn’t just write bestselling science fiction, they built survival fantasies for empire. The Mote in God’s Eye, Lucifer’s Hammer, and Footfall wrapped authoritarian order and militarized “realism” in the language of hard science fiction.
In this episode, Red Horizons uncovers how their collaborations transformed fiction into ideology: collapse as stress test, violence as salvation, and continuity of government as the only future worth defending. These weren’t just stories. They were manuals for empire, echoing through Pentagon war games, aerospace strategy, and the survivalist fantasies of billionaires.
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2025-09-1238 min
MidratsEpisode 729: High Summer Free For All, from the CNO, to unmanned systems, to ... Austria?Show LinksNavy’s Plan for Unmanned SystemsDepartment of Crazy Ideas: How about a cheap inshore fleet? Mark Tempest, 2009.Buy Fords, Not Ferraris, Jerry Hendrix, 2008Droning on About Drones, CDR Salamander, 2013Building the Navy’s Hybrid Fleet, Lieutenant Commander Jack Rowley, Proceedings, July 2025.The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Robert A. HeinleinThe Mote in God’s Eye, Larry Niven and Jerry PournelleBenjamin Kohlmann, Nominated for Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Manpower and Reserve AffairsJohn Lewis-class replenishment oilerCleo Paskal on XA Death in the Pacific, CDR Salamander, July 2025Rods From GodAustria Ponders NATOSummaryIn thi...
2025-08-041h 03
WarNotes: A Conflict PodcastEp 017 "Military Science Fiction and the Profession of Arms""The noblest fate that a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's desolation."Robert Heinlein, Starship TroopersEffective 20 June 2025, I did a major improved revision on the sound quality for all my WarNotes episodes retroactively thanks to the technology at Podsworth.I think the military science fiction milieu provides a great tool for forecasting and predicting possible conflict futures.It may be yet another tool to take this magnificent US 20th century fighting machine and make it a peer combat competitor...
2025-04-2858 minThe Pulp Writer ShowEpisode 229: November Writing Challenge, Part V - A Look At The Five Principles Of WritingIn this week's episode, we wrap up the November Writing Challenge by taking a look back at the Five Iron Laws Of Storytelling, which have often been discussed on this show before. Be sure to get your free copy of STORYTELLING: HOW TO WRITE A NOVEL at my Payhip store. The book will remain free until December 9th: https://payhip.com/b/JPDoT TRANSCRIPT Note: Spoiler alert at 3:35. Please check this section of the podcast before proceeding if you are concerned about spoilers for several older television shows, movies, video games...
2024-12-0219 min
SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #811 – READALONG: Exiles To Glory by Jerry Pournelle
Jesse, Evan Lampe, Will Emmons, Alex (PulpCovers), and Jonathan Weichsel talk about Exiles To Glory by Jerry Pournelle
Talked about on today’s show:
serialized in 2 issues of Galaxy, September and October 1977, a paperback, Jerry Pournelle by himself, YA in the style of Heinlein, here we are, is it true?, Heinlein style YA?, demented reactionary Nazi guy, garbage, fun to analyze, worth the bother, upset Goldwater was defeated by Johnson?, the worldview is demented, just disorder, a fundamentally reactionary worldview, all controlling government is terrible, actually create something, not be weighed down by the systems of th...
2024-11-045h 30
The Back Half PodcastAmazing Origin StoriesAnd here we are with the third episode of The Back Half podcast and other episode of “Flashback,” examining the science fiction, fantasy, and horror writing that shaped me as a kid. This time I’m looking at the August 1981 issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine. I also dig a little deeper in the “why” behind this project. There are some serious topics in here but I promise we’re all going to have fun doing this!Interested in the magazine and authors discussed? Here’s a list of resources for you to peruse:Publications:
2024-09-0724 min
SCIFI SNAKEp. 117: Larry Niven og Jerry Pournelle, The Mote in Gods EyeLarry Niven og Jerry Pournelle fortæller i The Mote in God’s Eye en opfindsom historie om mødet mellem menneskeheden og en udenjordisk civilisation. Romanen, fra 1974, er både en old school first contact-historie og et forsøg på filosofisk undersøgelse af konsekvenserne af mødet med det radikalt fremmede.
Et møde med “Moties”
Romanen foregår i år 3017 i et fremtidigt menneskeligt imperium kaldet “Det Andet Imperium af Mennesket”. Historien begynder, da en ekspedition ledet af Kaptajn Lord Roderick Blaine opdager et fremmed rumskib nær New Caledonia-stjernesystemet.
Det fremmede fartøj v...
2024-08-1855 min
Myth of the 20th CenturySoldiers of Reason - The RAND Corporation - with Thomas777 (Myth20c - Ep273)The world has rarely seen a time where two powers dominate the entire globe - almost utterly and completely - like in the latter half of the 20th Century with the United States and the Soviet Union, as our guest Thomas777 tonight points out. After the end of the Cold War in 1991, it also became easy to feel like the era of major global conflict was over, and forget just how deadly and potentially catastrophic with nuclear weapons the preceding eras had become. During the post World War II era, with the Axis powers having been thoroughly defeated, the...
2024-07-152h 50
Classic SF with Andy Johnson#120 Cities at war: Oath of Fealty (1981) by Larry Niven and Jerry PournelleIn a recent episode, we looked at Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth, who formed the most important science fiction writing team of the 1950s. This instalment looks at a key book by a dominant collaboration of the 1970s and 1980s - Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. These right-wing hard SF authors worked together on numerous books, and even collaborated on fantasy at times. Their 1981 novel Oath of Fealty is an interesting fusion of their scientific speculations and their unsettling, libertarian politics. It is also a prominent work of SF focusing on the theme of...
2024-07-1108 min
BSD Now561: Kicked off ARPANETWhy FreeBSD Continues to Innovate and Thrive, Why BSD, A BSD person tries Alpine Linux, This message does not exist, Demise of Nagle's algorithm, How Jerry Pournelle Got Kicked Off the ARPANET, and more
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2024-05-301h 01
Authorized Novelizations PodcastEscape From the Planet of the Apes by Jerry PournelleWoops, getting this out a lil late. It's Escape from the Planet of the Apes by Jerry Pournelle!! No guest!!
2024-04-112h 12
Selected Audio From The Truffle Media UpdateTMN Update 0040 - Retro Podcast: Art Bell With Jerry Pournelle On Comets Colliding With EarthTruffle Media Update 0040 Show Notes: Art Bell Somewhere In Time - Jerry Pournelle Comets Colliding With Earth.
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2023-12-2300 minThe Pulp Writer ShowEpisode 156: The Plot Thickens!In this week's episode, we take a look at plot complications and how you can add them to your novel. We also discuss the SUPER MARIO BROTHERS movie. The Pulp Writer Show will be on hiatus until the second half of June 2023. TRANSCRIPT 00:00:00 Introduction and Writing Projects Updates Hello everyone. Welcome to Episode 156 of The Pulp Writer Show. My name is Jonathan Moeller. Today is April the 28th, 2023. And today we're going to discuss introducing plot complications into your story. We'll also talk a little bit about the recent Super Mario...
2023-05-0122 minSFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #709 - AUDIOBOOK/READALONG: Souvenir by Philip K. Dick
The SFFaudio Podcast #709 – Souvenir by Philip K. Dick; read by Mike Vendetti
This unabridged reading of the story (31 minutes) is followed by a discussion of it.
Participants in the discussion include Jesse, Paul Weimer, Evan Lampe, and Mike Vendetti
talked about on today’s show:
Fantastic Universe, October 1954, editorial introductions, the teaser, Williamson’s World, logically motivated self-interest, admired and widely read, blind self seeking, the editor, Leo Margulies, robes and university campuses, Upon The Dull Earth, cedars and walking around, attention span, a typical Philip K. Dick story, questioning the lo...
2022-11-213h 18
The Audiobook ClubInferno by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle - A ReviewIn our second episode, we delve into 'Inferno' by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, brought to life by Tom Weiner's narration. Inspired by Dante's 'The Divine Comedy,' this novel takes us on a thrilling journey through a reimagined Hell.Have a book you'd like us to review? Want to say hi? We log all recommendations and love hearing from our listeners. Email us at theaudiobookclubpodcast@gmail.com or tweet us @audiobook_club.Next Audiobook Pick Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2022-10-311h 22
Hugonauts: The Best Sci-Fi Books of All TimeBlindsight - A haunting, mindblowing first contact book!Aliens have taken a snapshot of the entire earth, down to 1 meter of resolution - we know because they lit the entire sky on fire to do it. Then, humanity detected something out at the very edge of the solar system sending a signal - but not to us. The signal is being sent out, into deep space, to another planet, or to something already on the way to Earth. A ship is dispatched with a crew of five - including two technical specialists who have been deeply biologically and technologically enhanced, a soldier, a re...
2022-10-1129 minSFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #703 - AUDIOBOOK/READALONG: Call Him Nemesis by Donald E. Westlake
The SFFaudio Podcast #703 – Call Him Nemesis by Donald E. Westlake; read by Chris Pyle
This unabridged reading of the story (54 minutes) is followed by a discussion of it.
Participants in the discussion include Jesse, Paul Weimer, Maissa Bessada, and Evan Lampe.
Talked about on today’s show:
Worlds Of If, September 1961, programmatical problem, H.L. Gold, art, a juvenile delinquent rumble scene, early 50s, a strange story, a juvenile like Heinlein, so much Westlake in it, advanced stuff, the man with the handkerchief mask, the perfect stranger, Miss English, the girl...
2022-10-103h 22Selected Audio From The Truffle Media UpdateTMN Update 0035 - Part 2 with Jerry Pournelle, science fiction writer and technology journalistTruffle Media Update 0035 Show Notes: In this second part, science fiction writer and technology journalist, Jerry Pournelle, shares more insights and commentary on The TWiT network show Triangulation episode 95. This is part 2 of a 2 part series.
Subscribe to the Truffle Media Update podcast series on iTunes: https://agtoday.us/tmn-update-podcast
2022-08-1900 minSelected Audio From The Truffle Media UpdateTMN Update 0034 - Part 1 with Jerry Pournelle, science fiction writer and technology journalistTruffle Media Update 0034 Show Notes: Science fiction writer and technology journalist, Jerry Pournelle, shares insights and commentary on The TWiT network show Triangulation episode 90. This is part 1 of a 2 part series.
Subscribe to the Truffle Media Update podcast series on iTunes: https://agtoday.us/tmn-update-podcast
2022-08-1800 min
Pulp Today w/ David AvalloneEpisode 69: Hell... and ConventionsAs San Diego Comic Con 2022 approaches, David Avallone reads from Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's INFERNO, which connects the dots between fan conventions and eternal suffering.
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2022-07-1800 min
Talking Scared94 – Scott Hawkins and a Dog-Eat-Lion WorldSend us a textThis week we go behind the curtain to look at the inner workings of a bona-fide modern classic. Our guest is Scott Hawkins, whose debut novel, The Library At Mount Char delighted genre fans back in 2015. Now, to commemorate its first UK publication, Scott joins me for a conversation about its many madcap secrets.We talk about everything from cosmic ethics to kidney stone – he gives us a little until-now-unknown backstory on some of the most mysterious characters, and I take umbrage at how awfully he treats the poor, poor...
2022-05-311h 04
The Two Vague PodcastEpisode 34 - SpacePaul joins Ben this week to talk about a very expansive word… assorted nerd-geekery ensues on the subjects of telescopes, aliens, Star Wars, Dune, and other memorable science fiction media. They only scratch the surface of science fiction space games, but their favorites include a list of recognizable properties (to non-Norah’s) and one forthcoming new Bethesda project that Paul hasn’t heard of.
00:01:55 - Ben and Paul talk about painting… “does anybody know the difference?”
00:05:27 - What fascinates Paul about space?
00:08:37 - “Do you believe in aliens?”
00:11:13 - James E. Webb vs Edwin Hubble, and too m...
2022-02-201h 20SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #669 – READALONG: The Seascape Tattoo by Larry Niven and Steven Barnes
The SFFaudio Podcast #669 – Jesse, Paul Weimer, Scott Danielson, and Trish E. Matson talk about The Seascape Tattoo by Larry Niven and Steven Barnes
Talked about on today’s show:
The Magic Goes Away, more Barnes than Niven?, collaborations, Burning Mountain, The Moon Bowl by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle and Michael Flynn, the bowlverse is unapproved, the book title, that’s a good title!, some adventure on the high seas, maritime book, Scott was not fond, a homage or a throwback to old sword and sorcery, not a lot there, Scott soft take, Niven has ne...
2022-02-142h 26
Here Be Tygers: Your Storytelling GuideHBT Livestream: “A Mote in the Mad King’s Eye”, Pt 2Hey all,
We’re back today with the second half of our livestream, “A Mote in the Mad King’s Eye.” And yes, that is a nod to both the Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle work as well as the parable from which they derived.
When we left the last time, it was on the note that a vizier (and perhaps wizard) gave to the king his most mad designs. And from there did the world break, for others to right. Though of course, and as always, things oft go awry.
So join us today as we bring this little ‘what if…’...
2022-02-1244 min
Liftoff with Keith Newman: For Founders looking for a new growth playbook and further inspiration.Philippe KahnTechnologist, Scientist and Mathematician and I met him and saw a swash-buckling entrepreneur. He had just left France with nothing but a few bucks in his pocket and a computer software program he brought to the West Coast Computer Faire in the early to mid 80s. He was essentially selling software from a table and demand started to grow. He couldn’t afford ads to promote his software, heck he even couch surfed at the home of former Byte (Magazine) Editor Jerry Pournelle and his Co (Borland) became a huge success as did his subsequent ventures and now he’s co...
2022-01-1535 min
I Might Believe in FaeriesAn Overview of Catholic Science Fiction (ft. Sandra Miesel)Author and Medievalist Sandra Miesel comes on the show to provide an overview of SF Fandom and the various Catholic science fiction authors who were her friends. Books by Sandra Miesel:Against Time’s Arrow (1978)Dreamrider (1982)Shaman (1989)Heads to the Storm: A Tribute to Rudyard Kipling (1989)The Da Vinci Hoax (2004)Pied Piper of Atheism: Philip Pullman and Children’s Fantasy (2007)Articles by Sandra Miesel:The Witches Next Door (2002):https://www.crisismagazine.com/2002/the-witches-next-door-2Harry Potter for Nerds (2011). Is There Hope for Slytherin House? Can the Serpent Change Its Skin?T...
2021-10-151h 26
Datocracy: In Search of Generative GovernanceCommunal Decision-Making w/Tom GilbFree Resources from Tom Gilb (@imtomgilb)Searchable Index of PublicationsClear Communication: Logical Language Logistics for Replies and Phrases (Book)Systems Enterprise Architecture (Book)12? (Twelve Tough Questions Booklet)QUANTeer: The Art of quantifying your value ideas (Book) (Video)PLanalysis (Booklet)Specifying Quality Requirements With Planguage (ModernAnalyst.com)PLanguage: A Software and Systems Engineering Language, for Evaluating Methods, and Managing Projects for Zero Failure, and Maximum ‘Value Efficiency’ (PDF)Value Requirements (Book) (Video)Governeering: Government Systems Engineering Planning (Book)Knowledge Education Nurture (Book)[UN] Sustainability Planning (Book) (YouTube)Other ReferencesValPlan, the ValueFirst Tool (7-day free...
2021-09-171h 00
A Reader's History of Science Fiction#29 - Larry Niven and the Return of Hard Sci-FiBy 1970, the New Wave in science fiction had made peace with a surge of new hard sci-fi works and writers. At the forefront of this trend was Larry Niven, who took a unique path in hard sci-fi by proposing new physics, but still applying it rigorously. In this episode, we explore his work. Book recommendation: Ringworld by Larry Niven. My blog post about Ringworld. Other works discussed: The Magic Goes Away With Jerry Pournelle: The Mote in God's Eye The Gripping Hand Lucifer's Hammer Footfall
2021-06-2127 min
Writers of the Future Podcast97. Larry Niven creator of Known Space discusses writing hard sci fiLarry discusses how to write hard science fiction and pitfalls to avoid based on what he learned in writing "Ring World." He does concede that readers will forgive a mistake if it's a really good story.
We also discuss his laws of collaboration and what is important to make collaboration work, discussing writing with Jerry Pournelle.
Larry also explains how he became an author and the two times he felt like a real writer.
Discover the various works by Larry at www.larryniven.net
2020-11-0840 min
The Ultimate Art Bell Podcast Feed1996-05-10 - Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell - Jerry Pournelle - Comets1996-05-10 - Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell - Jerry Pournelle - Comets
2020-10-2000 min
Books and Beer ReviewThe Gripping Hand ReviewToday we review The Gripping Hand, which is by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. This is the second book in a series and if you want hear our review of the first, then listen to The Mote In God's Eye. This second book does have spoilers for the first book! We hope you enjoy!
2020-10-1839 min
Books and Beer ReviewMote In God's Eye ReviewIn this episode we review the Mote In God's Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. If you like hard science fiction, you would love this book!
2020-09-2235 min
Writers of the Future Podcast88. Martin Shoemaker talks about Hard Sci-fi that he calls Neo-ApolloMartin Shoemaker is a winner published in volume 31, with his story "Unrefined," a sub-genre he refers to as Neo-Apollo, a concept based on the next era of space exploration after the Apollo generation where humanity is struggling to reach the stars.
He now has well over 60 publications including 3 novels. "Today I am Carey" is a ground-breaking novel following his award-winning short story, "Today I am Paul."
Martin was ready to give up writing several years ago on January 1. A reject came back on December 31, the day before his "deadline", so he still had one last day before officially giving up...
2020-09-0557 min
Segunda LecturaLa sombra del viento | Segunda Lectura¡Nuevo episodio de Segunda Lectura! En este episodio hablamos de La sombra del viento, la obra más conocida de Carlos Ruiz Zafón. Nos adentramos en el Cementerio de los libros olvidados para conocer la historia de Daniel y Julián y así hacemos nuestro pequeño homenaje a la memoria de unos de nuestros autores modernos más conocidos.
Libros mencionados en novedades:
- Trueno de Neal Shusterman (Ed. Nocturna)
- La venganza del Unicornio de Iria G. Parente y Selene M. Pascual (Ed. Nocturna)
- Isla de Eva Duncan (Ed. Cerbero)
- Hacia el Resquicio de Celia Corral...
2020-08-1100 min
Segunda LecturaLa sombra del viento | Segunda Lectura¡Nuevo episodio de Segunda Lectura! En este episodio hablamos de La sombra del viento, la obra más conocida de Carlos Ruiz Zafón. Nos adentramos en el Cementerio de los libros olvidados para conocer la historia de Daniel y Julián y así hacemos nuestro pequeño homenaje a la memoria de unos de nuestros autores modernos más conocidos.
Libros mencionados en novedades:
- Trueno de Neal Shusterman (Ed. Nocturna)
- La venganza del Unicornio de Iria G. Parente y Selene M. Pascual (Ed. Nocturna)
- Isla de Eva Duncan (Ed. Cerbero)
- Hacia el Resquicio de Celia Corral...
2020-08-111h 54
Cold Star ProjectChris Stott - Satellite Spectrum and Space Activism - Cold Star Project S02E46ManSat Chairman Chris Stott returns to the Cold Star Project with host Jason Kanigan to talk further about satellite spectrum and space advocacy. Activist-authors Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, the economics of space, space scholarships and more are our topics.
ManSat website: http://www.mansat.com/
SpaceIsle website: https://www.spaceisle.com/
SSPI website: https://www.sspi.org/
International Institute of Space Commerce website: https://iisc.im/
Geeks Without Frontiers website: http://geekswf.org/
...
2020-06-2941 min
The Baen Free Radio HourBFRH 2020 06 12: David Weber and Phillip Pournelle discuss Mamelukes by Jerry Pournelle, Part 3; and David Weber's Uncompromising Honor, Part 17David Weber and Phillip Pournelle discuss Mamelukes, by Jerry Pournelle. When the late, great Dr. Jerry Pournelle passed away, he left behind the nearly completed manuscript for science fiction novel Mamelukes. Now Pournelle's son, Phillip Pournelle, and Honor Harrington series creator David Weber have completed the book. This is an entry in Jerry Pournelle's legendary Janissaries series; and David Weber's Uncompromising Honor, Part 17.
2020-06-121h 02The Baen Free Radio HourBFRH 2020 06 05: David Weber and Phillip Pournelle discuss Mamelukes by Jerry Pournelle, Part 2; and David Weber's Uncompromising Honor, Part 16David Weber and Phillip Pournelle discuss Mamelukes, by Jerry Pournelle. When the late, great Dr. Jerry Pournelle passed away, he left behind the nearly completed manuscript for science fiction novel Mamelukes. Now Pournelle's son, Phillip Pournelle, and Honor Harrington series creator David Weber have completed the book. This is an entry in Jerry Pournelle's legendary Janissaries series; and David Weber's Uncompromising Honor, Part 16.
2020-06-051h 02
ChrononautsIntroductions, Genre and Scope | Chrononauts Episode 0Containing an Introduction to the Series, in which the Listener is acquainted with the Character of the Hosts, with numerous Discussions on matters concerning Genre, History, Fiction, Literature, the Natural Sciences, and with the Conclusion of which containing a Preview of the subsequent Episode.
Books referenced, on Goodreads:
"Foundation", by Isaac Asimov (USA, 1951) : https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29579.Foundation
"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court", by Mark Twain: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37810588-mark-twain---a-connecticut-yankee-in-king-arthur-s-court
"The Martian Chronicles", by Ray Bradbury (USA, 1950): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76778.Th...
2020-05-311h 43The Baen Free Radio HourBFRH 2020 05 29: David Weber and Phillip Pournelle discuss Mamelukes by Jerry Pournelle, Part 1; and David Weber's Uncompromising Honor, Part 15David Weber and Phillip Pournelle discuss Mamelukes, by Jerry Pournelle. When the late, great Dr. Jerry Pournelle passed away, he left behind the nearly completed manuscript for science fiction novel Mamelukes. Now Pournelle's son, Phillip Pournelle, and Honor Harrington series creator David Weber have completed the book. This is an entry in Jerry Pournelle's legendary Jannis Janissaries series; and David Weber's Uncompromising Honor, Part 15.
2020-05-291h 00
Leyendo hasta el amanecerFin del mundo II
¿Cuántas veces habremos escuchado eso de que el fin del mundo ya está aquí? Sí, tal vez sea inevitable para mucha gente en estos días hacer tal afirmación pero, el mundo sigue en pie, y sin alguna duda seguirá estándolo por mucho tiempo… Y es que, a pesar de la dureza de la situación que nos está tocando pasar, no faltarán agoreros que vayan mucho más allá.
¿Nos acompañáis por un viaje en el que varios autores ya imaginaron el fin del mundo? ¿Y si os decimos que no solo se que...
2020-05-131h 14
Writers of the Future Podcast70. Sean Williams on making story collaboration work for youSean Williams has been very successful with his story collaborations. He originally read an article on collaboration by Larry Niven who famously co-wrote with Jerry Pournelle. This interview takes what he learned from that essay and expands on that theme with his own experience.
Sean also covers this subject in more detail in his article entitled "Making Collaboration Work for You or Co-Writing with Larry and Sean" published in Writers of the Future Volume 36.
International bestselling author Sean Williams was a Writers of the Future winner in volume 23 and became a Contest judge in 2003. Aurealis has called him "the premier...
2020-05-0949 min
SciFi4Me: The H2O PodcastThe End of the World As We Know It: The H2O Podcast #221The last three weeks, we made some recommendations on stories to enjoy (or not) during the zombie apocalypse. Now, we take a look at the end of the world. Invasion! Destruction! Tip Jar: https://www.paypal.me/scifi4meSubscribeStar: http://www.subscribestar.com/scifi4meNewsletter: http://eepurl.com/gboU11Childhood's End - Arthur C. ClarkeLucifer's Hammer - Larry Niven & Jerry PournelleWorld War Z - Max BrooksGood Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry PratchettA Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller JrThe Gone-Away...
2020-04-291h 02The Baen Free Radio HourBFRH 2020 03 27: Larry Niven and Steven Barnes on Starborn and Godsons by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Steven Barnes; and David Weber's Uncompromising Honor, Part 6.Larry Niven and Steven Barnes discuss Starborn and Godsons by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Steven Barnes. This is a new entry in the legendary science fiction Heorot series, with previous entries The Legacy of Heorot and Beowulf's Children. This is the finale to the series. It was nearly complete when Dr. Jerry Pournelle passed away, and Niven and Barnes discuss the close collaboration they conducted with Pournelle over the years, and the characters and plot of this wonder-inducing hard science fiction novel that completes the series; and David Weber's Uncompromising Honor, Part 6.
2020-03-271h 01The Baen Free Radio HourBFRH 2019 11 22: John L. Carr, Alex Pournelle, and Phillip Pournelle on Best of Jerry Pournelle, Part 2; and Son of the Black Sword by Larry Correia, Part 71.John L. Carr, Alex Pournelle, and Phillip Pournelle in a roundtable discussion of The Best of Jerry Pournelle, edited by John L. Carr. Carr is the editor of the volume, and a long-time Pournelle associate. Alex and Phillip Pournelle are two of Jerry Pournelle's sons. They all talk about the life and work of the late grandmaster of science fiction and a new collection of his work. This is Part Two of two; and Son of the Black Sword by Larry Correia, Part 71.
2019-11-2255 minThe Baen Free Radio HourBFRH 2019 11 15: John L. Carr, Alex Pournelle, and Phillip Pournelle on Best of Jerry Pournelle, Part 1; and Son of the Black Sword by Larry Correia, Part 70.John L. Carr, Alex Pournelle, and Phillip Pournelle in a roundtable discussion of The Best of Jerry Pournelle, edited by John L. Carr. Carr is the editor of the volume, and a long-time Pournelle associate. Alex and Phillip Pournelle are two of Jerry Pournelle's sons. They all talk about the life and work of the late grandmaster of science fiction and a new collection of his work. This is Part One of two; and Son of the Black Sword by Larry Correia, Part 70.
2019-11-151h 01SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #545 - READALONG: Police Your Planet by Lester del Rey
The SFFaudio Podcast #545 – Jesse, Paul Weimer, Maissa Bessada, Julie Davis, and Terence Blake talk about Police Your Planet by Lester del Rey
Talked about on today’s show:
cobber, guv’nor, tinhorn, ex-firster, a contemptible person, the Australian etymology, comrade, a revolution book, profound and deep and amazing, not the greatest science fiction novel ever written, no illusions, leg-clining, leg cling is the best part, ridiculous, weirdness, Helen O’Loy, Nerves, shaping the paperback industry, in the mood for something like, dig deep to keep going, 1.2x speed, police yourself, eastern USA accent?, perfectly adapted...
2019-09-301h 15
The Pennsylvania Project17. The Separation of Society and StateThe Separation of Society and State
Ken’s guest is missing in action, so the guest is Ken talking about some of the key concepts in his novel, Atlas Snubbed, a parody sequel to Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged. For example, the Separation of Society and State as an effective governor on the runaway welfare state, voluntary business regulations as a more effective and cheaper solution, and a novel approach to the justice system: voluntary sentencing.
What “sticks in Ken’s craw” this week is fascism in Pennsylvania
Guest Toastmaster Narrator: Eric Skoglund of the Dre...
2019-08-1357 min
KDB Records PodcastFEC - Zocalo (Folic State Nightfall Mix) [KDB147D]The Aztecs believe they started up in what's now New Mexico, and wandered for 10,000 years before they got down into where they are now, in Mexico City. That's a weird legend.
-Jerry Pournelle
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2019-01-1404 min
KDB Records PodcastFEC - Zocalo (Teruel & Balcazar Remix)[KDB147D]The Aztecs believe they started up in what's now New Mexico, and wandered for 10,000 years before they got down into where they are now, in Mexico City. That's a weird legend.
-Jerry Pournelle
From KDB with Love!!!
smarturl.it/kdb
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2019-01-1404 min
KDB Records PodcastFEC - Zocalo (Original Mix) [KDB147D]The Aztecs believe they started up in what's now New Mexico, and wandered for 10,000 years before they got down into where they are now, in Mexico City. That's a weird legend.
-Jerry Pournelle
From KDB with Love!!!
smarturl.it/kdb
kdbrecords.com/
2019-01-1404 min
KDB Records PodcastFEC - Zocalo (Folic State Remix) [KDB147D]The Aztecs believe they started up in what's now New Mexico, and wandered for 10,000 years before they got down into where they are now, in Mexico City. That's a weird legend.
-Jerry Pournelle
From KDB with Love!!!
2019-01-1404 min
Kazuális Kozmológia Scifi KönyvklubNiven-Pournelle: Szálka Isten szemébenTizenegyedik epizód - Larry Niven és Jerry Pournelle: Szálka Isten szemében (1974)
2018-12-0400 min
Spectology: The Science Fiction Book Club Podcast8.1: The Children of Time pre-read: What is "Hard" Science Fiction?This November we're reading Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Woo Adrians!
This episode we discuss what the "science" in science fiction means. What other books portray science well? What does it mean to write a book about science? Should science fiction try to be "realistic"?
In addition, we give you the book facts, and discuss a number of other works. Links are at spectology.com if they don't show up in your podcatcher:
* Blindsight by Peter Watts
* Ursula K. Le Guin
* Foreigner by CJ Cherryh
* The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
* The Sparro...
2018-11-1356 min
John RobsonAsk the Professor - Jerry Pournelle's political ideology chart - September 5, 2018How useful is Jerry Pournelle's famous political chart?
2018-09-0500 min
StarShipSofaStarShipEchoes 21st April 2013 Interview Jerry Pournelle Greg Benford and Larry NivenSupport this show and it's archives - join PatreonJoin me this week as I play a great interview never before played in public of a talk I did with three legends of science fiction: Jerry Pournelle, Greg Benford and Larry Niven way back on the 21st April 2013.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/starshipsofa. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2018-06-011h 42
StorycraftStorycraft Chronicles 2 - Birthday Pod minisode!What I learned making stories this week was further wisdom from Seth Godin, for ask the doc I claim writer's block is fake, and I share what I'm reading. Hear the tale of my birth, 40 years before the date of this episode, then hear me gush about Seth Godin, how I love his new podcast Akimbo, and some of the great thoughts from his first episode that apply directly to storycraft as a show AND discipline. Also, I talk about a couple things I'm reading, one by Andy Diggle & Victor Ibanez, the other by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle.
2018-04-1317 min
Get Complete Digital Audiobooks with Easy AccessL. Ron Hubbard Presents: Writers of the Future, Volume 34 - Brandon Sanderson, Jody Lynn Nye, Orson Scott Card, Jerry PournellePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/139307 to listen full audiobooks.
Publisher's Summary: Your search for something new and different in sci fi and fantasy ends here. Presenting this year's collection of fresh voices, fabulous worlds, and fantastic new characters. Each year, the Writers and Illustrators of the Future contests' blue-ribbon judges search the world to discover and introduce to you the very best new talent in sci-fi and fantasy.
Title: L. Ron Hubbard Presents: Writers of the Future, Volume 34
Series: L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future
Author: Brandon Sanderson, Jody Lynn Nye, Orson...
2018-04-102h 34SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #454 - READALONG: The Forge Of God by Greg Bear
The SFFaudio Podcast #454 – Jesse, Scott, Paul, and Steen talk about The Forge Of God by Greg Bear
Talked about on today’s show:
1987, God!, Blood Music, Eon, Jesse’s finnicky tastes, Jesse’s purity test, three years before, the peak of his career, making money and trying to be mainstream, near the peak, that whole weird phase (techno-CIA thrillers), it had a profound effect upon Scott, no such thing as spoiler territory, just profound, the only good end of Earth story, a lot like 2012 (2009), a bunch of theories, Maissa Bessada, WWI (actually WWII) pilot, Group Ca...
2018-01-011h 29
Acton LineRev. Ben Johnson on how sin taxes support terrorism; Upstream on sci-fi writer Jerry PournelleOn this episode of Radio Free Acton, Caroline Roberts talks with Fr. Ben Johnson, Senior Editor at the Acton Institute on the pitfalls of sin taxes. Then, on the Econ Quiz segment, Caroline speaks to Anne Rathbone Bradley, Vice President of Economic Initiatives at the Institute for Faith, Work, and Economics and visiting professor at Georgetown University, about the impact of Amazon and whether or not it is a monopoly. On the Upstream segment, Caroline and Bruce Edward Walker talk about the life and work of the late science fiction writer Jerry Pournelle. Hosted on Acast. See acast...
2017-10-2530 min
Drink Spin Run: The RPG Talkshow PodcastDrink Spin Run S3 E4.1: David Fisher and James PozenelFocus on the bit wolf Our Guests+David Fisher+James PozenelShow Notes after the jumpGuest NotesDavid FisherShinobi 27 Games, publisher of such fine products as:Feast of the PreserverTrolls of MistwoodRevelation of MulmoAngels, Demons & Beings Between (in print!)James PozenelThese guys have a Kickstarter up for Angels, Demons & Beings Between: Volume II RIGHT EFFING NOW! (Until 10/26. After that, you're on your own.)Show NotesDrinkNutBandit, Oddside Ale, Grand Haven, Michigan...
2017-10-0400 min
The Sword and Laser#305 - Major in Martin Studies!The Martin Studies International Network will help you study Westeros better, Scott Lynch gives hope for the next Locke Lamora book and sadly, we lose a great one in Jerry Pournelle, Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2017-09-1428 min
Security Now - 16k MP3SN628: The Equifax FiascoThis week we discuss last Friday's passing of our dear friend and colleague Jerry Pournelle, when AI is turned to evil purpose, whether and when Google's Chrome browser will warn of man in the middle attacks, why Google is apparently attempting to patent pieces of a compression technology they did not invent, another horrifying router vulnerability disclosure -- including ten 0-day vulnerabilities, an update on the sunsetting of Symantec's CA business unit, another worrying failure at Comodo, a few quick bits, an update on my one commercial product SpinRite, answering a closing the loop question from a listener, and a...
2017-09-1300 min
Daniel K's Let's PlaysPokemon Blue Nuzlocke Challenge 04. (Season -02 episode -10).Pokemon Blue Nuzlocke Challenge 04. (Season -02 episode -10).
New episode of the nuzlocke challenge is out! And this one's looong and zubatty...
In the Daniel K Recommends segment I recommended checking out the book The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.
And also The Consumption podcasts Pun Watch and Failure to Launch. search for them on your podcatcher of choice, or check out The Consumption's website: http://theconsumption.net/
2017-09-1154 min
Big Fat Geek PodcastComic-Con Reactions The guys talk about what they think about revelations from the recently wrapped-up San Diego Comic-Con, as well as what they've been up to. Chris and Nathan saw Spider-Man Homecoming. Dallas watched Captain America: Civil War, and Suicide Squad. Chris took in Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, and enjoyed it a lot more than the average Rotten Tomatoes rater. Nathan has been painting board game pieces, and set the stage for a future episode. Ready Player One trailer - https://youtu.be/LiK2fhOY0nE Bright trailer - https://youtu.be/6EZCBSsBxko
2017-08-0358 minSFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #417 - READALONG: The Gripping Hand by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
The SFFaudio Podcast #417 – Jesse, Paul Weimer, and Maissa discuss The Gripping Hand by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
Talked about on today’s show:
1993, a sequel to a 1974 novel, a long digression, Protector, where does Larry Niven end and Jerry Pournelle begin?, Larry Niven is the aliens, Jerry Pournelle was the humans and the military, what’s happening?, too many battles, a secret tramline, plot beats, The Mote In Gods Eye is more muscular, a second first contact, the empire is slipping, privileges vs. responsibilities, doing duty, they were shinier, WWII, the least interesting duty e...
2017-04-171h 11
LÄS HÅRT!Mercedes Lackey & Larry Dixon, BORN TO RUNI det här avsnittet av LÄS HÅRT! träder Johan Wanloo och Magnus Dahl in i en värld där alver ägnar sig åt drag racing (eller snuff-filmer om de är onda). Ja, vi läser helt enkelt Mercedes Lackeys & Larry Dixons irländska älvor-fantasy "Born to run" från 1992.
I nästa LÄS HÅRT...
I början av december pratar vi om en ny bok, nämligen zombiewestern "Punished book 1: Undead" av Jackson Lowry. Läs den du med!
Annat som nämns
Kiss, 220 Volt, ET, Colin Nutley, Horace Engdahl, Arkiv...
2016-11-0145 min
The Bayesian Conspiracy3 – Interview with Eliezer YudkowskyWe welcomed the one, the only, Eliezer Yudkowsky to the Bayesian Conspiracy for a quick chat.
His latest project is Arbital, an ambitious effort to solve online discussion. It is focusing on solving online explanation. They want to do for difficult explanations – and someday, complicated arguments in general – what Wikipedia did for centralizing humanity’s recounting of agreed-on facts.
The initial demo page is an explanation of Bayes’s Rule
About Eliezer in his (heavily truncated by me) own words:
One Eliezer Yudkowsky writes about the fine art of human rationality. That Eliezer...
2016-03-1657 minThe Bayesian Conspiracy3 – Interview with Eliezer YudkowskyWe welcomed the one, the only, Eliezer Yudkowsky to the Bayesian Conspiracy for a quick chat.
His latest project is Arbital, an ambitious effort to solve online discussion. It is focusing on solving online explanation. They want to do for difficult explanations – and someday, complicated arguments in general – what Wikipedia did for centralizing humanity’s recounting of agreed-on facts.
The initial demo page is an explanation of Bayes’s Rule
About Eliezer in his (heavily truncated by me) own words:
One Eliezer Yudkowsky writes about the fine art of human rationality. That Eliezer...
2016-03-1657 minScience Fiction Discussion GroupSCIENCE FICTION MEETING The Mote in God’s Eye is available from both BARD and Bookshare 07/09/2015For our next book, we’ve selected a tale of first contact by one of the best author collaborations in SF history: We’ve chose The Mote in God’s Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.
available from both BARD and Bookshare.
2015-07-1000 minSFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #228 - READALONG: Last And First Men by Olaf Stapledon
The SFFaudio Podcast #228 – Jesse and Jenny talk about the Last And First Men by Olaf Stapledon.
Talked about on today’s show:
the near and far future, not a novel, an imagined planetary history, the scope, Penguin Books, philosophy, the introduction, The Iron Heel by Jack London, a future history, human civilizations, two thousand million years (two billion years), universes => galaxy, man is a small part of the universe, Starmaker by Olaf Stapledon, Doctor Who, 2001: A Space Odyssey, what the plot would look like if there was one, the eighteen periods of man, evolution and...
2013-09-0248 minSFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #203 - READALONG: Footfall by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
The SFFaudio Podcast #203 – Footfall by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle is discussed by Scott, Jesse, Tamahome, and Paul Weimer
Talked about on today’s show:
Worlds Without End: Award Winners and Nominees in 1986, Tom Clancy said “nobody does it better”, how many alien invasion books are there?, Niven didn’t want to do an alien invasion in the Acknowledgments, came out of research for Lucifer’s Hammer, a mainstream The Mote In God’s Eye, too many characters (124!)?, character list in my Goodreads review, “put the screws to the president”, Sfsignal Mind Meld – science fiction writers on eart...
2013-03-1155 minSFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #199 - NEW RELEASES/RECENT ARRIVALS
The SFFaudio Podcast #199 – Scott, Jesse, Tamahome, and Jenny talk about NEW RELEASES and RECENT ARRIVALS (audiobooks).
Talked about on today’s show:
Recent arrivals first, here’s Jenny’s list, Harry Harrison’s Deathworld, Speculative! Brilliance audiobooks (from public domain works), “he’s super clear”, author of Make Room! Make Room! (aka Soylent Green), Planet Of The Damned, “nice font”, Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Telling is in the Hanish Cycle, the out of print Harlan Ellison version of A Wizard of Earthsea, The Lathe Of Heaven and the PBS TV-movie with Bruce Davidson (trailer), Wor...
2013-02-111h 16
Books Without PicturesEarth-2.net: The Show - Episode 602The first full edition of Books Without Pictures is here, and with it Dan and Wendee debate the merits of Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's classic first-contact novel: The Mote in God's Eye! Blast Hardcheese and the He-Man Woman Haters' Club bring extreme diplomacy to the outer reaches of the galaxy! Is this the 25th greatest science fiction novel in history? Tune in to hear our hosts say "probably not." Note: Thank you to Preston Nelson for lending his dulcet tones to the proceedings.
2013-01-222h 26SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #196 - READALONG: A World Out Of Time by Larry Niven
The SFFaudio Podcast #196 – Scott, Jesse, and Tamahome discuss the Blackstone Audio audiobook of A World Out Of Time by Larry Niven.
Talked about on today’s show:
Tamahome is a third, Ender’s Game, 1976, Rammer by Larry Niven (1971), a fix-up novel, Infinivox, Pat Bottino, “his most perfect short story”, the novel ruins the short story (sort of), the anticipation is more interesting than the resolution, chapters 2 and 3 nullify the power of chapter 1, Corbell, Peerssa, the Clouds of Magellan, “a fuck you ending”, interesting social systems, a sciencey vocab, cryonics, Bussard Ram Jets, ergosphere, Protector, Beowulf Shaeff...
2013-01-2157 min
Reconnect With A Audiobooks Bundle For Students.Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes interprets the audiobook The Secret of Black Ship IslandPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/327383 to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Secret of Black Ship Island
Series: Heorot, Book 3
Author: Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes
Narrator: Tom Weiner
Format: mp3
Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
Release date: 11-01-12
Ratings: 4.3 out of 5 stars, 167 ratings
Genres: Hard Science Fiction
Publisher's Summary:
2012-11-014h 32SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #184 - NEW RELEASES/RECENT ARRIVALS
The SFFaudio Podcast #184 – Jesse, Tamahome, Jenny, talk about the RECENT ARRIVALS in audiobooks.
Talked about on today’s show:
Is it new releases or recent arrivals?, Jenny’s pretty color-coded list, The Year’s Top Short SF Novels 2 edited by Allan Kaster, Angel of Europa by Allen M. Steele (is one of them), “it’s basic science fiction”, how to pronounce Mary Robinette Kowal, The Twelve (Passage #2) by Justin Cronin is literary vampire fiction, Cloud Atlas, The Walking Dead: The Road to Woodbury by Robert Kirkman and Jay Bonansinga, “I’m not going to end this story”, “our Sco...
2012-10-291h 10SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #158 - READALONG: The Syndic by C.M. Kornbluth
The SFFaudio Podcast #158 – Last week’s podcast was an unabridged reading of The Syndic by C.M. Kornbluth. This week Jesse discusses it with the narrator, Mark Douglas Nelson!
Talked about on today’s show:
SciPodBooks.com, the SciPodCast, The Syndic by C.M. Kornbluth, The City At World’s End by Edmond Hamilton, the virtues of democracy, Oath Of Fealty by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, H. Beam Piper, Space Viking, a wealth of ideas, Frederik Pohl, the story as a straw man, Robert A. Heinlein, telepathy, witches, dystopia, utopia, polo played with jeeps (m...
2012-04-301h 01SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #129 - READALONG: The Mote In God's Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
The SFFaudio Podcast #129 – Jesse, Tamahome, Julie and Jenny discuss the Audible Frontiers audiobook of The Mote In God’s Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.
Talked about on today’s show:
Aliens, first contact, alien aliens, Theodore Sturgeon, Microcosmic God by Theodore Sturgeon, evil genius inventor, a society in a bottle, how do we figure out which information is true, L.J. Ganser, “Fyunch(click)”, space empire, the Horse-Head Nebula, the depth of the alien alienness, who has free will in The Mote In God’s Eye?, “there was little of free will in an engineer...
2011-10-101h 12SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #118 - READALONG: Upon The Dull Earth by Philip K. Dick
The SFFaudio Podcast #118 – Scott, Jesse and Tamahome talk about Philip K. Dick’s wonderful novelette Upon The Dull Earth (available in Blackstone Audio’s The Selected Stories Of Philip K. Dick Volume 2)
Talked about on today’s show:
Beyond Fantasy Fiction, the prolific Philip K. Dick, Galaxy Magazine, H.L. Gold, is Upon The Dull Earth Fantasy or Science Fiction, suburban romance?, rural romance, Jesse loves the setting, cedars, angels, The Odyssey, On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers, Jesse’s terrible Philip K. Dick impersonation, a wooden faucet?, a one way ladder to another plane, usi...
2011-07-251h 18SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #117
The SFFaudio Podcast #117 – Scott, Jesse and Tamahome talk about audiobooks, the recent arrivals and the new releases.
Talked about on today’s show:
We have some genuine Science Fiction!, The Year’s Top Ten Tales Of Science Fiction Vol. 3 edited by Alan Kaster, Damien Broderick, Robert Reed, Steve Rasnic Tem, Ian R. Macleod, Luke Burrage, The Mars Phoenix has Science Fiction (2008), John W. Cambell, The Things by Peter Watts, 8 Miles should be title 12.1 Kilometers, the metric system can’t be sold politically in the U.S.A., florescent lightbulbs are unamerican, Corner Gas, Larry Niven, H...
2011-07-181h 23
TechZing127: TZ Discussion - Going BetaJustin and Jason discuss Rob Walling's upcoming MicroConf, what Justin has learned from his outsourcing experiment, an update on Pluggio and it's revenue growth, why Justin uses Nozbe and how it's made him more productive, the kickoff of the Appignite beta test and how Jason plans on conducting it, how Neville fell of the TZ bandwagon and some ideas on how to get back him back on, methods of implementing full text search in MySQL, Jason's strategy for getting Jerry Pournelle and Elon Musk on the show, how Justin formatted his blog to work on mobile phones, Jason's latest idea...
2011-05-101h 27SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #091 - READALONG: Oath Of Fealty by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
The SFFaudio Podcast #091 – Scott and Jesse talk about the new Audible Frontiers audiobook Oath Of Fealty by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.
Talked about on today’s show:
Footfall by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, The War Of The Worlds by H.G. Wells, Robert A. Heinlein, The Godwhale by T.J. Bass, Half Past Human by T.J. Bass, overpopulation, genetic engineering, artificial intelligence, FROMATES (“Friends of Man and the Earth” – an anti-technology group of eco-terrorists), arcology, Todos Santos, Los Angeles, California, are arcologies a stepping stone to generation starships?, SimCity 2000, Sid Meier’s Civilizati...
2011-01-171h 12SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #072 - READALONG: Assam And Darjeeling by T.M. Camp
The SFFaudio Podcast #072 – Jesse and Scott talk with Julie Davis, of the Forgotten Classics podcast about Assam And Darjeeling by T.M. Camp |READ OUR REVIEW|.
Talked about on today’s show:
Assam & Darjeeling by T.M. Camp, Podiobooks.com, iTunes, serialized fiction, entertaining copyright notices, where do you do your podcast listening?, I’ve got my hands full of car, the volume on Assam And Darjeeling is way too low!, remastering Assam And Darjeeling for audiobook, listening to podcasts at double speed (only on iTouch and iP...
2010-08-231h 20
The Future And YouJune 30, 2010 EpisodeEdmund R. Schubert, Rich Sigfrit, Gail Z. Martin and one of ConCarolinas' venerable volunteers are today's featured guests.Topics: last week's relaunch of the redesigned Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show online magazine; the recent explosion in the popularity of online magazines; the few ways in which online magazines are actually better that paper magazines; and how Amazon is confusing the magazine publishers they hope will publish their magazines in electronic format on the Kindle. Also: how the Internet allows first-time authors to get the word out about their book; the importance of aut...
2010-06-3042 min
Tecnica Arcana PodcastTAT 044 – Seasonal Off-TopicsL’atmosfera festosa fa sbandare Tecnica Arcana verso pericolosi (ma non troppo) Off-Topic, ma come al solito c’è molto da discutere e i confini tecnologici non sempre si rivelano ben delineati.
Nella (forse) ultima puntata del 2009 festeggeremo il ritorno su Twit di un Jerry Pournelle in splendida forma, e l’arrivo in Italia di X, ovvero “Little Brother” di Cory Doctorow! Faremo un salto indietro di più di un secolo per parlare di Net Neutrality “Vittoriana”, per tornare infine nel presente e dire addio a Larrabee, la controversa GPGPU di intel.
Link:
Twit 223 con Jerry Pourne...
2009-12-0800 minTecnica Arcana PodcastTAT 044 – Seasonal Off-TopicsL’atmosfera festosa fa sbandare Tecnica Arcana verso pericolosi (ma non troppo) Off-Topic, ma come al solito c’è molto da discutere e i confini tecnologici non sempre si rivelano ben delineati.
Nella (forse) ultima puntata del 2009 festeggeremo il ritorno su Twit di un Jerry Pournelle in splendida forma, e l’arrivo in Italia di X, ovvero “Little Brother” di Cory Doctorow! Faremo un salto indietro di più di un secolo per parlare di Net Neutrality “Vittoriana”, per tornare infine nel presente e dire addio a Larrabee, la controversa GPGPU di intel.
Link:
Twit 223 con Jerry Pourne...
2009-12-0800 minSFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #032
The SFFaudio Podcast #032 – Jesse and Scott are ramifying and missling things as they talk about recently arrived and newly released audiobooks. We’ve got fists the size of baked hams in this episode so we say crazy things like:
“Soccer is cool!” – “The great thing about Laserdiscs…”
“Tele-Vision. It’s a Science Fiction-sounding word” – “…stupid Morlocks!”
We’re also asking the deep questions like: “Is there anybody more exciting than Robert Silverberg?” Indeed, it’s our most Reganesque show.
Talked about on today’s show:
Blackstone Audio, Flashforward by Robert J. Sawyer, Th...
2009-08-031h 15
SF Site PodcastEscape from Hell by Larry Niven and Jerry PournelleIn 1976, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle released Inferno, a reworking of the epic poem by Dante Alighieri. Now, they have returned to that world and to the hero, Alan Carpenter, teamed with Sylvia Plath, who has been condemned to the wood of the suicides in the middle ring of the seventh circle, to get out of Hell. Hell is going through a shakeup of its own because of Vatican II. The rules have changed. The condemned are all scheduled to be tried anew.
2009-07-1600 min
Get New Releases Audiobooks in Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: ClassicLucifer's Hammer Audiobook by Larry Niven, Jerry PournellePlease visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/1459 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Lucifer's Hammer Author: Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle Narrator: Marc Vietor Format: Unabridged Length: 24 hrs and 32 mins Language: English Release date: 07-14-09 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5494 votes Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Classic Publisher's Summary: But for the terrified men and women chance had saved, it was also the dawn of a new struggle for survival - a struggle more dangerous and challenging than any they had ever known.... Critic Reviews: "Take your earthquakes, waterlogged condominiums, swarms of bugs, colliding airplanes...
2009-07-1405 min
The Future And YouFebruary 11, 2009 EpisodeJerry Pournelle (author, journalist, editor, technology columnist, and military textbook writer) is today's featured guest. (This is the third and final portion of his two-hour long interview.)
Topics today include: Why political debates are not debates, why the U.S. electoral college was devised, and why the 1787 Congress was more successful by being a closed-door session. Comments on the Cray-1 supercomputer; the remarkable fact that Moore's Law has held so long and still seems to be going strong; and what he tried to accomplish in his long-running column in the iconic computer magazine Byte. His observation that to...
2009-02-1147 minThe 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 minThe Future And YouJanuary 28, 2009 EpisodeJerry Pournelle (author, journalist, editor, technology columnist, and military textbook writer) is today's featured guest.
Topics include: Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, Larry Niven and other authors he has been friends with; how the downfall of the Soviet Union was an engineered event, planned decades in advance, which worked exactly as planned (and specifically what that plan was); how he orchestrated the political campaigns of Barry Goldwater, Jr., and Sam Yorty; his friends and involvement in the Survivalist Movement, and his being editor of the magazine Survive which was closely allied with the magazine Soldier of Fortune...
2009-01-281h 05The Future And YouSeptember 24, 2008 EpisodeLarry Niven, the award-winning author of Ringworld, The Mote In God's Eye, and many other hard science fiction novels, is our featured guest.
He reveals that Robert A. Heinlein was the secret proofreader for his and Jerry Pournelle's novel The Mote In God's Eye. He describes Jerry Pournelle's personal edit war in Wikipedia, how they and other science fiction writers are helping the Department of Homeland Security, and his own work on Land of the Lost, The Outer Limits, and Star Trek the Animated Series.
He also discusses illegal organ banks, room temperature superconductors, and ag...
2008-09-241h 13Tecnica Arcana PodcastTAT 034 – MailBox Overflow 002Un’altra puntata dedicata alle vostre Mail! Prima parliamo un po’ di Google Chrome e della campagna pubblicitaria di Microsoft improvvisamente interrotta
I vostri argomenti:
– Jerry Pournelle è guarito, torniamo a parlare di Byte con i vostri ricordi
– Linux Accessibile con Orca, guida passo-passo all’uso di Ubuntu con il supporto vocale.
– Aggregatori per Linux, quale scegliere?
– Chumby: il coso che fa un po’ di tutto ed è ampiamente hackerabile
– Asus EEE-PC e i suoi cloni.
– Simulatore di Theremin per Ipod Touch e Iphone
– Chitarra e Software Libero: amore...
2008-09-2200 minTecnica Arcana PodcastTAT 034 – MailBox Overflow 002Un’altra puntata dedicata alle vostre Mail! Prima parliamo un po’ di Google Chrome e della campagna pubblicitaria di Microsoft improvvisamente interrotta
I vostri argomenti:
– Jerry Pournelle è guarito, torniamo a parlare di Byte con i vostri ricordi
– Linux Accessibile con Orca, guida passo-passo all’uso di Ubuntu con il supporto vocale.
– Aggregatori per Linux, quale scegliere?
– Chumby: il coso che fa un po’ di tutto ed è ampiamente hackerabile
– Asus EEE-PC e i suoi cloni.
– Simulatore di Theremin per Ipod Touch e Iphone
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