Greetings Listeners, This week we have another great Punkie intro as we bring you a blast from the past. This is our 2009 interview with author Mark Van Name. Mark is the author of a whole bunch of books, including my favorite, One Jump Ahead. Mark was the 2008 Compton Crook Award winner and spoke [...]
Digg just released version 4 of their software and I’m posting this so I can integrate auto scan of my RSS feed into their service. 8d7a25de396a45e192d481290ea6530e
Thank you to all of you who checked in when the podcast stopped updating in iTunes. The problem has been fixed and the podcast will continue on with no signs of stopping.
I don’t see a Tweet from last night’s auto-posting of the Metamore City episode recorded live at Balticon 43. So let’s test this to see if everything is working as it should.
Part two of our sit down with Balticon 43 Special Guest of Honor, Scott Sigler. We talk about writing, new media, science, and so much more. PROMO: The Commandline Podcast PROMO: Nobilis Erotica PROMO: Tumbler, a podcast novel by Brand Gamblin MUSIC: Heaven’s a Lie by Lacuna Coil
In the grand tradition of the Internet, I’ve started up a fund to right a wrong. Jared Axelrod is one of the most creative people I’ve ever met. He is simply awesome. About a year ago he purchased my old Apple G4 Powerbook from me. I was really excited at the prospect of him being [...]
Balticon 41 (yes I made another mistake in the audio credits) Filk Guest of Honor, Maya Bonhoff reads a wonderful story about a magical detective agency.
We are exceptionally proud to announce that we have added New York Times Best Selling Author, Scott Sigler to Balticon 43 as Special Guest of Honor. Junkies, if you don’t have your room yet for Balticon, now is the time to book, before all the good rooms are gone. Balticon will be held at Marriott’s [...]
Mur Lafferty has released her novel Playing for Keeps for free as a PDF. A free book? There’s no such thing as a free book! What’s the catch? No catch. It’s free. But, Mur asks that if you like it you purchase it from Amazon.com on August 25. She’s making a run on Amazon and [...]
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Podcast on August 22nd, 2008
This episode is awesome. We talked with Matthew Wayne Selznick (WMS) at Balticon 41, back in May 2007, and we talk to him again in July 2008 to update the interview and discuss his Sovereign Summer Sunday, July 13, 2008. In fact, it’s an all MWS Balticon Podcast episode with a promo and music by [...]
It’s been a long time coming but we’re finally presenting our interview with Balticon 41 Guests of Honor Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. They’re latest collaboration is Inferno. Mark J. Gross, author of The Sci-Fi Scene column in Autograph Collector, shares the interviewing duties. PROMO: Stranger Things PROMO: Pieces Podcast MUSIC: To Earth for the [...]
I just found this through Boing Boing. Walter Jon Williams talks about his latest novel, Implied Spaces. At the end of the article is a link to an excerpt from Implied Spaces and a link to a free copy of his Nebula award winning story, The Green Leopard Plague. I found this through Boing Boing.
I got up early and finished fixing all the files. If you have any file problems, please leave a comment or send me an email. -Paul
Thanks to everyone who let us know about the file problems. Most of our files were some how invalidated on Podango. We’re in the process of restoring them, but we’re on vacation and it will take some time. We have restored everything up to episode 40. We’ll keep uploading the files as time and bandwidth [...]