Podcasts about asimov

🎧 Hemos rescatado este relato profundo de Isaac Asimov y lo hemos vestido con un nuevo paisaje sonoro. Un robot diferente. No fue diseñado para combatir, ni para calcular. Aprende como un niño. Y confía solo en una persona: la Dra. Susan Calvin. Pero el afecto entre humanos y máquinas… nunca es sencillo. ¿Puede una inteligencia artificial sentir algo parecido al amor? ¿Y qué precio tiene ese vínculo? 💙 El extraordinario divulgador científico y maestro de la narrativa que es Asimov nos ofrece esta magnífica historia de Susan Calvin, relato de una aproximación profunda al fenómeno de los robots, en el cual este autor es autoridad indiscutible. En sus relatos de robots, recogidos en Yo, Robot (1950) y El segundo libro de robots (1964), Asimov fijó las tres leyes de la robótica, que ponen al robot al servicio total del hombre y, aunque algunas veces parecen violarlas, se acaba descubriendo que esto sucede en aras de un interés superior de la Humanidad. Pero mientras los robots evolucionan hacia un modelo androide de inteligencia y lucidez moral superiores a las de los hombres, éstos, movidos por sus impulsos egoístas, incuban una profunda hostilidad hacia ellos. Una producción de Historias para ser leídas © voz y sonido Olga Paraíso, música y Fx Epidemic Sound licencia premium para este podcast autorizada. Voz Las tres leyes de la robótica, Camilo García, actor y director de doblaje. 🛑BIO Olga Paraíso: https://instabio.cc/Hleidas 📢Nuevo canal informativo en Telegram: https://t.me/historiasparaserleidas Gracias una vez más a todos los taberneros y taberneras galácticas 🚀que apoyan este podcast, Muy agradecida por todo el apoyo recibido. Puedes escuchar aquí SUEÑOS DE ROBOT: https://go.ivoox.com/rf/121528123 🤖 Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

Matty Dalrymple talks with Timons Esaias about WARFARE FOR WRITERS, including how military history can serve as an invaluable resource for authors crafting stories that involve conflict, whether they are set in fantasy, science fiction, or historical periods. While warfare might seem intimidating to many writers, Esaias provides insights and guidance on how to incorporate elements of military history and strategy into fiction in a way that's engaging and informative.   Interview video at https://bit.ly/TIAPYTPlaylist  Show notes at https://www.theindyauthor.com/show-notes    If you find the information in this video useful, please consider supporting The Indy Author! https://www.patreon.com/theindyauthor https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mattydalrymple   Timons Esaias is a satirist, writer and poet living in Pittsburgh. His works, ranging from literary to genre, have been published in twenty-two languages. He has been a finalist for the British Science Fiction Award, and he won the Winter Anthology Contest, the SFPA Poetry Contest, and the Asimov's Readers Award (twice). He is a recent Pushcart nominee and Intrepid Award winner for the story "To Do." He is widely deplored for using a pillow as a protagonist, and, in another story, Concord grape jelly packets as an antagonist. His poetry collection is Why Elephants No Longer Communicate in Greek.   Matty Dalrymple is the author of the Lizzy Ballard Thrillers, beginning with ROCK PAPER SCISSORS; the Ann Kinnear Suspense Novels, beginning with THE SENSE OF DEATH; and the Ann Kinnear Suspense Shorts. She is a member of International Thriller Writers and Sisters in Crime. Matty also writes, speaks, and consults on the writing craft and the publishing voyage, and shares what she's learned on THE INDY AUTHOR PODCAST. She has written books on the business of short fiction and podcasting for authors; her articles have appeared in "Writer's Digest" magazine. She serves as the Campaigns Manager for the Alliance of Independent Authors.

Welcome to Spacing Out With BB and Jason! We're covering Foundation, and this week we're discussing season two, episode nine, “Long Ago, Not Far Away”. Thanks for joining us! Feel free to reach out to us with your thoughts; We may use your comments on an upcoming episode. Email: spacingoutpod@gmail.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/SpacingOutPodInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/spacing_out_podcast/X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/Spacing_Out_Pod #SpacingOut

In this Random and Unscripted episode, Marco Ciappelli and Sean Martin connect the dots between AI, robotics, connected systems, and human behavior. How do machines reshape society—and how do we reshape ourselves in response? A conversation born from their latest articles.This Random and Unscripted episode is exactly what the title promises—a raw, thoughtful exchange between Marco Ciappelli and Sean Martin, sparked by their most recent written reflections. The starting point? Two timely articles. Sean unpacks the complexity of securing connected environments—what happens when devices, vehicles, sensors, and platforms become part of something bigger? It's no longer about protecting individual elements, but understanding how they operate as “systems of systems”—intertwined, dynamic, and vulnerable. Meanwhile, Marco revisits Robbie, Isaac Asimov's iconic robot story, to explore how our relationship with technology evolves over time. What felt like distant science fiction in the 1980s now hits closer to home, as AI simulates understanding, machines mimic empathy, and humans blur the lines between organic and artificial. The discussion drifts from cybersecurity to human psychology, questioning how interacting with AI reshapes society—and whether our own behavior starts reflecting the technology we create. Machines are learning, systems are growing more complex, and somewhere along the way, humanity is changing too. Stay random. Stay curious. ⸻

⸻ Podcast: Redefining Society and Technologyhttps://redefiningsocietyandtechnologypodcast.com _____________________________This Episode's SponsorsBlackCloak provides concierge cybersecurity protection to corporate executives and high-net-worth individuals to protect against hacking, reputational loss, financial loss, and the impacts of a corporate data breach.BlackCloak:  https://itspm.ag/itspbcweb_____________________________Robbie, From Fiction to Familiar — Robots, AI, and the Illusion of Consciousness June 29, 2025A new transmission from Musing On Society and Technology Newsletter, by Marco CiappelliI recently revisited one of my oldest companions. Not a person, not a memory, but a story. Robbie, the first of Isaac Asimov's famous robot tales.It's strange how familiar words can feel different over time. I first encountered Robbie as a teenager in the 1980s, flipping through a paperback copy of I, Robot. Back then, it was pure science fiction. The future felt distant, abstract, and comfortably out of reach. Robots existed mostly in movies and imagination. Artificial intelligence was something reserved for research labs or the pages of speculative novels. Reading Asimov was a window into possibilities, but they remained possibilities.Today, the story feels different. I listened to it this time—the way I often experience books now—through headphones, narrated by a synthetic voice on a sleek device Asimov might have imagined, but certainly never held. And yet, it wasn't the method of delivery that made the story resonate more deeply; it was the world we live in now.Robbie was first published in 1939, a time when the idea of robots in everyday life was little more than fantasy. Computers were experimental machines that filled entire rooms, and global attention was focused more on impending war than machine ethics. Against that backdrop, Asimov's quiet, philosophical take on robotics was ahead of its time.Rather than warning about robot uprisings or technological apocalypse, Asimov chose to explore trust, projection, and the human tendency to anthropomorphize the tools we create. Robbie, the robot, is mute, mechanical, yet deeply present. He is a protector, a companion, and ultimately, an emotional anchor for a young girl named Gloria. He doesn't speak. He doesn't pretend to understand. But through his actions—loyalty, consistency, quiet presence—he earns trust.Those themes felt distant when I first read them in the '80s. At that time, robots were factory tools, AI was theoretical, and society was just beginning to grapple with personal computers, let alone intelligent machines. The idea of a child forming a deep emotional bond with a robot was thought-provoking but belonged firmly in the realm of fiction.Listening to Robbie now, decades later, in the age of generative AI, alters everything. Today, machines talk to us fluently. They compose emails, generate artwork, write stories, even simulate empathy. Our interactions with technology are no longer limited to function; they are layered with personality, design, and the subtle performance of understanding.Yet beneath the algorithms and predictive models, the reality remains: these machines do not understand us. They generate language, simulate conversation, and mimic comprehension, but it's an illusion built from probability and training data, not consciousness. And still, many of us choose to believe in that illusion—sometimes out of convenience, sometimes out of the innate human desire for connection.In that context, Robbie's silence feels oddly honest. He doesn't offer comfort through words or simulate understanding. His presence alone is enough. There is no performance. No manipulation. Just quiet, consistent loyalty.The contrast between Asimov's fictional robot and today's generative AI highlights a deeper societal tension. For decades, we've anthropomorphized our machines, giving them names, voices, personalities. We've designed interfaces to smile, chatbots to flirt, AI assistants that reassure us they “understand.” At the same time, we've begun to robotize ourselves, adapting to algorithms, quantifying emotions, shaping our behavior to suit systems designed to optimize interaction and efficiency.This two-way convergence was precisely what Asimov spoke about in his 1965 BBC interview, which has been circulating again recently. In that conversation, he didn't just speculate about machines becoming more human-like. He predicted the merging of biology and technology, the slow erosion of the boundaries between human and machine—a hybrid species, where both evolve toward a shared, indistinct future.We are living that reality now, in subtle and obvious ways. Neural implants, mind-controlled prosthetics, AI-driven decision-making, personalized algorithms—all shaping the way we experience life and interact with the world. The convergence isn't on the horizon; it's happening in real time.What fascinates me, listening to Robbie in this new context, is how much of Asimov's work wasn't just about technology, but about us. His stories remain relevant not because he perfectly predicted machines, but because he perfectly understood human nature—our fears, our projections, our contradictions.In Robbie, society fears the unfamiliar machine, despite its proven loyalty. In 2025, we embrace machines that pretend to understand, despite knowing they don't. Trust is no longer built through presence and action, but through the performance of understanding. The more fluent the illusion, the easier it becomes to forget what lies beneath.Asimov's stories, beginning with Robbie, have always been less about the robots and more about the human condition reflected through them. That hasn't changed. But listening now, against the backdrop of generative AI and accelerated technological evolution, they resonate with new urgency.I'll leave you with one of Asimov's most relevant observations, spoken nearly sixty years ago during that same 1965 interview:“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”In many ways, we've fulfilled Asimov's vision—machines that speak, systems that predict, tools that simulate. But the question of wisdom, of how we navigate this illusion of consciousness, remains wide open.And, as a matter of fact, this reflection doesn't end here. If today's machines can already mimic understanding—convincing us they comprehend more than they do—what happens when the line between biology and technology starts to dissolve completely? When carbon and silicon, organic and artificial, begin to merge for real?That conversation deserves its own space—and it will. One of my next newsletters will dive deeper into that inevitable convergence—the hybrid future Asimov hinted at, where defining what's human, what's machine, and what exists in-between becomes harder, messier, and maybe impossible to untangle.But that's a conversation for another day.For now, I'll sit with that thought, and with Robbie's quiet, unpretentious loyalty, as the conversation continues.Until next time,Marco_________________________________________________

“I have a new primary user now…me.”The title character from M3GAN being bratty.When the first trailers for the original M3GAN arrived, nobody quite expected it to be one of the horror movie sensations of recent years. But it sure did! Or, we should say, she sure did. Because like all the best horror movie protagonists who go by their first names alone (Freddy, Jason, you get the picture), M3GAN became a pop culture force all her own.And for all the fun ridiculousness contained in that film (and, presumably, in the sequel, M3GAN 2.0 which is now in theaters), it actually raised some interesting philosophical questions. Of course, here at Does it Fly? we're interested in the actual mechanics of building and designing M3GAN herself, but we also are fascinated by the implications of using a realistic A.I. as a therapeutic device. Maybe M3GAN isn't the most nuanced subject for those conversations, but we dive into them, nonetheless.We also had some of the most fun we've had this year in our final section, putting M3GAN “on trial” for her actions, with our hosts, Dr. Hakeem Oluseyi (prosecution) and Tamara Krinsky, Esq. (ok, not really, but she's a hell of a defense attorney in this case) throw vibes out the window this week, so we'll see you in court!All this and more in the latest episode of Does it Fly? right here…https://youtu.be/nteIYlCFAUISUGGESTED VIEWING If you're reading this, you already saw M3GAN, right? Good. If not, despite its somewhat campy reputation, it really is a fun piece of sci-fi with a horror edge and it absolutely deserved to be the box office hit it was. Just note that we hadn't seen M3GAN 2.0 at the time of recording.While 2004's I, Robot isn't beloved by Asimov purists (see our “further reading” section below), it's better than its reputation suggests and comes from frequently underrated director Alex Proyas, so that's good enough for us if you want a little context for the “three laws of robotics” discussed here.Tamara also brings up Steven Spielberg's Minority Report as a film about a technology that has theoretically good intentions…until it's put into practice and immediately abused. FURTHER READING Do you want to delve a little deeper into the facts, concepts, and stories Hakeem and Tamara referenced in today's episode? Of course you do! Building Your M3GAN (please do not do this)There are three elements of M3GAN that are rooted in science fact but ultimately keep her as science fiction.Fine Motor ControlWe've mentioned the incredible work in humanoid (and canine) robotics being done by Boston Dynamics before, but they don't quite have the dexterity of M3GAN…yet.“Apparent Reasoning”Getting into all of the ins and outs of artificial intelligence and the debates surrounding it is beyond the scope of this show, but even ardent A.I. supporters admit that “true general intelligence” or the ability for machines to actually reason, isn't a thing…yet. Read more here.Power DensityEven assuming these other things were possible, the battery life of M3GAN is beyond the current “power density” of anything out there…for now.Asimov's LawsAs Tamara references, courtesy of Asimov's short story collection, I, Robot…see if you can spot how many of these M3GAN breaks!A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.Kids, Technology, Attention Spans…As Hakeem and Tamara discuss, while technology can be used therapeutically for kids, like anything else, there are potential drawbacks, particularly with attention spans. The Fisher-Price bear hackEven though this happened over a decade ago, it's still a warning light to heed!Hakeem's Favorite AstronautOK, yes, Cady Coleman does seem pretty awesome.WANT MORE FROM DOES IT FLY?For other humanoid robot fun with deep and potentially terrifying implications, have you seen our Blade Runner episode? Or might we suggest RoboCop?The new How to Train Your Dragon is currently in theaters and we took a look at the evolutionary possibilities of dragons right here.FOLLOW US!Stay in the loop! Follow DOES IT FLY? on:♦ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@doesitflypod?sub_confirmation=1♦ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@doesitflypodAnd don't forget to follow Roddenberry Entertainment for more sci-fi insights:♦ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/roddenberryofficial/♦ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/roddenberry♦ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/roddenberrypod.bsky.socialFor Advertising Inquiries: doesitfly@roddenberry.com

Alex Shvartsman (Brooklyn, NY) is the author of Kakistocracy (2023), The Middling Affliction (2022), and Eridani's Crown (2019) fantasy novels. Over 120 of his stories have appeared in Analog, Nature, Strange Horizons, et al. He won the WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction and was a three-time finalist for the Canopus Award for Excellence in Interstellar Fiction.His translations from Russian have appeared in F&SF, Clarkesworld, Tor.com, Analog, Asimov's, et al. Alex has edited over a dozen anthologies, including the long-running Unidentified Funny Objects series.This story originally appeared in Galaxy's Edge, no. 25, March 2017.Narrated by: Will StaglWill Stagl lives in Tucson Arizona and is a proud member of the StarShipSofa team. This month you'll likely find him tearing through The Devils by Joe Abercrombie at a local café or waiting for the next installment of Murderbot to air.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/starshipsofa. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to Spacing Out With BB and Jason! We're covering Foundation, and this week we're discussing season two, episode eight, “The Last Empress”. Thanks for joining us! Feel free to reach out to us with your thoughts; We may use your comments on an upcoming episode. Email: spacingoutpod@gmail.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/SpacingOutPodInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/spacing_out_podcast/X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/Spacing_Out_Pod #SpacingOut

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ . How do you deal personally, and organizationally, with exponential change? That's the subject of a new book, Super Shifts: Transforming How We Live, Learn, And Work In The Age Of Intelligence, and both of its authors are here. Dr. Ja-Naé Duane is a behavioral scientist who has worked with companies such as PWC, Saudi Aramco, AIG, and Deloitte. She is a member of the Loomis Council at the Stimson Center, collaborator with the National Institute of Health, and holds appointments at Brown University and MIT's Center for Information Systems Research. Steve Fisher co-founded the Futures Practice at McKinsey & Company and is the Managing Partner of the consultancy Revolution Factory. At FTI Consulting, he led the adoption of Generative AI for business model transformation, and is Chief Futurist at the Human Frontier Institute. Together, they have previously authored the bestseller The Startup Equation. In the conclusion of the interview, we're going to talk about Asimov's Laws of Robotics, AI's future enhancements to our lives, the different new species of humans that will emerge, and how the educational system needs to evolve. Steve and Ja-Naé have extended a special offer to the listeners of this show, to get two chapters of their book free via this link. All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.        

Get all the show notes and bonus content at wickedproblems.earth!How am I gonna be an optimist about this? This conversation's official exit music is from Bastille. But stick around for a twist. Turns out it's not just men who think about the Roman Empire.Polymath raconteuse Solitaire Townsend - sustainability consultant, co-founder of Futerra, UN envoy, award-winning author of the non-fiction The Solutionists - wasn't just thinking about Rome. She's wondering, ‘what if I combine some Roman Empire stuff with climate fiction in an alt-history universe in a novel featuring a kick-arse heroine?' And gets herself a two-book deal.Pre-order Godstorm from our Bookshop.org site or wherever you get good books.Wicked Problems is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.As a cli-fi/alt-history nerd with shelves stuffed with riffs on Rome from Gibbon to Mary Beard with stops for Asimov's Foundation series, I cannot tell you how pleased I am to be the first to introduce Solitaire Townsend as “novelist” on a podcast.We talk about her turn to fiction, why now, why the alt-history genre, kick around ideas about alt-history from Philip K. Dick to Star Trek (with some Ursula le Guin because why not), and how she deploys the form to tell a cautionary tale about a world that could have been a lot worse off in its climate breakdown — where Rome never fell, because of the 2nd-century CE invention of the combustion engine.As Solitaire says, if we started burning oil under Marcus Aurelius, climate change would have started much sooner. The warming and rising seas fuel extreme weather events called “God-storms”, caused - according to the Imperial version of Fox News - by lack of piety.Most of that is in the background only creating the more personal, intimate world in which her characters struggle - including a gladatrix-turned-governess seeking to rescue her charge from nefarious clutches and kicking serious arse along the way.In Conversation00:28 First Podcast as a Novelist00:56 Pitching 'Godstorm'02:18 Background and Career of Solitaire Townsend02:37 Solitaire, Sustainability Caesaris04:01 Nonfiction Writing Journey05:49 Role of Storytelling in Social Change07:22 Transition to Fiction Writing08:14 Discovering a Passion for Writing10:24 Exploring Alternate History14:05 Speculative Fiction and Personal Interests17:26 Themes and Inspirations for 'God Storm'20:14 Character Development and Empathy22:14 Reflections on Ursula Le Guin and Sci-Fi27:21 Conclusion and Book Pre-Order InformationPre-order Godstorm from our Bookshop.org site.Exit Music Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, we continue to drift along The Currents of Space, floating into chapters 7 through 12. This almost coincides with the second installment in Astounding Science Fiction for November 1952 (Chapter 7 was published in October).This is the middle section of Asimov's middle Galactic Empire Novel (in-universe chronologically, that is). The middle layer of a current is called the laminar flow. It flows somewhat faster than the currents near the water's surface or the riverbed. We'll leave it to you to decide if this part of the novel flows better or more quickly than the rest of the book.A lot is going on. Rik is regaining his memories and remembering the world of Spacioanalytics, the Five Great Squires are being blackmailed, Rik and Velona escape into space only to be forced into a room to discuss things with Lady Samia of Fife in classic Asimovian style and the Townsman embarks on a spree of killing and craziness that paradoxically culminates in his being stuck on a ship that he can't pilot.Check out the chapters, then join us for the conversation! Let's GO!

Welcome to Spacing Out With BB and Jason! We're covering Foundation, and this week we're discussing season two, episode seven, “A Necessary Death”. Thanks for joining us! Feel free to reach out to us with your thoughts; We may use your comments on an upcoming episode. Email: spacingoutpod@gmail.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/SpacingOutPodInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/spacing_out_podcast/X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/Spacing_Out_Pod #SpacingOut

Description Returning guest Branden Ushio joins Joe to talk about the Isaac Asimov short story “Runaround.” This short story is the first instance of Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics being used in any of his stories. These Laws have become … Continue reading →

Get ready to blast off into the cosmos and explore the realms of fantasy with this epic countdown of the most iconic 80s sci-fi and fantasy novels! From classic space operas to magical quests, we're diving into the decade that brought us some of the most beloved and influential works of science fiction and fantasy literature. Join us as we explore the novels that shaped the genre and continue to inspire new generations of readers and writers. Whether you're a fan of Asimov, Le Guin, or Tolkien, this episode is for you! So grab your favorite retro snack, settle in, and get ready to geek out over the most epic 80s sci-fi and fantasy novels!#FantasyForTheAges #ReadingRecommendations #Classics #ClassicLiterature #HugoAwards #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #FantasyFiction #SSF #BestBooks #Top3 #Top10 #booktube #booktuberWant to purchase books/media mentioned in this episode?The Anubis Gates: https://t.ly/o__KtThe Armageddon Rag: https://t.ly/f7GzBBattlefield Earth: https://t.ly/t0Vd3The BFG: https://t.ly/sPiJGThe Black Company: https://t.ly/QMwqBBlood Music: https://t.ly/SuT_aThe Boat of a Million Years: https://t.ly/UzkI1The Claw of the Conciliator: https://t.ly/vXt14Count Zero: https://t.ly/_SqcfCyteen: https://t.ly/V_UzDDownbelow Station: https://t.ly/RSQDdThe Dragon Waiting: https://t.ly/nR55QDragondrums: https://t.ly/q25QTDragons of Autumn Twilight: https://t.ly/Fky3GDragonsdawn: https://t.ly/CG3TTDragonsong: https://t.ly/qpqsBEnder's Game: https://t.ly/Z62MeEon: https://t.ly/D9i79Falling Free: https://t.ly/Jt1soThe Forge of God: https://t.ly/piwjpFoundation's Edge: https://t.ly/PoYXGThe Handmaid's Tale: https://t.ly/ylLsZHyperion: https://t.ly/UlIAMMagician: https://t.ly/1cjYJThe Mists of Avalon: https://t.ly/3e3l3Moreta, Dragonlady of Pern: https://t.ly/Xbwd3Neuromancer: https://t.ly/lN79INo Enemy But Time: https://t.ly/UYO5fThe Player of Games: https://t.ly/IXkD4The Postman: https://t.ly/orEv_Red Prophet: https://t.ly/APTM_Replay: https://t.ly/yD5IKThe Robots of Dawn: https://t.ly/AKCV_rSeventh Son: https://t.ly/pOVzXThe Shadow of the Torturer: https://t.ly/NGHa4Shards of Honor: https://t.ly/BFI7MThe Snow Queen: https://t.ly/FqI7oSpeaker for the Dead: https://t.ly/ljH7AStartide Rising: https://t.ly/ZJ_BTStrange Toys: https://t.ly/W48jDThe Sword of the Lictor: https://t.ly/o9OhaTea with the Black Dragon: https://t.ly/7buptTimescape: https://t.ly/wGiQmTitan: https://t.ly/j7L04The Uplift War: https://t.ly/lUOdLWhen Gravity Fails: https://t.ly/DwsyqWays to connect with us:Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FantasyForTheAges Follow Jim/Father on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/13848336-jim-scriven Join us on Discord: https://discord.gg/jMWyVJ6qKk Follow us on "X": @Fantasy4theAges Follow us on Blue Sky: @fantasy4theages.bsky.socialFollow us on Instagram: fantasy_for_the_ages Follow us on Mastodon: @FantasyForTheAges@nerdculture.de Email us: FantasyForTheAges@gmail.com Check out our merch: https://www.newcreationsbyjen.com/collections/fantasyfortheagesJim's Microphone: Blue Yeti https://tinyurl.com/3shpvhb4 ————————————————————————————Music and video elements licensed under Envato Elements:https://elements.envato.com/

Join me on a thrilling journey through the most iconic Science Fiction and Fantasy books of the 1970s! In this episode, we'll explore the groundbreaking novels that shaped the genre, from classic authors like Asimov and Le Guin to lesser-known gems that deserve more attention. Whether you're a seasoned SFF fan or just discovering the wonders of this incredible decade, you won't want to miss this fascinating trip down memory lane. So sit back, relax, and get ready to uncover the AMAZING SFF books that defined the 1970s!#FantasyForTheAges #ReadingRecommendations #Classics #ClassicLiterature #HugoAwards #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #FantasyFiction #SSF #BestBooks #Top3 #Top10 #booktube #booktuberWant to purchase books/media mentioned in this episode?The Blue Sword: https://t.ly/8FwR3Children of Dune: https://t.ly/bfTU-The Dark is Rising: https://t.ly/4H2cjDhalgren: https://t.ly/NywfiThe Dispossessed: https://t.ly/WK1qrDoorways in the Sand: https://t.ly/MPqlHDreamsnake: https://t.ly/lcsgbThe Forever War: https://t.ly/DmVBhThe Forgotten Beasts of Eld: https://t.ly/nPy5rThe Fountains of Paradise: https://t.ly/Yc4QFGateway: https://t.ly/xo_kAThe Gods Themselves: https://t.ly/Ei9qKThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: https://t.ly/_lsy5The Hollow Hills: https://t.ly/Y4azoKindred: https://t.ly/Z1wXIThe Lathe of Heaven: https://t.ly/HmfEWLord Foul's Bane: https://t.ly/gMP0oMan Plus: https://t.ly/Box7SThe Princess Bride: https://t.ly/SuswQRendezvous with Rama: https://t.ly/CysvnRingworld: https://t.ly/8I4giSalem's Lot: https://t.ly/dWAxoThe Sheep Look Up: https://t.ly/gjb8MThe Silmarillion: https://t.ly/iX9LiThe Stand: https://t.ly/UG_4mThe Sword of Shannara: https://t.ly/X6MvmA Time of Changes: https://t.ly/XPwC_The Tombs of Atuan: https://t.ly/LFs2qWatership Down: https://t.ly/Nx5-yWhere Late the Sweet Birds Sang: https://t.ly/IQnxsWays to connect with us:Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FantasyForTheAges Follow Jim/Father on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/13848336-jim-scriven Join us on Discord: https://discord.gg/jMWyVJ6qKk Follow us on "X": @Fantasy4theAges Follow us on Blue Sky: @fantasy4theages.bsky.socialFollow us on Instagram: fantasy_for_the_ages Follow us on Mastodon: @FantasyForTheAges@nerdculture.de Email us: FantasyForTheAges@gmail.com Check out our merch: https://www.newcreationsbyjen.com/collections/fantasyfortheagesJim's Microphone: Blue Yeti https://tinyurl.com/3shpvhb4 ————————————————————————————Music and video elements licensed under Envato Elements:https://elements.envato.com/

Hi everyone, thanks for listening. Drop a line or two about the episode! Writer-director duo Pushkar and Gayatri are here for a deep dive of their compelling action thriller, Vikram Vedha. They talked about both Tamil and Hindi versions of the film and shared fascinating insights and interesting stories behind the two films. Join us!If you enjoy the podcast, do consider supporting the show: https://www.buzzsprout.com/257788/supportFeedback/comments/questions: loveofcinemasf@gmail.comCredits:Produced and hosted by: Himanshu Joglekar (@loveofcinemasf8)Editor: Devika JoglekarMusic: Nakul AbhyankarCopyrights © Love of Cinema 2025Support the showIf you liked the episode and found value, please considering supporting the show. Your support will help me continue making good content for fans of Indian cinema everywhere across the world: https://www.buzzsprout.com/257788/support

Dans cet épisode :  Premières réflexions et analyses critiques du Projet LoiZéro de Yoshua Bengio et son équipe!Au programme: LoiZéro - Un projet ambitieux.De la force des impératifs commerciaux.Contrôler l'ours - Ou contrôler l'industrie qui crée les ours?Une prophétie irréfutable. Servir le bien de l'humanité...dans la joie!La loi Zéro dans Asimov.Difficulté conceptuelle: protéger un être humain vs protéger l'humanité.Banc d'essaiChapGPT comme psychologue.NotebookLM - «Plonger en profondeur» (DeepDive)... en français!Bonne écoute! Production et animation: Jean-François Sénéchal, Ph.DCollaborateurs et collaboratrices (BaristIAs):  Frédérick Plamondon et Stéphane Mineo.Collaborateurs et collaboratrices:  Véronique Tremblay, Stéphane Mineo, Frédérick Plamondon, Shirley Plumerand, Sylvain Munger Ph.D, Ève Gaumond, Benjamin Leblanc.Textes et sources mentionnés: Isaac Asimov, Le commencement – Prélude à fondation, Traduit de l'américain par Jean Bonnefoy, Éditions Libre expression, 1989. Yoshua Bengio lance LoiZéro : une nouvelle organisation à but non lucratif visant à concevoir des systèmes d'IA sécuritairesSupport the show

Bride of Chaotica! (Star Trek: Voyager, S5 E12) was recommended by Tonks (they/them) , who said: Mwahahaha! Intrepid crew of the USS JOYager and your Chief! You have finally met your match, for I, Tonks, present you with this truly magnificent episode to end your Voyager related woes!*cough* *cough* *cough*Where was I?This episode is a beautiful homage to a piece of media that inspired so many properties from Star Wars to Power Rangers to Doctor Who and a legacy that Star Trek is but one of many proud torchbearer of... That is of course the original Flash Gordon serials & its contemporaries.Just like your podcast, there's no hedging of bets, as this episode spends an impressive amount of time in glorious black & white. It revels in every single moment while injecting that vibrant Voyager charm & giving us a great Trek episode to boot!Fantastic (often over the top) acting, amazing whit, excellent one liners. It gave me an appreciation of older scifi like Flash Gordon, Asimov's Foundation, and 60s Who. Here's to Captain Proton! Here's to the Bride of Chaotica!Bride of Chaotica! first aired on January 27, 1999, written by story by Bryan Fuller, teleplay by Bryan Fuller and Michael Taylor, and directed by Allan KroekerParis' latest holodeck adventure The Adventures of Captain Proton takes an unexpected turn.The Joy of Trek is hosted by Khaki & Kay, with editing & production by Chief Engineer Greg and music by Fox Amoore (Bandcamp | Bluesky)Send us your recommendations, or support us on Patreon.Find us at joyoftrek.com · Twitter · Facebook

Welcome to Spacing Out With BB and Jason! We're covering Foundation, and this week we're discussing season two, episode six, “Why the Gods Made Wine”. Thanks for joining us! Feel free to reach out to us with your thoughts; We may use your comments on an upcoming episode. Email: spacingoutpod@gmail.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/SpacingOutPodInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/spacing_out_podcast/X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/Spacing_Out_Pod #SpacingOut

La tensión se dispara en este nuevo capítulo de Segunda Fundación, donde la figura de “La Señora” cobra un papel crucial. La lucha por el control del futuro de la galaxia alcanza un punto clave. Manipulación, estrategia y secretos mentales se entrelazan en este relato clásico de la saga de Asimov. Arcadia, brillante y decidida, se encuentra en Kalgan acompañando al bibliotecario Homir Munn. Su misión: acceder al antiguo palacio del Mulo y desentrañar los misterios que allí reposan. Pero un giro inesperado la sitúa en el centro de una intriga política y personal peligrosa, obligándola a replantear su camino… y su confianza en los que la rodean. Audiolibro narrado con voz humana, dramatizado y con ambientación sonora Ciencia ficción inteligente, con personajes inolvidables Sin IA – Solo para auténticos amantes de la buena narración Puedes escuchar este y todos los capítulos también en YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTDCcYVIZIGDGNIQY2GZeQg ☕ Si valoras nuestro trabajo, hazte fan del podcast y accede a contenido exclusivo: https://www.ivoox.com/ajx-apoyar_i1_support_666521_1.html Escucha todo nuestro catálogo en iVoox: https://go.ivoox.com/sq/666521 Descubre todos los libros de Marc Soto: https://author.to/todosmislibros Puedes apoyar también vía PayPal: https://paypal.me/divergenciacero Gracias por formar parte de esta travesía galáctica. Tu apoyo mantiene vivo este proyecto.

In this groundbreaking interview, we welcome author and researcher Ruth Leedy Carr

In this episode, Catherine and Paul discuss The Gods Themselves, Asimov's first Hugo win. They talk about the joys of being born during the Russian Revolution, their ideal moon culture, and why Asimov's science fiction has proved so enduring.

Mergulhe em um debate fundamental: As Três Leis de Asimov oferecem um modelo viável para a ética na IA ou um alerta profético sobre seus limites?

Welcome to Spacing Out With BB and Jason! We're covering Foundation, and this week we're discussing season two, episode five, “The Sighted and the Seen”. Thanks for joining us! Feel free to reach out to us with your thoughts; We may use your comments on an upcoming episode. Email: spacingoutpod@gmail.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/SpacingOutPodInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/spacing_out_podcast/X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/Spacing_Out_Pod #SpacingOut

This show has been flagged as Explicit by the host. New hosts There were no new hosts this month. Last Month's Shows Id Day Date Title Host 4369 Thu 2025-05-01 What LP records do I have? Fred Black 4370 Fri 2025-05-02 Playing Civilization IV, Part 8 Ahuka 4371 Mon 2025-05-05 HPR Community News for April 2025 HPR Volunteers 4372 Tue 2025-05-06 The power of GNU Readline - part 4 Some Guy On The Internet 4373 Wed 2025-05-07 Rsync with stdin as source oxo 4374 Thu 2025-05-08 24-25 New Years Eve show 7 Honkeymagoo 4375 Fri 2025-05-09 Long Chain Carbons,Eggs and Dorodango? operat0r 4376 Mon 2025-05-12 Re-research Lee 4377 Tue 2025-05-13 Password store and the pass command Klaatu 4378 Wed 2025-05-14 SQL to get the next_free_slot norrist 4379 Thu 2025-05-15 Mapping Municipalities' Digital Dependencies Trollercoaster 4380 Fri 2025-05-16 Isaac Asimov: The Rest of Asimov's Foundation Stories Ahuka 4381 Mon 2025-05-19 What Omni-Instantness Makes To My Brain and Your Brain? Antoine 4382 Tue 2025-05-20 Understanding Antenna Gain and the Decibel scale Paulj 4383 Wed 2025-05-21 Changing font in Arch Linux (Wayland) oxo 4384 Thu 2025-05-22 Browser and dedicated apps on the mobile phone Henrik Hemrin 4385 Fri 2025-05-23 Cable un-managment lol operat0r 4386 Mon 2025-05-26 Silly Tavern Spicy Roll Play operat0r 4387 Tue 2025-05-27 Did she say she flew light aircraft?! Elsbeth 4388 Wed 2025-05-28 BSD Overview norrist 4389 Thu 2025-05-29 Comments on hpr4373 Rho`n 4390 Fri 2025-05-30 Playing Civilization IV, Part 9 Ahuka Comments this month These are comments which have been made during the past month, either to shows released during the month or to past shows. There are 40 comments in total. Past shows There are 9 comments on 6 previous shows: hpr3511 (2022-01-17) "Podman like Vagrant" by Klaatu. Comment 1: Some Guy on the Internet on 2025-05-16: "It's show time" hpr4036 (2024-01-22) "The Tildeverse" by Claudio Miranda. Comment 2: leeand0 on 2025-05-25: "Another Public Access Unix" Comment 3: leeand0 on 2025-05-25: "Another Public Access Unix" hpr4072 (2024-03-12) "Piper text to speech engine" by Archer72. Comment 1: Archer72 on 2025-05-20: "Voice synthesis" hpr4281 (2024-12-30) "My ridiculously complicated DHCP setup at home" by Jon The Nice Guy. Comment 2: Windigo on 2025-05-23: "As advertised" hpr4367 (2025-04-29) "My first episode; 001 Introduction" by oxo. Comment 1: Torin Doyle on 2025-05-09: "Welcome!" Comment 2: archer72 on 2025-05-09: "Welcome. " Comment 3: oxo on 2025-05-30: "Thank you" hpr4368 (2025-04-30) "Lessons learned moderating technical discussion panels" by Trixter. Comment 1: Reto on 2025-05-06: "A link to one or more" This month's shows There are 31 comments on 15 of this month's shows: hpr4371 (2025-05-05) "HPR Community News for April 2025" by HPR Volunteers. Comment 1: Paul on 2025-05-05: "mp3 quality "Comment 2: Ken Fallon on 2025-05-05: "Good question !"Comment 3: Henrik Hemrin on 2025-05-08: "Community" hpr4372 (2025-05-06) "The power of GNU Readline - part 4" by Some Guy On The Internet. Comment 1: Torin Doyle on 2025-05-09: "SGOTI is so likeable."Comment 2: Dave Morriss on 2025-05-17: "VI Mode" hpr4373 (2025-05-07) "Rsync with stdin as source" by oxo. Comment 1: Paulj on 2025-05-09: "rsync capabilities"Comment 2: archer72 on 2025-05-09: "Rsync - paulj"Comment 3: Dave Morriss on 2025-05-17: "Enjoyable show!" hpr4374 (2025-05-08) "24-25 New Years Eve show 7" by Honkeymagoo. Comment 1: ClaudioM on 2025-05-08: "Ha! The signoff!" hpr4375 (2025-05-09) "Long Chain Carbons,Eggs and Dorodango?" by operat0r. Comment 1: Torin Doyle on 2025-05-09: "The cruelty of the egg industry."Comment 2: Bob on 2025-05-09: "Free range eggs"Comment 3: Some Guy on the Internet on 2025-05-16: "@Bob, Free range eggs." hpr4376 (2025-05-12) "Re-research" by Lee. Comment 1: paul on 2025-05-12: "sonos play back"Comment 2: Lee on 2025-05-13: "Sonos"Comment 3: Some Guy on the Internet on 2025-05-16: "LLMs in academic research" hpr4377 (2025-05-13) "Password store and the pass command" by Klaatu. Comment 1: Some Guy on the Internet on 2025-05-16: "Great show." hpr4379 (2025-05-15) "Mapping Municipalities' Digital Dependencies" by Trollercoaster. Comment 1: Some Guy on the Internet on 2025-05-25: " I agree with the intentions." hpr4380 (2025-05-16) "Isaac Asimov: The Rest of Asimov's Foundation Stories" by Ahuka. Comment 1: Some Guy on the Internet on 2025-05-27: "I'll have a go." hpr4381 (2025-05-19) "What Omni-Instantness Makes To My Brain and Your Brain?" by Antoine. Comment 1: Ken Fallon on 2025-03-19: "Interesting show."Comment 2: Antoine on 2025-03-20: "Nice study =)"Comment 3: Some Guy on the Internet on 2025-05-25: "My two cents."Comment 4: Antoine on 2025-05-29: "Education" hpr4384 (2025-05-22) "Browser and dedicated apps on the mobile phone" by Henrik Hemrin. Comment 1: lyunpaw@gmail.com on 2025-05-27: "I agree." hpr4385 (2025-05-23) "Cable un-managment lol" by operat0r. Comment 1: Some Guy on the Internet on 2025-05-27: "It's over 9000!" hpr4387 (2025-05-27) "Did she say she flew light aircraft?!" by Elsbeth. Comment 1: archer72 on 2025-05-18: "Thank you for sharing"Comment 2: KEVIN B OBRIEN on 2025-05-29: "I loved the show"Comment 3: Jim DeVore on 2025-05-31: "Thanks for the inspiration" hpr4388 (2025-05-28) "BSD Overview" by norrist. Comment 1: Dave Morriss on 2025-05-29: "Thanks for this"Comment 2: Jim DeVore on 2025-05-31: "Thank you!" hpr4389 (2025-05-29) "Comments on hpr4373" by Rho`n. Comment 1: oxo on 2025-05-29: "Hi Rho`n"Comment 2: Dave Morriss on 2025-05-29: "Good episode" Mailing List discussions Policy decisions surrounding HPR are taken by the community as a whole. This discussion takes place on the Mailing List which is open to all HPR listeners and contributors. The discussions are open and available on the HPR server under Mailman. The threaded discussions this month can be found here: https://lists.hackerpublicradio.com/pipermail/hpr/2025-May/thread.html Events Calendar With the kind permission of LWN.net we are linking to The LWN.net Community Calendar. Quoting the site: This is the LWN.net community event calendar, where we track events of interest to people using and developing Linux and free software. Clicking on individual events will take you to the appropriate web page. Provide feedback on this episode.

Catching up with the backup - it's a timely episode of the Garage Hour (not to be cornfused with the usual when-we-can upload freakout).  There are still a few more further-behind  units to be kicked into production, so don't worry - you won't miss a thing. What's in this 'un?  Good electronics versus new, "dumb" appliances versus robot vacuums conspiring with the 'fridge, and the importance of having a good TV repairman up your sleeve.  There's a stint with the inevitable: electric cars and why taxpayer dough makes them soft and flabby (and inevitable losers); a possible breakthrough in small trucks (because it's simple), the spy on the counter, the spy in your solar panels, the spy in A.I., and how Carl Sagan called this 50 years ago (and Asimov did 100 years ago).  Add on a few thoughts about the freedom to roam (and boat, when you're in Florida (man)), and more from JFS3, and you've got a show. While we're at it, this episode's got a few Excellent Weirdo R.I.P.s for some high-Q fellows who left us (and it's not okay): Joe Don Baker, George Wendt and Bruce Glover.  Make it more: music from Karma to Burn, KMFDM, Deadbolt, Fatso Jetson, I Mother Earth, Dire Straits, Rev. Heat, Clutch, the Allmans and Fun Lovin' Criminals.

Catching up with the backup - it's a timely episode of the Garage Hour (not to be cornfused with the usual when-we-can upload freakout).  There are still a few more further-behind  units to be kicked into production, so don't worry - you won't miss a thing. What's in this 'un?  Good electronics versus new, "dumb" appliances versus robot vacuums conspiring with the 'fridge, and the importance of having a good TV repairman up your sleeve.  There's a stint with the inevitable: electric cars and why taxpayer dough makes them soft and flabby (and inevitable losers); a possible breakthrough in small trucks (because it's simple), the spy on the counter, the spy in your solar panels, the spy in A.I., and how Carl Sagan called this 50 years ago (and Asimov did 100 years ago).  Add on a few thoughts about the freedom to roam (and boat, when you're in Florida (man)), and more from JFS3, and you've got a show. While we're at it, this episode's got a few Excellent Weirdo R.I.P.s for some high-Q fellows who left us (and it's not okay): Joe Don Baker, George Wendt and Bruce Glover.  Make it more: music from Karma to Burn, KMFDM, Deadbolt, Fatso Jetson, I Mother Earth, Dire Straits, Rev. Heat, Clutch, the Allmans and Fun Lovin' Criminals.

Welcome to Spacing Out With BB and Jason! We're covering Foundation, and this week we're discussing season two, episode four, “Where The Stars Are Scattered Thinly”. Thanks for joining us! Feel free to reach out to us with your thoughts; We may use your comments on an upcoming episode. Email: spacingoutpod@gmail.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/SpacingOutPodInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/spacing_out_podcast/X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/Spacing_Out_Pod #SpacingOut

Welcome to Spacing Out With BB and Jason! We're covering Foundation, and this week we're discussing season two, episode three, “King and Commoner”. Thanks for joining us! Feel free to reach out to us with your thoughts; We may use your comments on an upcoming episode. Email: spacingoutpod@gmail.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/SpacingOutPodInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/spacing_out_podcast/X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/Spacing_Out_Pod #SpacingOut

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Podemos decir que los otros programas de libros eran el entrenamiento para éste, ya que hablar de ciencia ficción siempre fue el objetivo de esta sección. Para inaugurar el género echamos mano de un artículo sobre los autores de ciencia ficción más influyentes de la historia y se dejan fuera a Asimov. Así que mal empezamos con el tema. También nos falla un integrante y dejamos fuera a Bradbury, por lo que nos reponemos como mejor sabemos y terminamos hablando de porno y conspiraciones. Aquí tenéis nuestra carta de presentación como alternativa a Los Retronautas.

Welcome to Mona Lisa Overpod, the show that asks the question "What is cyberpunk?" On each episode, hosts Ka1iban and author Lyda Morehouse dive into the genre that helped define sci-fi fiction in '80s and they break down its themes which remain relevant to our lives in the 21st century. Pull on your mirrorshades, jack into the matrix, and start your run with us today!Japanese manga, American comics, anime and western cartoons all owe an unpayable debt to Osamu Tezuka and his greatest creation Astro Boy. Astro (or Atom's) adventures were brisk and often silly, but they would subtly comment on more adult topics like discrimination, war, and moral ambiguity. Naoki Urasawa is mangaka who was heavily inspired by Tezuka's work, and in 2003 he released Pluto, an eight-volume mini-series that that took a deeper, darker look at the world of Astro Boy. When both humans and robots are being murdered by a shadowy killer, robot cop Gesicht will need to assemble the pieces of the mystery, as the potential victims try to reassemble their war-torn and shattered lives. In this episode, we discuss how both Tezuka's and Urasawa's styles reflect their respective eras, compare modern western comics and gekiga, lying as a signifier of sentience, the manga's restaging of the 2003 Iraq war and its depiction of PTSD and survivor's guilt. the families built by both humans and robots in the story, the subtle apartheid present in Astro's world, robots as people as commodities, Asimov's laws as guidleines and not rules, and becoming just "human" enough to kill. We also talk about fresh Shrimp Jesus, larcenous typography, Will Prompt Engineer For Food, being lodged in the canon, hitting on the robot nose, no Aibo left behind, The Killing of a Rest Stop Robot, dating your Roomba, machine gun butts, and the REAL reason Pluto has horns!Hurt robots hurt robots.The new edition of Lyda's book, Ressurection Code, is out now!https://wizardstowerpress.com/books-2/books-by-lyda-morehouse/resurrection-code/Read the saga of the "Download a Car" font!https://www.404media.co/tag/xband/Join Kaliban on Twitch weekdays at 12pm for the Cyber Lunch Hour!http://twitch.tv/justenoughtropePut Just Enough Trope merch on your body!http://justenoughtrope.threadless.comMLOP is a part of the Just Enough Trope podcast network. Check out our other shows about your favorite pop culture topics and join our Discord!http://www.twitter.com/monalisaoverpodhttp://www.justenoughtrope.comhttp://www.instagram.com/monalisaoverpodhttps://discord.gg/7E6wUayqBuy us a coffee on Ko-Fi!https://ko-fi.com/justenoughtrope

El hallazgo casual de un tesoro olvidado será el punto de partida de la historia de hoy. Ese relato nos conectará con otro hallazgo sorprendente y una búsqueda en Google que nos sumergirá en la vida de un soñador que marcó a generaciones de científicos, escritores y lectores. Hoy conoceremos el curioso destino de un hombre que nos hizo soñar con los viajes espaciales, pero cuyo final estuvo marcado por la oscuridad y el olvido. Support the show

That said, there are some problems with this book too, which made this a fun one to talk about - Brent liked it a lot more than Cody did. Plus, love em or hate em, Asimov thought up some very alien aliens.As always, no spoilers until the end when we get into the full plot explanation and discussion. NEW THRU 2025-05-15: Fill out our listener survey to tell us your favorite fantasy novels and series, and see them covered in an episode soon!Join the Hugonauts book club on discord!Or you can watch the episode on YouTube if you prefer videoSimilar books we recommend: The Foundation trilogy by Isaac AsimovThe Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry PournelleThe Expanse by James S.A. Corey

[Be advised: dark topics are covered on this week's episode]On JJBPod, we have three goals: to entertain, inform, and amuse. They are but impossible ideals. This week we continue with the 2021 anime 86, covering episodes 4-6, where things get DARK. We also talk about what makes an anime "old," the saddest songs, Psycho Frame, when to use callsigns, The Cosby Show, and Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics. | Follow us on Apple Podcasts | Support us on Patreon | Follow us on BlueSky | Subscribe to us on YouTube | Join the fan Discord

The Shrieking Horror ep.770 Andrea M. Pawley lives and writes in Washington, D.C.. She plans to start her own city quadrant as soon as the space-time continuum rips, and a new direction becomes available. Andrea attended Clarion West in 2017 and currently volunteers as the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association Mentorship Program Coordinator. Her stories have appeared in Clarkesworld, Asimov's Science Fiction, and Cosmic Horror Monthly. Andrea's slightly odd takes on writing, art, and Washington D.C. can be found at www.andreapawley.com.   This story was originally published in The Nameless Songs of Zadok Allen and Other Things That Should Not Be, a March 2023 anthology edited by JayHenge Publishing.   ---- Listen Elsewhere ---- YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/c/TallTaleTV Website: http://www.TallTaleTV.com   ---- Story Submission ---- Got a short story you'd like to submit? Submission guidelines can be found at http://www.TallTaleTV.com   ---- About Tall Tale TV ---- Hi there! My name is Chris Herron and I'm an audiobook narrator. In 2015, I suffered from poor Type 1 diabetes control which lead me to become legally blind for almost a year. The doctors didn't give me much hope, predicting an 80% chance that I would never see again. But I refused to give up and changed my lifestyle drastically. Through sheer willpower (and an amazing eye surgeon) I beat the odds and regained my vision. During that difficult time, I couldn't read or write, which was devastating as they had always been a source of comfort for me since childhood. However, my wife took me to the local library where she read out the titles of audiobooks to me. I selected some of my favorite books, such as the Disc World series, Name of the Wind, Harry Potter, and more, and the audiobooks brought these stories to life in a way I had never experienced before. They helped me through the darkest period of my life and I fell in love with audiobooks. Once I regained my vision, I decided to pursue a career as an audiobook narrator instead of a writer. That's why I created Tall Tale TV, to support aspiring authors in the writing communities that I had grown to love before my ordeal. My goal was to help them promote their work by providing a promotional audio short story that showcases their writing skills to readers. They say the strongest form of advertising is word of mouth, so I offer a platform for readers to share these videos and help spread the word about these talented writers. Please consider sharing these stories with your friends and family to support these amazing authors. Thank you!   ---- legal ---- All stories on Tall Tale TV have been submitted in accordance with the terms of service provided on http://www.talltaletv.com or obtained with permission by the author. All images used on Tall Tale TV are either original or Royalty and Attribution free. Most stock images used are provided by http://www.pixabay.com , https://www.canstockphoto.com/ or created using AI. Image attribution will be declared only when required by the copyright owner. Common Affiliates are: Amazon, Smashwords

This week on my podcast, I conclude my reading of my 2003 Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine story, Nimby and the D-Hoppers” (here’s the first half). The story has been widely reprinted (it was first published online in The Infinite Matrix in 2008), and was translated (by Elisabeth Vonarburg) into French for Solaris Magazine, as well... more

Author : Chris Campbell Narrator : Dominick Rabrun Host : Valerie Valdes Audio Producer : Adam Pracht In the Palace of Science originally appeared in Asimov's May/June 2024. In the Palace of Science (Part 2 of 2) By Chris Campbell (…Continued from Part 1) B-Side   Track Five–   The automaton was unfinished, but even in […] Source

“The Flowers I Grew for Her” by Avra Margariti Manawaker Patreon: https://patreon.com/manawaker/ Manawaker store: https://payhip.com/Manawaker Manawaker Discord: https://discord.gg/zjzA2pY9f9 More info / Contact CB Droege: https://cbdroege.taplink.ws The Flash Fiction Podcast Theme Song is by Kevin McCleod The Producer, Editor, and Narrator of the podcast is CB Droege Bio for this weeks author: Avra Margariti is a queer author, Greek sea monster, and Rhysling-nominated poet with a fondness for the dark and the darling. Avra's work haunts publications such as Strange Horizons, The Deadlands, F&SF, Podcastle, Asimov’s, Vastarien, and Reckoning. You can find Avra on twitter @avramargariti.

TWiV notes the passing of Klaus Conzelmann, then reviews reverse-zoonoses of 2009 H1N1 pandemic influenza A viruses and evolution in United States swine, and reduction in dementia incidence in recipients of Zostavax. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Support science education at MicrobeTV ASV 2025 Reverse zoonoses of 2009 H1N1 in US swine (PLoS Path) Zostavax reduces dementia (Nature) Letters read on TWiV 1207 Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Weekly Picks Rich – Certain Roller Coasters May Help Small Kidney Stones Pass Alan – Analog and Asimov's science fiction magazines Vincent – Science Under Threat in the United States: How scientists and institutions should respond Listener Pick Charles – Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not)

This week on my podcast, I once again read my 2003 Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine story, Nimby and the D-Hoppers” The story has been widely reprinted (it was first published online in The Infinite Matrix in 2008), and was translated (by Elisabeth Vonarburg) into French for Solaris Magazine, as well as into Chinese, Russian, Hebrew,... more

Author : Chris Campbell Narrator : Dominick Rabrun Host : Valerie Valdes Audio Producer : Adam Pracht In the Palace of Science originally appeared in Asimov's May/June 2024. In the Palace of Science (Part 1 of 2) By Chris Campbell Track One–   If you've found this recording, two things can be said for certain. The […] Source

This Monday's (2/17) Deep Focus is on trumpeter Don Cherry, a wonderful and deeply missed friend of WKCR.  Back in the Eighties, Don was a frequent guest on Mitch Goldman's show.  Don would guest DJ, talk to the audience, bring guests... It was an ongoing Eighties NYC Don Cherry party.  And if there was a blank cassette handy, Mitch would make a recording.  The tapes got tossed in a box and ended up deep in storage.    In January of 2024, Mitch and his guest, the bandleader, trumpeter, cultural historian, and raconteur Steven Bernstein, blew the dust off of a few of the tapes and took their audience on a time travel journey beyond the imagination of Asimov or Butler.  Cherry as a radio host was knowing, passionate, deeply curious, and remarkably generous. He was generous to his guests with his attention and generous to his audience (which is to say, us) by considering them to be part of the conversation.  It's very much the way he played music.    This Monday (2/17) from 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org.     Or join us when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/.  Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted.  It's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial.  We won't even ask for your contact info.   Find out more about Deep Focus at https://mitchgoldman.com/about-deep-focus/ or join us on Instagram @deep_focus_podcast.     Photo credit: by Mitch Goldman 2024.  All rights reserved.   #WKCR #DeepFocus #StevenBernstein #DonCherry #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #JazzInterview #MitchGoldman  

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.comNick is an entrepreneur and journalist. He was the founder of Gawker Media, the publisher of Gizmodo, and the editor of Valleywag. He began his career as a journalist with the Financial Times — as a derivatives and tech correspondent — and later founded a Silicon Valley news aggregator called Moreover Technologies. He's now working on Maze.com, which hosts a network map of near-future timelines.For two clips of our convo — on the growing global dominance of China, and the Chinese outcompeting Elon Musk — pop over to our YouTube page.Other topics: raised in Hampstead in the lower-middle class; a Jewish mom who fled the Communists in Hungary; growing up on sci-fi; Asimov's Foundation; attending Oxford like his father; game theory; being a young reporter in London, Hungary, Romania, and Singapore; pioneering the internet in the ‘90s; Foundation parallels with Singapore; Lee Kuan Yew; Chinese pragmatism; Taiwan; EVs in China; Musk's companies; tech theft between the US and China; DOGE and Trump reigning in Musk; Peter Thiel; Andy Grove; Uber's Travis Kalanick; Kara Swisher; Oculus' Palmer Luckey; how Silicon Valley is PR obsessed; Zuckerberg; David Sacks and crypto; Andreessen; drones; Ukraine; Thatcher; housing crisis in the UK; Orbán; the German Greens; Russian expansionism; the Poles and nukes; Trump's tariffs; Tucker's interview with Putin; the growing US-Europe rift; Greenland; AI and DeepSeek; and Nick's predictions as a futurist.Browse the Dishcast archive for an episode you might enjoy (the first 102 are free in their entirety — subscribe to get everything else). Coming up: Douglas Murray on Israel and Gaza, Evan Wolfson on the history of marriage equality, Francis Collins on faith and science and Covid, Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee on Covid's fallout, and Paul Elie on his book The Last Supper: Art, Faith, Sex, and Controversy in the 1980s. Please send any guest recs, dissents, and other comments to dish@andrewsullivan.com.

Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos thinks the U.S. can grow its way out of a massive deficit. He says we need a “growth mindset.” Stephanie and Dave call it a “suicide economic model,” and note that growth addiction is exactly what afflicts most policymakers around the world. The dynamic duo discuss the little-understood fact that a shrinking economy can be healthy – when it accompanies a contracting population. Bezos also proposes that we plunder the universe in order to protect Earth “we've sent robotic probes to all of the planets in this solar system. This is the good one.”) Also: The Congressional Budget Office lowers U.S. population projections, further stoking the fires of depopulation panic – the result of a lack of overpopulation literacy Isaac Asimov's “metaphor of the bathroom,” about the need for more regulation as our population grows (we dug up great video of Asimov; see link below) The parable of the Mexican fisherman A great poem, Rather Than by Sandy Trust. Featured in an episode of one of our favorite podcasts, Planet Critical (see link below)   MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE Congressional Budget Office Lowers U.S. Population Projectionshttps://www.cbo.gov/publication/61164#_idTextAnchor003 Immigrants Fill the Birth Dearth: U.S. Population Will Crater Without NewcomersNew York Daily News editorialhttps://www.nydailynews.com/2025/01/17/immigrants-fill-the-birth-dearth-u-s-population-will-crater-without-newcomers/ The Interview: From Amazon to Space — Jeff Bezos Talks Innovation, Progress and What's Next – 2024 New York Times DealBook Summit, with Andrew Ross Sorkinhttps://youtu.be/s71nJQqzYRQ?si=uTMCtPVaXw8WnDeD The Four Hour Work Week - by Tim Ferrisshttps://fourhourworkweek.com/ The Story of the Mexican Fishermanhttps://bemorewithless.com/the-story-of-the-mexican-fisherman/ A blog post on the website of Courtney Carver, author of Soulful Simplicity: How Living with Less Can Lead to So Much More, and Gentle: Rest More, Stress Less, and Live the Life You Actually Want Isaac Asimov on World of Ideas – 1988 Interview by Bill Moyershttps://youtu.be/CWovZtCQWfE?si=nnxiJJb8LmC026Q_ Planetary Solvency – Finding Our Balance With Nature – report by Institute and Faculty of Actuarieshttps://actuaries.org.uk/news-and-media-releases/news-articles/2025/jan/16-jan-25-planetary-solvency-finding-our-balance-with-nature/ Planetary Solvency: Sandy Trust – episode of Planet Critical with Rachel DonaldSandy Trust responds to one question with his poem, Rather Thanhttps://www.planetcritical.com/p/planetary-solvency-sandy-trust Give Us Feedback: Record a voice message for us to play on the podcast: 719-402-1400 Send an email to podcast at growthbusters.org The GrowthBusters theme song was written and produced by Jake Fader and sung by Carlos Jones. https://www.fadermusicandsound.com/ https://carlosjones.com/ On the GrowthBusters podcast, we come to terms with the limits to growth, explore the joy of sustainable living, and provide a recovery program from our society's growth addiction (economic/consumption and population). This podcast is part of the GrowthBusters project to raise awareness of overshoot and end our culture's obsession with, and pursuit of, growth. Dave Gardner directed the documentary GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth, which Stanford Biologist Paul Ehrlich declared “could be the most important film ever made.” Co-host, and self-described "energy nerd," Stephanie Gardner has degrees in Environmental Studies and Environmental Law & Policy. Join the GrowthBusters online community https://growthbusters.groups.io/ GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth – free on YouTube https://youtu.be/_w0LiBsVFBo Join the conversation on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/GrowthBustersPodcast/ Make a donation to support this non-profit project. https://www.growthbusters.org/donate/ Archive of GrowthBusters podcast episodes http://www.growthbusters.org/podcast/ Subscribe to GrowthBusters email updates https://lp.constantcontact.com/su/umptf6w/signup Explore the issues at http://www.growthbusters.org View the GrowthBusters channel on YouTube Follow the podcast so you don't miss an episode:  

This Monday's (2/17) Deep Focus is on trumpeter Don Cherry, a wonderful and deeply missed friend of WKCR.  Back in the Eighties, Don was a frequent guest on Mitch Goldman's show.  Don would guest DJ, talk to the audience, bring guests... It was an ongoing Eighties NYC Don Cherry party.  And if there was a blank cassette handy, Mitch would make a recording.  The tapes got tossed in a box and ended up deep in storage.    In January of 2024, Mitch and his guest, the bandleader, trumpeter, cultural historian, and raconteur Steven Bernstein blew the dust off of a few of the tapes and took their audience on a time travel journey beyond the imagination of Asimov or Butler.  Cherry as a radio host was knowing, passionate, deeply curious, and remarkably generous. He was generous to his guests with his attention and generous to his audience (which is to say, us) by considering them to be part of the conversation.  It's very much the way he played music.    This Monday (2/17) from 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org.     Or join us when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/.  Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted.  It's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial.  We won't even ask for your contact info.   Find out more about Deep Focus at https://mitchgoldman.com/about-deep-focus/ or join us on Instagram @deep_focus_podcast.     Photo credit: by Mitch Goldman 2024.  All rights reserved.   #WKCR #DeepFocus #StevenBernstein #DonCherry #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #JazzInterview #MitchGoldman  

Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about business, innovation, and managing life as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-business-qaQuestions include: Is academia the only real career path if one just wants to learn and do research? - What are the risks for using AI/LLMs to do my technical writing job so I can focus on prompt engineering for the future of my field? - You've at the very least been told all sorts of interesting things that you can't currently repeat publicly. Would you ever consider writing a book or articles that would be locked for x years? - How would you guarantee an AI doesn't break an NDA accidentally? - Will "LLM psychologist" be a future career path? - Are websites receiving fewer visits due to the rise of AI agent/assistant apps that provide advice on products or services? - I, Robot by Asimov is a highly recommended, excellent collection of problems with the three laws. - Any suggestions on how to get someone to review my papers? I'm an antisocial autodidact with no academic backing. It's been impossible to get anyone to even consider my work. - If you make better rules, people will find better loopholes. - What are your thoughts on how a business specifically can do high-quality science? Companies like big AI labs seem to be doing well in this respect. Are they a good model for other companies doing science in other fields? - Historically, how much effort have great scientists with important contributions put into showing, or "marketing," their ideas? - The best teachers are the ones that ask the right questions from the students. Not telling them what to think. - How is a STEM background useful in entrepreneurship?

This Monday's (2/17) Deep Focus is on trumpeter Don Cherry, a wonderful and deeply missed friend of WKCR.  Back in the Eighties, Don was a frequent guest on Mitch Goldman's show.  Don would guest DJ, talk to the audience, bring guests... It was an ongoing Eighties NYC Don Cherry party.  And if there was a blank cassette handy, Mitch would make a recording.  The tapes got tossed in a box and ended up deep in storage.    In January of 2024, Mitch and his guest, the bandleader, slide trumpeter, cultural historian, and raconteur Steven Bernstein blew the dust off of a few of the tapes and took their audience on a time travel journey beyond the imagination of Asimov or Butler.  Cherry as a radio host was knowing, passionate, deeply curious, and remarkably generous. He was generous to his guests with his attention and generous to his audience (which is to say, us) by considering them to be part of the conversation.  It's very much the way he played music.    This Monday (2/17) from 6p to 9p NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD or wkcr.org.     Or join us when it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/.  Subscribe right now to get notifications when new episodes are posted.  It's ad-free, all free, totally non-commercial.  We won't even ask for your contact info.   Find out more about Deep Focus at https://mitchgoldman.com/about-deep-focus/ or join us on Instagram @deep_focus_podcast.     Photo credit: by Mitch Goldman 2024.  All rights reserved.   #WKCR #DeepFocus #StevenBernstein #DonCherry #JazzRadio #JazzPodcast #JazzInterview #MitchGoldman  

This week's episode features a few news items, but as usual you have to listen closely to find them among our usual free-association digressions. Awards season is underway. Nominations/and or votging for the Nebulas, Locus Awards, and Hugo Awards (once again we are eligible in the Fancast category, and Jonathan in the Editor Short Form category) is underway, and just closed for the BSFA Awards. There's also, news from a major distributor in the US that may mark the beginning of the end of the mass-market paperback, while other publishing news involves the consolidation of three major print magazines—Asimov's, Analog, and F&SF—under a single new publisher. While at this point we don't know more than anyone else, this leads us into discussions of romantasy (and the growing SF or space opera equivalent), how the way readers have discover new writers has changed over time, the value (if any) of promotional letters and blurbs (which Gary is not very good at, it turns out), the growing popularity of premium and collectors' editions, and the difference between casual readers, fans, collectors, and simple accumulators of books. Other topics pop up as well: Jonathan's forthcoming anthology of stories in honor of Ursula Le Guin raises the question of which authors should be recognized with such anthologies, for example, and which have already been recognized and why. 

1058. If you struggle to sit down and write, you'll love this conversation with award-winning author and podcaster Mary Robinette Kowal. Learn how to conquer writing obstacles with tips on managing distractions, handling research rabbit holes, and making time to write — even when life gets in the way.Mary Robinette Kowal is the author of The Spare Man, Ghost Talkers, The Glamourist Histories series, and the Lady Astronaut Universe. She is part of the award-winning podcast Writing Excuses and a four-time Hugo Award winner. Her short fiction appears in Uncanny, Tor.com, and Asimov's. Mary Robinette, a professional puppeteer, lives in Denver. Visit at maryrobinettekowal.com.