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Pesto Comics - Audio EditionGet Yourself a Crazy LatteWhat’s Been Up LatelyBig Smoke Pulp: Call for Entries Still OpenWe’re looking for your stories!Find out more about our new project coming this fall: Big Smoke PulpIf you have something I should read, be sure to send it. It’ll cost you nothing but your time (and could get you paid!)I’ve accepted enough to make up 30% of the book so far, so there’s still a time to get in. A Fun Couple of WeekendsTIAC - Toronto In...2024-05-1508 min
Writers of the Future Podcast271. Stephen Kotowych editor of "The Year's Best Canadian F&SF Vol 1"Stephen Kotowych was a writer winner for Writers of the Future Volume 23 in 2007.
He recently edited and published “The Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction Volume 1” anthology. It comprises 37 stories and poems and is 100% Canadian.
He has a Kickstarter for Volume Two that will run from March 19 through April 16. The link for the prelaunch is: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kotowych/years-best-canadian-fantasy-and-science-fiction-volume-two?ref=en3uxl2024-03-301h 00
Tesla: The Life and Times PodcastTesla Goes West (1899)Tesla takes a momentous professional leap and heads west to Colorado Springs. There he builds the experimental station that would allow him to understand the fundamental principles needed to build his world wireless system.2023-06-231h 09
Tesla: The Life and Times PodcastThe Earthquake Machine (1896 - 1898)Tesla realizes he's reached the limits of experiments he can do on wireless transmission from his Manhattan laboratory when he almost lays waste to his entire neighborhood with an earthquake machine.2022-12-081h 15
Tesla: The Life and Times Podcast031 – Where’s My Remote Control? (1896 - 1898)Tesla abandons x-rays, pioneers radio control, and tries to end war for all time--but not before blowing up what had been one of his closest personal and professional friendships.2022-09-271h 10
Tesla: The Life and Times PodcastInterview with Tesla Biographer Dr. Marc J. SeiferI'm joined by Tesla biographer, Dr. Marc J. Seifer, for a discussion of his fascinating new book Tesla: Wizard at War: The Genius, the Particle Beam Weapon, and the Pursuit of Power on this very special episode of the podcast.2022-08-301h 10
Tesla: The Life and Times PodcastMy Kickstarter is Live NOW!I’m part of a Kickstarter to publish four anthologies of science fiction and fantasy—one of which will be put together by me! We need your help to make our campaign goal before the deadline or else NONE of the anthologies will happen. Listen for all the details.2022-08-2211 min
The Industrial RevolutionsBonus: Stephen Kotowych (Telsa: The Life & Times Podcast)To supplement this month's chapter on The Electric Age, Dave talks with Stephen Kotowych from "Tesla: The Life and Times Podcast" to learn more about the legendary inventor and the world he made possible. (Available until July 2022)2022-05-1633 min
Tesla: The Life and Times Podcast030 - The Light That Never Was (1895 - 1896)Tesla begins the monumental task of rebuilding his lab after the fire and, as 1896 dawns, he misses out TWICE on making a revolutionary scientific discovery.2022-04-251h 06
Tesla: The Life and Times Podcast029 - Tesla - Towering Inferno (1895)On March 13, 1895, at the height of his powers, Tesla suffered a devastating tragedy as his world--and his work--came crashing down around him.2022-03-1456 min
Tesla: The Life and Times PodcastHiatus Update & New Episodes in 2022!TL;DR - This year knocked me off schedule completely, but new episodes are coming soon! Thanks for sticking with the show--I'm looking forward to getting back to telling Tesla's story. Listen to the end for full details of upcoming plans (including...merchandise???)2021-12-0517 min
Tesla: The Life and Times PodcastWar of the Currents: Part 8 - Victory Niagara (1893-1897)It's the endgame of the War of the Currents! After their betrayal by the Cataract Construction Company, Tesla and Westinghouse finally secure the contract to harness Niagara Falls. They won the war and changed the world.2021-01-111h 12
Tesla: The Life and Times PodcastWar of the Currents Part 7: Hail Hydro (1889-1893)No one wanted to harness Niagara Falls for hydroelectric power longer than Tesla himself. But he and Westinghouse faced liars, cheats, and thieves as they fought to win the final battle of the War of the Currents. Hail hydro!2020-12-011h 03
Tesla: The Life and Times PodcastIn Tesla's Laboratory (1894)Tesla, at the height of his fame, hobnobs with the Gilded Age's 1%. He hosts exclusive events after-hours in his lab, gets up to unusual experiments with Mark Twain, and reveals himself a consummate trickster...2020-10-0545 min
Tesla: The Life and Times PodcastTesla - A Star Is Born (1894)Tesla reputation as a leading man of electrical science grows, and publications and accolades come his way by the handful, thanks in no small part to the help of T.C. Martin, his friend, editor, and hype man.2020-09-0843 min
Tesla: The Life and Times PodcastTesla Goes to the Movies: MacGyverWhat happens when a rebooted MacGyver and a John Turturro-lookalike as Tesla meet up deep in MacGyver's subconscious? Is MacGyver's mom evil? Was Telsa's hair ever that slick? It's the latest episode of our sub-podcast, "Tesla Goes to the Movies"!2020-08-0321 min
Tesla: The Life and Times PodcastTesla Goes to the Movies: Doctor WhoWhat happens when everyone's favourite electrical pioneer meets up with everyone's favourite Time Lord? Why, the world gets saved, of course! Join us for this first sub-episode in our new occasional side podcast "Tesla Goes to the Movies"!2020-05-2025 min
Tesla: The Life and Times PodcastTesla - Good Vibrations (1893)Just what was Tesla up to on the side while working with Westinghouse on both the World’s Fair and the bid to win the contract to electrify Niagara Falls?2020-05-1158 min
Tesla: The Life and Times PodcastTesla in the Time of Coronavirus (Update Episode)Updates, update, updates...2020-05-1018 min
Tesla: The Life and Times PodcastTesla in the White City (1893)It was the Fair That Changed America. And it was the chance for Tesla and Westinghouse to show the world the power of their AC system. The 1893 World's Columbian Exposition made Tesla a household name and changed his life forever.2019-06-191h 39
Tesla: The Life and Times PodcastWar of the Currents Part 6: The Battle of Chicago (1892)Westinghouse makes an 11th-hour bid to electrify the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 with Tesla's AC system and GE will do anything to torpedo the deal. Welcome to Thunderdome: two bids enter, one bid leaves...2019-02-1941 min
Tesla: The Life and Times PodcastWar of the Currents Part 5: The Second Front (1890 - 1892)Edison and Westinghouse battle over lightbulbs and high finance as we return to the trenches of the War of the Currents, and see how the war whittled itself down from fifteen combatants to just two...2018-11-0539 min
Tesla: The Life and Times PodcastA Most Painful Ordeal (1892)Tesla's trip to the Continent would take an emotional and physical toll that he couldn't have imagined. But he nevertheless returned from Europe with the big idea that would dominate the rest of his career.2018-09-2046 min
Tesla: The Life and Times PodcastOrder of the Flaming Sword (1891-1892)When his colleagues in the AC field start turning on him, Tesla uses an invitation to lecture in London to reassert his place as the inventor of the AC motor and to dazzle Victorian London with all-new discoveries.2018-09-0445 min
Tesla: The Life and Times PodcastThe Greatest Show On Earth (1891)Tesla the Showman knocks 'em dead at the AIEE with a lecture for the ages and a breathtaking demonstration of high frequency AC. It was his ticket to fame and celebrity. 2018-07-1742 min
Tesla: The Life and Times PodcastThe Biggest Mistake Nikola Tesla Ever Made (1890-1891)Fresh from his return from Europe, Tesla goes on an inventing spree and dabbles in high-frequency currents. But when George Westinghouse comes calling and pleads poverty, Tesla makes a fateful and costly mistake...2018-06-2748 min
Tesla: The Life and Times PodcastThe War of the Currents Part 4 - The Executioner's Current (1889 - 1890)The War of the Currents enters its most ghoulish and macabre phase: when the combatants were willing to play with a man’s life. William Kemmler became the first person put to death by deliberate electrocution. Viewer discretion is very much advised.2018-06-1136 min
Tesla: The Life and Times PodcastWar of the Currents Part 3: Shock & Awe (1888-1889)When New York became the first state to execute people using the electric chair, Edison and his DC supporters would do anything to ensure it was alternating current that powered “Old Sparky”…2018-05-3129 min
Tesla: The Life and Times PodcastWar of the Currents Part 2: First Casualties (1888)War is hell, even when it's the War of the Currents. Harold Brown's campaign against AC turns deadly, as he conducts gruesome electrical experiments on stray dogs, and helps set the stage for New York's first electric chair...2018-04-3039 min
Tesla: The Life and Times PodcastWar of the Currents Part 1: Opening Salvo (1886-1888)The War of the Currents begins! Edison uses every dirty trick he can think of in the struggle for DC dominance vs. the AC upstart. There can be only one (format)!2018-04-1529 min
Tesla: The Life and Times PodcastTesla in Steel City (1889)Did the Westinghouse engineers want Tesla to fail in Pittsburgh? He went to consult, but all Tesla found was a hornet's nest of resentment, ego, and competing agendas. And what was Edison up to now that Westinghouse was a threat to his DC business? A current war is in the offing...2018-04-0233 min
Tesla: The Life and Times PodcastPaying the Cost to Be the Boss (1888)You could call this episode: "Tesla: The Art of the Deal", as we see Tesla and his business partners Peck and Brown bluff, finagle, and finally negotiate the lucrative sale of the AC motor patents to George Westinghouse. The sale changed Tesla's life--and ours--forever.2018-03-1237 min
Tesla: The Life and Times PodcastPatent. Promote. Sell. (1887-1888)Tesla was cranking out break-through inventions as fast as his partners could patent them. Plans to promote and sell them culminated in Tesla’s full-on arrival as a cutting edge figure in the electrical field with his groundbreaking address to the American Institute of Electrical Engineers.2018-02-2747 min
Tesla: The Life and Times PodcastHow Tesla (Eventually) Got His Groove BackNot long after Tesla stormed out on Edison opportunity came knocking again…as did further betrayal and disappointment. But with the help of new business partners, Tesla was on his way to becoming a truly world-changing figure.2018-02-0840 min
Tesla: The Life and Times PodcastA Scandalously Short History of the Gilded AgeIt is the era in which Tesla made his greatest breakthroughs and inventions, and the era in which he found fame and fortune: the Gilded Age. Today, a whirlwind tour of America in the Gilded Age--its time; its big themes; and how it changed United States (and Tesla!) forever.2018-01-251h 39
Tesla: The Life and Times PodcastTesla vs Edison: Round 1The episode you've all been waiting for! Tesla arrives in New York City and takes a job with Thomas Edison. See the seeds of a life-long rivalry sown because of a broken million-dollar promise. It's Tesla vs. Edison: Round 1--let's get ready to rummmble!2017-11-2036 min
Tesla: The Life and Times PodcastIs Paris Electrified? (1882-1884)This week we follow Tesla to Paris and a job with the new Edison lighting company there. In Paris, Telsa gains his first real, practical exposure to the nitty-gritty of designing and building dynamos and motors, and gets a taste for just how good the good life can be.2017-11-0630 min
Tesla: The Life and Times PodcastA Walk in the Park (1882)The solution to Tesla's alternating current motor problem came to him as a ‘eureka’ moment during a walk in the park in 1882: the rotating magnetic field, and the induction motor. The applications of this innovation would literally change the world.2017-10-2226 min
Tesla: The Life and Times PodcastThe Frustrated Montage Years (1878-1882)If Tesla's life were a movie, these would be the “montage years”--five years edited down into a few minutes (probably with melancholy music playing underneath) showing us that things didn’t work out for our hero for a long time until his big break came at the end of Act 1.2017-10-0824 minTesla: The Life and Times PodcastBig Man on Campus (1874 - 1877)Tesla goes on the lamb not once but twice, with a bit of schooling and a bit of gambling and at least one brush with death keeping him busy in between.2017-09-2430 min
Tesla: The Life and Times PodcastSchool Days (1861-1874)This week, we’ll cover Tesla’s schooling from the time he first enrolled in primary school, right up until he heads off for engineering school in the late 1870s. It’s a major turning point in Tesla’s life, and it makes sense to break there until next time.2017-09-1423 minTesla: The Life and Times PodcastChildhood 1856-1861Nikola Tesla was born at the stroke of midnight between July 9 and 10, 1856. In this episode, we'll learn about Tesla's childhood years on the rural frontier of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and how early tragedy and a contentious relationship with his father would shape the rest of his life and give him the abilities he needed to make later breakthrough innovations in electricity.2017-09-0531 min
Tesla: The Life and Times PodcastIntroductionsThis is a story of America in the late 19th Century—the Gilded Age. It’s a story of New York City before the automobile. It’s a story of robber barons, of industry, and of inventions that would change the world. And it’s the story of one man—one inventor—in particular: Nikola Tesla. In this 000 episode, I'll introduce myself, my plans for the podcast, and just what you can expect from this on-going look at the life, inventions, and legacy of Nikola Tesla. And we'll do our best over the course of this series to separate t...2017-08-2823 min
StarShipSofaStarShipSofa No 428 Stephen KotowychJeremy Szal on Hugos and StarShipSofa
Main Fiction: “Saturn in G Minor” by Stephen Kotowych
Originally published in Writers of the Future: Volume 23
STEPHEN KOTOWYCH is a Writers of the Future Grand Prize winner (for “Saturn in G Minor”) and past finalist for the Prix Aurora Award, Canada’s top SF prize. His stories have appeared in StarShipSofa (#259), Interzone, Intergalactic Medicine Show, numerous anthologies, and been translated into a dozen languages.
His first collection of short fiction, Seven Against Tomorrow (which includes, among other stories, “Saturn in G...2016-03-231h 07
StarShipSofaStarShipSofa No 428 Stephen KotowychJeremy Szal on Hugos and StarShipSofaMain Fiction: “Saturn in G Minor” by Stephen KotowychOriginally published in Writers of the Future: Volume 23STEPHEN KOTOWYCH is a Writers of the Future Grand Prize winner (for “Saturn in G Minor”) and past finalist for the Prix Aurora Award, Canada’s top SF prize. His stories have appeared in StarShipSofa (#259), Interzone, Intergalactic Medicine Show, numerous anthologies, and been translated into a dozen languages.His first collection of short fiction, Seven Against Tomorrow (which includes, among other stories, “Saturn in G...2016-03-231h 06
Discover This Critically-Acclaimed Full Audiobook — Perfect In The Car.Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show: Big Book of SF Novelettes by Wayne Wightman, Aliette De Bodard, Eric James Stone, Mary Robinette Kowal, Orson Scott CardPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/211116to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show: Big Book of SF Novelettes
Author: Wayne Wightman, Aliette De Bodard, Eric James Stone, Mary Robinette Kowal, Orson Scott Card
Narrator: Roxanne Hernandez, Emily Janice Card, Gabrielle De Cuir, Paul Boehmer, Stefan Rudnicki, Arthur Morey
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 13 hours 45 minutes
Release date: April 1, 2014
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Too long to be a short story, too short to be a novel—welcome to the surprisingly potent world of the novelette. The award-winning magazine Orson Scott Card...2014-04-011h 45
Get Best Full Audiobooks in Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science FictionOrson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show: Big Book of SF Novelettes by Wayne Wightman, Aliette De Bodard, Eric James Stone, Mary RobinPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/211116 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show: Big Book of SF Novelettes Author: Wayne Wightman, Aliette De Bodard, Eric James Stone, Mary Robinette Kowal, Orson Scott Card Narrator: Roxanne Hernandez, Emily Janice Card, Gabrielle De Cuir, Paul Boehmer, Stefan Rudnicki, Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 45 minutes Release date: April 1, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Science Fiction Publisher's Summary: Too long to be a short story, too short to be a novel—welcome to the surprisingly potent world of the novelette. The award-winning magazine Orson Scot...2014-04-0103 minGet Best Full Audiobooks in Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science FictionOrson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show: Big Book of SF Novelettes by Wayne Wightman, Aliette De Bodard, Eric James Stone, Mary Robinette Kowal, Orson Scott CardPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/211116to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show: Big Book of SF Novelettes
Author: Wayne Wightman, Aliette De Bodard, Eric James Stone, Mary Robinette Kowal, Orson Scott Card
Narrator: Roxanne Hernandez, Emily Janice Card, Gabrielle De Cuir, Paul Boehmer, Stefan Rudnicki, Arthur Morey
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 13 hours 45 minutes
Release date: April 1, 2014
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1
Genres: Science Fiction
Publisher's Summary:
Too long to be a short story, too short to be a novel—welcome to the surprisingly potent world of the novelette. The award-winning magazine Orson Scott Card...2014-04-011h 45StarShipSofaStarShipSofa No 259 Stephen KotowychComing Up
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