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R.U. Sirius (writer, editor, talk show host, and cyberculture icon) is today's featured guest. As Editor-In-Chief of a new magazine called H+ (which is written by transhumanists, for...
Published: Wednesday, 17 December 2008 05:01:00
Duration: 00:49:05
Size: 22.47 MB
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Brain Wang (writer, speaker and noted futurist) is today's featured guest. Biases remain strong, Brian says, within government and the scientific community that have prevented the funding...
Published: Wednesday, 10 December 2008 05:01:00
Duration: 00:57:14
Size: 26.21 MB
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David Orban (futurist, speaker and business executive) is today's featured guest. This is the second half of hisinterview. (The first half is in the episode dated October 29, 2008.) Spimes,...
Published: Wednesday, 03 December 2008 05:01:00
Duration: 00:55:49
Size: 25.55 MB
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I've switched from using the prescription pain medicines to using a maximum dose of Tylenol. I still have to use my left hand for everything but the throbbing pain is gone and only
Published: Wednesday, 26 November 2008 04:49:00
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My recovery and my therapy are still proceeding well. I will have to wear the sling and sleep in an easy chair until I see the doctor on December 8. He might let me stop wearing the...
Published: Wednesday, 19 November 2008 01:14:00
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My recovery from surgery (14 days ago on October 29, 2008) is coming along well. My doctor and physical therapist are both pleased with my progress. Though I still take it every six...
Published: Wednesday, 12 November 2008 05:01:00
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The surgery on my right shoulder went very well. It was performed seven days ago on October 29, 2008. I am now in physical therapy and on medicines for the pain. Unfortunately, thanks...
Published: Wednesday, 05 November 2008 05:01:00
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David Orban (futurist, speaker and business executive) is today's featured guest. The Internet is big and still growing. How it grows and where it grows changes with time. During the...
Published: Wednesday, 29 October 2008 04:01:00
Duration: 00:48:29
Size: 22.2 MB
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Chris Phoenix (nanotechnology scientist, author and researcher) is today's featured guest. (This is the second half of the interview we started last week.) Chris Phoenix is the co-founder...
Published: Wednesday, 22 October 2008 04:01:00
Duration: 00:55:22
Size: 25.35 MB
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Chris Phoenix (nanotechnology scientist, author and researcher) is today's featured guest. Chris Phoenix is the co-founder and Director of Research for CRN (the Center for Responsible...
Published: Wednesday, 15 October 2008 04:01:00
Duration: 00:51:10
Size: 23.43 MB
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Julie Grimaldi, president of Police Futurists International, is today's featured guest. The mission of Police Futurists International is to foster excellence in policing by promoting...
Published: Wednesday, 08 October 2008 04:01:00
Duration: 00:53:01
Size: 24.28 MB
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Rudi Hoffman, the world's leading cryonics insurance provider, is today's featured guest. You can too take it with you! How combining cryonics and insurance can let you leave your million...
Published: Wednesday, 01 October 2008 04:01:00
Duration: 01:24:31
Size: 38.7 MB
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Larry Niven, the award-winning author of Ringworld, The Mote In God's Eye, and many other hard science fiction novels, is our featured guest. He reveals that Robert A. Heinlein was
Published: Wednesday, 24 September 2008 04:01:00
Duration: 01:13:55
Size: 33.84 MB
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Doctor Adrian Bowyer (inventor of the RepRap machine) is our featured guest. The RepRap machine is the first machine in all of human history that can make most of its own parts. Not...
Published: Wednesday, 17 September 2008 04:01:00
Duration: 01:22:38
Size: 37.83 MB
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Nick Bostrom (author, lecturer, philosopher at Oxford University, co-founder of the World Transhumanist Association and of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies) is today'sfeatured...
Published: Wednesday, 10 September 2008 04:01:00
Duration: 01:13:34
Size: 33.68 MB
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Neal Barrett Jr., the award-winning author of over fifty novels of science fiction, fantasy, mystery/suspense, and historical novels, as well as 'off-the-wall' mainstream fiction, is...
Published: Wednesday, 03 September 2008 04:01:00
Duration: 00:40:42
Size: 18.64 MB
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David Pearce, the British philosopher, activist and co-founder of the World Transhumanist Association, is today's featured guest. Topics include: Wireheading, recreational drugs, chewing...
Published: Wednesday, 27 August 2008 04:01:00
Duration: 01:06:43
Size: 30.54 MB
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Les Johnson, author, lecturer and NASA scientist, is today's featured guest. Topics include:one of NASA's advanced electromagnetic propulsion systems which uses no fuel and no rocket...
Published: Wednesday, 20 August 2008 04:01:00
Duration: 01:04:20
Size: 29.45 MB
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Ben Goertzel, noted scientist, author, futurist and pioneer in the field of Artificial Intelligence, is today's featured guest. Topics he discusses include: Artificial General Intelligence...
Published: Wednesday, 13 August 2008 04:01:00
Duration: 01:13:24
Size: 33.6 MB
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Owner of the BDSM and fetish performance-art theatrical troupe in Charlotte NC called Purgatory, our guest today goes by the name of 'Torch.' Purgatory's live events feature a festival...
Published: Wednesday, 06 August 2008 04:01:00
Duration: 00:45:15
Size: 20.72 MB
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Catherine Smith (insect geneticslab-tech), Bruce Gehweiler (publisher at Marietta Publishing), Mike McPhail and his wife Danielle Ackley-McPhail (authors), Warren Buff (chairman of
Published: Wednesday, 30 July 2008 04:01:00
Duration: 01:19:19
Size: 36.31 MB
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Authors David B. Coe and Travis Taylor; artist David Mattingly; and convention organizers Uncle Timmy, Brandy Spraker and Derek Spraker are our guests today. Topics: David Mattingly...
Published: Wednesday, 23 July 2008 04:01:00
Duration: 01:07:13
Size: 30.77 MB
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Harry Turtledove, David B. Coe, and Toni Weisskopf are our featured guests today. Interviewed as a group and recorded before a live audience, they discuss the future of books and the...
Published: Wednesday, 16 July 2008 04:01:00
Duration: 01:08:40
Size: 31.43 MB
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Mark Forman,who has lived and worked in Taiwan for over twenty years and is host of the podcast Big in Asia, is our featured guest. (His websites:business, personal, podcast.) An eye-witness...
Published: Wednesday, 09 July 2008 04:01:00
Duration: 00:58:40
Size: 26.86 MB
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Kevin J. Anderson, the best selling science fiction and fantasy author, is our guest today. (His website.) Co-author of the Dune prequels, his original works include the Saga of Seven...
Published: Wednesday, 02 July 2008 04:01:00
Duration: 00:55:14
Size: 25.29 MB
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Catherine Asaro,physicist and Nebula award winning author, is our featured guest. (Her website) She discuses nanotech, biotech, artificial intelligence and the singularity. She also...
Published: Wednesday, 25 June 2008 04:01:00
Duration: 01:05:57
Size: 30.19 MB
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Authors Robert V. Aldrich, Michael D'Ambrosio and Steve Cross are our featured guests today. Recorded on location at ConCarolinas (web): the science fiction and fantasy convention held...
Published: Wednesday, 18 June 2008 04:01:00
Duration: 00:49:20
Size: 22.59 MB
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Professor Amy H. Sturgis is our featured guest. She talks about many of the trends she sees in colleges in general, and the increasing scholarly studies of science fiction and fantasy...
Published: Wednesday, 11 June 2008 04:01:00
Duration: 00:35:12
Size: 16.12 MB
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Gary Jones (from the TV shows Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis) is joined by the authors Mike Resnick and David B. Coe, and the editor of Orson Scott Card's online magazine, Edmund...
Published: Wednesday, 04 June 2008 04:01:00
Duration: 01:09:38
Size: 31.88 MB
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Two Radio DJs, each from a different part of the country and having traveled a different career path, describe the trends which are forcing commercial radio to change from what it once...
Published: Wednesday, 28 May 2008 04:01:00
Duration: 01:07:41
Size: 30.99 MB
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Five professional artists discuss the trends in the popular arts, including comics, Muppets, childrenâs book illustrations, commercial art and movie animation (both hand-drawn and CGI)...
Published: Wednesday, 21 May 2008 04:09:00
Duration: 01:23:31
Size: 38.24 MB
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Paul Fischer, Information Technology professional and one of podcastingâs pioneers, is our guest today. The team of Paul Fischer and Martha Holloway are widely known for their Balticon...
Published: Wednesday, 14 May 2008 04:01:00
Duration: 00:57:48
Size: 26.47 MB
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Katherine Kurtz, the best selling author of many fantasy novels including those in her Deryni Series, is our featured guest, in an interview recorded at the science fiction and fantasy...
Published: Wednesday, 07 May 2008 04:01:00
Duration: 00:47:31
Size: 21.76 MB
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Authors C.J. Henderson, Allen Wold and Michael Ventrella are joined by Thomas cmdln Gideon (digital media activist and host of The Command Line podcast), The Wombat (RavenCon's Fan
Published: Wednesday, 30 April 2008 04:01:00
Duration: 01:16:47
Size: 35.15 MB
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David Brin, fresh from a personal appearance inside the virtual world of Second Life, is our featured guest. The best selling science fiction author, scientist and public speaker, expands...
Published: Wednesday, 23 April 2008 04:01:00
Duration: 00:48:38
Size: 22.27 MB
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Randal L. Schwartz, the widely known computer programmer and programming consultant, is our featured guest today.Randal has acquired a level of renown through his longstanding work
Published: Wednesday, 16 April 2008 04:01:00
Duration: 01:08:37
Size: 31.42 MB
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Greg Bear, the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of more than thirty books of science fiction and fantasy, is our featured guest today.Greg Bear has served on political and scientific...
Published: Wednesday, 09 April 2008 04:01:00
Duration: 01:01:34
Size: 28.19 MB
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Dr. Gregory L. Matloff, astronomer and author of six popular books on astronomy and astronautics, is our featured guest. His latest book, Living Off the Land in Space, was co-authored...
Published: Wednesday, 02 April 2008 04:01:00
Duration: 01:10:44
Size: 32.38 MB
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Kim Stanley Robinson, the best selling and award-winning science fiction author is our featured guest. Probably best known for his Mars trilogy (Red Mars, Green Mars and Blue Mars);...
Published: Wednesday, 26 March 2008 04:01:00
Duration: 01:22:16
Size: 37.67 MB
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Peter Norvig, Director of Research at Google (yes, THE Google) is our featured guest today.Peter is co-author of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, the leading textbook in
Published: Wednesday, 19 March 2008 04:01:00
Duration: 01:37:00
Size: 44.41 MB
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David B. Coe the award-winning, and critically acclaimed, author of nine fantasy novels (some of which have been translated into no less than six languages, including Russian, German,...
Published: Wednesday, 12 March 2008 04:01:00
Duration: 01:21:44
Size: 37.42 MB
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Michael Anissimov, the well known futurist, blogger and transhumanism activist is today's featured guest.Michael talks about many future-oriented topics such as: transhumanism and the...
Published: Wednesday, 05 March 2008 05:01:00
Duration: 01:11:00
Size: 32.51 MB
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Philippe Van Nedervelde, international spokesperson for the Lifeboat Foundation, is today's featured guest. (He is also Executive Director for the Foresight Nanotech Institute in Europe,...
Published: Wednesday, 27 February 2008 05:01:00
Duration: 01:33:00
Size: 42.28 MB
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Giulio Prisco (futurist, scientist, corporate consultant and until recently the Executive Director of the World Transhumanist Association) is today's featured guest. He serves on the...
Published: Wednesday, 20 February 2008 05:01:00
Duration: 01:19:00
Size: 36.23 MB
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Catherine Asaro, scientist and Nebula award winning author, is our featured guest; while Glen Walkerson who writes tech-manuals for the F-16 fighter jet provides a brief bonus interview.Catherine...
Published: Wednesday, 13 February 2008 05:01:00
Duration: 00:40:40
Size: 18.62 MB
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Paul Levinson (author, media commentator and professor) shares his ideas concerning nanotechnology, SETI, the Fermi Paradox, the probability and impact of our finding another Earth,...
Published: Wednesday, 06 February 2008 05:01:00
Duration: 00:54:30
Size: 24.95 MB
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Eric Flint, best selling author of more than 25 novels of science fiction and fantasy, as well as editor-in-chief of the online science fiction and fantasy magazine Jim Baen's Universe,...
Published: Wednesday, 30 January 2008 05:01:00
Duration: 01:12:33
Size: 33.21 MB
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George Dvorsky, executive editor of betterhumans.com, is this week's featured interview. Betterhumans.com is a webzine with News, Articles, and interactive features serving the transhumanist...
Published: Wednesday, 23 January 2008 05:01:00
Duration: 01:23:23
Size: 38.18 MB
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Matt Browne, an IT professional living in Frankfurt Germany, is this week's featured interview. With a Masters degree in Computer Science and Computational Linguistics, Matt Browne
Published: Wednesday, 16 January 2008 05:01:00
Duration: 01:27:00
Size: 39.58 MB
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Timothy Zahn, the bestselling author, is this week's featured guest. Possibly best known for his Thrawn Trilogy, which is a series of Star Wars novels set in the time after the movieReturn...
Published: Wednesday, 09 January 2008 05:01:00
Duration: 01:00:00
Size: 27.43 MB
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Jack McDevitt, the best selling author, kicks off the show's new weekly format. Each weekly episode will feature a single guest interviewed in greater depth than ever before possible.Hosted...
Published: Tuesday, 01 January 2008 05:01:00
Duration: 00:53:17
Size: 24.4 MB
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Authors Timothy Zahn and Kevin J. Anderson are joined by Professor Paul Levinson (media commentator), as well as by Stoney Compton and Walt (The Bananaslug) Boyes. Hosted by Stephen...
Published: Saturday, 01 December 2007 05:01:00
Duration: 01:38:00
Size: 44.61 MB
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Authors Kevin J. Anderson and Doctor Aubrey de Grey are joined by professional comedian Grant Baciocco as well as Walt (The Bananaslug) Boyes and Stoney Compton. Hosted by Stephen Euin...
Published: Thursday, 01 November 2007 04:01:00
Duration: 01:40:00
Size: 45.75 MB
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Senator, and presidential candidate, John McCain is joined by Jack McDevitt, Eric Flint, Doctor Aubrey de Grey, Alethea Kontis, Stoney Compton and Walt The Bananaslug Boyes. Hosted
Published: Monday, 01 October 2007 04:01:00
Duration: 00:50:25
Size: 55.47 MB
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Authors Jack McDevitt, Dr. Aubrey de Grey, Randal L. Schwartz and Stoney Compton are joined by Uncle Timmy (chairman of LibertyCon) and Walt, The Bananaslug, Boyes from Jim Baen's Universe...
Published: Saturday, 01 September 2007 04:01:00
Duration: 02:03:00
Size: 56.31 MB
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Authors Catherine Asaro, Hildy Silverman, Randal L. Schwartz and Stoney Compton are joined by editor Paula Goodlett from Jim Baen's Universe Magazine. Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this...
Published: Wednesday, 01 August 2007 04:01:00
Duration: 02:15:21
Size: 61.96 MB
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Battlestar Galactica cast member Bodie Olmos (son of Edward James Olmos and grandson of Howard Keel) is joined by the authors Robert Buettner, Mike Resnick, Randal L. Schwartz and Stoney...
Published: Sunday, 01 July 2007 04:01:00
Duration: 01:55:00
Size: 52.78 MB
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Authors Robert J. Sawyer, Mike Resnick, David B. Coe, Edmund Schubert, Randal L. Schwartz and Stoney Compton are joined by Walt (The Bananaslug) Boyes and Davey Beauchamps. Hosted by...
Published: Friday, 01 June 2007 04:01:00
Duration: 02:47:00
Size: 76.26 MB
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Authors Mike Resnick, Kim Stanley Robinson, Elizabeth Bear, Dave Freer, Paul Levinson and Stoney Compton are joined by Randal L. Schwartz (programming consultant and activist) and Walt...
Published: Tuesday, 01 May 2007 04:01:00
Duration: 02:22:33
Size: 65.26 MB
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Authors David Drake, Alan Dean Foster, Dave Freer, Paul Levinson and Stoney Compton are joined by Ginjer Buchanan (of Ace and ROC books), Lucienne Diver (a top literary agent) and Walt...
Published: Sunday, 01 April 2007 04:01:00
Duration: 02:00:55
Size: 55.36 MB
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Authors John Barnes, Kim Stanley Robinson, Elizabeth Bear, L.E. Modesitt, Jr. and Stoney Compton are joined by Ginjer Buchanan (of ACE and ROC Books), Walt Boyes (JBU's own Bananaslug)...
Published: Thursday, 01 March 2007 05:01:00
Duration: 02:35:12
Size: 71.05 MB
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Authors Elizabeth Bear, Walter Jon Williams and L.E. Modesitt Jr. are joined by Toni Weisskopf (the head of Baen Books), Ginjer Buchanan (from ACE and ROC books), Scott Dean (mayor
Published: Thursday, 01 February 2007 05:01:00
Duration: 02:06:00
Size: 57.41 MB
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Authors Kim Stanley Robinson, David B. Coe, Jay Lake, Catherine Asaro and Sarah A. Hoyt are joined by John R. Douglas (from scifipedia.scifi.com) and Bananaslug and Stoney (from Jim...
Published: Monday, 01 January 2007 05:01:00
Duration: 00:51:54
Size: 57.09 MB
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Authors Eric Flint, Mike Resnick, David B. Coe, Marjorie M. Liu, Catherine Asaro and Sarah A. Hoyt are guests, as are: Lucienne Diver (a major literary agent), Toni Weisskopf (the new...
Published: Friday, 01 December 2006 05:01:00
Duration: 02:32:00
Size: 69.65 MB
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Authors Catherine Asaro, Kim Stanley Robinson, Alan Dean Foster and Sarah A. Hoyt are joined by Toni Weisskopf (the new head of Baen Books) and Paul Levinson (author, professor and
Published: Wednesday, 01 November 2006 05:02:00
Duration: 02:30:00
Size: 68.6 MB
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Authors Kim Stanley Robinson, Alan Dean Foster, Sarah A. Hoyt and Stephen L. Antczak are joined by Tony V. Baughman (newspaper reporter) and Peter Stampfel (longtime editor, musician...
Published: Sunday, 01 October 2006 16:36:00
Duration: 02:10:09
Size: 59.58 MB
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Authors Alan Dean Foster, David Drake, Sarah A. Hoyt, Stephen L. Antczak and Doctor Travis S. Taylor are joined by Peter Stampfel, a professional editor and performing musician. Hosted...
Published: Friday, 01 September 2006 04:01:00
Duration: 02:02:30
Size: 28.04 MB
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Authors Alan Dean Foster, Spider and Jeanne Robinson, David Drake and John Ringo are joined by Doctor Travis S. Taylor (rising author and noted scientist) and Peter Stampfel (professional...
Published: Tuesday, 01 August 2006 16:13:00
Duration: 02:30:00
Size: 34.32 MB
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Authors David Drake, John Ringo and Jeanne Robinson are among the guests, as are Peter Stampfel (associate editor at DAW books), Doctor Travis S. Taylor (scientist, author and discoverer...
Published: Saturday, 01 July 2006 22:32:00
Duration: 01:50:20
Size: 25.25 MB
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Authors David Drake, John Ringo and Joe Haldeman are featured guests; as are Peter Stampfel (Editor at DAW Books) and three professional models: Aria Giovanni, Aimee Sweet and Linda...
Published: Thursday, 01 June 2006 20:57:00
Duration: 01:44:24
Size: 23.9 MB
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Authors Greg Bear, Vernor Vinge, Spider Robinson and Nancy Kress are joined by this year's winner of the Phillip K. Dick Award, M.M. Buckner; and the actress Lydia Cornell who played...
Published: Monday, 01 May 2006 17:12:00
Duration: 01:11:23
Size: 16.34 MB
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Authors Vernor Vinge, Greg Bear and Spider Robinson are joined by the astronomer Doctor Greg Matloff and the actor Jordan Marder from American History X, Virtuosity and LA Confidential....
Published: Friday, 07 April 2006 22:02:00
Duration: 01:39:40
Size: 22.81 MB
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SF authors Greg Bear, Spider Robinson and Nancy Kress are among the guests; as are experts in robotics, demographics and nanotechnology; along with the actor Michael Berryman, who may...
Published: Friday, 24 March 2006 19:41:00
Duration: 01:16:04
Size: 17.41 MB
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SF authors David Brin, Spider Robinson, Nancy Kress and Joe Haldeman are guests; as are Mike Treder (on nanotechnology), David Pascal (on cryonics) and from Red Dwarf (the award winning...
Published: Friday, 10 March 2006 21:34:00
Duration: 01:18:13
Size: 17.91 MB
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SF authors Spider Robinson and David Brin are among the guests; as are a mayor, the head of a nanotechnology organization, the legendary science fiction author Robert A. Heinlein (but...
Published: Friday, 24 February 2006 19:34:00
Duration: 01:31:16
Size: 20.89 MB
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SF authors David Brin and Joe Haldeman are among the guests, along with: the head of a nanotech org, a marketing consultant, a cryonic insurance provider, and the actress Robin Curtis,...
Published: Friday, 10 February 2006 18:13:00
Duration: 01:19:45
Size: 18.26 MB
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SF authors Nancy Kress and Joe Haldeman are among the guests, as are: an astronomer, a recording label executive, a transhumanist, a cryonics insurance provider, two teenaged girls,...
Published: Friday, 27 January 2006 19:50:00
Duration: 01:19:46
Size: 18.26 MB
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SF authors Joe Haldeman and Nancy Kress, a transhumanist, a physicist, and Jason's mother from Friday The 13th are amoung the guests. Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the January...
Published: Friday, 13 January 2006 19:42:00
Duration: 01:19:54
Size: 18.29 MB
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SF author Nancy Kress, a cryonic insurance provider, an astronomer, and an actor from Star Trek and Sliders are amoung the guests. Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the January
Published: Friday, 30 December 2005 17:17:00
Duration: 01:08:24
Size: 15.66 MB
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Published: Saturday, 24 December 2005 00:05:00
Duration: 00:01:22
Size: 1.32 MB
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SF author M.M.Buckner, an astronomer, a cryonic insurance provider, an actor from StarGate SG-1, and a dealer in antiques and fine art are amoung the guests. Hosted by Stephen Euin...
Published: Wednesday, 07 December 2005 20:27:00
Duration: 01:58:01
Size: 27.02 MB
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