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A ruthless metal monster is programmed to destroy—and only one man can stop it. Robot Nemesis by E. E. Doc Smith. That's next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.Edward Elmer Smith, better known as “Doc” Smith, was born in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, back in 1890. He earned a degree in chemical engineering from the University of Idaho in 1914, and later worked as a chemist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington, D.C.While he had a solid career in science, he's best remembered today for his pioneering work in science fiction—especially the Skylark series and the Lensman universe. Over the years, he wrote more novels than short stories, helping lay the groundwork for the space operas that followed.We will discover our story on page 72 in Thrilling Wonder Stories Magazine, June 1939, Robot Nemesis by E. E. Doc Smith…Next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, Marooned on a world within a world, aided by a slim girl and an old warrior, Patrolman Sisko Rolf was fighting his greatest battle—to bring life to dying Mars. The Hairy Ones by Basil Wells.☕ Buy Me a Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/scottsV===========================Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/TheLostSciFiPodcastTwitter - https://x.com/LostSciFiPodInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/lostscifiguyThreads - https://www.threads.net/@scottscifiguy=========================== ❤️ ❤️ Thanks to All Our Listeners Who Bought Us a Coffee$200 Someone$100 Tony from the Future$75 James Van Maanenberg$50 Anonymous Listener$25 Someone, Eaten by a Grue, Jeff Lussenden, Fred Sieber, Anne, Craig Hamilton, Dave Wiseman, Bromite Thrip, Marwin de Haan, Future Space Engineer, Fressie, Kevin Eckert, Stephen Kagan, James Van Maanenberg, Irma Stolfo, Josh Jennings, Leber8tr, Conrad Chaffee, Anonymous Listener$15 Every Month Someone$15 Someone, Carolyn Guthleben, Patrick McLendon, Curious Jon, Buz C., Fressie, Anonymous Listener$10 Anonymous Listener$5 Denis Kalinin, Timothy Buckley, Andre'a, Martin Brown, Ron McFarlan, Tif Love, Chrystene, Richard Hoffman, Anonymous Listener Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Together they discussed the Nobles—the old prospector and the weary, frightened man. Then—utter terror struck! The Nobles Are Coming by Arthur Jean Cox. That's next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.Today's featured fiction is like a bite-sized candy bar—same rich ingredients, just in a smaller package. Arthur Jean Cox, born in 1929, was a science fiction fan before becoming an author. Based in the Los Angeles area, his work appeared under a variety of names, including Ralph Carghill, Jean Cox, Gene Cross, William Dean, and John Thames Rokesmith.From the pages of Fantastic Universe Magazine in October 1954, the same publication that brought us Office Call by Charles E. Fritch and My Past is Mine by Gerda Rhodes, turn to page 125, The Nobles Are Coming by Arthur Jean Cox…Next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, A ruthless metal monster is programmed to destroy—and only one man can stop it. Robot Nemesis by E. E. Doc Smith.☕ Buy Me a Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/scottsV===========================Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/TheLostSciFiPodcastTwitter - https://x.com/LostSciFiPodInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/lostscifiguyThreads - https://www.threads.net/@scottscifiguy=========================== ❤️ ❤️ Thanks to All Our Listeners Who Bought Us a Coffee$200 Someone$100 Tony from the Future$75 James Van Maanenberg$50 Anonymous Listener$25 Someone, Eaten by a Grue, Jeff Lussenden, Fred Sieber, Anne, Craig Hamilton, Dave Wiseman, Bromite Thrip, Marwin de Haan, Future Space Engineer, Fressie, Kevin Eckert, Stephen Kagan, James Van Maanenberg, Irma Stolfo, Josh Jennings, Leber8tr, Conrad Chaffee, Anonymous Listener$15 Every Month Someone$15 Someone, Carolyn Guthleben, Patrick McLendon, Curious Jon, Buz C., Fressie, Anonymous Listener$10 Anonymous Listener$5 Denis Kalinin, Timothy Buckley, Andre'a, Martin Brown, Ron McFarlan, Tif Love, Chrystene, Richard Hoffman, Anonymous Listener Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On Thursday April 30th, 2020 the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon will present a discussion and review of the 1934 to 1954 science-fiction Lensman series, by Edward Elmer Smith, PhD, a scientist in the food industry specializing in pastry, whose major accomplishment in food engineering was making powdered sugar adhere to doughnuts, and whose major accomplishment in science fiction writing was the creation of a sub-genre called “Space Opera” His Lensman series and its concepts and themes influenced Frank Herbert's Dune, Roddenberry's Star Trek, and Lucas' Star Wars. It even re-influenced the screen version of one of Smith's inspirations The 1912 Burroughs' John Carter, when Burroughs's Therns were rewritten by Andrew Stanton as Smith's evil “Eddorians” and their medallions given the powers of an Arisian Lens. Smith developed the concept of the Multiverse, laser and particle weapons and super computers years before they appeared. His concept of the Lensmen as an incorruptible Galactic police force, guided by secret masters from a hidden planet seems to have been inspired by Theosophy's “Ascended Masters” from Tibet, and King Arthur's knights of the Round Table and the Holy Grail. The Lensmen are obviously the origin of the Star War's Jedi.  Another imitator of Doc Smith was Issac Asimov with his Foundation Series. Asimov was so successful with his Foundation series that he beat out Doc Smith for the 1966 Hugo award for “the best all time science-fiction series.” But at least they declared that Doc's epic was runner up. So if you would like to look deeper into this and even review what happened when Doc ran one of his Lensmen for president and how Clarissa MacDoughil became the first Lenswoman, tune in and we'll activate the lens. 

Tedric by E. E. Smith audiobook. This is a wonderful combination of far future science fiction with Conan like sword and sorcery; lots of blood, gore, honor and evil. The immensely powerful hero, Tedric, is a man's man who refuses to accept the cruel human sacrifices demanded by the 'god' Sarpedion and is set on destroying him. To do this he needs some secrets of metallurgy that future social scientists are willing to give him. He manages to overcome all obstacles until of course he meets the dazzlingly lovely Lady Rhoaan who stops him cold. A great story written by the incomparable E. E. "Doc" Smith, author of the Lensman series. And there is a great sequel to this story which will be added to the catalog. It is called Lord Tedric.

First Lensman by E. E. Smith audiobook. The Secret Planet. No human had ever landed on the hidden planet of Arisia. A mysterious space barrier turned back both men and ships. Then the word came to Earth, "Go to Arisia!", Virgil Samms of the Galactic Patrol went--and came back with the Lens, the strange device that gave its wearer powers no man had ever possessed before. Samms knew the price of that power would be high. But even he had no idea of the ultimate cost, and the weird destiny waiting for the First Lensman. First Lensman is the sequel to Triplanetary, and the second book of E.E. "Doc" Smith's classic Lensman series. 

Marshal Weltin made his HEP Suzuki debut and talks about the transition from Gas Gas. Max Vohland is healed up and getting back to where he expects to be. Derek Kelley got his first top 10 moto at Thunder Valley. Doc Smith made his pro National debut

ZachO discusses being the Husky Ambassador, Hunter is ready to get back to 250 West action, Logan and his OF title sponsor, Hanna Ray, talk about how the deal came to be, and privateer Doc Smith talks about his first season of professional SX. Tyler Sudderth in studio

Jo Shimoda talks about new goals for 2022. A Ray is loving his Honda and full of laughs. Doc Smith in studio. Numerous giveaways this week

In a galaxy wracked with crime, only one thing stands between civilization and chaos: a bunch of wise-cracking, genocidal, extremely sexist space cops with magic jewelry! They are the thin shiny line, and they know what's best for the universe, because shut up, they just do. This week we take a look at perhaps the baseline for all post-war space opera, the cheesy but occasionally charming Lensmen series by E. E. "Doc" Smith. They're loose cannons, dammit, but they get results! Support us on Patreon and listen to the show a week early! Adam's Patreon Phil's Patreon What Mad Universe?!? on Twitter Phil's Twitter Adam's Twitter What Mad Universe on Facebook What Mad Universe on Instagram What Mad Universe RSS Feed Engineer/Producer: Alex Ross Theme song by Jack Feerick (c) 2021 Adam Prosser and Philip Rice. Music (c) its respective creators. This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

So it's 1978 and you're a teen and you've seen STAR WARS 10 times and there's no home video or streaming yet, and you're hungry for more space opera. Where can you go to get it? You go back to the source: E.E. “Doc” Smith and the LENSMEN series. Gather around, and give a listen to thrilling tales of what Jack Kirby called "techno-cosmic war..." --Please leave us a rating on Apple Podcasts/iTunes!-- Website: pendantaudio.com Twitter: @pendantweb Facebook: facebook.com/pendantaudio Tumblr: pendantaudio.tumblr.com YouTube: youtube.com/pendantproductions

This week sees the conclusion of 'Triplanetary.'  Humanity has developed a supership to see off the Nevian threat by using elements of Nevian technology, and sent it off deep into space.  Unexpectedly, the supership has travelled deep into space and encountered Roger, the space pirate we met at the start of this adventure, rebuilding his planetoid.  Meanwhile, our heroes Clio, Costigan and Bradley are captives on Nevia as zoo animals, but Clio and Bradley have been seized again.  Can they escape?  Can the supership stand up to Roger and the space pirates?  And will how will the situation between the Nevians and humanity conclude?If you'd like to support The Well Told Tale, please visit us on Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/thewelltoldtaleIf you're looking for my full length audiobooks, please visit: www.thewelltoldtale.netBooks - (buying anything on Amazon through this link helps support the podcast):Triplanetary -  https://amzn.to/37NollRFirst Lensman - https://amzn.to/3yW1II6Galactic Patrol - https://amzn.to/3iUhSw4The Skylark of Space - https://amzn.to/3ANEuEv I would like to thank my patrons: Toni A, Joshua Clark, Maura Lee, Jane, John Bowles, Glen Thrasher, Ruairi and Britt.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/thewelltoldtale)

We have reached the penultimate episode of 'Triplanetary', the opening of the seminal 'Lensman' saga.  We join the action on two fronts - Clio, Costigan and Bradley are frantically trying to escape the Nevians in a small craft.  Meanwhile, back on Earth, the Triplanetary service has been trying analyse Nevian technology, and are on the brink of launching their super ship.  But will it be enough to redress the balance?  If you'd like to support The Well Told Tale, please visit us on Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/thewelltoldtaleIf you're looking for my full length audiobooks, please visit: www.thewelltoldtale.netBooks - (buying anything on Amazon through this link helps support the podcast):Triplanetary -  https://amzn.to/37NollRFirst Lensman - https://amzn.to/3yW1II6Galactic Patrol - https://amzn.to/3iUhSw4The Skylark of Space - https://amzn.to/3ANEuEv I would like to thank my patrons: Toni A, Joshua Clark, Maura Lee, Jane, John Bowles, Glen Thrasher and Ruairi.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/thewelltoldtale)

Last time, our heroes managed to escape their captors, the Nevians, but they are still stuck on Nevia itself.  They are stranded on a spaceship with a damaged hull.  How will they escape?  And even if they can, what chance does humanity have against such an advanced species?If you'd like to support The Well Told Tale, please visit us on Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/thewelltoldtaleIf you're looking for my full length audiobooks, please visit: www.thewelltoldtale.netBooks - (buying anything on Amazon through this link helps support the podcast):Triplanetary -  https://amzn.to/37NollRFirst Lensman - https://amzn.to/3yW1II6Galactic Patrol - https://amzn.to/3iUhSw4The Skylark of Space - https://amzn.to/3ANEuEv I would like to thank my patrons: Toni A, Joshua Clark, Maura Lee, Jane, John Bowles, Glen Thrasher and Ruairi.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/thewelltoldtale)

Last week, our heroes finally met the Nevians, the utterly alien lizard-like race from far across the stars.  They are seeking iron, and won't let anything - not even the Triplanetary League - get in their way.  Costigan, Clio and Bradley are still set on escape, but how will they find a way out as they hurtle ever deeper into Nevian space?If you'd like to support The Well Told Tale, please visit us on Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/thewelltoldtaleIf you're looking for my full length audiobooks, please visit: www.thewelltoldtale.netBooks - (buying anything on Amazon through this link helps support the podcast):Triplanetary -  https://amzn.to/37NollRFirst Lensman - https://amzn.to/3yW1II6Galactic Patrol - https://amzn.to/3iUhSw4The Skylark of Space - https://amzn.to/3ANEuEv I would like to thank my patrons: Toni A, Joshua Clark, Maura Lee, Jane, John Bowles, Glen Thrasher and Ruairi.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/thewelltoldtale)

Last week, there was a revelation.  A distant alien race, the Nevians, has made contact, with devastating consequences, putting the battles between the Triplanetary League and space pirates into perspective.  This week, we find out more about the new arrivals.  Will we find out what happened to our heroes,  Costigan, Clio and Captain Bradley, who were caught up in the sudden appearance of the Nevians?If you'd like to support The Well Told Tale, please visit us on Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/thewelltoldtaleIf you're looking for my full length audiobooks, please visit: www.thewelltoldtale.netBooks - (buying anything on Amazon through this link helps support the podcast):Triplanetary -  https://amzn.to/37NollRFirst Lensman - https://amzn.to/3yW1II6Galactic Patrol - https://amzn.to/3iUhSw4The Skylark of Space - https://amzn.to/3ANEuEv I would like to thank my patrons: Toni A, Joshua Clark, Maura Lee, Jane, John Bowles, Glen Thrasher and Ruairi.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/thewelltoldtale)

Audio glitches again. They're less obvious on speakers. Hopefully we've actually fixed it this time.The director of Wonder Woman 1984 has joined the crusade to stop movies being released on streaming. She thinks they look fake. It's a good cause, but we're not sure the world is ready for this.Junk food lowers your life expectancy. Fruit is good for you. A new study has put numbers to just how good and bad some foods are for you.It's time to step into the Multiverse. Actually, not so fast, it's not a thing yet. But it will be soon, and people are really into it. And hopefully this time it won't involve insane developers killing player's meat bodies, or using it to make society even more monetised.Streaming Movies Are Fake- https://comicbook.com/dc/news/wonder-woman-director-patty-jenkins-says-streaming-service-movie-look-fake/- https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/newsletter/2021-08-31/how-wonder-woman-1984-director-patty-jenkins-really-feels-about-streaming-movies-the-wide-shot Fact : Junk Food Lowers Your Life Expectancy- https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/one-hot-dog-knocks-36-minutes-off-your-life-study-claims/ Screw The Multiverse..There Is The Metaverse- https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2021-08-20-what-is-the-metaverse-and-why-is-it-worth-so-much-money Other topics discussedDune's Theatrical Release Date Has Been Delayed in Australia- https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2021/09/dune-release-date-delayed-australia/Dune 2 is not a sure thing – but director Denis Villeneuve is optimistic- https://www.gamesradar.com/amp/dune-2-is-not-a-sure-thing-but-director-denis-villeneuve-is-optimistic/ Writers Guild of America, East (a labor union representing film and television writers as well as employees of television and radio news. The Writers Guild of America, East is affiliated with the Writers Guild of America West.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writers_Guild_of_America,_East Writers Guild of America West (a labor union representing film, television, radio, and new media writers. It was formed in 1954 from five organizations representing writers, including the Screen Writers Guild.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writers_Guild_of_America_West New Farm Cinemas (a cinema at 701 Brunswick Street, New Farm, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Farm_Cinemas 2001: A Space Odyssey (a 1968 epic science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick. )- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey_(film) Screen Actors Guild (The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) was an American labor union which represented over 100,000 film and television principal and background performers worldwide.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_Actors_GuildIMPACT World+: a globally regionalized life cycle impact assessment method- https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11367-019-01583-0 Frankfurter Würstchen (A Frankfurter (German for Frankfurt sausage) is a thin parboiled sausage made of pure pork in a casing of sheep's intestine.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurter_W%C3%BCrstchenAn Australian 'wellness guru' says staring directly into the sun is 'one of the best forms of free medicine'- https://www.businessinsider.com/pete-evans-says-staring-into-the-sun-is-a-form-of-medicine-2018-12?r=AU&IR=T Second Life (an online virtual world, developed and owned by the San Francisco-based firm Linden Lab and launched on June 23, 2003.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Life Mastodon (software) (free and open-source software for running self-hosted social networking services. It has microblogging features similar to the Twitter service, which are offered by a large number of independently run Mastodon nodes (known as "instances"), each with its own code of conduct, terms of service, privacy options, and moderation policies.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(software)How an avatar on Second Life sparked a real-life court case- https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/nov/25/second-life-internet Ready Player One (film) (a 2018 American science fiction adventure film based on Ernest Cline's 2011 novel of the same name. Directed by Steven Spielberg, from a screenplay by Zak Penn and Cline, it stars Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Lena Waithe, T.J. Miller, Simon Pegg, and Mark Rylance.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ready_Player_One_(film)Fortnite Is Letting You Relive MLK's 'I Have A Dream' Speech- https://www.npr.org/2021/08/27/1031674883/fortnite-mlk-i-have-a-dream-speech-martin-luther-king Guide to roleplaying a wedding (Although weddings are not recognized by World of Warcraft in any way (one does not get any benefits), couples can still get married simply for roleplaying purposes.)- https://wowwiki-archive.fandom.com/wiki/Guide_to_roleplaying_a_wedding Dwarf Fortress ((officially called Slaves to Armok: God of Blood Chapter II: Dwarf Fortress) is a construction and management simulation and roguelike indie video game created by Bay 12 Games. Freeware and in development since 2002, its first alpha version was released in 2006 and it received attention for being a two-member project surviving solely on donations.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_Fortress Sword Art Online (a Japanese light novel series written by Reki Kawahara and illustrated by abec. The series takes place in the near future and focuses on protagonist Kazuto "Kirito" Kirigaya and Asuna Yuuki as they play through various virtual reality MMORPG worlds.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sword_Art_OnlineShout Outs 29th August 2021 – WA researchers make history with first locally-made satellite launched into space - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-29/first-wa-satellite-binar-1-launched-into-space/100415996?fbclid=IwAR0Vtn6QTsYMHFVfZOVoHY4RqMOCA2D7seRFRmAHxXibQPABSbHGjepoJbo A small group of Perth researchers have made Western Australian history, using a device not much bigger than a vegemite sandwich. The Binar-1 satellite was launched into orbit on Sunday afternoon (Perth time) aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft from NASA's Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, US. The craft, which takes its name from the Noongar word for fireball, will now head to the International Space Station, where astronauts will release the satellite into low-Earth orbit. It marks the first time a WA-made satellite has been launched into space. Phil Bland, the director of Curtin University's Space Science Technology Centre, which built the device, says it won't be the last. "You're not succeeding in space unless you're flying stuff, so we are building the technology that is going to allow us to fly all the time," Mr Bland said. The Binar team are hoping to launch at least seven small spacecraft over the next two years, to prove their technology works. If it does, it could make a massive difference to the way Western Australians are able to access space. Binar researcher and PhD student Ben Hartig wrote about how important that would be for Australia. "By developing completely home-grown technology, we can avoid relying on expensive imported components, meaning the Australian space industry can stand on its own two feet while reaching for the heavens," he said.29th August 2021 – Astra Test Flight (Launch Vehicle 0006) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8Tdm797BzM&t=5612s Astra launched its fourth Rocket 3 vehicle, Rocket 3.3 (LV0006). The flight carried an instrumentation payload for the United States Space Force under the Space Test Program, and a separation of payload from the launch vehicle was not planned. Shortly after liftoff, a single engine failure caused the vehicle to drift horizontally several tens of meters sideways off the launch pad before ascending vertically. The vehicle deviated from its licensed trajectory and range safety terminated the flight at approximately T+2:28. The rocket reached a peak altitude of 50 km before crashing into the ocean downrange of the launch site. No injuries or damage to property were reported from this incident.30th August 2021 – Actor Ed Asner passes away at 91 - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-30/ed-asner-dies-aged-91-up-mary-tyler-moore-lou-grant/100417378?fbclid=IwAR2JabVjk-9-u9xa5mmjdKjjiOprn1NIXQOcpFOrNGdIA-orQN0CkGp-bSM Asner, whose diverse credits also included a key voice role in the acclaimed 2009 animated film Up, died at his home surrounded by his family, Asner was known for his liberal politics and his stint as Screen Actors Guild president in the 1980s when he criticised US involvement in Central America during the administration of a previous head of the actors' union, then-president Ronald Reagan. In a career of remarkable longevity, Asner acted into his 90s. Asner was integral to the success of the situation comedy Mary Tyler Moore, which ran on CBS from 1970 to 1977 and boasted one of the best assemblages of actors and writers in US TV history. Later in his career, Asner became a successful voice actor for animated TV shows and films and played Santa Claus in several projects, including the 2003 Will Ferrell comedy Elf. In the sentimental 2009 animated film Up, Asner provided the voice for the main character, 78-year-old Carl Fredricksen, who after the death of his beloved wife ties balloons to his house and floats off to fulfil his fantasy of exploring South America, only to find he has a youthful stowaway. The movie won an Oscar for best animated film and a nomination for best picture. Asner remained a busy actor into his 90s with appearances in such series as Dead to Me and Cobra Kai. He died of natural causes at his home in the Tarzana, Los Angeles.1st September 2021 – 15th anniversary of Idiocracy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy The film, written by Beavis & Butthead creator Mike Judge and Tropic Thunder co-writer Etan Cohen, imagines a world 500 years into the future, when civilization has all but collapsed because humanity has become irretrievably stupid. It illustrates how this happened with a voice-of-God narrator and a comparative case study: the high IQ yuppie couple who sensibly wait and wait to have kids until they can't anymore on one side, and the trailer trash meatheads (really no other way to describe them) with the giant brood of neglected children and Maury Povich-esque sex life who keep procreating at an alarming rate on the other. The film was not screened for critics, and the distributor, 20th Century Fox, was accused of abandoning it. Despite its lack of a major theatrical release, which resulted in a mere $495,000 gross at the box office, the film received positive reviews from critics and has become a cult film. During the 2016 presidential primaries, writer Etan Cohen and others expressed opinions that the film's predictions were converging on accuracy, a sentiment repeated by director Judge during the general election. At the time, Judge also compared Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump—who later won and became President of the United States—to the film's wrestler-turned-president, Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho. When asked about predicting the future, he remarked, "I'm no prophet, I was off by 490 years."Remembrances31st August 1965 – E.E.Smith - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._E._Smith Edward Elmer Smith, publishing as E. E. Smith, Ph.D. and later as E. E. "Doc" Smith, was an American food engineer (specializing in doughnut and pastry mixes) and science-fiction author, best known for the Lensman and Skylark series. He is sometimes called the father of space opera. Smith's work is strongly identified with the beginnings of US pulp sf as a separate marketing genre, and did much to define its essential territory: galactic space dominated by Galactic Empires, these usually being run by humans, though Aliens appear frequently, not only as Villains; Space Opera plots, featuring Heroes and their Inventions, are the norm; Wars rage across the parsecs. But although Smith's his protagonists fit comfortably into this universe, it is the case that his greatest protagonists, the Lensmen, are also soldiers: willing employees in a higher cause. His earlier heroes may be freelance, and seem in retrospect singularly detached from the universes they dazzle, but his later heroes – like Kim Kinnison himself – advance through promotion, and rule their universes as dictators in all but name, for the cause of Good. When in 1915 Smith began to write the first novel of his Skylark series with Mrs Lee Hawkins Garby, a neighbour seconded to help with feminine matters such as dialogue, no prior models existed in popular fiction to source the combined exuberance and scale that The Skylark of Space (written 1915-1920; August-October 1928 Amazing; 1946; rev with cuts 1958) demonstrated when it finally began to appear in Amazing Stories, two years after the start of that magazine, in the same issue as Philip Nowlan's "Armageddon – 2419 A.D." (August 1928 Amazing), the story which introduced Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. It was not until he began to unveil the architectural structure of his second and definitive Series that Smith was able to demonstrate the thoroughness of his thinking about Space Opera. And it is with the Lensman series – or The History of Civilization, the over-title for the 1953-1955 limited-edition boxed reprint of the original books – that his name is most strongly and justly associated. The Lensman series inspired one of the earliest of sf WarGames, Lensman (1969). Two Japanese Anime adaptations, the film Lensman and the Television series Galactic Patrol Lensman (1984-1985), unfortunately poisoned Hollywood interest in Western versions of the saga. Smith was widely read by scientists and engineers from the 1930s into the 1970s. He was posthumously inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2004. He died at the age of 75 in Seaside, Oregon. Famous Birthdays 31st August 1821 – Hermann von Helmholtz - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_von_Helmholtz A German physicist and physician who made significant contributions in several scientific fields. The largest German association of research institutions, the Helmholtz Association, is named after him. In physiology and psychology, he is known for his mathematics of the eye, theories of vision, ideas on the visual perception of space, color vision research, and on the sensation of tone, perception of sound, and empiricism in the physiology of perception. In physics, he is known for his theories on the conservation of energy, work in electrodynamics, chemical thermodynamics, and on a mechanical foundation of thermodynamics. As a philosopher, he is known for his philosophy of science, ideas on the relation between the laws of perception and the laws of nature, the science of aesthetics, and ideas on the civilizing power of science. His first important scientific achievement, an 1847 treatise on the conservation of energy, was written in the context of his medical studies and philosophical background. His work on energy conservation came about while studying muscle metabolism. He tried to demonstrate that no energy is lost in muscle movement, motivated by the implication that there were no vital forces necessary to move a muscle. This was a rejection of the speculative tradition of Naturphilosophie which was at that time a dominant philosophical paradigm in German physiology. In fluid dynamics, Helmholtz made several contributions, including Helmholtz's theorems for vortex dynamics in inviscid fluids. Helmholtz was a pioneer in the scientific study of human vision and audition. Inspired by psychophysics, he was interested in the relationships between measurable physical stimuli and their correspondent human perceptions. For example, the amplitude of a sound wave can be varied, causing the sound to appear louder or softer, but a linear step in sound pressure amplitude does not result in a linear step in perceived loudness. The physical sound needs to be increased exponentially in order for equal steps to seem linear, a fact that is used in current electronic devices to control volume. Helmholtz paved the way in experimental studies on the relationship between the physical energy (physics) and its appreciation (psychology), with the goal in mind to develop "psychophysical laws." Helmholtz studied the phenomena of electrical oscillations from 1869 to 1871, and in a lecture delivered to the Naturhistorisch-medizinischen Vereins zu Heidelberg (Natural History and Medical Association of Heidelberg) on 30 April 1869, titled On Electrical Oscillations he indicated that the perceptible damped electrical oscillations in a coil joined up with a Leyden jar were about 1/50th of a second in duration. He became interested in electromagnetism, and the Helmholtz equation is named for him. Although he did not make major contributions to this field, his student Heinrich Rudolf Hertz became famous as the first to demonstrate electromagnetic radiation. He was born in Potsdam, Province of Brandenburg, Kingdom of Prussia, German Confederation.Events of Interest31st August 1422 – King Henry V of England dies of dysentery while in France. His son, Henry VI becomes King of England at the age of nine months. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VI_of_England#Child_king He succeeded to the throne as King of England at the age of nine months on 1 September 1422, the day after his father's death; he remains the youngest person ever to succeed to the English throne. On 21 October 1422, in accordance with the Treaty of Troyes of 1420, he became titular King of France upon his grandfather Charles VI's death. His mother, the 20-year-old Catherine of Valois, was viewed with considerable suspicion by English nobles as Charles VI's daughter. She was prevented from playing a full role in her son's upbringing. In reaction to the coronation of Charles VII of France in Reims Cathedral on 17 July 1429, Henry was soon crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey on 6 November 1429, aged 7, followed by his own coronation as King of France at Notre Dame de Paris on 16 December 1431, aged 10. He was the only English king to be crowned king in both England and France. It was shortly after his crowning ceremony at Merton Priory on All Saints' Day, 1 November 1437, shortly before his 16th birthday, that he obtained some measure of independent authority. This was confirmed on 13 November 1437, but his growing willingness to involve himself in administration had already become apparent in 1434, when the place named on writs temporarily changed from Westminster (where the Privy Council met) to Cirencester (where the King resided). He finally assumed full royal powers when he came of age at the end of the year 1437, when he turned sixteen years old. Henry's assumption of full royal powers occurred during the Great Bullion Famine and the beginning of the Great Slump in England. 31st August 1956 – The Forbidden Planet landed in Ireland - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049223/ On this day in 1956 (in Ireland), Forbidden Planet arrived in Earth's theaters. Here's the plot summary: "When Adams and his crew are sent to investigate the silence from a planet inhabited by scientists, he finds all but two have died. Dr. Morbius and his daughter Altaira have somehow survived a hideous monster which roams the planet. Unknown to Adams, Morbius has made a discovery, and has no intention of sharing it (or his daughter!) with anyone."First mainstream film to have the music performed entirely by electronic instruments.The famous poster for the film shows a menacing robot carrying a struggling pretty girl - a staple of "monster movie" posters from the 1950's. In fact, no such scene occurs in the film itself and the robot portrayed in the poster is of course actually the very likeable Robby the Robot.Robert Kinoshita, who is credited with building Robby the Robot, was also Art Director for the TV series Lost in Space (1965). Many of the "Lost in Space" robot's features are similar to Robby's: glass "head" with animated elements; rotating antenna "ears" (although the "Lost" robot's ears rarely moved after the pilot episode); flashing light "mouth"; chest panel with more animated elements. For that matter, much of the layout of "Forbidden Planet"'s spaceship is mirrored by "Lost"'s Jupiter 2: saucer shape; integral landing gear/entry stairs; lower external dome with animated lights; central, plexi-domed navigation station; vertical hibernacula arranged along perimeter. In addition, Robby and the "Lost" robot had a couple of "family reunions" in two "Lost in Space" episodes: Lost in Space: War of the Robots (1966) and Lost in Space: Condemned of Space (1967).Robby the Robot was originally operated by stuntman/actor Frankie Darro. He was fired during filming after almost falling over while in the expensive prop, following a five-martini lunch.With the death of James Drury (Crewman Strong) on April 6, 2020, Earl Holliman (Cookie) is the last surviving member of the cast.According to Anne Francis, Walter Pidgeon loved to disrupt takes by reciting dirty limericks in the middle of his dialogue.IntroArtist – Goblins from MarsSong Title – Super Mario - Overworld Theme (GFM Trap Remix)Song Link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GNMe6kF0j0&index=4&list=PLHmTsVREU3Ar1AJWkimkl6Pux3R5PB-QJFollow us on Facebook- Page - https://www.facebook.com/NerdsAmalgamated/- Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/440485136816406/Twitter - https://twitter.com/NAmalgamatedSpotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/6Nux69rftdBeeEXwD8GXrSiTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/top-shelf-nerds/id1347661094Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/nerds_amalgamated/Email - Nerds.Amalgamated@gmail.comSupport via Podhero- https://podhero.com/podcast/449127/nerds-amalgamated See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Last time, our heroes managed to escape the artificial planet belonging to the space pirate Gray Rogers, only to fall prey to a more mighty, unknown force.  This week, we leave their narrative behind and instead, we will follow the hunt for them. Will other agents of the Triplanetary League find the pirate planetoid?  Will they fall prey to the same force?  Will they find Costigan, Clio and Captain Bradley?If you'd like to support The Well Told Tale, please visit us on Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/thewelltoldtaleIf you're looking for my full length audiobooks, please visit: www.thewelltoldtale.netBooks - (buying anything on Amazon through this link helps support the podcast):Triplanetary -  https://amzn.to/37NollRFirst Lensman - https://amzn.to/3yW1II6Galactic Patrol - https://amzn.to/3iUhSw4The Skylark of Space - https://amzn.to/3ANEuEv I would like to thank my patrons: Toni A, Joshua Clark, Maura Lee, Jane, John Bowles, Glen Thrasher and Ruairi.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/thewelltoldtale)

Last week, we began our space opera adventure with agent of the Triplanetary League, Conway Costigan.  The liner he was on was attacked by space pirates, and the few survivors were kidnapped and taken to meet Roger, the leader of this criminal gang.  He was not what they were expecting - is there more to him than meets the eye?If you'd like to support The Well Told Tale, please visit us on Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/thewelltoldtaleIf you're looking for my full length audiobooks, please visit: www.thewelltoldtale.netBooks - (buying anything on Amazon through this link helps support the podcast):Triplanetary -  https://amzn.to/37NollRFirst Lensman - https://amzn.to/3yW1II6Galactic Patrol - https://amzn.to/3iUhSw4The Skylark of Space - https://amzn.to/3ANEuEv  I would like to thank my patrons: Toni A, Joshua Clark, Maura Lee, Jane, John Bowles, Glen Thrasher and Ruairi.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/thewelltoldtale)

This week, we begin a new Tale, a science fiction novel from the critically acclaimed father of space opera, E. E. 'Doc' Smith. 'Triplanetary' was originally published in parts in Amazing Stories in 1934, but following the success of his 'Lensman' series, Smith reworked this novel with a long prologue to form a prequel to the series.  Staying true to the original novel, we will be following the adventures of Conway Costigan as he and his friends battle with nefarious space pirates who are more than they appear to be.You can find the prologue here as 'Book 1' and 'Book 2', before our Tale starts at 'Book 3'. If you'd like to support The Well Told Tale, please visit us on Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/thewelltoldtaleIf you're looking for my full length audiobooks, please visit www.thewelltoldtale.net Books - (buying anything on Amazon through this link helps support the podcast):Triplanetary -  https://amzn.to/37NollR First Lensman - https://amzn.to/3yW1II6 Galactic Patrol - https://amzn.to/3iUhSw4 The Skylark of Space - https://amzn.to/3ANEuEv   I would like to thank my patrons: Toni A, Joshua Clark, Maura Lee, Jane, John Bowles, Glen Thrasher and Ruairi.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/thewelltoldtale)

Nationally -Will there be a Dramatic Phase 4 Stimulus payment this year? Listen to what President Donald Trump is considering. -What exactly is the executive order just signed called the Safe Policing For Safe Communities? - Who is Officer Karen and why is she going viral while at McDonald's? - And what NFL team may be looking to hire Colin Kaepernick? Locally In Clarksville, who tore down the Confederate Soldier Monument and Sign along the bridge on Cumberland Drive? Heritage Not Hate supporter, Doc Smith joins the discussion. And What happened to the would-be robber when confronted by the armed citizen at the Opry Mills Mall? - These questions and so much more will get answered today on The Joe Padula Show, absolutely. #TalkRadio #JoePadula #Veterans #FtCampbell #Comedy #LocalNews #Nashville #Clarksville --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/joe-padula/support

On Thursday April 30th, 2020 the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon will present a discussion and review of the 1934 to 1954 science-fiction Lensman series, by Edward Elmer Smith, PhD, a scientist in the food industry specializing in pastry, whose major accomplishment in food engineering was making powdered sugar adhere to doughnuts, and whose major accomplishment in science fiction writing was the creation of a sub-genre called “Space Opera” His Lensman series and its concepts and themes influenced Frank Herbert's Dune, Roddenberry's Star Trek, and Lucas' Star Wars. It even re-influenced the screen version of one of Smith's inspirations The 1912 Burroughs' John Carter, when Burroughs's Therns were rewritten by Andrew Stanton as Smith's evil “Eddorians” and their medallions given the powers of an Arisian Lens. Smith developed the concept of the Multiverse, laser and particle weapons and super computers years before they appeared. His concept of the Lensmen as an incorruptible Galactic police force, guided by secret masters from a hidden planet seems to have been inspired by Theosophy's “Ascended Masters” from Tibet, and King Arthur's knights of the Round Table and the Holy Grail. The Lensmen are obviously the origin of the Star War's Jedi.  Another imitator of Doc Smith was Issac Asimov with his Foundation Series. Asimov was so successful with his Foundation series that he beat out Doc Smith for the 1966 Hugo award for “the best all time science-fiction series.” But at least they declared that Doc's epic was runner up. So if you would like to look deeper into this and even review what happened when Doc ran one of his Lensmen for president and how Clarissa MacDoughil became the first Lenswoman, tune in and we'll activate the lens. 

Few fictional characters have had such a profound and prolonged impact on American culture as Buck Rogers. He first appeared in 1928 as Anthony Rogers in Philip Francis Nowlan's novella Armageddon 2419 A. D. in Amazing Stories. We've briefly talked about that amazing August issue, which also included Doc Smith's Skylark of Space.The story caught the attention of National Newspaper Syndicate's John F. Dille, who contracted Nowlan to adapt the character into a comic strip, changing “Anthony” to “Buck.”In 1932, the radio program premiered, making it the first science fiction program on radio. Initially broadcasted as a fifteen-minute show on CBS on a Monday through Thursday schedule, the show stayed on the air for the next fifteen years with varying schedules.Now, thanks to Archive.org, you can travel back to 1932 and follow the adventures of “Buck and Wilma and all their fascinating friends and mysterious enemies in the super-scientific 25th century” (as stated in the show's introduction).Buck Rogers is largely credited with bringing into popular culture the concept of space exploration, not to mention ray guns and robots. Ray Bradbury may have stated it best in his introduction to The Collected Works of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, when discussing its comic strip form:There you are, waiting, trembling, in fevers; so full of life that if you were a volcano you'd come up in someone's cornfield and bury the silo. There you are, as afternoon slides toward warm dusk, eyes shut, listening…And there's the sound, whistling through the air, crashing along the shingles, sliding down the roof, falling to the porch. You fling the door wide. You bend to touch that incredible newspaper with a hot hand. Buck Rogers had just been born. And you a single wise small boy, are there alone to welcome him to a world he will help change forever. Get full access to The Reader Crew at joshuajames.substack.com/subscribe

In this week's episode, we continue the Bedtime Science Fiction Whisper Show with the fifth chapter of Triplanetary, the 1934 novel and space opera by E.E. "Doc" Smith. The content on this channel is primarily intended for the purpose of relaxation and stress relief through stimulation of a phenomenon called autonomous sensory meridian response, or ASMR (hence all the whispering). It is often described as a sense of well-being combined with a tingling sensation that occurs mostly in the head, neck, and shoulder area. Certain sensory experiences, both visual, auditory and combined, can produce the effect in those who are ASMR sensitive. It is best enjoyed in a quiet setting with the use of headphones. New episodes premiere each Monday at 7pm CST. If you like what you hear on this podcast, please feel free to visit my YouTube channel, Quietly ASMR! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/quietlyasmr/support

In this week's episode, we continue the Bedtime Science Fiction Whisper Show with the fourth chapter of Triplanetary, the 1934 novel and space opera by E.E. "Doc" Smith. The content on this channel is primarily intended for the purpose of relaxation and stress relief through stimulation of a phenomenon called autonomous sensory meridian response, or ASMR (hence all the whispering). It is often described as a sense of well-being combined with a tingling sensation that occurs mostly in the head, neck, and shoulder area. Certain sensory experiences, both visual, auditory and combined, can produce the effect in those who are ASMR sensitive. It is best enjoyed in a quiet setting with the use of headphones. New episodes premiere each Monday at 7pm CST. If you like what you hear on this podcast, please feel free to visit my YouTube channel, Quietly ASMR! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/quietlyasmr/support

In this week's episode, we continue the Bedtime Science Fiction Whisper Show with the third chapter of Triplanetary, the 1934 novel and space opera by E.E. "Doc" Smith. The content on this channel is primarily intended for the purpose of relaxation and stress relief through stimulation of a phenomenon called autonomous sensory meridian response, or ASMR (hence all the whispering). It is often described as a sense of well-being combined with a tingling sensation that occurs mostly in the head, neck, and shoulder area. Certain sensory experiences, both visual, auditory and combined, can produce the effect in those who are ASMR sensitive. It is best enjoyed in a quiet setting with the use of headphones. New episodes premiere each Monday at 7pm CST. If you like what you hear on this podcast, please feel free to visit my YouTube channel, Quietly ASMR! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/quietlyasmr/support

In this week's episode, we continue the Bedtime Science Fiction Whisper Show with the second chapter of Triplanetary, the 1934 novel and space opera by E.E. "Doc" Smith. The content on this channel is primarily intended for the purpose of relaxation and stress relief through stimulation of a phenomenon called autonomous sensory meridian response, or ASMR (hence all the whispering). It is often described as a sense of well-being combined with a tingling sensation that occurs mostly in the head, neck, and shoulder area. Certain sensory experiences, both visual, auditory and combined, can produce the effect in those who are ASMR sensitive. It is best enjoyed in a quiet setting with the use of headphones. New episodes premiere each Monday at 7pm CST. If you like what you hear on this podcast, please feel free to visit my YouTube channel, Quietly ASMR! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/quietlyasmr/support

This week's episode of the Bedtime Science Fiction Whisper Show features a 1934 novel and space opera by E.E. "Doc" Smith, entitled "Triplanetary". It is the first entry of his Lensman series, which was a runner up for a Hugo award for Best All-Time Series in 1966. "Triplanetary" is a longer work, so settle in, as we will be covering it over the next several episodes! The content on this channel is primarily intended for the purpose of relaxation and stress relief through stimulation of a phenomenon called autonomous sensory meridian response, or ASMR (hence all the whispering). It is often described as a sense of well-being combined with a tingling sensation that occurs mostly in the head, neck, and shoulder area. Certain sensory experiences, both visual, auditory and combined, can produce the effect in those who are ASMR sensitive. It is best enjoyed in a quiet setting with the use of headphones. New episodes premiere each Monday at 7pm CST. If you like what you hear on this podcast, please feel free to visit my YouTube channel, Quietly ASMR! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/quietlyasmr/support

Review of Triplanetary, a book by E.E. Doc Smith

We were in the studio today with DeAnna Cheatham, Director of Warren County Social Services & Doug Stanley, Warren County Administrator to talk about Front Royal Rotary's Coats for Kids fundraiser. We also talked about Rotary's Doc Smith baskets and how the community can help those in need by making a donation or simply letting the Social Services Department know if there are people they know (work, family, social circles) that would benefit from receiving these "gifts." Anyone interested in donating to the program can drop off donations at the following locations: Warren County Administration Office at the Warren County Government Center – 220 North Commerce Avenue, Suite 100 Department of Social Services at the Health and Human Services Complex Various donation boxes in the community at businesses such as the Warren County Government Center, Health and Human Services Complex, Blake and Company, United Bank, IHOP, RSW Regional Jail, Royal Cinemas, Royal Family Bowling Center, Royal Oak Animal Clinic, Southern States, and the Apple House. For additional information, please contact Michelle Smeltzer, Warren County Community Liaison, at (540) 892-6108 at michelle.smeltzer@dss.virginia.gov.

Bank robber, drug dealer, prison escapee, author, convenience store clerk. Doc Smith had a less-than-ordinary career. Read more Andrew Rule at: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/andrew-rule See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Nick Smith (Doc) shares his traumatic experiences while deployed in Afghanistan (2011-2012)

Doc Smith out at Freestone for the JS7 Amateur Natl

The guys talk with the one and only Tony Berluti about his rider winning his first 450 main. Then call Dennis Hawthorne to talk about being honored at Dallas SX. Jay Reynolds gives the low down on Jr. MotoX and TJ's son, Doc Smith, talks about winning a championship a Daytona.

A few local kids (Dillon "The Real Deal" Lunsford, David "Sugar Dumplin" Sallows and Doc Smith) talk 2018 SX and thoughts on local Racing.

Skylark Three, vol. 11 by e.e. Doc Smith, an Uvula Audio Production (finale)

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Skylark Three, vol. 1 by e.e. Doc Smith, an Uvula Audio Production (finale)

The Hugo winner and multiple New York Times bestselling science fiction author, John Scalzi, took a break from his whirlwind new book tour to chat with me about The Collapsing Empire, the timely importance of great storytelling, and what makes a writer truly great. Rainmaker.FM is Brought to You By Discover why more than 80,000 companies in 135 countries choose WP Engine for managed WordPress hosting. Start getting more from your site today! His wildly popular debut novel, Old Man’s War, began as a serialized blog before attracting attention from an agent. Its 2006 publication earned him a Hugo nomination and multiple awards. Since then he’s written dozens of novels including New York Times bestsellers The Last Colony, Fuzzy Nation, Redshirts (2013’s Hugo winner for Best Novel), and Lock In. His work has been translated into over 20 languages and multiple projects have been optioned for film and TV. It’s no surprise that the prolific author has been a professional writer since the early ’90s. In addition to his award-winning blog, “Whatever,” John has written: freelance journalism, novellas, short stories, a wide-range of non-fiction, video games, been a Creative Consultant for a hit TV series, and remains a Critic at Large for the LA Times. In 2015 the author signed a multi-million dollar deal with Tor Books for 13 titles over 10 years, and the first of those is The Collapsing Empire, a bestselling interstellar space opera that’s been described as “Game of Thrones meets Dune.” If you’re a fan of The Writer Files, click subscribe to automatically see new interviews. If you missed the first half you can find it right here. In Part Two of this file John Scalzi and I discuss: Why this isn’t the worst time in human history … by a long shot The writer’s unique workflow and technological polyglotism Creativity as a survival instinct How luck and persistence can play a part in your success as a writer Why you really only need to focus on the things you can control Listen to The Writer Files: Writing, Productivity, Creativity, and Neuroscience below ... Download MP3 Subscribe by RSS Subscribe in iTunes The Show Notes If you’re ready to see for yourself why over 194,000 website owners trust StudioPress — the industry standard for premium WordPress themes and plugins — just go to Rainmaker.FM/StudioPress How Hugo Award Winning Sci-Fi Author John Scalzi Writes: Part One Whatever – John Scalzi’s Hugo Award winning blog Announcing The Expanding Tour 2017! 24 Cities! Five Weeks! The Collapsing Empire – John Scalzi John Scalzi’s author page on Amazon John Scalzi, Science Fiction Writer, Signs $3.4 Million Deal for 13 Books – New York Times John Scalzi on Twitter Kelton Reid on Twitter The Transcript How Hugo Award Winning Sci-Fi Author John Scalzi Writes: Part Two Voiceover: Rainmaker FM. Kelton Reid: Welcome back to The Writer Files. I am still your host, Kelton Reid, here to take you on another tour of the habits, habitats, and brains of renowned writers. In part two of this file, the Hugo winner and multiple New York Times best selling science fiction author, John Scalzi, took a break from his whirlwind new book tour to chat with me about The Collapsing Empire, the timely importance of storytelling, and what makes a writer truly great. His wildly popular debut novel Old Man’s War began as a serialized blog before attracting attention from an agent and editor. Its 2006 publication earned him a Hugo nomination and multiple awards. Since then he’s written dozens of novels including New York Times best sellers The Last Colony, Fuzzy Nation, Red Shirts, and Lock In. His work has been translated into over 20 languages and multiple projects have been optioned for film and TV. It’s no surprise that the prolific author has been a professional writer since the early nineties. In addition to his award winning blog Whatever, John has written freelance journalism, novellas, short stories, a wide range of nonfiction, video games, been a creative consultant for a hit TV series, and remains a critic at large for the LA Times. In 2015, the author signed a multimillion dollar deal with Tor Books for 13 titles over 10 years, and the first of those is The Collapsing Empire, a best selling, interstellar space opera, that has been described as Game of Thrones meets Dune. And in part two of this file, John and I discuss why this isn’t the worst time in human history by a long shot, the writer’s unique workflow and technological polyglotism, creativity as a survival instinct, how luck and persistence can play a part in your success as a writer, and why you really only need to focus on the things you can control. The Writer Files is brought to you by the all the new StudioPress Sites, a turnkey solution that combines the ease of an all-in-one website builder with the flexible power of WordPress. It’s perfect for authors, bloggers, podcasters, and affiliate marketers, as well as those selling physical products, digital downloads, and membership programs. If you’re ready to take your WordPress site to the next level, see for yourself why over 200,000 website owners trust StudioPress. Go to Rainmaker.FM/StudioPress now. That’s Rainmaker.FM/StudioPress. And if you’re a fan of The Writer Files, please click subscribe to automatically see new interviews as soon as they’re published. Why This Isn t the Worst Time in Human History By a Long Shot Kelton Reid: You know, I mean all I can come back to is that it seems like now more than ever, and any time in history, we do need these great stories, don’t we? We need great storytellers like yourself to help us through the rough patches, so … John Scalzi: I think that humans story tell, no matter what we do. And to get into the sort of, Now let’s talk about the mystical aspects of writing. But that’s how we communicate with each other. We tell each other stories about what we want, we tell each other stories about what’s going on, we tell each other stories about who we want to be, and then try to meet up with those things. We are a storytelling species. That’s what we do. I know that this isn’t the worst that it’s ever been, do you know what I mean? Kelton Reid: Oh yeah. John Scalzi: I was talking to somebody and, you know, the whole idea that 2016 was terrible and 2017 has been worse. And I have the position that 2017 is a terrible year, but it’s not as bad as 2016 because we knew 2017 was going to be bad. You know? We knew in November that it was like, Okay here we go. 2016 could have had the potential to be a wonderful year, and yet, the very first thing it did was take David Bowie. And that’s when we knew that 2016 wasn’t messing around, it was going to take a chunk out of us. But even then, 2016 is not a patch on 1939, it’s not a patch on 1492 if you’re looking at a … if you’re someone who has any sense of history and what 1492 did to the people who lived in the Americas. There has always been awful times. There have always also, within those horrible years, there have been wonderful things as well. We have always needed stories, we have always needed people to tell us that it’s going to be better, and also to remind us that things are good. It feels terrible right now. I mean, I imagine there are some people who are like “Yes, 2017 has been going exactly to plan.” I don’t know who they are, because even the people who thought that they were going to be happy with what they were getting have basically been surprised with what they got. But, as far as it goes, even within those difficulties, there have been good things too. And I think we owe it to ourselves as storytellers to help mitigate pain and to accentuate joy to the extent that we can do that, that’s great. It’s not all up to us. But we’ve always had to do that, every year has had its challenges, every year has been a great year and a terrible year as well. And true that this year seems below average in terms of joy and happiness, but I think that we can still find things that we are happy about and share them with each other. And that’s part of the gig, you’re right. The Writer s Unique Workflow and Technological Polyglotism Kelton Reid: Yeah. Some good perspective there, for sure. Good things to remember, especially for writers. Just to touch on workflow really quick before I plug your brain about creativity itself. I know you’ve been a Mac guy forever. Are you still a Mac user? John Scalzi: No actually, I haven’t been a Mac guy … I was a Mac guy for a very brief period between 2005 and 2007, professionally. When I started writing was right around the same time the first Macintoshes came out, so from about 1984 to about 1991 I was a Mac dude, then I went over to PC, had a brief moment of Mac-ness and then I ve gone back to PC. And now I’m using Chromebooks a lot, too. So I’m all over the place. I’m not a faithful person, computer wise. I am computer-poly. That’s the way I want to say it. Kelton Reid: Sure, sure. Well that’s cool. So just for other writers who might be curious about the Chromebook workflow, then are you … I mean, how are you capturing, or getting stuff onto the page in a Chromebook? Are you using a dedicated cloud service? John Scalzi: Well what happens is, the nice things about Chromebooks is that they are super integrated into the Google ecosystem and Google has a suite of productivity apps that are basically cloud based, so Google Docs and the other stuff that they use. I mostly use Google Docs. And so when I’m writing on a Chromebook I will use Google Docs, particularly for shorter works, like short stories, articles, and stuff like that. But, when I need something a little more full featured, I can also access … these days I can access Microsoft Word online through Office 365. So when I’m at my desktop I’ll be writing on Word, I will save it to Office 365, as well as keeping a local copy. Because as you know as a writer, it’s so easy to lose things. Multiple copies is … keeps you from going crazy. And then I can pull it up on the Chromebook, provided I have an internet connection. Which you have these days almost everywhere, including on planes, so it’s less of a problem. The one thing I like about Google Docs, which every other online word processor hasn’t figured it out yet, much to my confusion, is that Google Docs actually has a ruler so that I can indent, you know? And it seems like a small thing, but honestly, indenting now means that I don’t have to indent later, you know. And so Office 365, the Word Online doesn’t have it. You actually have to do all those formatting things that you want to do, you have to actually do them in a document on a desktop or a laptop that is Windows capable and then save that document to the cloud, rather than starting a new document and having the formatting that you want. But I just think that’s stupid. But yeah … Five or six years ago when the Chromebooks were coming out, I tried writing a novel on them, and I couldn’t because they weren’t there yet. But now, it’s actually really easy to do. Enough so that when I’m on tour I’m taking the Acer C302 with me, both as my main computer and also it flips over to be a tablet so I can do my readings on that as well. And it’s become a really versatile thing for a writer on the road. Now, I wouldn’t try to do heavy duty video editing on it, or audio editing, or photo editing. But for regular old editing, for regular old writing, it’s everything I need at this point. And it’s cheaper. I had to come down to the decision between the Acer C302A and a Dell XPS13, and both of them are beautiful computers and I would have been happy with either, but one was half the cost. And also was cheap enough that if I lost it in an airport, which I have done with previous laptops, then I would be upset, but I wouldn’t be, “I just lost a $1,500 computer” upset I would be, “Ugh, all right. Time to get another Chromebook.” Kelton Reid: Yeah, yeah. All good points there. Well that’s cool and interesting. You don’t hear that everyday. So how does John Scalzi unwind at the end of a long writing day? John Scalzi: With more writing usually, because I’m an idiot, apparently. So I get done with my writing for the day, and then I will often flip over to my website and I’ll write a web entry, or a blog entry, or I will go on Twitter and I will yell at my friends and they’ll yell back at me. I do things other than writing but it is the thing that I actually enjoy, so I tend to do a little bit more writing before I m done with the day. Eventually, my wife comes home and my child comes home and we spend time with each other as family. My wife and I will watch something on TV, or watch a movie and we’ll talk. But my life is basically fairly simple and staid. We don’t go off and have wacky adventures at the end of each day. I actually am a creature who enjoys his comforts. So family and pets and home are things that appeal to me. So basically what I’m admitting is that I’m a hobbit. Kelton Reid: Right, right. Good stuff, good stuff. All right, well, if you have the time, I’d love to pick your brain a little bit about creativity. John Scalzi: Yeah, let’s do it. Creativity as a Survival Instinct Kelton Reid: Okay. So do you have a definition of, kind of your own definition of creativity for writers? John Scalzi: For me particularly, I think creativity is the ability to both imagine a world in your head and be able to express that, what’s in your head, to others. And I guess one of the fundamental questions is where does that creativity come from? Why are some people creative and some people aren’t? And I don’t know that I have a really good answer to that. I mean, I think about my wife. My wife is one of the most awesome people in the world. She is super smart, she is super organized, she keeps Team Scalzi together. She is the CEO, I am the figurehead chairman, right? But she does all the work. My life would be miserable and unhappy without her, not only emotionally, but from a business point of view. And she is perfect, and I love her, and she doesn’t have a creative bone in her body and she is the first to admit it. And what does that mean? Does it mean that she is less of a person? Obviously not, she’s not. But, it does mean that there’s some part of her brain that doesn’t work the way my brain works. And it goes both ways. There’s things that she can do that I can’t do and I’m sort of amazed that she can get them done. She is an amazing straight line thinker. You present her with the problem, she doesn’t do the nerd over thinking thing of going 16,000 different places. She just goes “This is what needs to get done.” And then later on, after I’ve gone 16,000 different places, I’m like, “You were absolutely right and you have that offer a month ago, whereas I had to go through all this other stuff.” And I think maybe that’s the thing, is the people who are creative in one way or another, you might say they’re the people who overthink, who do all the scenarios. What does that mean? You say hello to someone and they say hello back, and you’re like “Why did they say hello in exactly that way? Was there something going … I think I noticed some strain in their voice. What was going on?” And then you imagine the scenario where they say hello to you, but it’s filled with a tinge of regret and wistfulness and all this sort of stuff. Whereas most people would just be like, “He said hello. What more do you want out of it?” But it’s like “I need to know more.” So, I think maybe there is a correlation between creativity and just overthinking. Which would correspond, I think, in a way to why the stereotype of writers is that they’re neurotic in one way or another, because neurosis often exhibits itself as a sort of making up multiple scenarios, most of them terrible, and then trying to figure out what to do with that. It’s rooted in biology in some way or another, I’m absolutely sure. Maybe you needed creative people back on the savannah to go … someone say, “Well we just need to go to that tree right over there,” you know? And they’d be like “But wait, between here and the tree, how many different predators do you think there are? Because I ve imagined 17 of them, and they would all eat us.” Right? So that creativity was not about writing, but it was about, somebody has to think about all the ways that this could go horribly wrong. So maybe that’s where creativity comes from. It’s a survival tactic for the tribe. Not everybody has to be creative, and indeed, if you only had a group of creative people in your tribe, maybe you would never get anything done because they would be paralyzed by indecision. You need someone to go, “Screw it, we’re going to go do this thing.” But by the same token, you need the people who go, “Let’s play out that scenario.” So I think that that’s probably part of it. That creativity eventually comes from the need not to have ourselves or other people eaten by leopards. I don’t know, is that the usual answer? You tell me. Kelton Reid: It is. No, in a nutshell, yes. Thank you. Exactly the usual answer. Three Sources of John Scalzi s Creativity Kelton Reid: I love it, I love it. So do you have some creative force that’s driving you right now? Or just sort of in general something that makes you feel most creative? John Scalzi: I used to say that the driving creative force in my life was my mortgage. Which people laughed and I was like “No, seriously. I don’t want to have to work doing anything else. And I have to pay my mortgage, so that is a primary focus.” And then I would give the example of how creativity can come from anywhere. It’s like, why is Crime and Punishment a 600 page masterpiece of guilt and redemption? Is it because that was the form Dostoyevsky had always had in his mind for it? Or was it that Dostoyevsky had gambling debts and Crime and Punishment was a serial that was published in a magazine and that it behooved him to have it go on as long as humanly possible, because he had gambling debts. And the answer is a little of column A and a little of column B. So there’s a lot of material aspects to my creativity. It was, a lot of times, I didn’t want to have to do anything else for a job, I did want to have a house, I did want to eat, I did want my daughter to have shoes. And I think there’s nothing wrong with acknowledging that aspect. Another aspect that people don’t want to acknowledge all the time, because it sounds ignoble, but I started writing stories when I was 14 years old because I wrote them and it got me attention, right? All of my friends were like, “Wow, you do this really well.” So I would write stories and they would star my friends and they would do ridiculous things, you know, and it was awesome. And so I’ve always had that attention seeking aspect of my creativity. I ve never kept a personal journal. Writing in the “Dear diary, today I did blah blah blah blah.” Because I would only be writing for myself. One of the reasons that I wrote a blog was because I wanted to tell people what I was thinking, you know? And in some ways that’s good. It can edge into mansplaining, which is a thing that I’ve certainly been accused of more than once in my lifetime. I’m a recovering mansplainer, I hope to get better as I go along. But that want and desire for attention is absolutely a part of what fuels my creativity, because this is a way that I can say to people, “Hey, I have value. Not only do I have value, but you’re going to love me for these things that come out of my brain.” So those are two things, and then the third thing is the less noble, but simply, I overthink. I think of the world, I imagine scenarios, they seem interesting to me, and my brain is going to create anyway. I have absolutely no control over that, it’s always been that way. It’s not onerous for me. The thing, the question that I get, that all writers get, that I never understand is, “Where do you get your ideas?” And it’s like, they just show up. The question is not, Where do you get ideas? I’ve got 20 or 30 ideas a day. The question is, How do you know the good ideas from the bad ideas? And my answer for that is that something comes in my brain it’s like, “Here’s an idea!” It’s like, “Wow, that’s a great idea!” And I don’t write it down. And if the next day I actually remember it, then I’m like, “Huh, maybe this is a good idea.” And then I don’t write it down again, and then I keep giving ideas a whole bunch of opportunities to leave my brain. And most of them do, but a few stick, and those are the ones that I write. But the creative thing is natural. And it’s just a thing that I think that anybody who has a creative urge in some ways has a hard time explaining it. And not only with writing, but any sort of thing. Like I look at friends of mine who are wonderful artists and I see what comes out of their hands and I’m amazed, because there is no possible way that I could ever do that. I mean, I could build up a certain amount of competency with drawing so that you could recognize that what I drew was meant to be a horse, right? But the people who … you look at the picture that they draw of a horse and not only is it obviously a horse, but it is obviously more than that, that it evokes an emotional response that would be different than just a simple picture of a horse. And how did they do that? And they can tell you how they do the craft of it, and they can tell you which pencils they use, and they can tell you about all the time that they spent practicing it, because nothing is achieved without practice, but fundamentally, you know, a lot of it just comes down to you can do that because your brain is wired that way. And it’s not to discount all the effort, it’s not to discount all the individual aspects of their creativity, but there is something going on that is just native to them. Just like with me with writing, or a musician with their ability to play a particular instrument, or to create melody. Some of that is ineffable. Some of that is indefinable. It’s not magical, it’s not necessarily purely spiritual, but it is something that you can’t bottle. Work and practice and effort will take you 80-90% of the way to where you need to be, and indeed, sometimes it will be enough for you to make a career. But that extra 10%, that extra 5%, that extra 1% that is the spark is something that I think is just part of your brain. And you can’t explain it anymore than you can explain why you have brown eyes, or why you re left handed or right handed, or why you’re straight or gay. It’s just part of who you are and it’s part of what informs who you are as a person. Kelton Reid: Yeah, yeah. John Scalzi: I’m sorry, I monologue. I don’t know if you knew that when you- Kelton Reid: I love it, I love it. It’s great, it’s great. There’s so many good pieces of wisdom in there for writers and I’m sure I could keep you on here all day long, but I won’t do that to you. John Scalzi: Okay. How Luck and Persistence Can Play a Part in Your Success as a Writer Kelton Reid: But you know, you’ve been compared to some great writers throughout your career. What do you think … what makes a writer great, as opposed to average? John Scalzi: Some of it is luck. Some of it is being in the right place at the right time. One of the things that I always tell people is if Old Man’s War had been published in 2004 or 2006 instead of 2005, that people might not have responded to it the way that they did, and that my career would be different. Some of it is natural talent that people are able to arrange sentences in ways that evoke an emotional response, or that they are able to say things that need to be said at a particular time and place. Some of it is sheer cussedness, the absolute refusal to go away or accept defeat or to look at failure as anything but a temporary thing. Having talked about the ineffable spark of creativity, one of the things that’s always dangerous about that is to minimize the simple fact that showing up is almost all of the game. There are people I know who are great writers, undisputably great writers, who are super talented, who I look at what they do and how they write and am in awe of it. And yet, they will never be known as one of the greats. And why is that? Part of that is because sometimes they don’t put in the effort, sometimes they don’t care, sometimes they are the victims of their particular circumstances. That makes it difficult for people to find the writing that could possibly change their lives. So much of what we do is persistence, of not only persistence and continuing to write and continuing to improve, but also the persistence of being there for people to see you, giving yourself as many bats as possible so you can get onto base or hit a homerun. But, ultimately, a lot of what makes a writer great is not up to the writer. A lot of it is up to forces that are entirely beyond their control. Like I said, sometimes you have to be lucky. You have to be in the right place at the right time with the right idea. I don’t call myself great, by the way. But like I said, with the example of Old Man’s War. It was in the right place at the right time. I won … Red Shirts, I won the Hugo Award. Would I have won that Hugo Award the year before or the year after? Who knows? There were completely different other books that were out at that time. But I got it, and it’s had a benefit to me. There are so many circumstances that help people achieve notability or fame or greatness that are entirely not up to them at all. Sometimes being great just means being one of the first people there to play that particular game. You look at some of the great video games or some of the great video game designers and they were doing things on Atari or in 8 bits that somebody today, a teenager would just bat out and not even think about. But they were there first, they were the people who created the games for the Atari 2600 that people literally played for hours and hours and hours and became part of their gestalt. And so, sometimes just being in the right place at the right time, it makes all the difference. Why You Really Only Need to Focus on the Things You Can Control John Scalzi: The one thing that I tell people about is, Don’t worry about greatness. Don’t worry about anything else but the things you can control. And the things you can control are your own writing. Are you happy with what you wrote? Are you happy with the way that it spoke to you before it spoke to anyone else? And it’s also important to remember that just because you don’t get fame or fortune or notoriety or whatever now, doesn’t mean that what you’re doing has no value either for yourself or simply for the fact that other people might find it. One of the greatest American poets is Emily Dickinson. I think she had maybe one poem published during her lifetime, and that was under a pseudonym. And yet, she is indisputably one of the great writers in the American canon. You can’t ignore the force of her work, or the beauty of her words. And she went through her entire life not knowing that we would think she was great. She never knew. She got all the way through it and kept all that stuff in a drawer. So you never do know. My expectation is that when I die, 20 years after I’m gone, people will still be reading me. 50 years? Maybe a couple people will remember me like they remember E. E. Doc Smith or Olaf Stapledon. 100 years from now, somebody is going to be reading me because they need a thesis, and they’re desperate, and they’re like, “Oh, nobody’s done anything with this guy, let me do this.” And I’m perfectly okay with that, because right now I’m reaping some of the benefits of doing what I’m doing. People are enjoying what I’m writing. Sometimes people come to me and they say, “My dad and I read this book together and it was a thing that we bonded over, and we couldn’t bond over anything else before, so thank you.” You get some benefits now. And I’ll be dead, I won’t know whether my work will survive. But right now I’m getting that benefit. Other people who we can’t even name right now, 100, 200 years from now people will be like, “They cast a shadow over this particular age.” And we don’t even know who they are. I wish I was alive 200 years from now to find out who that person was and then go, “Hey, I wrote some stuff back then too.” And they’d be like, “That’s nice.” But so don’t worry about greatness. Worry about writing stuff that matters to you and that you think will matter to others if you want to enjoy others in that sphere. What greatness is will take care of itself. But what you can influence is what you put onto the page. So take care of the stuff you can take care of. And don’t worry about the rest of it. Kelton Reid: I love that. I think that’s some great advice for your fellow scribes. And probably a good place to wrap up so I don’t keep you over an hour. I did want to ask you one fun one. If you had to choose one author from any era for an all expense paid dinner to your favorite spot, your favorite restaurant, who would you take and where would you take them? John Scalzi: Wow. I … it’s a super stereotypical thing. No, I changed my mind. I want to take Mary Shelley to dinner, because I want to tell her that she was foundational to an entire genre and I want to see how she handles that, you know? Because, I think it would be interesting. Because, how often do you get to say to someone not even Shakespeare. Shakespeare was writing plays, but people had been writing plays before that. But you can point to things that were sort of science fictional before Frankenstein. But in terms of influence, in terms of something that you look at and you’re like, “There’s no doubt this is science fiction.” Not only science fiction, but also horror and psychological thriller. That this is the place where all those things branch off of. That she is our Lucy, she is our Eve for those of us who toil in genre in many ways. And she was 19 years old. So I would love to have lunch with her, or dinner with her, and then take her to a bookstore. So I think we would go to a bookstore café. And it’s sort of like, You wouldn’t take Mary Shelley to a nice diner? If Mary Shelley is who I think she is, she would want a muffin while she looked through the racks and saw what became of the thing that she gave birth to in her brain. So as far as that goes, I think she is the person that I would want to have a meal with. And I would take her to a bookstore café and then be there for the rest of the afternoon, while she was looking through the shelves. Kelton Reid: I love it. Good images there. John, thanks so much for stopping by the show to enlighten us with some of your great writerly wisdom. The new book by John Scalzi, The Collapsing Empire, an interstellar epic. It’s hard to wrap up in a few words, but it is out now. You are on tour. Listeners can connect with you out there. Thank you so much for popping in and rapping with us. Thanks so much for joining me for this half of a tour through the writer’s process. If you enjoy The Writer Files podcast, please subscribe to the show and leave us a rating or a review on iTunes to help other writers find us. For more episodes, or to just leave a comment or a question, you can drop by WriterFiles.FM and you can always chat with me on Twitter @KeltonReid. Cheers. Talk to you next week.

Robbie Reynard on the show. Denny Humphrey and Doc Smith sitting in with Muscle Mark for the show.

Stories by E.E. Doc Smith; Wriiten for Radio by Joseph McGuire These are exciting stories of space opera that influenced Star Wars and Star Trek. The Fenacrone are still a menace to the universe. Blackie DuQuesne is still at large. These two problems worry Scientist hero Ricard Seaton. So now it s time to solve these two problems. Both with new technology and perseverance. In the last episode of the Skylark Adventures.

Skylark Adventures Episode 4: The Fenachrone Stories by E.E. Doc Smith; Wriiten for Radio by Joseph McGuire These are exciting stories of space opera that influenced Star Wars and Star Trek. Our heroes are going into the interstellar reaches to help their friends from the planet Osnome. Who are being invaded by another people from another star. While traveling to Osnome they meet the universe conquering Fenacrone.

Skylark Adventures Episode 3: Trip to Osnome Stories by E.E. Doc Smith; Written for Radio by Joseph McGuire These are exciting stories of space opera that influenced Star Wars and Star Trek. Our heroes, return to space to have further adventures on the planet Osnome in the nation of Kondal.

Skylark Adventures Episode 2: Out the Unknown Stories by E.E. Doc Smith; Wriiten for Radio by Joseph McGuire These are exciting stories of space opera that influenced Star Wars and Star Trek. In the first adventure the great scientist Richard Seaton's fiancee is kidnapped by Blackie DuQuesne who wants the control of the powerful X. Rescuing Seaton s Fiancee Dorothy and a fellow kidnap victim from DuQuesne. They are now lost in space trying to find a way home.

Skylark Adventures Episode 1: Into the Unknown Stories by E.E. Doc Smith; Wriiten for Radio by Joseph McGuire These are exciting stories of space opera that influenced Star Wars and Star Trek. In the first adventure the great scientist Richard Seaton's fiancee is kidnapped by Blackie DuQuesne who wants the control of the powerful X. Seaton and his friend Martin Crane chase after them far into interstellar space.

The Skylark of Space by e.e. Doc Smith, an Uvula Audio Production

The Skylark of Space by e.e. Doc Smith, an Uvula Audio Production

The Skylark of Space by e.e. Doc Smith, an Uvula Audio Production

The Skylark of Space by e.e. Doc Smith, an Uvula Audio Production

The Skylark of Space by e.e. Doc Smith, an Uvula Audio Production

The Skylark of Space by e.e. Doc Smith, an Uvula Audio Production

The Skylark of Space by e.e. Doc Smith, an Uvula Audio Production

The Skylark of Space by e.e. Doc Smith, an Uvula Audio Production

Coming off one of the most popular episodes in 2014 “Cardio is for Suckers” we bring in the World’s #1 expert in High Intensity Interval Training! Dr. Mark Smith has researched the effects of HIIT for the past few decades and has some amazing data and insight into why this type of training is so effective! Doc Smith is an extremely active member of the TPI Fitness Advisory Board and a great friend of mine. Doc is also a noted expert on nutrition and the prevention of diseases through food and lectures and writes on the benefits of the Paleo Diet. Listen and enjoy! @PerformBetter @MyTPI @docmarksmith For the 2nd part of this podcast please visit jasonglasslab.com and sign up for the NextLevel.

The podcast will be with you shortly.Our Guests+Jobe Bittman+Stephen NewtonShow Notes after the jumpThis episode was recorded on November 10th, 2014Adam made a prediction about U Con that ended up coming true.DrinkMother-In-Law Double IPA from Valholl Brewing, Poulsbo, WALagunitas IPAGreen Apple Bubba Kush (Adam can't find links for this)Dark Penance Imperial Black IPA from Founders' Brewery, Grand Rapids, MISailor Jerry Spiced RumVernor's Ginger AleTalking Rain Sparkling Spring WaterSpinJobe hates all new musicThe Shaggs, Philosophy of the WorldRoky Erickson, The Evil One She Wants Revenge Ben Frost, By The ThroatRancid, ...And Out Come The Wolves (we'll ignore their new album)Ministry, In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing UpSoggy Bog of DoomMagnus Pelander, s/t epWitchcraftGodflesh, A World Lit Only By FireClarendoniansToots & The MaytalsReadPlaying At The World, Jon PetersonDesigners & Dragons, Shannon AppleclineOf Dice And Men, David EwaltAt The Mountains Of Madness, H.P. LovecraftThe Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt, Kara CooneyShadow of the Torturer, Gene WolfeShadows Linger, Glenn CookThe Blade Itself, Joe AbercrombieFirst Lensman, E.E. "Doc" SmithRun5d6?Savage Worlds, HellfrostRuneQuest 6, Griffin MountainDungeon Crawl ClassicsLamentations of the Flame PrincessThanks for joining us for this episode of Drink Spin Run. We'd love to read your comments on the show, suggestions, where exactly we can stick what and other thinly-veiled threats. Send us your thoughts at dsr@kickassistan.net. Once again, thanks for listening.

In this episode, we discuss the latest issue of Polygraff™ (Volume, 1 Issue #2), a quarterly adventure fiction anthology with short stories in science fiction, fantasy, horror, thriller, pulp, and many other genres. This issue contains more chapters in The Well at the World's End by William Morris, "The Road to Corinth" by Karen Gallant, "Visitors" by Anne Michaud, "Grounded" By Wes Weston, a chapter of Triplanetary by E.E. "Doc" Smith, and a review of Judge Dredd™ America.This issue also features a very rare interview with science fiction author John Norman, famous for creating the Gor series of novels. It is one of the few interviews that Mr. Norman has conducted in the last 30 years. In this podcast, we also include an interview with Anne Michaud, author of "Visitors," which appears in this issue of Polygraff. This is a relatively short interview but we will post a longer interview, in Ms. Michaud's native French language, to another podcast, available on another feed, in the near future.LinksSample of Polygraff Volume 1 Issue #2 at Scribd.Sample of Polygraff Volume 1 Issue #2 at Issuu.World of Gor, an unofficial web site for John Norman's Gor series of novels.DiceCast is a member of RPGPodcasts.comPolymancer Studios is a proud sponsor of Conjurations 2010 (May 15 to May 16 in downtown Montreal). DiceCast is available at the iTunes music store. The RSS feed is http://feeds.feedburner.com/Dicecast.

Spacehounds of IPC by e.e. Doc Smith, an Uvula Audio Production

Spacehounds of IPC by e.e. Doc Smith, an Uvula Audio Production

Spacehounds of IPC by e.e. Doc Smith, an Uvula Audio Production

Spacehounds of IPC by e.e. Doc Smith, an Uvula Audio Production

Spacehounds of IPC by e.e. Doc Smith, an Uvula Audio Production

Spacehounds of IPC by e.e. Doc Smith, an Uvula Audio Production

Spacehounds of IPC by e.e. Doc Smith, an Uvula Audio Production

Spacehounds of IPC by e.e. Doc Smith, an Uvula Audio Production

Spacehounds of IPC by e.e. Doc Smith, an Uvula Audio Production

Spacehounds of IPC by e.e. Doc Smith, an Uvula Audio Production

Spacehounds of IPC by e.e. Doc Smith, an Uvula Audio Production

Spacehounds of IPC by e.e. Doc Smith, an Uvula Audio Production

Spacehounds of IPC by e.e. Doc Smith, an Uvula Audio Production