Light On Light Through

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 362, in which I review Bosch: Legacy, episodes 2.7-2.10, on Amazon Prime Video.

Read this review (with links to reviews of earlier episodes and seasons, including the very first season of Bosch).

Podcast review of Bosch: Legacy 2.1-2.6

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 361, in which Cora Buhlert, Joel McKinnon, and I talk about the second season of Foundation on Apple TV+.

Relevant links:

• our discussion of the first season of Foundation
• my reviews of the 2nd season of Foundation (with links to reviews of the 1st)
• Cora Buhlert's reviews of the 2nd season of Foundation
• Joel McKinnon's Seldon Crisis podcast

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 360, in which Joel McKinnon and Cora Buhlert join me for a conversation about The Beatles' "Now and Then". We had reconvened for a conversation about the second season of the Foundation series on Apple TV+ -- I had asked them to join me to talk about the first season back in 2021 -- but Joel, who's been in a band for decades, asked me what I thought of The Beatles new single, and this led to a conversation about the new single, The Beatles in Hamburg, AI and recording, and lots of observations you won't hear any place else. (And look next week for the conversation about Foundation that ensued.)

Relevant links:

• my review of "Now and Then"
• our 2021 conversation about the 1st season of Foundation

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 359, in which I interview Jack Dann about his book The Fiction Writer's Guide to Alternate History and other things science fictional.

Relevant links:

• Jack Dann's first publication, his 1974 Wandering Stars anthology
• How Paul Levinson discovered Wandering Stars back in 1974
• Jack Dann's The Fiction Writer's Guide to Alternate History
• Paul Levinson's review of The Fiction Writer's Guide to Alternate History
• Paul Levinson's alternate history story about The Beatles, "It's Real Life"
• Paul Levinson's reaction to The Beatles' "Now and Then"
• Chuck Todd interviews Paul Levinson about alternate histories

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 358, in which I review Bosch: Legacy, episodes 2.1-2.6, on Amazon Prime Video.

Read this review (with links to reviews of earlier seasons, including the very first season of Bosch).

Podcast review of Bosch: Legacy 2.7-2.10

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 357, in which I join Captain Phil on WUSB-FM Radio (Stony Brook, New York) and Marybeth Ritkouski, Michael Rizzo, and Roy Bjellquist in a 2-hour in-depth, fun discussion of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.

• my written reviews (w/spoilers) of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Season 2
• Roundtable podcast discussion of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Season 1
• "It's Real Life" story and radio play

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 356, in which I interview Chris Cosmain about his novel Novikov Windows and time travel. We also discuss how to succeed as a science fiction author.

• read my review of Novikov Windows
• buy the novel
• Chris Cosmain's web page
• read Paul Levinson's The Chronology Protection Case novelette
• watch The Chronology Protection Case movie
• video interview with director Jay Kensinger about The Chronology Protection Case movie
• "It's Real Life", Paul Levinson's alternate history story about The Beatles, discussed at the end of the podcast, read it here for free

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 355, in which I interview Dan Abella about the upcoming Psychedelic Film and Music Festival he is organizing. The Festival will take place October 20-22, 2023 in New York City, and there will both live and remote events and access.

Among the topics we discuss: Hegel's spirit of an age ... Impressionism ... Matthew Modine ... Dennis McKenna ... Les Bicyclettes de Belsize ... Lewis Carroll ... John Lennon ... popular culture labels ... Philip K. Dick ... psychedelics and science fiction ... reading backwards ... Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy ... The Man Who Fell to Earth and its sequel ... Strawberry Alarm Clock ... The Moody Blues

Links to some of what we discuss in the podcast:

• more about The Psychedelic Film Festival, October 20-22, 2023, Producers Club Theaters (358 W 44th St, New York, NY)
• video of this podcast interview
• more about Matthew Modine's I Am What You Are
• more about Dennis McKenna
• "Les Bicyclettes de Belsize" (Engelbert Humperdinck) ... And here's a beautiful cover I just discovered by Kelly Ann Cosentino
• "I Am the Walrus"
• my interview with Rufus Sewell about his role in the TV adapation of Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle
• "Incense and Peppermints"
• "Tuesday Afternoon"
• my 2021 interview with Dan Abella about his book, The Theater of the Mind

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 354, in which I join Captain Phil on WUSB-FM Radio (Stony Brook, New York), Marybeth Ritkouski, and Michael Rizzo, in a 2-hour in-depth, fun discussion of Star Trek: Picard Season 3.

Links to what is discussed in the podcast:

• my written reviews (w/spoilers) of Picard 3
• more (tc, links to reviews) about Robots Through the Ages
• video of Paul Levinson reading from an early version of "Robinson Calculator"
• "It's Real Life" story and radio play

Welcome to Light On Light Through, Episode 353, in which Captain Phil and I discuss the new anthology Robots Through the Ages -- with stories by Ambrose Bierce, Philip K. Dick, and other titans, as well as relative newbies like me -- and AI and Chat GPT.

Links to what is discussed in the podcast:

• more (tc, links to reviews) about Robots Through the Ages
• video of Paul Levinson reading from an early version of "Robinson Calculator"
• "The Civil Rights of Robots"
• "It's Real Life" story and radio play
• "Welcome Up" (words & music by Paul Levinson)
• "Welcome Up" instrumental remix by Cheeky CP & QRock639