Seldon Crisis: Beyond Foundation

Young Arkady Darell is crazy about the history of the Foundation and her grandmother Bayta's historic duel with the Mule. When her father and friends conspire to uncover the hidden workings of the fabled Second Foundation, she finds a way to join the conspiracy by stowing away aboard a spaceship bound for the vacation planet of Kalgan along with the Foundation's foremost scholar of Muliana, Homir Munn.

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Script by Joel McKinnon
Voices by Megan Skye Hale, Jon Blumenfeld, Amanda Kreitler, and Joel McKinnon
Theme Orchestration by Tom Barnes
Sound Design by Jeremy MacKinnon
Art by Mike Topping – despotica.com
Additonal music from Dream Protocol and Ashot Danielyan

Based on the novels of Foundation by Isaac Asimov.

Podcasts and other links for voice talent on this episode:

Amanda Kreitler

• Severed Fate
• Dimension Door
• @MargeGunderson4 on Twitter

Jon Blumenfeld

• Stars End Podcast
• @jblumenfeld100 on Twitter

Megan Skye Hale

• Professional website
• @skyesidhe on Twitter

Joel's personal Twitter handle is @joelgmckinnon and the SeldonCrisis official account is @SeldonCrisisPod.

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A conversation with science fiction author, media scholar, and musician Paul Levinson about the history and legacy of the Star Trek franchise, including his thoughts on the latest entry to the canon, Strange New Worlds. We discuss the philosophy and technologies featured on this great series of shows, and what its ultimate legacy might be.

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Paul Levinson online:

• Paul Levinson's Infinite Regress (blog and media reviews)
• Light on Light Through (Paul's podcast)
• Paul Levinson on Youtube
• The Silk Code (Amazon)

Video chat with Cora Buhlert and Joel McKinnon on AppleTV Foundation, Season 1

Video chat with Paul and Joel on Apple TV's Severance

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Always wanted to do a full season 1 analysis of the Apple TV version of Foundation and finally found a co-analyst. Priya from the Rehydrate podcast joins me to go over each episode and provide her insightful analysis. Priya and the Rehydrate crew are fresh off of a first reading of the Foundation trilogy and she watched the show fairly recently, so has quite a bit of insight as someone new to Asimov and the Foundation universe.

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Hear Priya, along with Dan and Thalia, on the Rehydrate podcast

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I get back to the mic to talk about an especially exhausting ski adventure, getting Covid afterward, and the Ukraine war before switching gears into more pleasant topics. I introduce listeners to the Long Now Foundation and what is so cool about it, and talk about a couple of great talks available for your enjoyment online.

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The Long Now Foundation

• The 10,000 Year Clock
• The Rosetta Project
• Manual for Civilization
• David Grinspoon - Earth in Human Hands
• Kim Stanley Robinson - Climate Futures: Beyond 02022

Science Fiction Remnant Podcast

Rehydrate Podcast

Theme Orchestration by Tom Barnes
Art by Mike Topping – despotica.com

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Something a little different. I read a work of fan fiction from a listener named Sarita1046. It's an intriguing and poetic piece linking some of the characters from the Apple TV Foundation universe with those in earlier works by Asimov, the robot detective novels featuring Elijah Baley and Daneel Olivaw.

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When the Stars Were Real by Sarita1046

Seldon Crisis Website (seldoncrisis.net)

Kim Stanley Robinson at  Long Now

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Caves_of_Steel

Theme Orchestration by Tom Barnes
Art by Mike Topping – despotica.com

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The ambitious and confident Bail Channis thinks he is on the trail of the Second Foundation. General Han Pritcher is consumed by jealousy and doubt, but seems to have secret knowledge as the two men huddle in a cold room on frigid Rossem. Someone is coming to their doorway. Is it the Mule? Is it someone else? Is Channis who he seems? Is Pritcher past his prime? All the action is in one small room. Something is about to give.

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Script by Joel McKinnon
Voices by Joel McKinnon
Theme Orchestration by Tom Barnes
Sound Design by Jeremy MacKinnon
Art by Mike Topping – despotica.com

Music by bandersn4tch from Pixabay "Dark Secrets of the Universe"

Based on the novels of Foundation by Isaac Asimov.

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Two visionary authors of independent science fiction share their visions of possible human futures. Tobias Cabral has humans living in a thriving Mars colony with intelligent robots interacting with humans while Erasmo Acosta's  envisions a billion years of human expansion through the galaxy relying upon rotating settlements constituting Dyson swarms which fully utilize the energy from their host stars.

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Tobias Cabral

Mechanical Error  

New Eyes
Review of New Eyes by Joel

Neo Cyberpunk, v2

Enter Darkness
Review of Enter Darkness by Joel

Erasmo Acosta

erasmix.com

Review of K3+ by Tobias

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The Mule dominates the galaxy and controls the planets and technology of the Foundation. He is not a happy conqueror, for he is unable to find the rumored Second Foundation despite five years of searching by Han Pritcher, now his loyally converted servant. He calls upon the unconverted and ambitious Bail Channis to lead him to his foe. Meanwhile, the speakers of the mysterious Second Foundation plot their defense.

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Script by Joel McKinnon
Voices by Amanda Kreitler and Joel McKinnon
Theme Orchestration by Tom Barnes
Sound Design by Jeremy MacKinnon
Art by Mike Topping – despotica.com

Based on the novels of Foundation by Isaac Asimov.

Rehydrate Podcast

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Isaac Asimov's time-travel masterpiece The End of Eternity ends with a profound philosophical statement about the future of humanity. That, and Stephen Hawking's birthday got me thinking about the value of doing challenging things like settling Mars and other worlds.

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The End of Eternity:
Isaac Asimov, Time Travel and 'The End of Eternity' (NPR)
The End of Eternity (Wikipedia)

Stephen Hawking:
80th Birthday Google Doodle (Youtube)
Stephen Hawking (Wikipedia)

The Space Settlements Argument:
We Are Doing Space Colonization Wrong (Erasmo Acosta on Medium)

The Mars Argument:
Mars for All (Evan Plant-Weir at The Mars Society of Canada)
The Mars Society (Website)

Id, Ego, and Us podcast

Theme Orchestration by Tom Barnes
Art by Mike Topping – despotica.com

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Isaac Asimov loved history and used many important lessons from the past in writing his stories, including his greatest epic Foundation. Historian TCA Achintya joins Seldon Crisis to share his unique perspective from his expertise as a scholar of the British Empire and a long time fan of Asimov and Foundation. Hear what lessons we can learn from looking back at the empire where it was said the sun never sets.

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Theme Orchestration by Tom Barnes
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