Sci-Fi Saturday Night

Wow look FOUR news pieces about how much Sir Sarah loves Hayley Atwell:

Netflix Is Making “A Series of Unfortunate Events” TV Show

Ridley Scott Producing Arthur C. Clarke’s 3001: THE FINAL ODYSSEY as Syfy Miniseries

Our Interesting Weekend

Our guest tonight is author Chris Philbrook, who’s here to talk about his series Adrian’s Undead Diary. He’s actually the author of three different series, which range between post-apocolyptic horror, epic dark fantasy, and urban fantasy AND he’s a gamer AND he’s got blogs AND a bunch of other things.  We also have an in-depth discussion about the awesomeness that is Tracy Hickman, and the awfulness that is the Green Line.  If you’re interested, you can check out a free sample of Chris’s work.

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Tonight we buck convention and start with a guest! Miltos Yerolemou, who plays Serio Forel on Game of Thrones, joins us to talk about his role on the show, the con circuit, and even to tell us that he can’t tell us anything about his role in Star Wars Episode VII!

Then we moved to the News:

And we end our evening talking to Josh Dahl, the creator of Rapid City Below Zero: A good comic about bad guys. We talk about the concept behind the comic, the ways collaborations are like romantic relationships, and Operation Ivy.

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Tonight’s guests are from the improv comedy troupe Dorks in Dungeons. We were joined by the wonderful Kathleen Cavalaro (Director of Logistics), Tim Jacobs (Actor), and Brian Kelly (Game Master and Artistic Director). We spent a wonderful time learning about what they do, how they do it, and how our listeners can experience their magic live!http://www.scifisaturdaynight.com/podcast/talkcast252.mp3

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The show follows the exploits of a fantastical delivery service, The Special Parcel Service, as they try to make their deliveries against all odds (and their own incompetence). Game Master Brian Kelly guides the action while a band of improvisers plays the rotating cast of characters helping or hindering our heroes, and their success or failure is determined by the roll of a 20-sided die.

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Our Guests Tonight:

They’re here to talk about the new Horror anthology Insanity Tales, “An original anthology, from a host of original writers, not the same recycled themes.”

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Tonight’s guests are Andy Arnott and Alex Cormack, a pair of wonderful and hilarious comic book creators. They’re here to talk about their collaboration: I Play The Bad Guy (Facebook).  We also discuss individual projects they’re working on.

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Tonight’s guest is the fabulous author Timothy Zahn. You may know him from his Star Wars novels (especially Kriana’s favorite, the Mara Jade graphic novels), but tonight he’s here to tell us about his new book, Soulminder:

Soulminder began as a series of connected stories in the renowned science fiction magazine Analog, and will now be released as a complete novel for the first time. Zahn fans will be thrilled to find the conclusion of Adrian Sommer’s story in Soulminder, which completes the narrative. Readers of adventure science fiction will enjoy this fast-paced tale.

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Tonight’s guest:

Steven Savile has written for Doctor Who, Torchwood, Primeval, Stargate, Warhammer, Arkham Horror, and other popular game and comic worlds.

He won the International Media Association of Tie-In Writers award for his Primeval novel, SHADOW OF THE JAGUAR, published by Titan, in 2010, and The inaugural Lifeboat to the Stars award for TAU CETI (co-authored with Kevin J. Anderson). He also wrote Fantastic TV, a critical study of 50 years of science fiction on television.

Steve has worked as a teacher, a burglar alarm salesman (for a day), a double glazing salesman (for a day), an auditor for a building company (managed a few weeks until he found out one of the partners was embezzling from the firm), in a fish factory (again for a day – there’s a pattern here, can you see it?), and had various local Government jobs before becoming a full time writer.

In 2003, Kevin J Anderson burned Steve’s story. In an open fire. Stranded in a cabin. He claims it was a matter of survival.

Steven has lived in Sweden for the last 17 years.

We’re talking to him about his novel, London Macabre, which is part of the current Dark Fantasy Bundle over at StoryBundle. Steve is also curating the CyberPunk Bundle.

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Tonight’s Guest is Arthur Vincie, the writer and director of Found in Time. Here’s the official synopsis of the movie:

“A ‘lo-fi’ sci-fi film set in NYC in the ‘alternate present.’  Chris is a psychic who lives his life out of order, ‘slipping’ uncontrollably between the past, present and future.  When he commits a murder in his future, he realizes he has to change his present in order to prevent it from happening.  But how can he do that if he’s not even sure of *when* he is?”

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Tonight’s Guest:

John P. Murphy is a short fiction writer, writing sci-fi, mystery, and fantasy. He grew up in West Virginia, studied briefly in Japan, then moved to New Hampshire to get his doctorate in robotics. He currently works in the field of network security.

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