We sit down with Balticon 43 Special Guest of Honor, Scott Sigler, to talk about writing, new media, science, and so much more.

Promo: I Should Be Writing

Promo: Prometheus Radio Theater

Promo: Heat Flash

Music: Perfect Day to Die by The Transfer

Buy Scott’s books at Amazon

The Bad Astronomer himself, Dr. Phil Plait and Skepchick A Kovacs sat down with us at Balticon 43 to discuss science, skepticism, NASA, and social media. Dr. Plait is the president of the James Randi Educational Foundation a.k.a. The JREF. And A Kovacs is the JREF Director of Operations. When it comes to skepticism, there are few more active and honest people.

Paul proposes a project: Make NASA Interesting!

Take public domain footage (which is all of it) from NASA TV and do your own color commentary. NASA TV should be awesome, but it puts you to sleep. The science is incredible, but the presentation needs work. Think of what a sports color commentator could do to a live rocket launch.

Links:

The Skepchicks

Phil’s books are available on Amazon

Death from the Skies!: These Are the Ways the World Will End . . .

Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing “Hoax”

The Amazing Meeting

TAM London

Reports back from TAM7:

Evo @ 11

Skepticality

Geologic Podcast

Jonathan Coulton

Twitter Mentions:

Phil Plait

A Kovacs

Moon Ranger Laura

Mars Phoenix

Mars Rovers: Spirit & Opportunity

S.A.R.A.H. (the smart house from the TV show Eureka!

Balticon

It’s never too early to plan for Balticon 44. Now’s the time to take a peek at our first flyer for Balticon 44 and think about what you want to be doing on Memorial Day Weekend, 2010.

We are proud to announce that Tanya Huff will be the Balticon 44 Guest of Honor. More information will be available as we get closer to the convention.

That’s right! The schedule is now available online.

Balticon 41 (yes I made another mistake in the audio credits) Filk Guest of Honor, Maya Bonhoff reads a wonderful story about a magical detective agency.

Christiana Ellis has a new book available today. It’s her very first book. Nina Kimberly, The Merciless is available today on Amazon.com.

Ms. Ellis has released this free PDF. If you like it, head over to Amazon or your local book store and buy it.

It is also available for the Kindle, Nina Kimberly the Merciless: Kindle Edition

Thanks to Viv and Chooch from Into the Blender and the CoH Podcast for all their hard work.

Want to be in the next episode of Stranger Things? Send an email to: [email protected]

Get your email in soon! The Singularity approaches!

The Singularity will happen live at Balticon 43.

[ Correction: In the intro I say that Ms. Novik is reading from His Majesty’s Dragon. This is incorrect. The reading is from Empire of Ivory. – Paul ]

This episode’s main feature is the author reading by Naomi Novik. Ms. Novik is the author of 5 books in the Temeraire

series. 

Balticon 43 is coming up and the New Media track is going to be awesome. Listen to the intro to find out some of the highlights. Just some of the ground covered: The I Should Be Writing, Writer’s Workshop; Escape Pod Live, Stranger Things Singularity, and many many more.

Promo: The Seanachai – a podcast by Patrick E. McLean

Stoked for Balticon 43 yet? No? Where have you been? 

Not only do we have Scott Sigler as a Guest of Honor. But now we’re pleased to announce the addition of two more of Podcasting’s greats to the Balticon 43 line up. Dave Slusher of the Evil Genius Chronicles and Evo Tera co-author of Podcasting for Dummies and host of Evo @ 11 have both joined the roster of new media stars coming to Balticon. 

And if that doesn’t rock your world how about this new promo from Scott Sigler!

Get ready for Balticon and get book your room early before they’re all gone. Details for hotel rooms are available at the Balticon website.