The iPad as a productivity tool is led by Helen E. H. Madden, a.k.a. Cynical Woman. Joining her on the panel are:
Think the iPad is a toy? I did. Then I heard what these awesome panelist are doing to make themselves more productive using this “toy”. Listen in and be enlightened.
Promo: H.G. World
This is the geek parenting podcast from Balticon 45.
Panelists:
Promo: Tumbler – podcast – novel
Promo: Nobilis Erotica
2011 Compton Crook Award Winner James Knapp reads from his awesome debut novel State of Decay. More show notes after our air conditioner gets fixed.
This episode is an interview with Dave Slusher from Balticon 43. Dave is best know for his Evil Genius Chronicles podcast and blog. Dave and Paul talk about all sorts of things, as they usually do, but this time you get to listen in on this most interesting of interviews.
MUSIC: Death from the Skies, the Lazy Sunday version by George Hrab
PROMO: The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences – Tales from the Archives Podcast
PROMO: The Geologic Podcast
George Hrab talks about the many many many ways we know that the world is older than 6,000.
In case you’re wondering why this is important, there is a minority of religious people in the USA who believe in a “Young Earth” creationist theory. If you ever need to try to persuade one of these people that the are wrong, you’ll get a lot of good solid scientific information from this talk.
This is the first in a series of science lectures. We’ve cooked up a cool new intro to these science talks. The folks in order of appearance are: Evo Terra & Sheila Dee, Donna “Ms. Information”Mugavero, Jared Axelrod, and George Hrab. The music comes curtesy of the great and powerful John Taylor Williams. Many thanks to them all for their willingness to assist in this project.
Join the fun from Balticon 45 Improv panel. On panel were:
The panel is awesome and funny and I want to thank everyone who participated. The intro was recorded 7/17 and adds some interesting tidbits following up on our Pip Ballantine interview.
PROMO: Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences
PROMO: Adventures in SCI FI Publishing
PLUG: Trolley by Grig Larson at Amazon.com
What more is there to say. Chris Lester proposes to Dawn. Magic happens at Balticon 45.
Here’s an awesome piece for you. We’ve never done one quite like this before. This is a slide show with audio. The slides were prepared by Laura Burns and JR Blackwell. Our presenters, Jared Axelrod, Dr. John Cmar, and Arioch Morningstar have never seen the slides before. What follows is sheer brilliance.
The episode 100 extravaganza is original fiction by Christiana Ellis, Jared Axelrod, Steven H. Wilson, and Mur Lafferty. These are four of the original 10 podcasters from the first ever Podcasting Track at a sci-fi convention anywhere. I’m proud to say that over the years they have also become my friends. Four original stories. The first two are read by the author. The third is performed by Prometheus Radio Theatre. The final one is performed and edited by Paul Fischer.
Christiana Ellis – Main Site
Jared Axelrod – Main Site
Steven H. Wilson and the Prometheus Radio Theatre troop – Live Journal, SFF Audio, Facebook
Mur Lafferty – Main Site
JR Blackwell – Voices of Tomorrow, WordPress
Ditched By Kate – Main Site – MUSIC: Shake Your Hair
Phil Rossi – Main Site
Chooch Schubert – Into The Blender and City of Heros podcasts
Lazy show notes. This episode is so late I just want to get it online.
Pip’s website.
Her books on Amazon.com.
PROMO: The Last Guardians
PROMO: The Shrinking Man Project
MUSIC: Booty Voodoo by Lee Coulter
Here are the nominees for 2011. As soon as we know about more places to read & listen to them we will add links. For now enjoy and help us send congratulations to our friends Connie Willis, James Patrick Kelly, Rachel Swirsky, Howard Taylor, Mike Resnick, Phil & Kaja Folio, Stephen Moffet, & Starship Sofa for their nominations.
[EDIT - 4/25/11 - Added links to www.jimkelly.net for eBook versions - Expect to see audio version from Escape Pod in the near future.]
BEST NOVEL
Cryoburn, Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen)
Feed, Mira Grant (Orbit)
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit)
The Dervish House, Ian McDonald (Pyr; Gollancz)
Blackout/All Clear, Connie Willis (Spectra)
BEST NOVELLA
The Lifecycle of Software Objects, Ted Chiang (Subterranean)
‘‘The Maiden Flight of McCauley’s Bellerophon”, Elizabeth Hand (Stories)
‘‘The Sultan of the Clouds”, Geoffrey A. Landis (Asimov’s 9/10)
‘‘Troika”, Alastair Reynolds (Godlike Machines)
‘‘The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queen’s Window”, Rachel Swirsky (Subterranean Summer 2010)
BEST NOVELETTE
‘‘The Jaguar House, in Shadow”, Aliette de Bodard (Asimov’s 7/10)
‘‘Plus or Minus”, James Patrick Kelly (Asimov’s 12/10) – Word – PDF – Online
‘‘Eight Miles”, Sean McMullen (Analog 9/10)
‘‘The Emperor of Mars”, Allen M. Steele (Asimov’s 6/10)
‘‘That Leviathan, Whom Thou Hast Made”, Eric James Stone (Analog 9/10)
BEST SHORT STORY
‘‘Ponies”, Kij Johnson (Tor.com 11/17/10)
‘‘For Want of a Nail”, Mary Robinette Kowal (Asimov’s 12/10)
‘‘Amaryllis”, Carrie Vaughn (Lightspeed 6/10)
‘‘The Things”, Peter Watts (Clarkesworld 1/10)
BEST RELATED WORK
Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century: Volume 1 (1907-1948): Learning Curve, William H. Patterson, Jr. (Tor)
The Business of Science Fiction: Two Insiders Discuss Writing and Publishing, Mike Resnick & Barry N. Malzberg (McFarland)
Writing Excuses, Season 4, Brandon Sanderson, Jordan Sanderson, Howard Tayler, Dan Wells
Chicks Dig Time Lords: A Celebration of Doctor Who by the Women Who Love It, Lynne M. Thomas & Tara O’Shea, eds. (Mad Norwegian)
Bearings: Reviews 1997-2001, Gary K. Wolfe (Beccon)
BEST GRAPHIC STORY
The Unwritten, Vol. 2: Inside Man, Mike Carey; art by Peter Gross (Vertigo)
Girl Genius, Volume 10: Agatha Heterodyne and the Guardian Muse, Phil & Kaja Foglio; art by Phil Foglio (Airship Entertainment)
Grandville Mon Amour, Bryan Talbot (Dark Horse)
Schlock Mercenary: Massively Parallel, Howard Tayler (Hypernode)
Fables: Witches, Bill Willingham; art by Mark Buckingham (Vertigo)
BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION – LONG
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
How to Train Your Dragon
Inception
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Toy Story 3
BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION – SHORT
Doctor Who: ‘‘A Christmas Carol”
Doctor Who: ‘‘The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang”
Doctor Who: ‘‘Vincent and the Doctor”
Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury
The Lost Thing
BEST PROFESSIONAL EDITOR LONG FORM
Lou Anders
Ginjer Buchanan
Moshe Feder
Liz Gorinsky
Nick Mamatas
Beth Meacham
Juliet Ulman
BEST PROFESSIONAL EDITOR SHORT FORM
John Joseph Adams
Stanley Schmidt
Jonathan Strahan
Gordon Van Gelder
Sheila Williams
BEST PROFESSIONAL ARTIST
Daniel Dos Santos
Bob Eggleton
Stephan Martiniere
John Picacio
Shaun Tan
BEST SEMIPROZINE
Clarkesworld
Interzone
Lightspeed
Locus
Weird Tales
BEST FANZINE
Banana Wings
Challenger
The Drink Tank
File 770
StarShipSofa
BEST FAN WRITER
James Bacon
Claire Brialey
Christopher J Garcia
James Nicoll
Steven H Silver
BEST FAN ARTIST
Brad W. Foster
Randall Munroe
Maurine Starkey
Steve Stiles
Taral Wayne
JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARD FOR BEST NEW WRITER [NOT A HUGO AWARD]*
Saladin Ahmed
Lauren Beukes
Larry Correia
Lev Grossman
Dan Wells
*All John W. Campbell Award finalists are in their 2nd year of eligibility.
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 to me at Balticon 43. We discussed the craft of writing and much, much more.
He also has an excellent Zombie plan which relies heavily on my favorite military SF author, David Drake.
We also have a promo for Conglomeration 2011, an upcoming SF&F convention in Louisville, KY.
And don’t forget that there’s still time to enter our contest for a free copy of George Hrab’s Trebuchet.
Back in April I ran into author L. Jagi Lamplighter at Ravencon. She wanted to pick my brain about the best way to enter social media and the best places to spend her time. As a mom with a passel of kids she doesn’t have a lot of free time, but she wants to build her audience without wasting time. Always on the lookout for ground breaking panel ideas, I immediately added this one to the list of panels for Balticon 44 and stocked it with the best new media ho’s in my stable.
Please enjoy as you get schooled in the best new media practices by the best of the best in the field: Tee Morris, Philippa Balantine, Nathan Lowell, and Dave Slusher moderating. Also appearing in this panel are Allison Duncan and Paulette Jaxton.
This week is also the inaugural intro by the one and only Vivid Muse. There is not much that I can say about Viv, other than she it the picture in the dictionary next to the word “awesome”. I am elated to have her on board helping to write and record intros. She is the hostess with the mostess. If you don’t believe me check this out.
Punkie is back to intro this episode in which Paul interviews the award dominator himself, Paolo Bacigalupi. Paolo has won just about every award SF&F has to offer and the one’s he didn’t win he’s making room for on his bookshelf. Among these awards is BSFS’s own Compton Crook award which he won for The Windup Girl. If you love dystopia, you’ll love this book. Think of a world where gene modification has gone mad, and your right to grow and eat food is comes second to a corporation’s rights and patents on the seeds you’re growing. Don’t pay your licensing fees, then you don’t eat. This is the backdrop for one excellent and very well written tale.
But don’t take our word for it. Listen to the interview and hear it direct from the author’s mouth.
For the first time ever, we’re giving away prizes! We have four copies of George Hrab‘s fantastic new album, Trebuchet, to give away. All you have to do to enter this contest is leave us a review on iTunes, hopefully a good one. Just email us a screen shot or some other proof of your review to podcast at balticon dot org. Include your email address and mailing address in case you win.
The contest closes on Jan 1, 2011. We will chose 4 random winners and shortly there after we’ll send you your prize.
This contest is open to anyone on planet earth with a mailing address.
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