S&L Podcast - #104 - Live at Nerdtacular 2012

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We do the show in front of a live audience at Nerdtacular 2012 in Salt Lake City! Live singing of the Reading Rainbow theme, a house motto contest and questions from the audience ensue.

 

 

WHAT ARE WE DRINKING?
Wasatch 1st Ammendment Lager
 
QUICK BURNS

 

CALENDAR

BARE YOUR SWORD
To Unlem
Regarding Book Discussion

BOOK STUFF
July book poll is done! Leviathan Wakes is our July pick.


EMAIL
Hey Veronica and Tom!
I just posted this in the ""What Else Are You Reading?"" forum and wanted to make sure you saw it since I know you like supporting cool Kickstarter projects. This one is a ""techno epic/spiritual fiction"" graphic novel created by Wired magazine co-founder Kevin Kelly with several talented writers and artists and they've already completed the free-to-read book one and are looking for funding for book two.
Here's the post in GoodReads: The Silver Cord - free graphic novel
Here's the Kickstarter page: The Silver Cord -- A Techno-Epic Graphic Novel
I love the show and would love hearing about this in a future episode!
Thanks,
Dan

 

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S&L Podcast - #104 - Live at Nerdtacular 2012

S&L Video - #06 - George R. R. Martin Game of Thrones Special!

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Our Game of Thrones spectaular is here! We interview author George R.R. Martin and ask many of your questions, and we also talk philosophy with Henry Jacoby (Game of Thrones and Philosophy: Logic Cuts Deeper Than Swords). We drink blue wine while wrapping up Tigana, and much more!

Show Notes:

Three Hidden Keys Open Three Secret Gates

Audiobooks Times Three

THE OFFICIAL YEAR ZERO TRAILER

S&L Podcast - #103 - Interview with Seanan McGuire

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Ha! Didn't think you were getting an audio podcast this week did you? Well, we had a chance to interview Seanan McGuire, who also writes as Mira Grant, and we jumped at the opportunity to talk about zombies, SFSqueecast and Low Men in Yellow Coats. We think you'll like hearing about it too.
Interview!
Thanks everyone for your questions!
Seanan Maguire, AKA Mira Grant
Addendums

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S&L Podcast - #103 - Interview with Seanan McGuire

S&L Podcast - #102 - I, Dictator

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It's a roller-coaster ride of emotions this week, as we say goodbye to one of science fiction's greatest writers, revel in swordfighting, and declare Veronica all-powerful.  But there's also voting for the July book pick.  Don't let all that democracy go to your head though.
WHAT ARE WE DRINKING?
Veronica: Charles Shaw Shiraz 

QUICK BURNS
Nebula Award winners announced
Here Are the 1960s Science Fiction Novels Everyone Should Read
9/22 - 23 2012 Philip K. Dick Festival 

BARE YOUR SWORD
Tigana > A Word of Encouragement To Early Would-be Lemmers
Thanks to Sean for setting up Listopias! Vote for your favorite books. 
SciFi Listopia
Fantasy Listopia
TV, MOVIES AND VIDEO GAMES

BOOK CHECK-IN
July Book Poll 

EMAIL
Hello Tom and Veronica,
In your last episode you mentioned that you noticed that fantasy seems to be more popular in later years than scifi, after which veronica immediately dissmissed the notion and attributed it to the popularity of game of thrones. It is not true, although game of thrones is extremely popular it's popularity is a simptom and not a cause.
It is a well known fact that scifi had been slowing down as a ganre for 30 years, and in the same time the fantasy ganre had been on the rise, and it seems that during the last decade these trends had became more prominent.
Love your show,
Shaul from Israel.
Keeping a candle in the window for scifi.
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S&L Podcast - #102 - I, Dictator

S&L Video - #05 - Interview with James S.A. Corey & our Tigana kick-off!

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