2011 Compton Crook Award Winner James Knapp reads from his awesome debut novel State of Decay. More show notes after our air conditioner gets fixed.

This episode is an interview with Dave Slusher from Balticon 43. Dave is best know for his Evil Genius Chronicles podcast and blog. Dave and Paul talk about all sorts of things, as they usually do, but this time you get to listen in on this most interesting of interviews.

MUSIC: Death from the Skies, the Lazy Sunday version by George Hrab

PROMO: The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences – Tales from the Archives Podcast

PROMO: The Geologic Podcast

George Hrab talks about the many many many ways we know that the world is older than 6,000.

In case you’re wondering why this is important, there is a minority of religious people in the USA who believe in a “Young Earth” creationist theory. If you ever need to try to persuade one of these people that the are wrong, you’ll get a lot of good solid scientific information from this talk.

This is the first in a series of science lectures. We’ve cooked up a cool new intro to these science talks. The folks in order of appearance are: Evo Terra & Sheila Dee, Donna “Ms. Information”Mugavero, Jared Axelrod, and George Hrab. The music comes curtesy of the great and powerful John Taylor Williams. Many thanks to them all for their willingness to assist in this project.

Join the fun from Balticon 45 Improv panel. On panel were:

Grig “Punkie” Larson

Alex White

Mark L. Van Name

Eric “Drowemos” Kimball

The panel is awesome and funny and I want to thank everyone who participated. The intro was recorded 7/17 and adds some interesting tidbits following up on our Pip Ballantine interview.

PROMO: Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences

PROMO: Adventures in SCI FI Publishing

PLUG: Trolley by Grig Larson at Amazon.com

What more is there to say. Chris Lester proposes to Dawn. Magic happens at Balticon 45.

Here’s an awesome piece for you. We’ve never done one quite like this before. This is a slide show with audio. The slides were prepared by Laura Burns and JR Blackwell. Our presenters, Jared Axelrod, Dr. John Cmar, and Arioch Morningstar have never seen the slides before. What follows is sheer brilliance.

The episode 100 extravaganza is original fiction by Christiana Ellis, Jared Axelrod, Steven H. Wilson, and Mur Lafferty. These are four of the original 10 podcasters from the first ever Podcasting Track at a sci-fi convention anywhere. I’m proud to say that over the years they have also become my friends. Four original stories. The first two are read by the author. The third is performed by Prometheus Radio Theatre. The final one is performed and edited by Paul Fischer.

 

Christiana Ellis – Main Site

Jared Axelrod – Main Site

Steven H. Wilson and the Prometheus Radio Theatre troop – Live Journal, SFF Audio, Facebook

Mur Lafferty – Main Site

JR Blackwell – Voices of Tomorrow, WordPress

Ditched By Kate – Main Site – MUSIC: Shake Your Hair

Phil Rossi – Main Site

Chooch Schubert – Into The Blender and City of Heros podcasts

Lazy show notes. This episode is so late I just want to get it online.

Pip’s website.

Her books on Amazon.com.

PROMO: The Last Guardians

PROMO: The Shrinking Man Project

MUSIC: Booty Voodoo by Lee Coulter

Greetings Listeners,

This week we have another great Punkie intro as we bring you a blast from the past. This is our 2009 interview with author Mark Van Name. Mark is the author of a whole bunch of books, including my favorite, One Jump Ahead. Mark was the 2008 Compton Crook Award winner and spoke to me at Balticon 43. We discussed the craft of writing and much, much more.

He also has an excellent Zombie plan which relies heavily on my favorite military SF author, David Drake.

We also have a promo for Conglomeration 2011, an upcoming SF&F convention in Louisville, KY.

And don’t forget that there’s still time to enter our contest for a free copy of George Hrab’s Trebuchet.

Back in April I ran into author L. Jagi Lamplighter at Ravencon. She wanted to pick my brain about the best way to enter social media and the best places to spend her time. As a mom with a passel of kids she doesn’t have a lot of free time, but she wants to build her audience without wasting time. Always on the lookout for ground breaking panel ideas, I immediately added this one to the list of panels for Balticon 44 and stocked it with the best new media ho’s in my stable.

Please enjoy as you get schooled in the best new media practices by the best of the best in the field: Tee Morris, Philippa Balantine, Nathan Lowell, and Dave Slusher moderating. Also appearing in this panel are Allison Duncan and Paulette Jaxton.

This week is also the inaugural intro by the one and only Vivid Muse. There is not much that I can say about Viv, other than she it the picture in the dictionary next to the word “awesome”. I am elated to have her on board helping to write and record intros. She is the hostess with the mostess. If you don’t believe me check this out.