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Back on the bridge this week with hope, sunshine, and rainbows, are fan favourites; Peter Watts and Richard K. Morgan. In Part Two of our conversation we are informed of our pending doom in the most delightful manner. Either way, here are two sci-fi authors who should be in the same room together more often. We hope you enjoy this as much as we did. Peter's website: rifters.comRichard's website: richardkmorgan.comPlease let us know if there is a book you want us to review or an author you want us to have on the podcast! You can always reach us on our social media links below or email us at talesfromthebridgepodcast@gmail.com. You can also find more Tales From The Bridge episodes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or our website to see what is happening on The Bridge.Check out our many links:Twitter: @BridgeTalesInstagram: @talesfromthebridgeFacebook:http://www.facebook.com/groups/talesfromthebridge/IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt17354590/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1Website:https://talesfromthebridge.buzzsprout.com/Email: talesfromthebridgepodcast@gmail.com Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/tales-from-the-bridge-all-things-sci-fi/id1570902818Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3MQuEYGQ3HD2xTewRag8KGSend us an email!
Joining us on the bridge this week are fan favourites; Peter Watts and Richard K. Morgan. It's not everyday that you get this kind of twofer, and this conversation goes there. So much so, that we had to break it into two parts. So lots of doubles happening here. Either way, here are two sci-fi authors who should be in the same room together more often. We hope you enjoy this as much as we did. Keep an eye out for part 2 in a couple of weeks.Peter's website: rifters.comRichard's website: richardkmorgan.comPlease let us know if there is a book you want us to review or an author you want us to have on the podcast! You can always reach us on our social media links below or email us at talesfromthebridgepodcast@gmail.com. You can also find more Tales From The Bridge episodes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or our website to see what is happening on The Bridge.Check out our many links:Twitter: @BridgeTalesInstagram: @talesfromthebridgeFacebook:http://www.facebook.com/groups/talesfromthebridge/IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt17354590/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1Website:https://talesfromthebridge.buzzsprout.com/Email: talesfromthebridgepodcast@gmail.com Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/tales-from-the-bridge-all-things-sci-fi/id1570902818Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3MQuEYGQ3HD2xTewRag8KGSend us an email!Send us an email!
Kevin and Tristan sit down with multi-award winning author, Richard Morgan. Richard wrote the cyberpunk thriller novel, Altered Carbon, that was adapted for a series on Netflix. He talks to us about writing for Marvel, video games, and his latest novel. We also talk about Mars, punk-isms, social-politics and more. Please let us know if there is a book you want us to review or an author you want us to have on the podcast! You can always reach us on our social media links below or email us at talesfromthebridgepodcast@gmail.com. You can also find more Tales From The Bridge on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and our website to see what is happening on The Bridge.Check out our many links:Twitter: @BridgeTalesInstagram: @talesfromthebridgeFacebook:http://www.facebook.com/groups/talesfromthebridge/IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt17354590/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1Website:https://talesfromthebridge.buzzsprout.com/Email: talesfromthebridgepodcast@gmail.com Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/tales-from-the-bridge-all-things-sci-fi/id1570902818Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3MQuEYGQ3HD2xTewRag8KG
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Morally Grey Characters is an author panel from TBRCon2022 featuring Joe Abercrombie, Richard K. Morgan, Luke Arnold, Stephen Aryan and Jeremy Szal. Moderated by FanFiAddict and TBRCon founder David Walters. For more information on TBRCon2022, head over to FanFiAddict.com. You can also stream the convention live from Jan. 23-30 on the FanFiAddict YouTube channel, Twitter account or Facebook page. About the Panelists: David Walters is the founder of FanFiAddict.com and TBRCon, as well as host of Authors on a Podcast Talking Books. Find David on Twitter or FanFiAddict. Joe Abercrombie is the bestselling author the First Law Trilogy, The Age of Madness trilogy and the Shattered Sea trilogy for young adults. Find Joe on Twitter or his personal website. Richard K. Morgan is the acclaimed author of Thin Air, The Dark Defiles, The Cold Commands, The Steel Remains, Black Man (published as Thirteen in the U.S.), Woken Furies, Market Forces, Broken Angels, and Altered Carbon, a New York Times Notable Book that won the Philip K. Dick Award in 2003. Find Richard on his personal website. Luke Arnold is an actor ad director, as well as the author of The Fetch Phillips Archives, including The Last Smile in Sunder City and Dead Man in a Ditch. Find Luke on Twitter or his personal website. Stephen Aryan is the award-winning fantasy author of the Age of Darkness and Age of Dread trilogies, as well as the new Quest for Heroes duology. Find Stephen on Twitter, his personal website or his YouTube channel. Jeremy Szal is the author of Stormblood and Blindspace, books one and two in The Common series. Find Jeremy on Twitter or his personal website. Find Us Online: FanFiAddict Blog Discord Twitter Instagram Music: Intro: "FanFiAddict Theme (Short Version)" by Astronoz Interlude 1: “Crescendo” by Astronoz Outro: “Cloudy Sunset” by Astronoz
This podcast has covered a lot of games… but can it run Crysis? On this episode, our hosts finally get around to trying the 2011 sequel to Crytek's acclaimed first person shooter. All things considered, it is no small feat that our duo has managed to avoid this series for as long as they have. As you can imagine, this sets some dangerously high expectations… will the second installment live up to the hype? Will a story helmed by acclaimed author Richard K. Morgan be able to hook our hosts in just an hour's time? With just the Xbox Game Pass “Surprise Me” button to blame for thrusting them into the middle of yet another series, will they enjoy their time and want to continue when the hour is up? Tune in and you'll get all these answers and more! What do you think? Let us know! Hit us up on Twitter at https://twitter.com/tc1h1d Drop us an email at tc.1h1d(at)outlook[dot]com Follow us on Goodpods @1h1d Check out our fancy site: https://quitthebuild.com/1h1d Watch this episode on our Youtube channel: https://bit.ly/3obGi7m Thanks for taking this ride with us :-) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/1-hour-1-decision/message
Here is a visual representation of the Kardashev scale and the amount of energy for each step: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale#/media/File:Consommations_énergétiques_des_trois_types_de_l'échelle_de_Kardashev.svg] Why is there a scale? It's hard to have an intelligent conversation about something if you don't have a way to think critically about it. Classification schemes is one way of creating a frame of critical thinking. You have to create criteria for the different levels. How did we get the Kardashev scale? Russian astrophysicist, Nikolai Kardashev, created the scale in a paper he published in 1964 called, “Transmission of Information by Extraterrestrial Civilizations”. The scale measures a civilization's level of technological advancement based on the amount of energy it is able to use. What is the scale? Type 1 through 3. Frequently referred to as K1 through K3. A Type I civilization, also called a planetary civilization, has the capability to use all of the energy of its planet. A technological achievement that a K1 society would likely have is weather control. An example of this in movies would be any science fiction movie that shows Earth United by one government, or close cooperation, such as the movie Interstellar and 2010 Space Odyssey. References: the movie Interstellar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_(film) Stanley Kubrick Space Odyssey: * 2001 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062622/ * 2010 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086837/ A type II civilization, also called a stellar civilization, can use and control energy at the scale of its planetary system. Technological achievements that K2 civilizations would likely have is the ability to terraform and build megastructures. An example of a near type 2 is the TV series The Expanse. Most space operas fall into this category such as any Star Trek. I wanted to place Star Wars here to but since Sith lords frequently entertain ruling the galaxy, they must be nearing K3 contrary to Star Trek, where the galaxy is still a vast place that takes lifetimes to span even with warp drive. Another delightful noir/cyberpunk book series is the Takeshi Kovacs novels by Richard K Morgan. The first of which, Altered Carbon, was made into a Netflix movie. References: The Expanse: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3230854/ Star Trek serieses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek Richard K Morgan's Takeshi Kovacks book series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeshi_Kovacs A type III civilization, also called a galactic civilization, can control energy at the scale of its entire host galaxy. Movies like this do casually travel the wide reaches of the galaxy and the galaxy is as well known as any of us today see the Earth as well known and prospected by various nation states. The most famous example of this in movies would be, as I've already said, is Star Wars. More choices are Jupiter Ascending, as well as Valarian and the City of a Thousand Planets. In literature we have books like Vernor Vinges Zones of Thought, and Asimov's The Foundation. The Vinge book showcases civilizations up and down the kardashev model and so I highly recommend that to those who have a love for alien civilizations and interest in socio-economic development. Apple TV has produced and is streaming The Foundation as a multi series TV show, and it is very enjoyable and well acted, so go check it out. A feature length movie script that Hal Dace and I wrote Miss Wisenheimer and the Aliens falls into the K3 category as well but with the unique angle that despite having the ability to casually travel the galaxy like in Star Wars, there are no aliens so the film focuses on that mystery. I'll put a link to the short film version in the show notes. The short film version of the feature length movie, by the way, won an award at a Belgium film festival. References: the movie Star Wars: https://www.starwars.com/films the movie Jupiter Ascending: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1617661/ the movie Valarian and the City of a Thousand Planets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerian_and_the_City_of_a_Thousand_Planets Vernor Vinge's Zones of Thought novel series: https://www.goodreads.com/series/52585-zones-of-thought Isaac Asimov's The Foundation book series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_series the TV series The Foundation: https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/what-to-watch/ct-ent-review-foundation-apple-tv-plus-20210924-3rzd3lon7rbrhidtrlpv5pl4t4-story.html Is the Kardashev scale any good? As you've heard on the show, it does help to quickly categorize levels of civilizations. A common criticism is that the jump from K2 to K3, from controlling the energy of a solar system to the ability to control all the energy of all the suns of a galaxy is too big of a step. But that said, it did actually do the job when analyzing science fiction movies. Another criticism is what about beyond K3? This brings us to the next topic. Typical adds to the scale At the front of the scale, it's typical to use 0 for civilizations that are just starting out or have yet to master energy generation. At the other end of the scale, it's common to add a level 4 beings who can control or use the entire universe. Because seriously, why would a Sith stop at making only a galaxy of beings unhappy when she could put an entire universe into a bad funk? Adding level 5 brings gives us a category for those who control collections of universes, or said another way, multiple dimensions. For those who have seen Valarian, remember the extraction scene that the main character, Valarian was involved with required them to go to another dimension. And for those who have seen the Thor movies, this gives us a catagory for Asgardians. References: Miss Wisenheimer: Short film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJpyfhkfm3QFacebook page: https://www.facebook.com/MissWisenheimer/TV interview about the film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EItnd8bXhdkMiss Wisenheimer and the Aliens film page: https://www.facebook.com/MissWisenheimer Valarian: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerian_and_the_City_of_a_Thousand_Planets Jupiter Ascending: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_Ascending What are the dangers of advancing on the scale? There are some books that follow characters through the changes that happen to a civilization as they climb the Kardashev scale. Charles Stross' Accellerando describes a progression from K0 to K2. In Italian, accelerando means "speeding up" and is used as a tempo marking in musical notation. In Stross' novel, it refers to the accelerating rate at which humanity in general, and/or the novel's characters, head towards the technological singularity. This story focuses mostly on human culture. To the author's credit, he does all of this in one book. Accellerando: Vernor Vinges Zones of Thought novels, shows civilizations climbing to high parts of the scale, and many falling to lower parts of the scale. And like The Foundation, there is a group who is interested in helping to prevent a fall or helping to shorten the dark ages that follow after a fall. A Fire Upon the Deep is a 1992 science fiction novel by American writer Vernor Vinge. It is a space opera involving superhuman intelligences, aliens, variable physics, space battles, love, betrayal, genocide, and a communication medium resembling Usenet. A Fire Upon the Deep won the Hugo Award in 1993, sharing it with Doomsday Book by Connie Willis. This series contains a lot of wonderfully thought out and dramatic alien culture. Zones of Thought: Wikipedia entry about Kardashev: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale These Issac Arthur videos make a great companion video to this podcast episode. Becoming a Kardashev-1 Post-Scarcity Civilization Low-Tech Kardashev-2 Civilizations Tips from Kardashev 2 Engineers, part 2 Acknowledgements Thanks to Freesound.org user Nanakisan for: Evil laugh 04 - Gen 4.wav If you enjoyed this episode, you'll also enjoy listening to: JPL Scientist Jonathan Jiang on Extraterrestrial Intelligence in the Milky Way Galaxy: Interested in reading a space opera? Check out MEMORY'S VICTIMS by Lancer Kind Arcadie struggles with the rest of his shipmates to become immigrants rather than settlers. He adapts better than his sister who seems always involved with lost causes and he becomes part of space force. But he gets mixed up in a mystery about a woman who is breaking interstellar treaties by tampering with generation ships, and her reasons for doing so sound similar to his sister's affliction—an out-of-control savior complex.
It's another break week as we give you a classic episode, Episode 28. Sci-fi author Heidi Ruby Miller joins us to talk about cyberpunk, including the Netflix series Altered Carbon, based on the novel by Richard K. Morgan. Find Heidi on Instagram @heidirubymiller and online at www.heidirubymiller.com. Carrie also talks about her recent viewing of the 2018 film Fast Color.
In the aftermath of last week's discussion of Black Widow comics, and rediscovering the greatness of the Richard K. Morgan issues, we were inspired to dig through our personal collections and share a healthy heaping of hidden gems with all y'all! These are all Big Two (Marvel and DC) books that are great reads but are hidden gems because we rarely (if ever) hear the fandom talking about them. Perhaps they have been forgotten with the passage of time, or perhaps no one ever really noticed them to begin with. Some of them are tough to find because they were never published in trade paperbacks, or the trades went out of print years ago. A couple of these aren't even available on Comixology! Nonetheless, we had a strong desire to promote these comics and maybe even inspire someone to dig through back issue bins. For the purposes of this exercise, we restricted ourselves to Marvel and DC cape comics. In the future, we may do more episodes discussing hidden gems, but in the meantime, we'd love to hear what you consider some hidden gems that the rest of us should seek out! Let us know in the comments, email us, or hit us up on social media.
Hola suscriptores, este capítulo hablamos de los siguientes comics: - Fernando: "Viuda Negra: Hogar Dulce Hogar", Guión: Richard K. Morgan; Dibujo: Bill Sienkiewicz. Edición Panini Comics "Litle Bird" Guion: Darcy Van Poelgeest, Dibujo: Ian Bertram, Color: Matt Hollinsgworth. Ediciones Nuevo Nueve. - Vicente: "Rover, Red, Charlie", Guión: Garth Ennis, dibujo Michael Dipascale. Edición en español, Panini Cómics. " X-Men: Sangre de Apocalipsis", Guión: Peter Milligan, Dibujo: Salvador Larroca. Numeración USA: X-Men #182 - 187. Edición por Panini - Rodrigo: "Batgirl: Año Uno", Guión: Scott Beatty y Chuck Dixon, con dibujos de Marcos Martin y Álvaro López. Coleccionable ECC-Salvat. Este programa es posible gracias a nuestros patreons: - Carlos Muñoz - Manuel Villanueva - Sebastian Vera - Marcos Saldivia - Carlos Cepeda - Alejandro Herrera - Sergio Matamala - Iván Matamala - Francisco Curihuinca - Rodrigo Agurto - Nicolás Mena - Rodrigo Alcota - Ramón Acevedo - Miguel Cabezas - Julio Correa - Juan Rocha - Eduardo Delgado Apóyanos en Patreon https://www.patreon.com/devorandocomics Recuerda que también pueden escuchar nuestro #Podcast de #DevorandoComics en: -ivoox: https://www.ivoox.com/podcast-devorando-comics_sq_f1586450_1.html -spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6dYRuOsPRRM5QM3hjbvuSx No olviden visitar #DevorandoComics en: -Web oficial: www.devorandocomics.cl -Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/devorandocomics.cl
Today on Armed Lutheran Radio it's our fifth annual Christmas Wish List Episode with Christmas gift ideas from the entire cast. Segments [0:00] - Blooper [0:36] - Opening and welcome [1:51] - Thanks to our Patrons [3:46] - Lloyd's Gift Ideas [18:49] - Mia's Gift Ideas [23:01] - Sgt. Bill's Gift Ideas [30:19] - Pastor John Bennett's Gift Ideas [37:25] - Close NOTE: All our gift ideas from past years can be found at http://www.armedlutheran.us/christmas/ Many of Mia's gift ideas can be found here*: http://www.ArmedLutheran.us/MiaShop Gift Ideas Duty to Defend edited by Lloyd Bailey, Jr.* - https://amzn.to/3omznF9 27 Words by Yehuda Remer* - https://amzn.to/36K3aBA Longmire books by Craig Johnson* - https://amzn.to/37Be6R9 Altered Carbon books by Richard K Morgan* - https://amzn.to/3gdmgDe Umbrella Academy graphic novels by Gerard Way* - https://amzn.to/36JxAnw Cursed by Thomas Wheeler (illustrated by Frank Miller)* - https://amzn.to/2VBOb6o The Witcher book series by Andrej Sapkowski* - https://amzn.to/3gbEgOo Kids Against Maturity card game* - https://amzn.to/3lHqpR1 Exploding Kittens card game* - https://amzn.to/3lG5Ap3 POOP card game* - https://amzn.to/3lJ0aJV SIRT Training pistol - https://nextleveltraining.com/ CoolFire Laser Recoil Trainer - https://coolfiretrainer.com/ Mantis X3 Shooting Performance System* - https://amzn.to/3gd5l3B Dry Fire Training Cards* - https://amzn.to/3gcNPfT Dry Fire Books by Steve Anderson - https://www.andersonshooting.com/store Ben Stoeger training books and videos - https://amzn.to/2JN7O95 Lockdown Dehumidifier Rod* - https://amzn.to/3lHdrTd TorchStar LED Safe Lighting Kit* - https://amzn.to/33MVkFn Daisy Red Ryder Model 1938 Air Rifle BB Gun* - https://amzn.to/3otpyoG Meet the Cast Lloyd Bailey - http://www.armedlutheran.us/about/ Mia Anstine - http://www.armedlutheran.us/mia/ Sergeant Bill Silvia - http://www.armedlutheran.us/bill/ Pastor John Bennett - http://www.armedlutheran.us/pastor/ Prayer of the Week Stir up our hearts, O Lord, to make ready the way of Your only-begotten Son that by His coming we may be given to serve You with cleansed minds; through the same Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen. Use these Links to Support Armed Lutheran Radio Armed Lutheran Radio is a listener-supported podcast. If you value the information and entertainment we provide, consider supporting the show by joining our membership site, or shopping at your favorite online stores using the links below. Join the Reformation Gun Club! - http://gunclub.armedlutheran.us BUY the new Armed Lutheran Book - Duty to Defend Check out the other Great Armed Lutheran Books - http://www.ArmedLutheran.us/Books Shop at Amazon* - http://www.armedlutheran.us/amazon Shop at GunMagWarehouse* - http://www.armedlutheran.us/mags Get Regular Refills Coffee Subscriptions at Dunkin' Donuts* - www.ArmedLutheran.us/Coffee Armed Citizens Legal Defense Network - https://www.armedcitizensnetwork.org Get in Touch Visit our Feedback Page - http://www.armedlutheran.us/feedback Please tell your friends about us, leave an iTunes review, and like us on Facebook Join our Facebook group - http://www.armedlutheran.us/facebook Subscribe to us and follow us on Youtube - http://www.armedlutheran.us/youtube Follow us on Twitter - http://www.armedlutheran.us/twitter And search for us on Instagram - http://www.armedlutheran.us/instagram Check Out More at our Website- http://www.armedlutheran.us Disclaimer The links above which are indicated with an asterisk (*) are affiliate links, which means that if you choose to make a purchase, I will earn a commission. This commission comes at no additional cost to you. Please understand that I have experience with all of these items, and I recommend them because they are helpful and useful, not because of the small commissions I make if you decide to buy something. Please do not spend any money on these products unless you feel you need them or that they will help you. Keep Shooting, Keep Praying, We'll Talk to you Next time!
This week we're excited to bring you an interview with Stephanie Perkins, author of ANNA AND THE FRENCH KISS, LOLA AND THE BOY NEXT DOOR, ISLA AND THE HAPPILY EVER AFTER, and THERE'S SOMEONE INSIDE YOUR HOUSE, which is also set to be released as a Netflix movie in 2021. Find out more at http://stephanieperkins.com and follow her on Twitter at https://twitter.com/naturallysteph and on Instagram at http://instagram.com/naturallystephperkins. Thank you to all of our amazing listeners, including our Patrons at https://Patreon.com/BeyondTheTrope. Don't forget you can pick up exclusive Beyond The Trope gear at https://BeyondTheTrope.redbubble.com. Mentioned in this episode: Dan Cohen Stranger Things (TV Show) Scream (Movie) Patrick Kack-Brice Netflix Creep (Movie) Creek 2 (Movie) Mark Duplass The Overnight (Movie) Jason Schwartzmann Adam Scott Henry Gayden Shazam! (Movie) EAT PRAY LOVE by Elizabeth Gilbert WORLD WAR Z by Max Brooks ALTERED CARBON by Richard K. Morgan Jimi Hendrix Edgar Allen Poe The Finishing School series by Gail Carriger Sydney Park The Walking Dead (TV Show) Harry Potter (Book Series) by J. K. Rowling CHARLOTTE'S WEB by E. B. White BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY by Helen Fielding THE PRINCESS DIARIES by Meg Cabot How I Met Your Mother (TV Show) Milk Bar Malaprop's Bookstore
While a lot of readers have struggled during the pandemic, Scott had a reading breakthrough this past year. We talk about BookTube, places for readalongs, and books we've read and liked recently.Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 204: BookTube Season Subscribe to the podcast via this link: FeedburnerOr subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: SubscribeOr listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via StitcherOr listen through Spotify New! Listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed: A Memory Called Empire by Arkady MartineHow Long 'Til Black Future Month by N.K. JemisinThis is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann PatchettEmpire of Wild by Cherie DimalineLast Call by Tim PowersOther mentions:The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns GoodwinAltered Carbon by Richard K. MorganCoode St. Podcast with Arkady MartineForeigner by C.J. CherryhA Desolation Called Peace by Arkady MartineThe Fifth Season by N.K. JemisinAncillary Justice by Ann LeckieThe Killing Moon by N.K. JemisinSistah ScifiThe Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham JonesThe Marrow Thieves by Cherie DimalineOn Stranger Tides by Tim PowersThe Anubis Gates by Tim PowersThe Great & Secret Show by Clive BarkerThe Fall of Hyperion by Dan SimmonsGet Booked PodcastHugos There PodcastA Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter MillerThe Sparrow by Mary Doria RussellEveryone who Reads Must Converse (YouTube)Endymion by Dan SimmonsA Case of Conscience by James BlishWelcome Home: An Anthology of Love and Adoption edited by Eric SmithRelated episodes:Episode 009 - Pirates and Noonday DemonsEpisode 039 - Paranoid Squint with FredEpisode 058 - Wishing for a Sequel with Scott D. Danielson Episode 123 - Godlets and Forests with Lauren WeinholdEpisode 202 - Jacket Flap with Chris and Emily Shelf Wear - Book 3 - The Only Good Indians Stalk us online: Scott on A Good Story is Hard to Find (podcast) Scott on Shelf Wear (blog and podcast)Jenny at GoodreadsJenny on TwitterJenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors, and less to Jeff Bezos. I only link to Amazon in cases where Bookshop.org does not carry a backlist title, which took place a few times for this list.
This week's episode is a conversation with Dr Fiona Kerr on the ethical approaches to humans merging with machines. We discuss the incredible science and technology currently being used in medicine as well as the huge advances in Medtech. Further Reading and Resources: This episode is based on Altered Carbon by Richard K Morgan and can be purchased here. See more from Dr Fiona Kerr https:Twitter: https://twitter.com/FionaKerr82 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrFionaKerr/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-fiona-kerr/ Website: https://www.theneurotechinstitute.com/ Follow Widdershins and please Rate and Review us in your favourite Podcast app so others can easily find Widdershins! Visit our website: www.widdershinspodcast.com/ for member-only access and merchandise Facebook: www.facebook.com/WiddershinsPodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/WiddershinsP Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/widdershins_podcast/ Email us: connect@widdershinspodcast.com Widdershins proudly uses the services of Letitia Stafford – The Ultimate Podcasting Virtual Assistant
Mario nos habla hoy de la película de superhéroes "X-Men: Dark Phoenix" protagonizada por Sophie Turner. Después, Nacho nos cuenta sus impresiones acerca de la segunda temporada de la serie de ciencia-ficción de Netflix "Altered Carbon", basada en las novelas de Richard K. Morgan.
On this very special episode of Discussions and Drinks we welcome back our Books Over Beer cohort Jonathon. He has been off recording episodes of his solo podcast Fortune's Wheel: A Podcast History of the Middle Ages. Though Jonathon has never seen a single episode of the show we discussed it was nice to have him back. This episode we talked both seasons of Netflix's Altered Carbon. "More than 300 years in the future, society has been transformed by new technology, leading to human bodies being interchangeable and death no longer being permanent. Takeshi Kovacs is the only surviving soldier of a group of elite interstellar warriors who were defeated in an uprising against the new world order. His mind was imprisoned for centuries until impossibly wealthy businessman Laurens Bancroft offers him the chance to live again. Kovacs will have to do something for Bancroft, though, if he wants to be resurrected. Bancroft's request of Kovacs is to solve a murder -- Bancroft's. "Altered Carbon" is based on Richard K. Morgan's cyberpunk noir novel of the same name." Altered Carbon TV series created by Laeta Kalogridis and based on the 2002 novel of the same title by English author Richard K. Morgan. Links:Season 1 Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpyNN3WJEFYSeason 2 Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MzbLQBeR9Y
Nesse programa o Gods convidou o Lucão e o Tzanno para falarem da primeira e segunda temporada da série Cyberpunk chamada Altered Carbon. Ela foi produzida pela Netflix e criada por Laeta Kalogridis baseada no livro de homônimo de Richard K. Morgan. A primeira temporada é composta por dez episódios que estrearam em 2 de fevereiro de 2018 Será que eles gostaram dessa série? Ela é muito confusa? Eles entenderam sobre todos os mistérios e segredos revelados? O que são as capas? O que aconteceu com esse mundo? Corram no Spotify ou no agregador de podcast de sua preferência e ouça esse novo programa. Deixe sua mensagem no Instagram do Gods, e se preferir mande um e-mail para fantasticomundodegods@gmail.com Lembrando que todas as músicas que estão no programa são de direito da Netflix e de seus criadores. Gods: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fantasticomundodogods/ Lucão: Instagram:. https://www.instagram.com/lukmathias/?hl=pt Tzanno: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jtzanno/?hl=pt-br Links: Traile Primeira Temporadar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGNTd9yb_vQ Trailer Segunda Temporada: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7dnS7EHwPY Final da segunda temporada: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4hpPCNMd1o
Episodio 23 de Sin palomitas de maízInvitada: Santiago Rendón @Santorendonhttps://twitter.com/santorendonEn el episodio 23 invitamos a Santiago Rendón, desde el comienzo nos dijo que no veía series pero terminó hablando de 5 y recomendando más que cualquier otro invitado. Juan David nos habla de la serie de ciencia ficción basada en la novela de Richard K. Morgan: Altered Carbon https://www.netflix.com/co/title/80097140Carlos nos recomienda una de las series más comentadas de 2020: Tiger King la serie documental de Netflix. Lo más excéntrico que pueden ver en cuarentena. https://www.netflix.com/co/title/81115994Felipe revive la nostalgia de estar cada noche frente al televisor y nos recomienda: Aquí no hay quien viva, la serie española de Antena 3 sobre la comunidad: Desengaño 21.https://anhqv.es/capitulos/ Para finalizar el episodio nuestro invitado nos recomienda 5 series que marcaron su vida, un top con lo más selecto de la televisión para Santiago Rendón. Más sobre Sin palomitas de maíz en: https://medium.com/sin-palomitas-de-ma%C3%ADz Producido por: Punto LinkEdición: Juan David EscobarMúsica: Juan Camilo Gómez Locución: Santiago Rendón
Sci-fi author Heidi Ruby Miller joins us to talk about cyberpunk, including the Netflix series Altered Carbon, based on the novel by Richard K. Morgan.Find Heidi on Instagram @heidirubymiller and online at www.heidirubymiller.com.Carrie also talks about her recent viewing of the 2018 film Fast Color.
Hello All! Here is part 3! We finish our conversation on Altered Carbon, the book, and Netflix's season 1. We talk characters, many from the book, and many from the show. We discuss their modified or changed roles and impact on Takeshi Kovacs. We Can't wait to watch the next season plus read book 2 Broken Angles. Enjoy! Fantasy and sci-fi literature book club discussion podcast often reading Brandon Sanderson and the Cosmere, Brent Weeks, Stephen King, Robert Jordan, and many more. Please enjoy, or at least laugh! Literature discussion done right! We, the Shoutouts, from Lyket Entertainment, have a book club discussion on our favorite fantasy and sci-fi literature with our choice wine, beer, ale, and rum. Find us at Lyket.net Litliterature.com Facebook: @LitLiterature1 Twitter: @LitLiterature1 Instagram: @LitLiterature1 Soundcloud: @LitLiterature1 Libsyn: @LitLiterature Lit Literature http//www.LitLiterature.com Search for us on apple podcast or most any other podcast provider @ Lit Literature Support us at www.patreon.com/LitLiterature Book written by: Richard K. Morgan Music Credit to : https://audiojungle.net/item/hyper-epic/20064254?ref=stockaudio
Is immortality a good thing? Death is the great inevitability of hum an life – we all know, deep down, that one day we will die. And most of us don’t want to die. So, for millennia, human beings have sought methods –religious, occult, and technological – to avoid our inevitable fate. Mostly, people have considered it a good thing: we want to be immortal. Pop culture works like Richard K. Morgan’s Altered Carbon (recently made into a new Netflix series), on the other hand, say “Not so fast! Maybe immortality isn’t all it’s cracked up to be!” And that’s what this episode is about: using Altered Carbon, and the world it presents, to explore the desirability of immortality.
Hello All! Here is part 2! Video actually works the whole way through. We dive deeper into the themes of Altered Carbon the book and Netflix's season 1. We argue about souls, stacks, needle cast, and Altered Carbon cultures. Plus we talk about Poe vs Hendrix. Can't wait to watch the next season. Enjoy! Fantasy and sci-fi literature book club discussion podcast often reading Brandon Sanderson and the Cosmere, Brent Weeks, Stephen King, Robert Jordan, and many more. Please enjoy, or at least laugh! Literature discussion done right! We, the Shoutouts, from Lyket Entertainment, have a book club discussion on our favorite fantasy and sci-fi literature with our choice wine, beer, ale, and rum. Find us at Lyket.net Litliterature.com Facebook: @LitLiterature1 Twitter: @LitLiterature1 Instagram: @LitLiterature1 Soundcloud: @LitLiterature1 Libsyn: @LitLiterature Lit Literature http//www.LitLiterature.com Search for us on apple podcast or most any other podcast provider @ Lit Literature Support us at www.patreon.com/LitLiterature Book written by: Richard K. Morgan Music Credit to : https://audiojungle.net/item/hyper-epic/20064254?ref=stockaudio
Hello All! If during this time of isolation and social distancing you are enjoying various "Netflix" series such as Altered Carbon season 1 & 2 you are in luck. We had a gem recorded from a while ago discussing Altered Carbon the book compared to Netflix's season 1. This allows us to watch season 2. and gives us time to read some more books. For now, in honor of the book, and also in honor of the Netflix adaption, here is our discussion on Altered Carbon! Fantasy and sci-fi literature book club discussion podcast often reading Brandon Sanderson and the Cosmere, Brent Weeks, Stephen King, Robert Jordan, and many more. Please enjoy, or at least laugh! Literature discussion done right! We, the Shoutouts, from Lyket Entertainment, have a book club discussion on our favorite fantasy and sci-fi literature with our choice wine, beer, ale, and rum. Find us at Lyket.net Litliterature.com Facebook: @LitLiterature1 Twitter: @LitLiterature1 Instagram: @LitLiterature1 Soundcloud: @LitLiterature1 Libsyn: @LitLiterature Lit Literature http//www.LitLiterature.com Search for us on apple podcast or most any other podcast provider @ Lit Literature Support us at www.patreon.com/LitLiterature Book written by: Richard K. Morgan Music Credit to : https://audiojungle.net/item/hyper-epic/20064254?ref=stockaudio
Welcome to episode 2 where Daniel and Nathan discuss the Netflix Original Series Altered Carbon. ***Warning!*** ***Spoilers ahead!*** Altered Carbon stars Joel Kinnaman (season 1) and Anthony Mackie (season 2) as Takeshi Kovacs "The Last Envoy" who's brought back to a world of ultra capitalism to solve a mystery. Altered Carbon was created by Laeta Kalogridis based on Richard K. Morgan's novel by the same name.
Show notes, Night City Secrets BONUS Episode 1 Interview with the REFEREE Cover Art for the podcast from “Cyberpunk madness,” by the artist Eddie Del Rio. Intro and closing music is from Amoebacrew, called simply "Cyberpunk royalty free music.” It is available on Youtube: Background ambient music is from RoyaltyFreeSounds, called “Soundscape Ambient, Cyberpunk Music. Royalty Free.” It is on Youtube: TRANSCRIPT INT So hello, welcome back to Night City Secrets. Today I’m going to interview our illustrious Referee. How would you like me to refer to you. REF God might be a little pretentious, let’s just go with “Referee.” INT [laughing] All right Mister Referee. REF Sir. INT Sir, that… that’s always good. So how long have you been playing Cyberpunk 2020? REF Ah, so I’ve been playing Cyberpunk 2020 since probably around 1989 or 1990. Now, that’s not consecutive, I mean, there’s been a lot of off and on years, but, again, 89-90 timeframe when we were *really* heavy into role-playing. I’m sorry, I should probably give a little bit of context, too. I’m 46 years old. So, eh, I was, 18, 19? I was young, right, and we were really heavy into role-playing at the time. We logged hundreds of hours playing Cyberpunk 2020. INT So you were in High School, I guess, basically, when you started doing this? REF Yeah. Yeah, high school or right out of it. INT What is it that you think attracted you all to table-top role-playing? REF You know, we were always kind of the fringe crowd. We weren’t the jocks, we weren’t preppies, we weren’t stoners, we were always kind of a fringe crowd. We got along with everybody, but we didn’t really belong to any specific genre of friend-group. Uhm, we were all very creative, very imaginative, we liked reading, we liked theatre, we liked music, we liked anything creative. Uhm, Jamie is still an aspiring writer. You’re a writer, right? I mean it’s just the type of people we hung out with. And back then, video games were… they were starting, I mean, we had them. We had computer games, but they were still pretty new and still pretty remedial. And so, if you wanted an opportunity to explore “strange new worls and seek our new life and new civilization,” your opportunity was role-playing games. So that’s what hooked us. INT And you guys grew up in a pretty small town, right? REF Yeah, good point, Glenwood Springs, Colorado. Uh, population at the time I think was about 7 or 8,000. Very small, my entire school, my entire high school was around 400 people. About 100 per class. So yeah, it was small. Didn’t have a lot to do. Your opportunities were: a lot of drinking, a lot of drugs, a lot of getting in trouble, and role-playing. [laughing] INT So did your parents, did everyone know you were doing this role-playing stuff? REF No, I don’t know that they did. You know, I can’t say it was anything I kept from them, I just, you know, my parents never really took an active interest in what I was doing when I wasn’t at the house. So I never came to them said, like, “He dad, I’m playing D&D, and Cyberpunk,” it was just… I was out of the house and he never really asked. INT Well, I guess the reason I ask is because, around that time frame, it was maybe a little bit earlier than your time, but there was the whole… I’ve heard people call it the “Satanic Panic.” REF Yeah, the D&D scare. INT And so parents were hearing these bad stories and they were not wanting their kids to get involved. That’s what happened to me. REF OK, and that makes sense. And you know what, funnily enough, now that you mention that, I can… I’m not sure that I can actually recall, but I do know that I was probably fairly adamant about not telling my mom what I did. My mom is very religious and I probably omitted that from her. But my dad just never asked, so… INT Yeah I, I wanted to play role-playing games, but I didn’t know anyone that really did, and my parents frowned on that activity, they didn’t really want me doing it anyway. REF We would have been really good friends in high school, dude. [laughing] INT I was in an even smaller high school than you. REF No kidding? Oh, that’s right, you were up in Steamboat, weren’t you? INT Uh-huh, yeah. You want to guess my graduating class? REF OK, if mine was 100 in Glenwood, I’m gonna guess yours was probably what…. 30? INT 14. REF Oh good god! [laughing] INT And we started the year at 20. We finished at 14. REF Wow, that’s a pretty high drop out rate… INT Yes, well, it wasn’t drop out so much as kicked out. Yeah, I was at boarding school, so…Anyway, enough about me. So are there other role-playing games that you played? What else did you dabble in? REF So I think, probably most people - at least in that age - started with D&D. Somebody said, “What the hell is this game, Dungeons & Dragons?” And so we sat down and played that for a couple years. And then, actually, I think it did evolve into the next game being Cyberpunk. After Cyberpunk, we also played a game called GURPS, a Steve Jackson game: “Generic Universal Role-Playing System.” 93 or 94, probably 94, is when Vampire: The Masquerade first dropped, and, funny enough that was actually the game system we logged the most time with in total. Whereas we played maybe 100s of hours with Cyberpunk, I would guess 1000s of hours with Vampire. It is also the one we played the longest. So where we did a couple years of Cyberpunk, I would say a decade of Vampire. What else? Trying to think, uh… Teenagers from Outer Space, Cyber Generation - which is kind of another iteration of Cyberpunk, I think those are probably the big ones. And probably a couple other systems I can’t even remember. But yeah, a lot of games, a lot of different type of games. INT So you got introduced to this at a pretty young age, and stuck with it for quite a long time, off and on. REF Yeah yeah yeah, the first D&D game I want to say was something like 15 or 16. And probably the longest gap in my adulthood was maybe 8 or 9 years of not doing any gaming. And I don’t know why, it was just kind of one those things where adulthood, life, took us away from it for awhile, but then we realized, we’re like, you know what, we enjoy this, we love it so much, it is such a large part of who we are, and, here we are again. INT Well what is it for you, if you can elaborate, that makes it so fulfilling for you? REF Oh absolutely, so, I mean… you’re the neuroscientist here, right? you could talk about the chemical and the biological reactions that are going on, but at a base, right, there’s a fulfillment in playing these games, right? Video games, and don’t get me wrong, I love video games. I do. I love sitting down, I love playing a video game. But to me, the video game’s almost…you know, barring certain unique circumstances… it’s almost kind of a mind numbing, or mindless pursuit, right? You’re following a script, you’re playing the game, you’re learning the system, you’re learning the movements, and then you just let your brain go and you go with it, right? With table-top games, role-playing games, RPGs, you’re creating a story, and even if you’re not creating a story, you’re immersing yourself in somebody else’s story, and you’re playing a major role in that, right? So, it involves a lot more imagination, it’s a lot more creativity, it’s a lot more action versus reaction. Or interaction, you know? It’s just, it’s stimulating on such a mental and visceral, emotional level for me. INT So the way you are describing, it sounds like it is cathartic for you, in a way. REF Yes, absolutely. Not just cathartic, it is therapeutic, it is meditative for me in a lot of ways. You know, my sleep has suffered, I’m not gonna lie. My sleep has suffered a lot since we started doing this, because I will sometimes lay in bad for hours just thinking through the different scenarios and the plot lines and the different character hooks, and the different ways that things could play out, depending on what the characters do, or what the NPCs do in reaction to the characters. It is very cathartic for me. INT So you’ve been playing a long time, when did you really start getting into being a Dungeon Master or being a Referee, at that level? REF That is a good question. I don’t… Actually, I do know, ok, I take that back. I do know. I would say that I probably never really ran my own game up until Vampire. Somebody else introduced me to the game of D&D. Somebody else introduced me to the game of Cyberpunk, or GURPS, or… whatever the other systems were, and so I was always just a player. The first time I ever referee’d, or game mastered, or was the storyteller, was Vampire: The Masquerade. And that was because I was kind of the one who found the game. I was like, wow, vampires! This is fantastic. I always had a kind of fascination with the dark, the arcane, the occult, vampire mythos, and I saw this game on a bookshelf one time and I was super-intrigued by it. So I was the first one to find it, no one else introduced me to the game, so I had to fill that role of storyteller. So when I had the opportunity of sharing my interests and my game, if you will, with a group of friends and a group of players I really enjoyed it. It was just a completely different facet of the role-playing that I enjoyed. INT Now how big was the circle of friends that would participate? REF Good question. so the D&D, when we first started, I shit you not it was something like 10 people. It was totally absurd. You experience right now is with the five of us, you can tell how chaotic it can become at times. Imagine doubling that, right? But again, that’s what I was call a different style of game. We weren’t necessarily immersing ourselves in the flavor, we were just hanging out as friends. Very little seriousness, very little actual plot, very little momentum or progression on story. Then the groups started getting smaller. So D&D was probably 10. We played a game called Rifts, which is kind of a futuristic, science-fiction slash magic game. Also a very fun game, and I forgot to mention that one earlier. But we spent a couple years playing that one as well, and that group was anywhere from six to eight people. And then Cyberpunk slimmed up to four to six, and over the years… I hate to say this, but some people grow up and they become adults. And along with their lives they don’t have the same interest with it. But the core gaming group got smaller and smaller and smaller. I think when we started doing or really deep, intense, long term games, it was probably a group of four, maybe five maximum. INT So pretty tight-knit, I imagine. REF Yes, very tight-knit, exactly. INT And at what point did this evolve into video games? REF So that would have been probably… Maybe a decade ago. Actually, I think it might have been even longer, probably 15 years ago now that I think about it. I have to measure everything by my marriage, and by my anniversary. My wife still laughs to this day that when I told her, “Hey, I’m gonna go hang out with my buddies,” she thought I was actually leaving the house. She didn’t realize I was taking my beer into my office, putting my headphones on, and logging on to the computer. She said it blew her away. And she remembers that as one of the first conversations we had as a married couple. So year, 15 years ago. We celebrated our 15th anniversary recently, and probably 15 years ago is when my online video game playing fascination started. INT So you were doing the video games, I guess that was after you were out of your parents’ house? REF So the video games, ok, so, again, 46, it might have been as early as 29. Our group of friends had a little bit of a falling out. I think all groups of friends do at some point, right? People get bent over something, you get frustrated, you just go in different directions in life, so there was a period of time where we fell out. We weren’t living together anymore, we all started to move on with our lives, we had respective girlfriends or boyfriends or spouses or kids and life, and the tight-knit gaming group we had was no longer available. And so, I’m like… what the hell do I do? And that was well before we had the opportunity for anything like Roll20, or any other kind of online RPG system, and we didn’t have meetups at that time, we didn’t have Facebook, there wasn’t anything to bring people together with common interests, so, I was like well, I got a computer, I like video games, and that’s where I really started focusing on those types of video games. INT Like, what kind of games pulled you in to start, and what kind of platforms were you playing on? REF So I actually like everything. First-person shooters were probably the big ones. I did a lot of Battlefield, Duke Nuke’em when it first came out, Halo, all the kind of standard, well known first person shooters. Beyond that? I dunno, I think my interested back then were pretty narrow. INT Pretty narrow in what way? The games you sought out to play? REF Yeah, I mean, I didn’t recognize the breadth and depth of the types of games out there. I never went really really deep into video games. When I started, I played Battlefield: Vietnam, like I said, those first person shooters. And then, when I found a group of friends to play with, we almost immediately went into World of Warcraft. So my whole online gaming experience was really those 4 or 5 first person shooters and then almost a decade or more of World of Warcraft. INT Did you guys collectively decide to get into World of Warcraft? Did you find that it reinvigorated or filled a kind of need for community and playing with other people? REF So, sadly, I can barely remember what I did last week, much less what happened 15 years ago. I believe it was probably the latter. I do know that when I first started playing World of Warcraft, it was more reminiscent of everything I love about role-playing games. It was the character creation, the character story, the character advancement, it was the opportunity to play with a group of people. To do quests together, to progress and level together. So it kind of hit all the major checkboxes for an RPG, without the imaginative aspect of creating the world yourself. I think that was the one key piece that was truly missing. INT That’s a great answer. That’s a great segue into what I wanted to discuss, was, the difference between table-top RPG and online MMORPGS like World of Warcraft. REF OK, and that’s it, right? I mean that is truly it. So, if you’re playing a MMORPG, or an online RPG game, you’re participating in someone else’s imagination. You’re subscribing to their creative license, their creative intellect, their story. And there’s nothing wrong with that, there’s brilliant, genius intellects out there creating these online games. But at the end of the day, it is still a scripted story. It can only be so iterative, it can only be so reactive, and I don’t want to say imaginative — there’s a lot of imagination that can go into it. But it is still a scripted story. And your reactions to that are also limited. With a table top game, there’s no limits. I mean it is totally pure imagination. You can make things up on the fly, you can react to situations as they come at you, both as a storyteller and as a player. I mean you can truly do anything, and I think that’s part of the fun of it, right? I wanna say, it’s not a competition, but it is definitely mental gymnastics with the storytellers and the players, as the players try to figure out where the story is going and how to react to it, and the storyteller of the referee is conversely going, “What the hell are they doing?” and trying to react to that to keep the story going. It is just a wonderfully, dynamically, evolving creation, that you can’t get from a MMORPG. INT Right, I think of it as, there’s a lot more negotiation that happens between the players and the referee, right? REF That’s a good way of looking at it. INT It’s kind of like, for me, you know, I like movies. But I don’t like movies as much as I like reading. And it’s the same thing for me, if I’m reading, there’s a kind of primacy given to my imaginative engagement with the product. But if I’m watching a movie, I’m kind of on the rails. I’m visually seeing what they want me to see. I find this kind of engagement with the narrative and with the storytelling aspect to be really really fascinating. REF I agree. That’s what calls me to it, is that aspect of it. It truly calls to me, that part of, the dynamic nature of story creation. It is truly, sky’s the limit. INT There is a, I’m going to give a quick plug here, there is a great book … you remember watching Star Trek: The Next Generation, yes? REF Yes. INT And the holodeck, and what it provided on the show. There was an episode where Data was - you know, he’s always exploring what it is to be human and what it means to be human - and he was fascinated with the Sherlock Holmes stories. And I think it was Geordi La Forge asked the holodeck to come up with a challenging story for Data. And the computer combined different stories about Sherlock Holmes. And Data figured it out right away, right. And then he said, “No no no, it has to be something unique. You can’t just takes bits and pieces of the different stories and mash them together, because Data knows all of the stories and he’ll figure it out. It needs to be something that will challenge his intellect,m challenge his imagination.” And they ended up creating a independently thinking creature. The holodeck created intelligent life, basically, and it became a morality story in the episode, where Captain Piccard had to figure out…. do I shut this guy off? Do I turn him off? Or do I allow him to live? Anyway…. what I wanted to get at with that line of thinking was there’s a book called “Hamlet on the Holodeck,” I’m forgetting the author. I’ll add it into the show notes later. It was written sometime around the time of Myst. Do you remember the Myst video game? It would have been around, late 1990s, early 2000s. But the author wrote about narrative space in video game and story telling. It’s a really great book, it’s very prescient for its time. But let’s get to our little clique, because I met you through World of Warcraft. I was brought into that, you guys had a groups of friends and a guild, and I was just playing by myself at the time. And I met one of the people in our group and he brought me in and introduced me to you guys and… so we met virtually for the first time. So do you remember, how long have we been playing together? REF 15 years. Yeah. I’m trying to think exactly…. because you came in on Battlefield: Vietnam, right? Or were you, did you start with WoW? INT No I started with WoW. REF Okay, so again, I measure everything by the anniversary, so, if it’s not 15 years, it’s probably 13 or 14. INT That sounds about right to me. REF I know it was shortly after I got married. INT I’m sure I could… I could place it at the time, I think it was WoW’s first expansion, Because that’s when they introduced blood elves to the Horde and paladins. REF That’s right, and that’s what you were playing. INT A blood elf paladin. REF Yep. INT And I remember you guys having no idea - you had always played a Horde guild, so you had no idea about the mechanics of a paladin. REF Exactly! We’re like… What is this? Holy crap, you can tank AND you can heal? That’s invincible! And, yes it was. INT So we played WoW together for a long time. And I used to refer to it as my poker night. REF Yes, my wife used to refer to it as date night. “Gonna go hang out with your girlfriends?” INT And we played that together for a long time, you know, I think the peak was like we were doing the raids in Karazhan, and we would have like 10 people on at a time, maybe at our peak. And then we kind of drifted away from that, right? So talk us through that, your perspective on how that kind of evolved into getting us back to Cyberpunk, because you were the one who recommended that game to us. REF So, like you said, we played WoW for a long time. I know I ended up taking a break for a long time, I just realized how all-consuming it had become for me. And I don’t mean in a good, healthy, creative way. I mean almost in an alcoholism, narcotic addiction-type way. I was spending way, way too much time on World of Warcraft, and I needed to take a break. And so after a couple years of break, I recognized that I still need this social, creative outlet in my life. And I, don’t remember, I think you might have still been playing, I think Adrian might have been dabbling, and same thing with Jamie, just dabbling. But I was looking to get back into a game, we’d played WoW for awhile, and we enjoyed it, don’t get me wrong, I know I had a blast with it where we did another year maybe two years of WoW with the current expansion, leveling up the characters. But there was something that was still missing for me in WoW. And I don’t want to speak for you, but I think you kinda had the same experience in that it was just the same thing over and over again. It was the grind, it was the similar stories, it was watered down plot lines, and it was not holding my attention. So after about a year of that, maybe two, we ended up trying some other games. We did Guild Wars 2 for, honestly I think it was another year. I spent a lot of time on Guild Wars, too - I know some of the other guys in the troupe were not as excited about it and probably didn’t take to it as quickly or as well as I did. But I probably spent several hundred hours on Guild Wars 2, and really enjoyed the game, but, after a period of time, we kinda burnt on that. I would almost say that the biggest gap, for me, was it was not ever really about the game. It was about the time that I got to spend with you guys. When were were playing WoW the first time around, when we were leveling characters together, running dungeons together, it wasn’t about the end game content. It was about how stupid and how silly and how much fun we could have. We would laugh and laugh and laugh and do crazy silly stuff. You know, training hundreds of mobs and try to kill the characters off, putting each other on follow and trying to jump people off cliffs. Just the stupid shit that came out of our mouths and the dumb stuff we did and just the absolute fun of the experience. And that stopped for some reason. I couldn’t even remark on when it happened. We just stopped having fun with WoW and so we tried Guild Wars 2, and we never ever got to that same level of fun or engagement with Guild Wars. And then it was just a matter of trying to find a game that would work for us, you know. We bounced around on Diablo 3, we were looking at one called… I don’t even remember what it was! Some other MMO and I personally was kind oa at my wit’s end, probably everyone in the Group was. Like, What game do we do? We’re done. And then. I don’t know what inspired me, I just know I was looking for something that would inspire me. Something that we could do together, that would help facilitate that interaction - truly interacting with each other, talking, laughing, having fun, being creative, and I’m like, well, shit… So the best years of my childhood, the best years of my young life, were spend in a group with my buddies role-playing. Why can’t we have that now? And that was kind of the line of thinking. You know, we have a lot of fun with online gaming, but honestly, I think we can have more fun sitting down playing a role-playing game, a table top game, creating the story together, creating characters together, progressing the storyline together, and laughing our asses off. INT Now, back then, there wasn’t a platform. You mentioned this before, like, a Roll20, to enable this gameplay to happen remotely and in an online setting. And I wasn’t even familiar with it until you mentioned it. You know, I think there was one time when we all got together, and even the wives and kids were involved and we were doing a D&D session. And I think that was the first time I becamse aware, I think Jamie mentioned something about these online platforms that were available to help us look up information quickly, do the dice rolls, but I didn’t know about roll20.net until you mentioned it to us as a way to play Cyberpunk. So how did you discover it, and what has it meant for us and how we play now? REF Oh it’s fantastic. I think part of the reason I went such a long time without role-playing was simply because we didn’t have an online platform. I mean, life takes us all indifferent directions. And instead of all living together and being able to play every night from 5pm to midnight, we had to schedule around it. How about Sunday, Monday, Tuesday? Now you have to count in travel time, you have to count in dinner, all this other stuff in a very adult-schedule breakdown way. So I’d been looking for some kind of online system. I remember finding some early systems that were really immature, didn’t like it, looking a few years later there were some apps you could try, but not very evolved and not very user-friendly. And maybe a year ago, I looked again and found Roll20. But I didn’t have much time to try it out. I didn’t know anyone who might try. Jamie is always interested, you know, but it you just can’t do much when it is only two people. You need a little more diversity in that community to make the game really pop and make it fun. And at the time we just didn’t think there was anyone else who would be interested. So we had awareness of this platform but never really had the opportunity to try it. Now about three months ago, I had a buddy of mine move back from California. I’ve known this guy for some 20 years. And he’s been in California for 17 of those 20 years. And he moved back to Colorado, and was kind of the same way, missing that online gaming group, missing that community, decided that he wanted to run a Vampire game. And again, here we are all adults, with lives and children, and adult stuff. And we were like, let’s do this. He tasked me with being a Co-GM in his game and made me in charge of figuring out how it works, learning the intricacies and nuances, and I just absolutely fell in love with it. Because you can create character sheets for all your games, make your rolls directly from your character sheets, you can make maps on the fly, you can make them in advance, it’s truly infinite opportunity. It’s everything that hex maps and sitting down in front of people is… online. INT I’ve been really happy with it. It feels really engaging and useful. I’ve enjoyed it quite a lot. So, getting more directly into Cyberpunk the game. so you guys played this a long time ago. This is the one you recommended to us, we jumped into it, we started making our characters, and you now had the task of building this environment, creating this narrative, making the gameworld. So walk me through some of your thoughts in weaving this tapestry. I mean most of used just random rolls, we used the fast NPC creator system to come up with a character, and then we rolled whatever our backstories were. So building this world, choosing to put us in Night City versus in Seattle or New York City or somewhere else… walk me through your though process when you were doing this. REF So, I dunno why I picked this game over any other. I think it is the perfect blend of cinematic, realistic, complicated, and simple. It’s like a perfect balance. I’ve played a lot of games and I know what systems are good for what. And this is a really good system for one, new players, and two, just for a general mix of role-playing and combat. Secondly, I think the storyline itself is great, right. We’re all creative types. We all really enjoy maybe a fantasy genre, and I think had we gone with a fantasy genre we would have enjoyed that just as much, but there’s something about the kind of a dystopic future, the blend of raucous, lawlessness, technology, careless abandon, and societal breakdown that is just a fun world to play in. So that’s probably why I picked the Cyberpunk game. INT Well I have to imagine that the announcement of Cyberpunk 2077 by CD Projekt Red was in our minds either consciously or subconsciously. I’d never heard of Cyberpunk until BT had posted something in our group chat about how excited he was that the Cyberpunk video game was coming out. REF That is true. Now that you mention it, it probably did have something to do with it. I am super-excited for that game. I think it brought back such beautiful memories of the fun times we had playing that game. So it was probably in the back of my mind, too. INT Subconsciously or metaconscisouly in some way, yeah. REF Metaconsciously, yeah. INT So this game world. I mean, there’s a lot of flexibility in building the game world or Cyberpunk. What kinds of things did you, what sources of inspiration did you have in coming up with the world we were going to play in? REF First of all, Night City is the quintessential Cyberpunk city in all the original source material. So you’re going to find more material on Night City versus Seattle, or Denver, or… we could have picked any city. But there’s the most content on Night City, and it is also what I remember most is… the great thing about Night City is that it is not something anyone is familiar with. So people don’;t have preconceived notions about what Night city is, or where it is, or how it looks like, and you can create it as you want. That was one of the things. The other thing was in terms of game style of play style, I just kinda defaulted back to what I enjoyed as a player. I really, really liked Cyberpunk 2020, I liked the Night City, I liked some of the stories and color and the flavor of the world as I remember it 20 years ago. So it is a comfortable setting for me. It is an easy setting to fall back into and pick up. INT Now describe a little bit the characters, the cast we have in this, and how you started to look and them and how you started to craft a story for them. REF Now that was probably where I have had the most fun. I mean truly most of my fun. You took to it quickly. I just dropped the source material and said, here’s what we’re going to work with. And before I could blink, you had your character figured out. And again, I gotta say I was so unprepared for the direction you went. Corp probably would have been that last character concept I would have picked for you, or for anyone for that matter. INT It would not have been the one I chose, either, but like I mentioned to you, I just went completely random with it. And I said, ok, I’m going to take whatever the dice roll, and now I’m going to have fun trying to build a story around this character and flesh it out, right? REF I love it. And that’s what I love about Cyberpunk. That is is exactly. The game system is designed around randomly creating this ridiculously fun and flavorful character. They have dice rolls for everything. They have dice rolls for your style, for how you look,. what your ethnicity is, what your language is, what your family is, who your friends are, everything. It is all random, and it’s all super involved. And so the fact that you did that and had fun with it is exactly what I did with the world. So we have your character, Antigone the Corporate, the corporate middle manager, slightly maybe senior director, who is trying to take her autonomous independent sovereign state corporation primetime in the Night City area. I mean, that’s just a random dice rolls that we got that, right? We’ve got your giant Greek/Polynesian family, with your four sisters your two brothers, your parents, and everything that came out of that, just with random dice rolls. And once you get those broad strokes then the ability to craft the story beyond that is endless. INT So what about some of the other characters? REF So, Jamie knew what he wanted to play. He knows what’s going to be a good fit, what does he wanna do? What’s going to be of benefit to the group. So he is like, ok, fantastic, I’m playing a Netrunner, the futuristic cowboy hacker, straight out of Neuromanver and Johnny Mnemonic, and Ghost in the Machine, the cowboy Netrunner. And Brian? Fixer, the streetdealer, he knows everybody: the social street dealer, info-broker, weapons dealer, drug dealer, someone who knows everybody. Brian loves this type of character. So he knew exactly what he wanted to play. Adrian, a little more difficult. Like he didn’t really…I think he’s into it now but I don’t think he really took to the idea at first. And he wasn’t really excited about spending a lot of time or investing a lot of time into looking into the rules or whatever, and he decided he wanted to play a Solo. Like, Han Solo. And this is a dark future, you can be anything you wanna be. That’s a great fit right there, so he’s Han Solo, the dazzling, charming, charismatic pilot smuggler with a blaster, right? Now, the characters themselves started out, as do all characters, single dimension. There’s no really depth to them until you start fleshing out that lifepath. And once your start, when you roll what happens to you on a yearly basis, and in one year hey I had this job, I made this money, all right well… who was the job against? How did you make that money? Next year, you made an enemy. What did you do to make that enemy? Oh, I made a friend. Well, how did you make a friend? I mean, you start fleshing out these details and… these characters are young, right? These are supposed to be up and coming edge runners, the up and comers in their field. So they’re, 20 -25. But you start your lifepath at 16, so you have 5,7,8 years of events that you are filling in backstory for. And a lot can happen in those years. So, what I did intend to do, I intended to create a story and just you guys evolve that story. But as I started looking at your lifepaths - and you all seemed to be really into it - I started really… you know, if you made an enemy, how did you make it? And I started kinda mapping this out. This is an idea I stole from Vampire 5th edition, which just recently came out, is the idea of a relationship map. We don’t exist in a vacuum. Every person we touch or who touches us has some sort of significance to us. And, not only that, it is a small world, and things are very interconnected. So as you start mapping out this relationship map and you start seeing, all right, so Surany make an enemy at age 17 and huh, you roll a couple details of that enemy and you realize that this really fit’s well with Hako’s friend that he made at 18 for something similar. So you start to see these relationships map out and this net get woven. And that presents some of those amazing plotlines and storylines in and of itself. That makes my job very simple. INT This is really my first foray into real roleplaying with a group, but I gotta say that, from my experience, I think you’re doing a fantastic job interwaeving all of the stories that we have. Creating these… you know, in writing, we talk about Goal, Motivation, and Conflict. When you’re making a character, it has to have a goal, a motivation, and a conflict. To be compelling in some way. And I feel like you’re doing a really good job of interweaving those randomly rolled backstories we have to create those relationships. REF Well thank you, I gotta say, that’s been the most fun for me. Looking and that and going, OK, how can I take that factor from Antigone’s life and interrelate it with Surany, or Hako, or Han. I can’t wait…. we have content that we’re probably not going to get to for another 6 months. But when some of these connections come out, it is going to be absolutely hysterical. A ton of fun. INT So our group - it is probably not a unique problem - we play once a week. We have a set time that we generally do it. but life happens. And every now and then someone has to be at work, or there’s a family emergency, right? And you came up with this really interesting system that we ended up calling, or you ended up calling it, the Extended Rolls Tasks. Can you describe what that is and why you came up with it and what it does for us? REF Yeah, actually, it was more… [laughing] You’re gonna laugh. It was more, I think, to satisfy your enthusiasm for this game. Like I said, I would never have picked a Corp for you but, you rolled it, you took it, you embraced it, and I wanted an opportunity of letting you explore what it really meant to be that Corp. So, instead of being a single edge-runner character out there with your own myopic and selfish motivation, your character was part of something bigger. A corporation. Not only is it a corporation, it’s a family corporation. This is what your family does. Your very very deep motivation for this corporation and what the corporation is trying to accomplish in the world. I kept thinking like, how do we do this? There’s going to be the game, and in the game, you’ve gotta have a good mix of plot line, a good mix of character interaction, there’s gotta be a good mix of social aspect. Because characters have to be able to do what they’re good at in game. So like if I throw your character in a situation where all we do is combat, you’re gonna die, first. But even if you don’t die, you’re not gonna have much fun because you’re not very good at it. We gotta have a good blend of social aspect AND combat AND net-running to keep the characters engaged. But, the aspect of being able to play with your company and your character’s resources, and also be able to further your corporations reach into Night City and to achieve the goals of the company was not something we’re going to be able to play out in character. One, because it would take too long, two, because it would be boring as shit, and I needed to figure out some way of doing it. Here’s what the team does, and in the down time — mind you we haven’t actually had an opportunity to have any down time yet — but in the between sessions where you guys are not actively blowing shit up or getting blown up, what are you doing to further extend or expand PPC’s goals? So it was really an opportunoity one, give you a budget that is indicative of your company and your personal resources - you’re pull within the company - then take your skillset and the skillset of the team to further expand PPC’s resources or PPC’s overall marketshare… it’s an opportunity to fuck with your competitors, it’s an opportunity to play the game at kind of another level than simply sitting down and rolling dice. INT Now, what I thought was interesting was that when we were rolling our characters, three of us rolled Pacific Islanders. And thats part of why I… you know, you and I kind of negotiated this Paupau Collective concept, and I was taking inspiration from the Neal Stephenson Snow Crash novel which has this concept of “The Raft” that is kinda of floating around the Pacific islands. And I kind of modified that to think that, well, if we’ve got all these Pacific Islanders, maybe there’s this… after the drug wars, after everything had happened in the Cyberpunk 2020 universe, I can see a very similar type of thing happening. But it’s not core to the Cyberpunk 2020 manuals. So you worked with me to help create this environment to allow it to occur, right? REF It is always fun to create your own… but it is far more fun when people collaborate with you. I could have easily just said Hey, here’s what we’re gonna do. But the fact that you were so engaged, intrigued, and had created such a beautiful and intriguing backstory — it made it easy. INT I’m loving it. It is so engaging for me. Are there other sources of inspiration for you? You mentioned Gibson, and you mentioned Johnny Mnemonic. Are there other sources of inspiration for you when you’re trying to create this world? REF Yeah, so most recently… I loved the Cyberpunk genre, I loved science fiction so I read Heinlen and Orson Scott Card, but most recently Richard K. Morgan’s Altered Carbon. I heard about the series and I heard it is a book series as well, so, I read the series first and then watched the television show. And thoroughly enjoyed both of them. And that also kind of reinvigorated my interest in the Cyberpunk genre, and I am also taking a lot of inspiration from that series. INT So we’ve covered most of this already in the comments you’ve made, but, just to put it to a more specific question, if anybody is interested in migrated or getting their friends involved in moving from video games to table top role-playing games, any kinds of tips or any kinds of advice you might give to people? REF Yeah. So, honestly, I don’t think the system matters. Actually, scratch that. go back and edit out what I just said. The second it came out of my mouth I knew it was wrong… the system DOES matter. But only insomuch as it supports the genre and what you are trying to do and who you are as a person. I think the most important thing is to find a genre that you are interested in, truly, because that will inspire the most creativity, you’re gonna have the most fun with it, you’re gonna have the best stories, because it is going to be of interest to you. You know, I really, really like Vampire, and that’s kind of where I spent… I cut my teeth on storytelling and that’s where I spent the most time. I thought about doing that, but I didn’t think you guys would enjoy it as much. So I went with my next favorite choice, which was Cyberpunk. And I was comfortable enough with it, I love the genre enough that I was comfortable getting into it. Beyond that, the next thing is what kind of a system do you want? Are you looking for something with a lot of complexity, a lot of rules, a lot of depth and flexibility, or are you just looking for some kind of generic framework? And there’s no right or wrong answer, but that is what is going to really drive it. A good example is the Vampire game. It has a super deep rich mythos with a lot of content, backstory, flavor, color, but it is a very light rules system. That’s not the focus. For Vampire, the focus is the story. Whereas on the Cyberpunk side, again, very very rich world, lot of culture, flavor, variability, and a lopt of content. But it is a far more rules-intensive system that allows you to perhaps satisfy that more linear rules-mechanics need. INT Now something interesting I’ve seen on roll20.net, for instance, is there’s almost like a brokerage. There’s a way that you can kind of broadcast that you are looking for a game, or that you’re wanting to host it. So people can advertise that they want to join. Thinking about our group of friends, we met — I met Adrian in person, but I met the rest of you guys online. And it turned out that we were all local, and we all met each other in person. But for — I’ve seen some posts when I was browsing around roll20, there’s some younger people who are out on roll20 who are searching for friends. And they are advertising that they want to find other people that are interested in what they are doing, and interested in joining a game with them. So a little bit different way that when you and I experienced. Do you have thoughts about how younger players, for instance, might be seeking out communities of interest? REF You know, it was so long ago, I’m trying to remember where I was at that age. It was a completely different world 20 years ago when I was that age. I already had the group. We had a community and it was something we already enjoyed doing. so I don’t think I can put myself in that same frame of mind. But what I do recognize is how much role playing and that online commhnity fills or could fill such a nice in peoples’ lives. It is all those things, it fills all the boxes and it is all those things that perhaps fringe type people like ourselves need. I’m not, I come across as gregarious, but it is still hard to me to make new friends. I’m good at keeping the friends I have, but making new friends and getting out there and meeting new people is socially a very difficult thing for me. I really like that creative aspect, the imaginative aspect of role playing. Akll those things I don’t get in my day to day life. If I didn’t have this kind of a friend group or social base, I think I would be very attracted to the idea of online gaming and RPGs just by virtue of what I think it could fulfill. I don’t think I was even aware there is a community of younger people out there looking, but it makes sense, and I think it’s brilliant, and I think it’s a wonderful and beautiful thing that some of the younger generation are looking for this kind of interaction, this kind of social community. INT The resources available to them are so much different than the ones that we had, right? REF I was thinking about that too, like, holy crap man, what would it look like if 20 years ago we were trying to do this stuff? INT Right, you might prioritize remote friends over somebody that’s local. And I don’t think there’s anything that’s wrong with that. I think the enabling of that possibility is quite extraordinary. REF I agree. I mean, we came in kind of on that first crest of that wave, so to speak, and again, I’ve known Jamie and Brian most of my life. But I’ve still known you and Adrian for years. And there’s nothing to make me believe it will not go on for another 20-30 years of friendship. And to think about that, that just came from an online gaming community. The right people finding the right interests at the right time, and those friendships are just as deep and … maybe even more deep, and more powerful than some of the friendships we make in person, in physical space. INT So it is possible, it is believable, you absolutely can connect with people. REF This is where we insert the “I love you man’s.” INT So let’s wrap this up and get a little more personal. If you’re not gaming, what other kind of stuff do you do? REF Uh… think about gaming. INT Well I know you do that at work… REF I have such a hard time with that question! My interests include animals and… veterinarianism…. I, seriously, I couldn’t think of anything… if I’m not gaming right now, my interests include thinking about the gaming. Planning it out, researching, yeah, that’s kind of where I’m at right now. I’m in an interesting phase right now where I used to really enjoy going to breweries. And brewing, and I love, or loved, … love alcohol. But I’m not drinking right now. It was time to take kind of a break, and it was almost like… a lot of what I would do in my spare time is no longer what I’m doing in my spare time. So, I’m looking for other interests. But again, I’m not feeling any loss by any stretch of the imagination, but I’ve taken such an awesome interest in running this game, in addition to running the cyberpunk game, I’m also running a Vampire game with my buddies, and as we talked about before, sometimes life takes us in different directions and we have to be able to… as a group, maybe try that Vampire game out with us. I’m hoping we do anyway. There’s a lot of different gaming opportunities that are consuming my time. So that’s what I do when I’m not gaming. I’m thinking about gaming. INT Well, you do a lot of cooking, too, yes? REF I do, I do. I suppose to be fair, barbequeing we do a lot of that, and pizza making. We’ll have to have another pizza party soon. INT Right, that house you moved into recently has that pizza oven in the back. REF Oh yeah, we have a blast with that. INT And you guys came up with that gluten-free crust that just tastes delicious. REF Yes, thank you, good stuff. INT And you definiteley do brewing. And you have… video game devices, you have an X-box, is that right? REF Yeah, I notice that I’m not playing that as much. I’m enjoying the intellectual and the creative processes of the RPGs right now. But I do, I have an X-box and in fact I just finished a couple weeks back, Red Dead Redemption 2. INT Oh yeah, I bought that at an end of the year sale for cheap, but haven’t done it yet. REF If you haven’t played it yet, play it. INT That was one I thought we could actually play together, because there is an online multiplayer version of that. REF Well if our characters die and we need a another game. As soon as we stopped doing the WoW and the Guild Wars, I haven’t been playing on my laptop any more. INT So here’s an interesting story for you. When I was in grad school, for this degree I was doing computer science. So Microsoft used to come every year, you know, to recruit people for new hires. They came one year showing off their new Visual Studio development platform, their IDE. And they had a raffle, and I won the raffle, which was for a Sega Dreamcast. It was game-changing at the time. So I heard a story, I don’t know, this might be apocryphal, but they had a football game, an American football game that was so good that EA came and bought it out and basically buried the tech because they wanted to procuce their own NFL Madden franchise program. So I’m not sure that’s entirely true, but that’s what I heard. It was a very very good game. But I won that at the raffle, and that must have been year, 2000 or so. And it had a sticker on it that said powered by Windows ME. Do you remember Windows Millennium? REF I do. We all try to forget that one, don’t we? INT And I was like… I know this device is not actually running on Windows. This is a completely different operating system. But it was interesting to see that at that time there was a strategic interest at Microsoft of getting into games, and they were initially going to try to work with this partnership program, and they were gonna try to work with Sega and it was shortly, not too long after that they came out with the X-Box. Which if you remember, it was originally on the IBM PowerPC chip. The only chips that were running PowerPC were the Apple’s back then. So there were some famous pictures back then of Microsoft loading docks, they were bringing in hundred… maybe dozens…. of Apple PowerMacs because they needed that chipset to develop games to run on the X-Box. REF That was the start of the actually corporate wars, right? INT So this question is an homage to one of my favorite podcasters named Sam Harris, he runs a podcast called Making Sense, and it is focused a lot on meditation and neuroscience, political philosophy and current politics, economics, anyway, he always asks this question. “If we could bring back the Tyrannosaurus Rex, should we do it?” REF Yes. INT Unequivocally, yes? REF Unequivocally yes. INT You’re not worried about any of the consequences? REF Oh no I’m terrified of the consequences, but I’m not saying we shouldn’t do it. There’s that fine line between can you do something and should you do something. But I’m of the mind that if you can do something then you should do something. I feel that sometimes not taking the risk and not trying things out is a recipe for stagnancy. INT So, same answer for things like the wooly mammoth or the blue-footed boobie? REF Yeah. I think I would. I don’t know that it is the right answer, but it is my answer. This is kind of our family motto: “Let’s see what happens.” Sometimes you have to take risks and do crazy things. INT Any final thoughts? REF Thank you? That’s my final thought. I don’t know if I remember it, but when you initially proposed the idea of recording our gaming session, I was a little nervous. Kind of a knee-jerk reaction. But then I started actually listening to it… and it took me awhile. You put out the first one and it was like two weeks before I even thought about listening to it. And my wife said, “He’s putting actually time and effort into this, you owe it to him to at least listen.” And I was like, all right… And from the get go, I was hooked. I’m like, I sound stupid, I hate the sound of my voice on recording. But even that wasn’t enough to deter me. You do a great job of wrapping the whole thing in a very digestible, presentable bow, making it intriguing and exciting, even though I know it’s going to happen, I’m still sitting on the edge of my seat going, “What’s going to happen!?” I appreciate the time and energy, I appreciate the output, I appreciate you sitting and asking these questions. INT Well thank you so much for answering these questions, and I really hope someone has fun with this, because we’re having a blast. REF Shit’s just gonna get bigger and badder and funner and hold onto your shorts.
Gregg and Josh are back with two reviews this week: the alternate history series Hunters on Prime Video, starring Al Pacino; and season 2 of the series Altered Carbon starring Anthony Mackie, based on the cyberpunk novels by Richard K. Morgan. This reviews are very light on the spoilers, so it is safe to listen without watching the shows first for the most part. What do we think of these offerings? The only way to get our opinion is to download and listen. What are you waiting for? All Queued Up Discord Server All Queued Up Merchandise All Queued Up Facebook Page All Queued Up Discussions All Queued Up Twitter All Queued Up Instagram
On this latest edition of the Geektown Behind The Scenes Podcast, we sit down and chat with composer Jordan Gagne, co-composer on 'Altered Carbon' Season 2, Nathan Fillion's 'The Rookie', and the Jason Borne franchise series 'Treadstone'.Jordan is a Canadian composer based in Los Angeles, and for many years has been working closely with the brilliant Jeff Russo, the man behind the music for 'Star Trek Picard', 'Star Trek Discovery' and 'Fargo'. In the interview, we discuss his long relationship working with Jeff across a range of projects, including the recently released 'Altered Carbon' Season 2. Based on the classic cyberpunk noir novel by Richard K. Morgan, ‘Altered Carbon’ is an intriguing story of murder, love, sex, and betrayal, set more than 300 years in the future. Society has been transformed by new technology: consciousness can be digitized; human bodies are interchangeable; death is no longer permanent. In season 2, Anthony Mackie takes over the role of Takeshi Kovacs from Joel Kinnaman. A former Protectorate CTAC soldier who became a revolutionary Envoy, and then a mercenary for hire, Kovacs swears allegiance to no man or woman except one: Quellcrist Falconer. His undying quest to reconnect with her spans multiple centuries, planets and sleeves.We discuss how the changes on-screen in Season 2 are reflected in the music for the show, whilst making sure the themes are still relevant, along with how he works with Jeff to create the sound of the show. We also discuss his work on 'The Rookie' and 'Treadstone', along with their upcoming project 'Brave New World' for USA Network. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Purtroppo non scherzo in questo sesto episodio Star Trek Picard scopre tutte le magagne di trama e recitazione, anche del mai tanto celebrato Sir Patrick Stewart.Andando per ordine e, come sempre, senza alcuno spoiler, dal primo episodio il ritorno sulle scene del personaggio più amato di sempre in Star Trek è andato non peggiorando, ma letteralmente degenerando.*** Iscriviti al Canale ➜ http://bit.ly/Lucadeejay ***Purtroppo l'idea alla base poteva essere avvincente perchè c'erano sia Picard che Data (il secondo personaggio più amato della saga), delle nuove avventure che includessero entrambi potevano letteralmente essere avvincenti ed in stile Star Trek, ma… ma non lo sono state e non c'è altro.Le avventure che viviamo in questa serie non sono Star Trek, non sono in linea con i personaggi che abbiamo conosciuto, con l'universo che per 50 anni abbiamo visto in tv, al cinema, sui libri e nei fumetti, ma direi persino tra i giochi dei bambini e nella loro fantasia!Insomma vi invito a vedere il video senza preconcetti, come non ne avevo io, ma con la mente libera a comprendere le mie (tante) critiche alla serie.***Seguimi su instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ilucadeejay/ ***Ma in settimana sono usciti altri serial interessanti su Netflix e vi invito a dargli una possibilità, per prima la seconda stagione di Altered Carbon tratta dal romanzo di Richard K. Morgan che vi trasporterà in un mondo futuristico e Cyberpunk decisamente credibile e ben congegnato. In questa seconda stagione fa la sua comparsa come attore principale anche Anthony Mackie (celebre per aver interpretato Falcon nei film Marvel.Poi “Formula 1: Drive to Survive” che è una serie televisiva documentaristica realizzata da Netflix in collaborazione con la Formula 1, che racconta retroscena e il dietro le quinte del Campionato mondiale di Formula 1. Siamo alla seconda stagione ed è un buon modo per appassionarsi al dietro le quinte di piloti e squadre in generale, a me piace ed io non guardo la Formula 1.Infine disponibile da oggi la terza stagione di The Protector, una serie turca, con attori turchi, ambientata in Turchia. Ho visto le prime due stagioni e non era “malissimo”, datele una possibilità anche solo per le ambientazioni esterne che sono fantastiche!Per il momento è tutto, non sparate sul “pianista” (nei commenti) e…ciao belli!
In this episode, we conclude our two-part look at the two 2019 miniseries that reset the status quo for the X-Men: House of X and Powers of X, by Jonathan Hickman, Pepe Larraz and R.B. Silva, published by Marvel Comics! The mutant nation of Krakoa faces its first major setback when a mission to stop Orchis from activating the Mother Mold meets with disaster! Meanwhile, 1,000 years in the future, Wolverine and Moira MacTaggert must act as the Man-Machine Ascendancy prepares to be assimilated into the alien techno-collective known as the Phalanx! Mutantkind seems destined to suffer a terrible fate. Can Charles Xavier and Magneto prevent that dark future from coming to pass? And can they hope to survive the judgment of that Not-So-Quiet Council known as ... The Comics Canon? In This Episode! House of Buggin' Xavier's big emotional moment Everyone's favorite mutant, Goldballs! The thorny implications of resurrection Will humans evolve into machines? Are the dudes really muscling Moira out of her own plan? Giant-Size Fantastic Four #3 Broken Angels by Richard K. Morgan and Altered Carbon on Netflix Transhuman God Is Dead Vol. 1 Join us in two weeks as we kick off the month of March with a look at the first volume of U.S. Representative John Lewis's autobiographical graphic novel trilogy, March! Until then: Impress your friends with our Comics Canon merchandise! Rate us on Apple Podcasts! Send us an email! Hit us up on Twitter or Facebook! And as always, thanks for listening!
Welcome back, Literary Slummers, to another episode Shelf Aware, the podcast where we delve into books outside our comfort zones. This fortnight, we’re continuing on with Em’s unit on Cyberpunk with the seemingly never-ending book, Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan. Was this book enough to make Em rethink her stance on the genre? Listen to find out! Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altered_Carbon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk https://www.neondystopia.com/what-is-cyberpunk/ https://www.polygon.com/features/2018/8/30/17796680/cyberpunk-2077-history-blade-runner-neuromancer https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/cyberpunk-introduction-sci-fi-genre/ https://www.neondystopia.com/cyberpunk-politics-philosophy/2017-and-the-rebirth-of-cyberpunk/ Reading Recommendations: Clean Sweep by Ilona Andrews Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor A very special thank you to Ben Cope for our theme song! Check out his YouTube channel: youtube.com/fretwiz. Twitter: @shelfawarecast, @amdeebee, @emnoteliza Email: shelfawarecast @ gmail Instagram: @shelfawarecast
This week we're talking with John Marrs, author of THE PASSENGERS, HER LAST MOVE, and THE GOOD SAMARITAN. Find out more about him over at https://www.johnmarrsauthor.com and follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/johnmarrs1, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/johnmarrsauthor/, and on Instagram over at https://www.instagram.com/johnmarrs.author/?hl=en. Thank you to our awesome listeners, including our amazing Patrons over at https://Patreon.com/BeyondTheTrope. You can now get awesome Beyond The Trope gear, including shirts, mugs, and stickers, over at https://RedBubble.com/people/BeyondTheTrope! Mentioned in this episode: Black Mirror (TV Show) Patrick Rothfuss Jim Butcher THE HUNGER GAMES by Suzanne Collins Speed (Movie) Colin Ferrall Phonebooth (Movie) THE ONE by John Marrs iRobot (Movie) Tesla WorldCon Austin Powers (Movie Series) The Game (Movie) Michael Douglas Sean Penn Penguin Books ALTERED CARBON by Richard K. Morgan ERAGON by Christopher Paolini Netflix Gail Carriger Peaky Blinders Harry Potter (Book Series) by J. K. Rowling
0.00 - 0.27 İntro ve hoşgeldiniz0.34 Neredeydiniz?1.15 Geçen hafta ne oldu ? ( Geçen hafta için özür dileriz.)4. 41 Tuna, Ana konumuz neuralink6. 30 Barış , Nasıl kullanılıyor / çalışıyor?11.10 Barış , Neden korkmuyorum?13.15 Samican , Cyberpunk konsepti ve ghost in shell23.30 İnsanların durumu nasıl olur?25.15 Hacklendiğimizde ne olur?27.56 Doğal mı?32.32 Hacklenmek nedir ?34.20 Vücudumuz nasıl evrimleşecek?37.00 Barış, Acı ve bilinç 40.00 Samican, Facetune ve yeni nesil nereye gidiyor serzenişi44.45 Elevator pich ama bölüm için sesli notumuz diyebiliriz45.09 Itsmee ses kaydı46.37 Samican'ın yorumu 48.10 Tuna, kazanç nasıl sağlayabilir?50.15 Barış'ın tavsiyesi + yorumu54.32 Bize yapılan yorumları okuyoruz1.07.30 Diğer podcastlerimiz1.09.30 Bize nerden ulaşabilirsiniz1.11.10 HoşçakalınBölümde konuşulan konular hakkında daha fazla bilgiye aşağıdaki linkerden ulaşabilirsiniz Neuralink Corporation, Elon Musk ve kurucu ekibi tarafından kurulan ve implante edilebilir beyin-bilgisayar arayüzleri geliştiren bir Amerikan nöroteknoloji şirketidir.https://www.neuralink.com/Bölümde bahsi geçen Ayhan Tarakcı'nın youtube kanalı:Donanım, yazılım, teknoloji tarihi, askeri endüstri, popüler bilim ve kültür içerikli videolar yayınlıyorhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOgCIGPoRY3q644bN1uOg4g4. dakika da bahsedilen video Ayhan Tarakcı'nın bahsettiğimiz neuralik videosu:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAkxXInvFgIWilliam Ford GibsonWilliam Ford Gibson, yazdığı bilim kurgu romanları ile tanınan Amerikan roman yazarı. Siberpunk akımının babası.http://www.wikizero.biz/index.php?q=aHR0cHM6Ly9lbi53aWtpcGVkaWEub3JnL3dpa2kvV2lsbGlhbV9HaWJzb24Ghost in shellKabuktaki Hayalet,senaryosu aynı adlı Japon mangasından uyarlanan Amerikan bilim kurgu, suç ve aksiyon filmi.https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113568/Tuna'nın 18. 24 de bahsettiği Johnny MnemonicJohnny Mnemonic, başrolünü Keanu Reeves'ın üstlendiği, Robert Longo yönetmenliğindeki 1995 yapımı bilimkurgu-aksiyon filmi.http://www.wikizero.biz/index.php?q=aHR0cHM6Ly9lbi53aWtpcGVkaWEub3JnL3dpa2kvSm9obm55X01uZW1vbmljSamicanın 25.22 de bahsettiği video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwZByksfC4sThe culture ve play of games kitapları :https://www.goodreads.com/series/49118-culturehttps://www.wikizero.com/en/The_Player_of_GamesAltered Carbon Netflix linki:https://www.netflix.com/tr/title/80097140Altered Carbon, Laeta Kalogridis tarafından yaratılan ve aynı başlıktaki 2002 romanına dayanan ve İngiliz yazar Richard K. Morgan tarafından yayınlanan bir Amerikan bilim kurgu web televizyon dizisidir. Battlestar GalacticaBattlestar Galactica, askerî bilim kurgu ve drama türündeki televizyon dizisi ve Battlestar Galactica serisinin bir parçasıdır. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407362/CapricaCaprica, kurgusal Battlestar Galactica serisinin bir parçası olan televizyon dizisi. Yokoluş tehlikesindeki İnsan ırkının yeni bir ev arayışının anlatıldığı Battlestar Galactica dizisinden 58 yıl öncesine giderek Caprica gezegeninde robotik Saylon ırkının yaratılışını ve İnsan medeniyeti tarafından nasıl köleleştirildiğini anlatmaktadır.https://www.wikizero.com/en/CapricaAsl nedir?Age/location/sex kısaltmasıElevator pich : Itsmeehttps://itsmeeapp.com/Tuna'nın kanalı Wodisthttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOVg0OxoUSahMd3pLm-wVYQBir fikrimiz var sizce nasıl olur diyorsanız naber@girisimcimuhabbeti.com a gönderin bölüm içinde yorumlayalım. Bizi sosyal medyadan takip edip arkadaşlarınızla paylaşarak destek olabilirsiniz.https://www.girisimcimuhabbeti.com/https://twitter.com/girisimciMUhttps://podcasts.apple.com/tr/podcast/girisimci-muhabbeti/id977990785?mt=2https://www.facebook.com/girisimcimuhabbetihttps://medium.com/girisimci-muhabbetihttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpHu6zvtnSSTbNgL_A07Ynghttps://open.spotify.com/show/1w34eR81wbAJIykHglB3u2?si=OwqMFcNORwyk3K1YW0j_EAhttps://www.meetup.com/Girisimci-Muhabbeti-Meetup/https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/77524529-girisimci-muhabbetihttps://twitter.com/kocdurhttps://twitter.com/sctandogduhttps://twitter.com/tunayaprakHaftaya görüşmek üzere ^.^
Was erscheint alles im Juni? Jochen und Max steigen zusammen in die #teamscifi-Rakete und liefern Euch den Überblick. Die vielversprechendsten Neuveröffentlichungen des Monats. Worauf haben wir Bock. Hier ist unsere Liste, hört rein.ShownotesNEU: Mars Override (Thin Air von Richard K. Morgan seit Juni auch in dt. Übersetzung)Unsere Podcastfolge zum Roman von R.K. Morgan. Unbedingt anhören, wenn Ihr wissen wollt, ob dieses Buch etwas für Euch ist.NEU: The Expanse als RPG ist erhältlich.Coriolis RPGLeeroy JenkinsPen and Paper, virtuelle Hilfsmittel fürs Online-Spiel.NEU: Neal Stephenson - Fall, or, Dodge in Hell.Neal Stephenson - ReamdeNick Harkaway - GnomonErnest Cline - Ready Player One (Buch)NEU: Blake Crouch - RecursionBlake Crouch - Dark MatterNEU: Ferret Steinmetz - The Sol MajesticNEU: Megan O'Keefe - Velocity WeaponNEU: Reed King - FKA USABedeutungen von FKATrecker WilliNEU: Richard Kadrey - The Grand Dark (Noir Dieselpunk)NEU: Jackson Ford - The Girl who could move shit with her mind.NEU Andreas Brandhorst - EklipseNEU: Yoon Ha Lee - Hexarchate StoriesNEU: Karl Schroeder - Stealing WorldsHorst Seehofer über komplizierte GesetzeInteresse der Innenminister an AlexaCharles Stross - AccelerandoCharles Stross - Halting StateNEU: Ada Hoffman - The Outside
Es geht zum Mars. Richard K. Morgan, der die Vorlage zu Netflix' “Altered Carbon” geschrieben hat, ist wieder im Sci-Fi-Noir Genre unterwegs. Ein Hardboiled-Detektivroman in space. Auch wenn wir Hakan Veil niemals einen Ermittler nennen würden. Er ist der Overrider der Herzen. Earthman Overrider with a heart of gold.Hak's Vergangenheit macht ihn zum perfekten Kandidaten für die Jobs, die sonst keiner machen will. Und keiner mit gesundem Menschenverstand würde es sich mit so vielen mächtigen Menschen auf dem Mars versauen. Aber einer muss es halt machen. Und bitte nicht falsch verstehen. Der Overrider der Herzen und überhaupt die ganze Geschichte ist ziemlich brutal. And we loved it.
This week we are joined by Richard K. Morgan, author of THIN AIR and ALTERED CARBON. Follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/quellist1, and check out his website, https://richardkmorgan.com. Thank you to all of our amazing supporters over at https://Patreon.com/BeyondTheTrope for helping us to record great interviews like this one. Mentioned in this episode: William Gibson NEUROMANCER by William Gibson The Sprawl Trilogy by William Gibson Paul Anderson Netflix Orion Publishing Group STEEL REMAINS by Richard K. Morgan George R. R. Martin Laeta Kalogridis Warner Brothers Skydance Media Blade Runner (Movie) Ridley Scott Nine Inch Nails Ozark (TV Show) The Sopranos (TV Show) The Wire (TV Show) Solaris (Movie) Jimi Hendricks THE RAVEN by Edgar Allen Poe Chris Conner Keith Richards Joel Kinnaman Martha Higareda
In this weeks #EFTV we have orchestral movements (but it’s not dark) at the #southbank, wonder who started the #fyre and try to visit the #Hivemind This week: - Booker loses it's Man - Tweddle dumb dumb - Try to visit Hivemind Improv - St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra rehearsal trip REVIEWS & RECOMMENDATIONS - TV: Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened review AUDIBLE - Thin Air by Richard K. Morgan - The Furthest Station (Rivers of London #5.5) by Ben Aaronovitch Reach for it, people! :-) *(Music) Ready to Start by Arcade Fire - 2010 ----------- **Hivemind Improv** @Hivemindimprov Museum of Comedy The Undercroft, St George Church, Bloomsbury Way. WC1A 2SR Friday 22nd February @ 19:00 Friday 29 March @ 19:00 Friday 26 April @ 19:00 Book tickets here: https://leicestersquaretheatre.ticketsolve.com/shows/873595968/events/128177487
Altered Carbon Chris Pick for NETFLIX ORIGINALS Altered Carbon is an American dystopian science fiction cyberpunk web television series created by Late Kalogridis and based on the 2002 novel of the same title by English author Richard K. Morgan. The first season consists of ten episodes and premiered on NETFLIX on February 2, 2018. On July 27, 2018, the series was renewed for a second season of eight episodes. Starring Joel Kinnaman, James Purefoy, Martha Higereda, Chris Correr, Dichen Lachman, Ato Essandoh, Kristen Lehman, Trieu Tran, and Renee Elisa Goldsberry. Hosted by Chris, Tim, and Drew Follow us on Twitter @JamesCSherry1 @Dtharaldson @CreativeHNDL
In today's episode Cameron and Casey review The Steel Remains by Richard K Morgan. TSR was published in 2008 and is 352 hardcover pages long.
Luke talks to Juliane about Thin Air by Richard K Morgan and how it differs from Altered Carbon. Get this audiobook for free, or any of 100,000 other titles, as part of a free trial by visiting this link: http://www.audibletrial.com/sfbrp. Buy this book at , or discuss this book at Goodreads.com Luke blogs at: http://www.lukeburrage.com/blog […]
Book review of Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan
The Writer Files: Writing, Productivity, Creativity, and Neuroscience
In Part Two of this file the acclaimed New York Times bestselling sci-fi author, Richard K. Morgan, spoke with me from overseas about his winding journey from English tutor to bestseller, having his novel adapted for the small screen, what it’s like to write for Marvel comics, and his unique take on creativity and the writing life. Richard is best known as the award-winning author of the noir sci-fi novel Altered Carbon (Amazon), a New York Times Notable and Philip K. Dick Award winner, that was recently turned into a hit Netflix series. [Beware: Some ‘explicit’ language.] The author of the hard-boiled, “carbon-black,” futuristic thriller series, the Takeshi Kovacs novels (including Altered Carbon), also writes the dark fantasy series A Land Fit for Heroes (The Steel Remains, The Cold Commands, and The Dark Defiles). His award-winning novels also include stand-alones Market Forces (also optioned for film) and Thirteen, and he’s the author of two volumes of Black Widow comics for Marvel, as well as the Crysis 2 and Syndicate computer games. His latest novel, Thin Air, is described as “an atmospheric tale of corruption and abduction set on Mars” and it’s a return to his signature hardboiled sci-fi that The New York Times Book Review called, “Ferociously readable.” Join us for this two-part interview. If you missed the first half you can find it here. If you’re a fan of The Writer Files, please click subscribe to automatically see new interviews. In Part Two of the file Richard K. Morgan and I discussed: The writing life and the fallacy of “a hard day’s writing” How exercise, unplugging, and reading a lot jumpstart creativity Why good writers live inside of their work Richard’s candid takes on the incredible influence of Bladerunner and the critics reviews of the Altered Carbon Netflix series Why serious writers need grit, stamina, and self-confidence And his entreaty to all aspiring novelists The Show Notes: How Bestselling Sci-Fi Author Richard K. Morgan Writes: Part One Thin Air: A Novel – Richard K. Morgan (Amazon) RichardKMorgan.com Fragments of a Jet-lagged Dream – Richard K. Morgan Richard K. Morgan on Twitter Kelton Reid on Twitter Please click the donate button to support the podcast with a secure PayPal donation
The Writer Files: Writing, Productivity, Creativity, and Neuroscience
Acclaimed New York Times bestselling sci-fi author, Richard K. Morgan, spoke with me from overseas about his winding journey from English tutor to bestseller, having his novel adapted for the small screen, what it’s like to write for Marvel comics, and his unique take on creativity and the writing life. Richard is best known as the award-winning author of the noir sci-fi novel Altered Carbon (Amazon), a New York Times Notable and Philip K. Dick Award winner, that was recently turned into a hit Netflix series. [Beware: Some ‘explicit’ language.] The author of the hard-boiled, “carbon-black,” futuristic thriller series, the Takeshi Kovacs novels (including Altered Carbon), also writes the dark fantasy series A Land Fit for Heroes (The Steel Remains, The Cold Commands, and The Dark Defiles). His award-winning novels also include stand-alones Market Forces (also optioned for film) and Thirteen, and he’s the author of two volumes of Black Widow comics for Marvel, as well as the Crysis 2 and Syndicate computer games. His latest novel, Thin Air, is described as “an atmospheric tale of corruption and abduction set on Mars” and it’s a return to his signature hardboiled sci-fi that The New York Times Book Review called, “Ferociously readable.” Join us for this two-part interview. If you’re a fan of The Writer Files, please click subscribe to automatically see new interviews. In Part One of the file Richard K. Morgan and I discussed: His American literary doppelganger The door that finally opened and dumped him onto the red carpet How The Sopranos helped change the zeitgeist toward darker fiction Why luck plays such a big part in success for writers The author’s hallucinatory visit to the set of the Altered Carbon Netflix series The two distinct DNA types of writers and the fallacy of block The Show Notes: How Bestselling Sci-Fi Author Richard K. Morgan Writes: Part Two Thin Air: A Novel – Richard K. Morgan (Amazon) RichardKMorgan.com Fragments of a Jet-lagged Dream – Richard K. Morgan Richard K. Morgan on Twitter Kelton Reid on Twitter Please click the donate button to support the podcast with a secure PayPal donation
Episode 1-42: The Night is Dark and Full of Terrors Wherein I review: 154. Worst. Person. Ever by Douglas Coupland 155. Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll by Peter Bebergal 156. Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders 157. The Dark Defiles (A Land Fit for Heroes #3) by Richard K. Morgan 158. Desolation Island (Aubrey & Maturin #5) by Patrick O'Brian TRIPLE CANNONBALL ACHIEVED
Richard K. Morgan has spent most of the past decade working on his fantasy trilogy A Land Fit For Heroes. The books were popular with readers, but Morgan has received a steady stream of emails urging him to write more science fiction in the vein of his 2002 debut Altered Carbon. His new novel Thin Air definitely fits the bill, delivering more of Morgan's signature blend of mystery, sci-fi, sex, and violence.
Episode 1-33: We're Here, We're Queer, Get Used to It Wherein I review: 128. Hiddensee by Gregory Maguire 129. Crooked by Austin Grossman 130. The Steel Remains (A Land Fit For Heroes #1) by Richard K. Morgan 131. Hollywood Dead (Sandman Slim #10) by Richard Kadrey 132. Bloody Rose (The Band #2) by Nicholas Eames 133. The Invisible Library (Invisible Library #1) by Genevieve Cogman
Hello, dear listener! Kelli and I are back with episode 1 of season 7 to review the book Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan. It's a very good book with lots of cool technology that holds all sorts of implications for future society. Enjoy! Links We Mentioned Altered Carbon on Amazon Altered Carbon on Audible Altered Carbon on Netflix #SaveTheExpanse Petition on Change.org Peace Talks (Book 16 of the Dresden Files) PPG from Babylon 5 John Legend is your new Google Assistant Titles We Considered Sleeve Death Organic Damage Needlecast Boyfriend's Ex-Body Nudal Frontity Twin Of All Twins Git Merge Brain Season X Thanks —JS & KS
This time BUSY DADDIES Kevin & George walk through the quiet cult film MAN FROM EARTH. Kevin discusses the vast differences between sci-fi authors Yoss and Richard K. Morgan. George lavishes praise upon the podcast WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE and how it reminds him of some of his favorite, humor filled, Sci-Fi works. We come full circle back to MAN FROM EARTH in a breakdown of laughter and celebration of the shittyness of that movies ending. Hope you enjoy. SPOILER POLICY: We take a “fly on the wall” approach to our listeners. As such, some of what we discuss falls into the realm of SPOILERS. Consider yourself warned. WHAT THE HELL WERE THEY TALKING ABOUT? MOVIES: Man From Earth (watch it FREE on Hulu), 2007, dir. by Richard Schenkman Fantastic Four, 2005, dir. by Tim Story BOOKS: A Planet For Rent by Yoss Woken Furies by Richard K. Morgan The Reality Dysfunction by Peter F. Hamilton PODCASTS: Welcome to Nightvale by Joseph Fink If you enjoyed BUSY DADDIES DO SCI-FI, please take the time to rate and review us on iTunes, Stitcher, Tune In, Google Play or wherever you may find your podcasts. You can follow us on Twitter or Instagram at BDDSCiFi. Thanks for listening and keep coming back. See you in two weeks.
The AfterBuzz TV Altered Carbon AfterShow breaks down episodes of Netflix's Altered Carbon. Hosts Nate Miller, Shaka Strong, and Stephen Egbert discuss episodes 9 & 10. Show Summary: More than 300 years in the future, society has been transformed by new technology, leading to human bodies being interchangeable and death no longer being permanent. Takeshi Kovacs is the only surviving soldier of a group of elite interstellar warriors who were defeated in an uprising against the new world order. His mind was imprisoned for centuries until impossibly wealthy businessman Laurens Bancroft offers him the chance to live again. Kovacs will have to do something for Bancroft, though, if he wants to be resurrected. Bancroft's request of Kovacs is to solve a murder -- Bancroft's. "Altered Carbon" is based on Richard K. Morgan's cyberpunk noir novel of the same name.
The AfterBuzz TV Altered Carbon AfterShow breaks down episodes of Netflix's Altered Carbon. Hosts Nate Miller, Shaka Strong, Krista Flentje, and Evan Mack discuss episodes 7 & 8. Show Summary: More than 300 years in the future, society has been transformed by new technology, leading to human bodies being interchangeable and death no longer being permanent. Takeshi Kovacs is the only surviving soldier of a group of elite interstellar warriors who were defeated in an uprising against the new world order. His mind was imprisoned for centuries until impossibly wealthy businessman Laurens Bancroft offers him the chance to live again. Kovacs will have to do something for Bancroft, though, if he wants to be resurrected. Bancroft's request of Kovacs is to solve a murder -- Bancroft's. "Altered Carbon" is based on Richard K. Morgan's cyberpunk noir novel of the same name.
The AfterBuzz TV Altered Carbon AfterShow breaks down episodes of Netflix's Altered Carbon. Hosts Nate Miller, Shaka Strong, Krista Flentje, and Evan Mack discuss episodes 5 & 6. Show Summary: More than 300 years in the future, society has been transformed by new technology, leading to human bodies being interchangeable and death no longer being permanent. Takeshi Kovacs is the only surviving soldier of a group of elite interstellar warriors who were defeated in an uprising against the new world order. His mind was imprisoned for centuries until impossibly wealthy businessman Laurens Bancroft offers him the chance to live again. Kovacs will have to do something for Bancroft, though, if he wants to be resurrected. Bancroft's request of Kovacs is to solve a murder -- Bancroft's. "Altered Carbon" is based on Richard K. Morgan's cyberpunk noir novel of the same name.
Neste terceiro episódio do Sofá do Tarja, Daniel Gustavo e Luiz Nase acordam no futurista e distópico mundo de Altered Carbon. Saiba o que achamos dessa série da Netflix que adapta a obra de Richard K. Morgan. É só dar o play! Download do episódio aqui! Neste episódio Explore o mundo de Altered Carbon. Saiba como a vida […] O post Sofá do Tarja 03 – Altered Carbon apareceu primeiro em Tarja Nerd.
The AfterBuzz TV Altered Carbon AfterShow breaks down episodes of Netflix's Altered Carbon. Hosts Nate Miller, Shaka Strong, and Krista Flentje discuss episodes 3 & 4. Show Summary: More than 300 years in the future, society has been transformed by new technology, leading to human bodies being interchangeable and death no longer being permanent. Takeshi Kovacs is the only surviving soldier of a group of elite interstellar warriors who were defeated in an uprising against the new world order. His mind was imprisoned for centuries until impossibly wealthy businessman Laurens Bancroft offers him the chance to live again. Kovacs will have to do something for Bancroft, though, if he wants to be resurrected. Bancroft's request of Kovacs is to solve a murder -- Bancroft's. "Altered Carbon" is based on Richard K. Morgan's cyberpunk noir novel of the same name.
Altered Carbon é a serie que vin en febreiro, unha serie feita e dispoñible en Netflix que moitos se apresuraron a comparar con Blade Runner, pero nada máis lonxe da realidade. Esta serie ambientada no século XXV bebe de moitas das referencias que bebeu Blade Runner e outros grandes do xénero pero ao estar baseada na novela de Richard K. Morgan ten o seu propio universo e normas para facer as delicias do espectador.
The AfterBuzz TV Altered Carbon AfterShow breaks down episodes of Netflix's Altered Carbon. Hosts Nate Miller, Shaka Strong, Krista Flentje, and Evan Mack discuss episodes 1 & 2. Show Summary: More than 300 years in the future, society has been transformed by new technology, leading to human bodies being interchangeable and death no longer being permanent. Takeshi Kovacs is the only surviving soldier of a group of elite interstellar warriors who were defeated in an uprising against the new world order. His mind was imprisoned for centuries until impossibly wealthy businessman Laurens Bancroft offers him the chance to live again. Kovacs will have to do something for Bancroft, though, if he wants to be resurrected. Bancroft's request of Kovacs is to solve a murder -- Bancroft's. "Altered Carbon" is based on Richard K. Morgan's cyberpunk noir novel of the same name.
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This week we switch from fantasy to sci-fi, with a little bit of dark comedy sprinkled in. In the streaming world we added Altered Carbon to our "stack". This Netflix original, based on a book series by Richard K. Morgan was beautifully made and set in a Blade Runner-esque world. It was entertaining and left us with quite a few thoughts on the idea of re-sleeving your memory into new bodies and the idea of soul. We also kept it going with dystopian futures with the Netflix film Mute. Rob let us know his opinion on game night, and Greg and Jimmy checked out Annihilation and we liked it but there were a few parts that left us feeling a bit twisted up inside. So unsettled, in fact, it led to our question of the week. What are the 5 most unsettling scenes in movies you have seen? Times: 17:35 Altered Carbon 41:43 Mute 47:28 Game Night 53:38 Annihilation 1:07:37 The Question Oh and we have a store! Check out our shirts, mugs, bags and phone cases here: Buy cool crap! And you can always reach us at givemefivepodcast@gmail.com or at our Facebook Page : https://www.facebook.com/givemefivepodcast/ Opening theme Special thanks to The Midnight for the use of their song Crystaline from the album Nocturnal. Available here on Bandcamp.
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Esta semana en La Órbita De Endor volvemos a traeros un montón de contenidos durante un montón de horas. Comenzaremos con Expediente Tolkien, donde junto a la compañera Elia Miriel Martell examinaremos en detalle EL ANILLO ÚNICO del Señor Oscuro de Mordor (segunda parte de nuestro expediente sobre los Anillos de Poder). Comprobaremos hasta dónde llega su poder y qué secretos esconde. El segundo bloque de programa tendrá que ver con los juegos de tablero, donde traeremos BLOOD RAGE, una lucha fratricida entre clanes vikingos por ganarse su lugar en el Valhalla antes de la caída definitiva del Ragnarok. Aportará su espada la colaboradora Electra Lébasi. Pero el tercer bloque será el plato fuerte, nada menos que un análisis exhaustivo de la primera temporada de ALTERED CARBON, donde también habrá hueco para echar un ojo a la novela de Richard K Morgan que ha inspirado este producto televisivo. Estudiaremos todas las implicaciones morales que esta serie propone, así como sus elementos filosóficos y posibilidades científicas, junto a las fundas de Ricardo García y Jaime Angulo. Dirige, edita y presenta: Antonio Runa. CONTENIDOS Expediente Tolkien, El Anillo Único: 07 minutos y 04 segundos Blood Rage, el juego de tablero: 01 hora, 06 minutos y 47 segundos Episodio Piloto, Altered Carbon: 01 hora, 35 minutos y 47 segundos Muchas gracias por elegirnos, ¡a escuchar! Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals
Esta semana en La Órbita De Endor volvemos a traeros un montón de contenidos durante un montón de horas. Comenzaremos con Expediente Tolkien, donde junto a la compañera Elia Miriel Martell examinaremos en detalle EL ANILLO ÚNICO del Señor Oscuro de Mordor (segunda parte de nuestro expediente sobre los Anillos de Poder). Comprobaremos hasta dónde llega su poder y qué secretos esconde. El segundo bloque de programa tendrá que ver con los juegos de tablero, donde traeremos BLOOD RAGE, una lucha fratricida entre clanes vikingos por ganarse su lugar en el Valhalla antes de la caída definitiva del Ragnarok. Aportará su espada la colaboradora Electra Lébasi. Pero el tercer bloque será el plato fuerte, nada menos que un análisis exhaustivo de la primera temporada de ALTERED CARBON, donde también habrá hueco para echar un ojo a la novela de Richard K Morgan que ha inspirado este producto televisivo. Estudiaremos todas las implicaciones morales que esta serie propone, así como sus elementos filosóficos y posibilidades científicas, junto a las fundas de Ricardo García y Jaime Angulo. Dirige, edita y presenta: Antonio Runa. CONTENIDOS Expediente Tolkien, El Anillo Único: 07 minutos y 04 segundos Blood Rage, el juego de tablero: 01 hora, 06 minutos y 47 segundos Episodio Piloto, Altered Carbon: 01 hora, 35 minutos y 47 segundos Muchas gracias por elegirnos, ¡a escuchar! Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals
Tratto dal primo romanzo di una trilogia di Richard K Morgan, disponibile su Netflix, Altered Carbon è un prodotto di fantascienza dall’altissima tecnica che vede protagonista Takeshi Kovacs. Siamo nel 2384 e l’identità umana può essere salvata su supporti digitali e trasferita da un corpo ad un altro. Quando Kovacs si sveglia nel futuro, nel ... L'articolo Altered Carbon proviene da RadioAnimati.
Pulp noir storytelling, hard science fiction setting, and a little life philosophy. ‘Altered Carbon’ has a little something for everyone. No surprise that this book series was optioned by Netflix for a 10 episode series. Sure, TV is fun to watch, but we’re BOOK GEEKS! Let’s read this puppy! Let’s read the HECK out of … Continue reading "Geek Book Club 007 – Altered Carbon by Richard K Morgan"
Netflix sigue siendo protagonista en La Cabaña, esta vez nos reunimos en el podcast para hablar de Altered Carbon la serie adaptación de la novela de ciencia ficción de Richard K. Morgan. Aunque antes ya sabéis que somos muy perezosos y hablaremos de otras muchas cosas, comentarios de oyentes en iVoox y muchas recomendaciones de nuestros contertulios. A partir del minuto 1:20:53 podéis disfrutar de los comentarios surgidos de la reseña de Altered Carbon con el Profesor Sherman, Q*Bert, Stones, Pepu, Joseries y Carlos Solo. Orgullo Cabañer.
The Flash (season 4 on CW)At 11, Barry Allen's life changed completely when his mother died in a freak accident and his innocent father was convicted of her murder. Now a crime-scene investigator, his dedication to learn the truth about his mother's death drives him to follow up on every new scientific advancement and urban legend. When his latest obsession -- a particle accelerator heralded as a world-changing invention -- causes an explosion, it creates a freak storm and Barry is struck by lightning. He awakes from a coma nine months later with the power of superspeed. When he learns that others who have gained powers use them for evil, he dedicates himself to protecting the innocent, while still trying to solve the older mystery. Black Lightning (season 1 on CW)CW and Greg Berlanti expand the footprint of their DC Comics universe with this exploration of the intersection between family life and being a superhero. As a younger man, Jefferson Pierce donned the suit of a vigilante and protected the streets of his city, but he believed he'd left those days in the past. He learns that life doesn't always work out as planned when his daughter, Jennifer -- a star student who is determined to achieve justice at any cost -- gets recruited by a street gang. In order to protect his family, Jefferson sees no choice but to once again become Black Lightning. The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story (season 2 on FX)The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story is the second season of the FX true crime anthology television series American Crime Story. The season premiered on January 17, 2018, and will consist of a total of 9 episodes.[3] It explores the murder of designer Gianni Versace by serial killer Andrew Cunanan, based on Maureen Orth's book Vulgar Favors: Andrew Cunanan, Gianni Versace, and the Largest Failed Manhunt in U.S. History. Grey’s Anatomy (season 14 on ABC)The medical drama series focuses on a group of doctors at a hospital in Seattle, including several who began their careers at the facility as interns. One of the doctors and the show's namesake, Meredith Grey, is the daughter of a famous surgeon. She struggles to maintain relationships with her colleagues, particularly the hospital's one-time chief of surgery, Richard Webber, due to a pre-existing relationship between them -- Webber and Meredith's mother had a personal relationship when Meredith was young. Scandal (final season on ABC)"Grey's Anatomy" creator Shonda Rhimes is the creative mind behind this ABC drama. Olivia Pope, a former media consultant to the president, is ready to move on with her life and opens her own crisis-management firm, but she can't seem to shake ties with her past. Olivia's staff includes Quinn Perkins, who has a complicated history, and hacker extraordinaire Huck. As she moves forward it becomes clear that, while her staffers may specialize in cleaning up the lives of other people, they can't seem to do the same for themselves. High Maintenance (season 2 on HBO)Exploring the private lives of dozens of New Yorkers that have one connection, their weed dealer. Counterpart (season 1 on Starz)What might be different if a person could co-exist in an alternate world? Howard Silk, a low-level agent whose career is winding down at a Berlin-based United Nations spy agency, unwittingly learns the answer. Upon discovering his organization is harboring a secret, that of a gateway to a parallel dimension, Howard becomes immersed in a mysterious world of espionage, intrigue, and government conspiracies. There, the only man Howard can trust is Prime, his almost identical counterpart from a divergent reality. Baskets (season 3 on FX)Chip Baskets has always dreamed of being a classically trained clown. After flunking out of French clown college -- probably due to his inability to understand French -- he returns home to Bakersfield, California, where he moves in with his mother, Christine, bickers with his twin brother, Dale, longs for his sophisticated Parisian ex-wife, and continues to pursue his professional clowning dream, with the assistance of his friend/assistant/insurance adjuster, Martha. Zach Galifianakis stars as both Chip and Dale, with Louie Anderson as Christine and Martha Kelly in the role of Martha. Another Period (season 3 on Comedy Central)Before others staked a claim, there was one American family who stood for all that was spoiled, shameless and stupid. It's the Bellacourts, and as Rhode Island's first family of the Gilded Age, the insanely ridiculous, debaucherous clan have more servants than relatives, and days are filled with money, sex, drugs and more money. With nothing of substance to offer their fellow citizens, the Bellacourts are solely concerned with how they look, what parties they attend, and -- in the case of sisters Lillian and Beatrice, especially -- becoming super famous. Co-executive producers Natasha Leggero and Riki Lindhome star as Lillian and Beatrice, respectively. Waco (miniseries on Paramount Network, formerly called Spike)In February 1993, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms raids David Koresh's Branch Davidian compound, a small religious community located just outside of Waco, Texas, triggering a drawn-out gun battle that kills four ATF agents and six civilians and wounds dozens more people. After a 51-day standoff, the conflict ends when an FBI assault leads to a fire that engulfs the compound, killing 76 Branch Davidians, including Koresh. Told from the perspectives of those who were there, including chief FBI negotiator Gary Noesner and survivor David Thibodeau, the six-part scripted series "Waco" dramatizes one of the most misunderstood stories in American history. Altered Carbon (season 1 on Netflix)More than 300 years in the future, society has been transformed by new technology, leading to human bodies being interchangeable and death no longer being permanent. Takeshi Kovacs is the only surviving soldier of a group of elite interstellar warriors who were defeated in an uprising against the new world order. His mind was imprisoned for centuries until impossibly wealthy businessman Laurens Bancroft offers him the chance to live again. Kovacs will have to do something for Bancroft, though, if he wants to be resurrected. Bancroft's request of Kovacs is to solve a murder -- Bancroft's. "Altered Carbon" is based on Richard K. Morgan's cyberpunk noir novel of the same name. 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Netflix se conecta al cyberpunk con esta adaptación de la primera novela de la Trilogía de Kovacs, de Richard K. Morgan. Hablamos de la serie, la novela, el autor y de un subgénero de la ciencia-ficción que esperamos ver con más frecuencia en nuestras pantallas. Full Spoiler! Únete a nosotros en Telegram: t.me/marcianosenuntren Modera: Jose Ceballos Participan: Andrés Merchán y Pablo Sierra Música: Toni Deloni Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals
Ed, Ross, Producer AL and Del present Brave New Words. Ed attempts to review A Man of Shadows by Jeff Noon. His friends 'help'. Along the way we discuss Greggs, Worldcon, and a number of other novels including Becky Chambers book A Closed and Common Orbit , Yoon Ha Lee's Ninefox Gambit, Emma Newman's After Atlas, Tricia Sullivan's Occupy Me, Central Station by Lavie Tidhar and Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad. The interview is Richard K Morgan, who discusses the new TV show based on his book, Altered Carbon. All recordings are issued under official license from Fab Radio International. The Bookworm is a Truly Outrageous Production.
It's an awesome week as the Minnesota Vikings pull out the Miracle in Minneapolis, Apple Health App Data used in rape case, a little TV and Movie news for flavor and then it's on to the main course, C.E.S. 2018 discussion! Who won the game for the Vikings … Stefon Diggs or Marcus Williams? What a crazy awesome ending to that game! Why did Williams not do a wrap around tackle, keep Diggs in bounds and win the game? Apple Health App Data Used in Rape Case The data was used in a rape investigation in Germany to help place the suspect at the scene and prove consistency with alleged activity, including dragging the victim down a river bank and then climbing back up which registered as flights of stairs being climbed. John Wick TV Series Is Officially Happening on Starz The Continental promises to include the thunderous fight sequences and intensely staged shootouts between professional assassins and their targets that fans have come to expect in the John Wick movie franchise as well as introducing some new, darkly compelling characters who inhabit this underground world. Deadpool 2 Release Date In an effort to avoid a clash in the box office with the next Star Wars movie, Deadpool 2 gets pushed ahead to a May 18th release date instead of it's originally planned June 1st, 2018 release. Good news for Deadpool, bad news for the New Mutants and Gambit movies as they are both pushed back dramatically, with many wondering if they'll actually ever happen. First look at Tom Hardy as Venom Tom Hardy is set to play the title role in the upcoming Venom movie and the first image has leaked out of Tom on set as Eddie Brock. Still no final look at Venom himself, but very cool to start seeing images leak. Altered Carbon - Netflix Original Adaptation for 2018 Looking to capitalize on the success of Blade Runner 2049, Netflix has a beautiful looking adaptation of Richard K Morgan's cyberpunk novel of the same name.
Team work makes the dream work this week as all three of us decided to watch different new Netflix shows, so we get together and talk about what we saw, and what we recommend. Cloverfield Paradox A crew aboard a space station finds itself alone after a scientific experiment causes the Earth to disappear. When a space shuttle appears, the space station's crew must determine if it is carrying friends or foes. Altered Carbon More than 300 years in the future, society has been transformed by new technology, leading to human bodies being interchangeable and death no longer being permanent. Takeshi Kovacs is the only surviving soldier of a group of elite interstellar warriors who were defeated in an uprising against the new world order. His mind was imprisoned for centuries until impossibly wealthy businessman Laurens Bancroft offers him the chance to live again. Kovacs will have to do something for Bancroft, though, if he wants to be resurrected. Bancroft's request of Kovacs is to solve a murder -- Bancroft's. "Altered Carbon" is based on Richard K. Morgan's cyberpunk noir novel of the same name. Devilman Crybaby Akira's best friend tells him that ancient demons have returned to take back the world from humans and suggests that he unite with a demon. Akira successfully does that, transforming into Devilman, a being with a demon's powers but who retains the soul of a human. This sends Akira into a brutal, degenerate war against evil. With fear of demons gripping the world, humanity devolves into paranoia and violence and Akira sets out to save other demon-human hybrids like himself. You don’t have to take our word for it The story behind netflix releasing clover field paradox after the superbowl. Altered Carbon sticks the landing. Devilman Crybaby expands on legendary manga. Thank you for the podcast reviews! Your written iTunes reviews make us feel good and help other people find the podcast. If you enjoy listening, please write your own review on iTunes or Stitcher! Ask your questions or share your feedback Comment on the shownotes Email contact@geekversus.com (audio files welcome) Connect with us Subscribe to “Geek vs” on Apple Podcasts or on Android. Join the Facebook Group and join in the conversation. Follow @geekversus_ on Twitter Some of our Favorite podcast episodes The Room Should Minotaurs have hooves or feet? Our favorite TGIF shows Curtis Armstrong interview Twin Peaks discussion with Joy Nash
FVRL CEO Scott Hargrove reviews Richard K. Morgan's Altered Carbon, the book that inspired the new Netflix series.
Netflix’s cyberpunk far-future series was an overall success, with a few sticking points holding it back from greatness. Luke & James read the source material by Richard K. Morgan and bring that perspective into their view of the show in this episode. They kick things off with a SPOILER-FREE section filled with their general thoughts on the quality of the season, give some background on the production, and then discuss how it compares broadly to the novel. NON-SPOILER TALK ENDS: 13:20 In the spoiler section, they break down each character’s story arc in the show and compare and contrast them with their book counterparts. They each extoll parts they loved, like Poe and the Bancrofts, but also point out all the parts that didn’t land, like a particular fight scene. The finish with a final pronouncement, should you watch the show, read the book, or do both? Twitter Facebook Instagram inktofilm@gmail.com inktofilm.com audibletrial.com/inktofilm Ross Bugden
Super Bowl Movie Trailers and our Altered Carbon ReviewThe Super Bowl has come and gone and no matter who you rooted for, it left some cool movie trailers in its wake. Like the commercials, some were better than others. We go through the list of what came out and gauge interest. The main topic of the episode is Netflix's "Altered Carbon". Based on a novel by Richard K. Morgan, this cyberpunk show asks about when your body isn't your own. While this show overall was quite messy, the concept was interesting enough to finish. Listen to our take on the morality, politics, and social issues of this sci-fi program.
Immortality by transplant Analogy with developments in head transplantation. Consciousness uploading. Preservation of identity. Conflict of human immortality with religion. Transhumanism and Identity The meaning of race and gender in a world where anyone can be any variety of human (and more). Merging with AI and technology in general. Sleeving The boundaries of the “self” and the “mind” and the meat. Hard to draw! The influence of the greater body system over the “self” part and boners. So many boners. But not from nipple stuff, no sir. ? Zoltan: ZoltanIstvan.com Altered Carbon (the novel) by Richard K. Morgan: iTunesAmazon Support the show!
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Wenn zwei sich streiten, wird es etwas länger. Die Kollegen Fischer (begeistert) und Meyer (erschüttert) versuchen bei Netflix neuer Cyberpunk-Serie "Altered Carbon" auf einen Nenner zu kommen. Zum Glück haben sie prominente Verstärkung. Hauptdarsteller Joel Kinnaman leitet mit Ausschnitten aus zwei Interviews die Diskussion zu einzelnen Aspekten der Serie ein. Los geht es mit einer Erklärung des Konzepts von "Altered Carbon" (5:40), dann gehen sie auf die Vorlage von Richard K. Morgan ein (17:30) und spekulieren welche Bedeutung das K in seinem Namen wohl hat. Nach einem Disput über die Action (44:48) und Konsens über den exzellenten Look der Edelproduktion (58:10) suchen sie die Höhe- und Tiefpunkte bei den Schauspielern heraus (1:12:02) und nehmen sich die Kontroversen um die Serie vor (1:29:27), von Whitewashing bis hin zur Gewalt gegen Frauen. Und zu guter Letzt spekulieren die beiden über die Erfolgschancen und die Zukunft der Serie (1:51:55). Musik: „Please Listen Carefully“ von Jahzzar.
The guys have finished the second half of Richard K. Morgan’s 2002 post-cyberpunk novel, “Altered Carbon” and enjoyed the entire wild ride. In part two of their coverage of the book, they begin again with a hefty SPOILER-FREE section where they only talk about the book in general terms, discuss the high levels of adult content in the story and what Morgan might be trying to accomplish with them, revisit some of the philosophical questions raised in part one, and then add another wrinkle when Luke brings up the Ship of Theseus Paradox. After that, they get into spoiler territory and breakdown the entire second half and talk about all their favorite and most mind-bending scenes it contains. They end with a look ahead to the Netflix series that they will cover next and address some listener feedback. NON-SPOILER TALK ENDS: 18:07 Twitter Facebook Instagram inktofilm@gmail.com inktofilm.com audibletrial.com/inktofilm Buy Altered Carbon Ross Bugden
Before the release of the brand-new Netflix series, the guys go back to the source with Richard K. Morgan’s 2002 postcyberpunk novel, "Altered Carbon." In part one of their coverage they try something a little different by beginning with a robust NON-SPOILER section for anyone curious about the novel but wanting to stay unspoiled for the series. They begin by talking about the author’s bio and career, the premise of the novel’s tech, the background of main character Takeshi Kovacs, and the mystery surrounding the murder of Laurens Bancroft. They end the non-spoiler talk with a debate about the philosophical questions raised by the sleeve-tech in the novel. In the second part of the episode, they get into plot and describe Kovacs’ investigation and all the salacious things he uncovers, discuss some particularly graphic scenes, then end by theorizing on who will ultimately be revealed to be the murderer. NON-SPOILER TALK ENDS: 45:47 Twitter Facebook Instagram inktofilm@gmail.com www.inktofilm.com audibletrial.com/inktofilm Buy Altered Carbon Ross Bugden
Episode 247 of Trick or Treat Radio is a celebration! It is Dynamo Marz’ birthday and we present him with cake, decorations, Funny Bones and a metric crap ton of voicemail greetings from you all! To help us celebrate we are joined in studio by The Deadites’ own Mz. M! We also review Creepy, the Japanese Thriller from director Kiyoshi Kurosawa, we discuss hidden gems and talk about what our wrestling entrance themes would be! So grab your party favors, eat a plate of figgy pudding, and strap on! Stuff we talk about: Mystery Science Theater 3000, Marz’s birthday celebration, iParty, Altered Carbon, Korean Dog Max, is a Japanese film really a Korean film?, marble cake, Australia, Pulse, Cure, Diet Mtn Dew, The Cult of Muscle, Sixteen Candles, Labradoodle, old man candy, Hitchcock, Dynamo and Corny’s racist ghost movie, verisimilitude, creepy tractor beam, figgy pudding, Jeff Goldblum, Creepy, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Funny Bones, Heavens Contentions, the art of riffing, Ringu, Twin Peaks, Raven J’s art, box of whiskey, Yuko Takeuchi, Teruyuki Kagawa, kale, burger fixings, Richard K. Morgan, meat pie, Stan Hansen, Road House vs. Bloodsport, Liam Neeson, Dig Two Graves, Nathan Cotton Coy Vance Duke’s smuggled egg sandwiches, Cricket Snapper now with more bondage, Roppongi Vice, Papi Chalupa, Dough for Dynamo, The Void, what would your wrestling entrance theme song be?, sexybijons.com, philipinocupid, Vesa from Finland, The Editor, Astron 6, the thin line between parody and homage, Last Whorehouse on the Left, hidden gems, Nurse Betty, Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Dante 01, Dellamorte Dellamore, Dark City, Bandcamp, Michael Caine, Ted Levine, Larry Fine, Ravenshadow’s rented party decorations, creepy closets, Felicia Day, Take These Broken Wings, and The Deadites corporate card. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/trickortreatradio)
Med Altered Carbon fra 2002, gav Richard K. Morgan cyberpunk genren et stærkt tiltrængt skud vitaminer. 500 år ud i fremtiden er sindet er digitaliseret og din krop er blot midlertidig. Døden har fået trukket kløerne, men verden er blot blevet mere rå og brutal. I denne fremtid får vores anti-helt Takeshi Kovacs en uløselig […] Indlægget Ep. 38: Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon blev først udgivet på SCIFI SNAK.
Topics: Altered Carbon, by Richard K. Morgan. Published in 2002 by Victor Gollancz Ltd., Blade Runner, directed by Ridley Scott. The Ladd Company, Shaw Brothers. 1982., Gemini Rue, written by Joshua Nuernberger and published by Wadjet Eye Games. Originally published for Microsoft Windows in 2011 Intro / Outro Music: "Go Cart" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Topic: Altered Carbon, by Richard K. Morgan. Published in 2002 by Victor Gollancz Ltd. Intro / Outro Music: "Go Cart" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Summary Music: “Night on the Docks” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer is like punk fans saying they love The Smiths." -- Kevin We essentially eat ice cream and talk about how bad a job we are doing. So, essentially an episode of Sex & The City. Somewhere in there we manage to talk about the Sci-Fi television series DARK MATTER and how it is a "slow burn". SPOILER POLICY: We take a “fly on the wall” approach to our listeners. As such, some of what we discuss falls into the realm of SPOILERS. Consider yourself warned. WHAT THE HELL WERE THEY TALKING ABOUT? TELEVISION: Dark Matter, SyFy Buffy The Vampire Slayer BOOKS: Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson Woken Furies by Richard K. Morgan Eon by Greg Baer PODCASTS: DecipherSciFi If you enjoyed BUSY DADDIES DO SCI-FI, please take the time to rate and review us on iTunes, Stitcher, Tune In, Google Play or wherever you may find your podcasts. You can follow us on Twitter or Instagram at BDDSCiFi. Thanks for listening and keep coming back. See you in two weeks.
This time BUSY DADDIES Kevin & George walk through the quiet cult film MAN FROM EARTH. Kevin discusses the vast differences between sci-fi authors Yoss and Richard K. Morgan. George lavishes praise upon the podcast WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE and how it reminds him of some of his favorite, humor filled, Sci-Fi works. We come full circle back to MAN FROM EARTH in a breakdown of laughter and celebration of the shittyness of that movies ending. Hope you enjoy. SPOILER POLICY: We take a “fly on the wall” approach to our listeners. As such, some of what we discuss falls into the realm of SPOILERS. Consider yourself warned. WHAT THE HELL WERE THEY TALKING ABOUT? MOVIES: Man From Earth (watch it FREE on Hulu), 2007, dir. by Richard Schenkman Fantastic Four, 2005, dir. by Tim Story BOOKS: A Planet For Rent by Yoss Woken Furies by Richard K. Morgan The Reality Dysfunction by Peter F. Hamilton PODCASTS: Welcome to Nightvale by Joseph Fink If you enjoyed BUSY DADDIES DO SCI-FI, please take the time to rate and review us on iTunes, Stitcher, Tune In, Google Play or wherever you may find your podcasts. You can follow us on Twitter or Instagram at BDDSCiFi. Thanks for listening and keep coming back. See you in two weeks.
"I think I've said enough." -- Kevin George is on a family vacation with no cell service. Adam is off in the Antares System fighting a multi-generational, multi-dimensional war strangely with FULL BARS. Kevin takes the reigns on this episode of BUSY DADDIES DO SCI-FI PODCAST to talk about Richard K. Morgan's Takeshi Kovac's novels. Also, how he managed to survive 1600 pages or Patrick Rothfuss, who may or may not be in rehab. SPOILER POLICY: We take a “fly on the wall” approach to our listeners. As such, some of what we discuss falls into the realm of SPOILERS. Consider yourself warned. WHAT THE HELL WERE THEY TALKING ABOUT? MOVIES: Advantageous Interstellar The Man From Earth BOOKS Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan Broken Angels by Richard K. Morgan The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss If you enjoyed BUSY DADDIES DO SCI-FI, please take the time to rate and review us on iTunes, Stitcher, Tune In, Google Play or wherever you may find your podcasts. You can follow us on Twitter or Instagram at BDDSCiFi. Thanks for listening and keep coming back. See you in two weeks.
Troy and Ty turn on the mic prior to a game night in the Basement of Death and discuss books, podcasts, and other books. Download here Books we talked about: Thirteen by Richard K. Morgan Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World by Jane McGoniga SuperBetter: A Revolutionary […]
Ed, Russ and Producer Al tackle the wide world of genre fiction. The books reviewed are Fire Children by Lauren Roy and COWARD! by Ed Brubaker, and Richard K. Morgan is our special interview for the second time. All recordings are issued under official license from Fab Radio International. The Bookworm is a Truly Outrageous Production.
This week's episode of The GAR! Podcast includes discussion of the following: intro / Super Bowl aftermath / dissecting the crucial play / the halftime show / Nationwide and child death / the other commercials / McDonalds and lovin' / more commercials / Pac-Man for beer / Esurance with Walter White / the pizza trick / Better Call Saul / Battle Creek / The Blacklist / how to watch Breaking Bad / binge watching vs. weekly watching / binge comics reading / Black Widow by Richard K. Morgan / Ghostbusters reboot / Bill Cosby territory / Rob Schneider / Night Nurse / Better Call Saul comic / The Love Parlay / Glenn gives relationship advice / when to say I love you / hornet's nest / wrestling interlude / threesome / run run run / out of bounds / torn between two terrors / make up deception / ask Glenn for Valentine's Day / closing / Links: Malcolm Butler's interception at Deadspin Up with People Loretta Sisco on the Super Bowl Commercials at Biff Bam Pop! Super Bowl Pac-Man Glenn's reviews of "Agent Carter" at Biff Bam Pop! Glenn's reviews of "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." at Biff Bam Pop! Richard K. Morgan Glenn's review of Leonard Part 6 Behind the Bets Podcast Biff Bam Pop! Glenn's Twitter Ray's Twitter The GAR! Podcast on Pinterest The GAR! Podcast on Stitcher The GAR! Podcast on iTunes The GAR! Podcast Group on Facebook The GAR! Podcast Page on Facebook
In Neil Gaiman's new book, The Sleeper and the Spindle, Sleeping Beauty gets woken by a Queen's kiss. And there's pictures so it did happen. Fictionally speaking. We also discuss The Steel Remains by Richard K. Morgan, and find out people are pleasantly surprised by the techno-thrilling coming of age fantasy that is Alif the Unseen.
We kick off our March book pick, Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan, ponder the brief career of Jonathan Ross as LonCon MC, and discover that at least Houghton Mifflin thinks SciFi is lit.
This week on the show: Movie studios avoiding Comic Con, The Major Spoilers Crew chats with listeners regarding the DC Relaunch, and Scott Wegener of Atomic Robo fame drops in for a quick hello. NEWS Major Studios not attending convention? LINKAGE REVIEWS Stephen Red Robin #24 Written by FABIAN NICIEZA Art and cover by MARCUS TO and RAY MCCARTHY To survive the Assassination Tournament, Red Robin must survive an attack from Scarab's Covenant of Ka, make it to Russia in time to rescue a critically injured oligarch, track the mercenary Promise and come to an unexpected confrontation with the mysterious sister of Ra's al Ghul! [rating:3/5] Rodrigo Witch Doctor #1 CREATOR/WRITER: BRANDON SEIFERT CREATOR/ARTIST: LUKAS KETNER PUBLISHER: SKYBOUND/IMAGE COMICS It's a sick world — literally. The universe is a living thing, and the monsters of legend are its parasites. Earth’s immune system — humanity — has been at war with supernature for all of history. But to fight a disease, you don’t need soldiers. You need doctors. Doctors like Vincent Morrow, excommunicated from the medical community and headhunted into an exciting new career in the black arts. Morrow serves the world with both hands — one in magic, one in medicine — as earth’s protector. Earth’s Witch Doctor. It’s a sick world — he’s here to treat it. [rating:3.5/5] Matthew Crysis # 1 (of 6) Richard K. Morgan (w) • Peter Bergting (a & c) From the lead writer of the Crysis 2 video game!Set in the world of the award-winning Crysis games comes the newest hit series from EA Comics! Earth, 2020. United States Special Forces Major Laurence “Prophet” Barnes and the soldiers of Raptor Team thought their deployment on the Lingshan islands was a basic covert op against North Korean forces. But they couldn’t be more wrong. What archaeologists awakened on the island had lain buried for millions of years, and was utterly hostile to human life. Now an alien race are stirring, first contact has turned into humanity's worst nightmare, and Prophet's squad are the last remaining survivors. Only one real question remains - can Prophet get his people off Lingshan alive, and back to civilization in time to warn the rest of the human race what's on its way. [rating:2/5] MAJOR SPOILERS POLL OF THE WEEK Back in the 1985, the Coca-Cola company made the decision to change its secret formula and unleash New Coke upon the world. That decision backfired, but fortunately, the company was prepared with Coke Classic, which has continued as the company's most popular drink. This week, we want to know are you a New Coke, or Coke Classic fan? VOTE! Coke Classic New Coke Hey, You can't fool us, we know you're making a reference to DC's Relaunch news! Okay, you got us... VOTE! [poll id="187"] VOTE DC Relaunch Live! We’re making a change to the Major Spoilers Podcast this week. Instead of a regular show, we will be doing a live show, featuring your call ins! DC Comics has released the complete solicitations for September that features all of the new issues coming from the company. Here is your chance to call in and talk with us about the changes. We’ll also have other topics for discussion, as well as an open line time that you can call in to talk about anything and everything. Contact us at podcast@majorspoilers.com Call the Major Spoilers Hotline at (785) 727-1939. A big Thank You goes out to everyone who downloads, subscribes, listens, and supports this show. We really appreciate you taking the time to listen to our ramblings each week. Tell your friends about the podcast, get them to subscribe and, be sure to visit the Major Spoilers site and forums.
This week on the show: Movie studios avoiding Comic Con, The Major Spoilers Crew chats with listeners regarding the DC Relaunch, and Scott Wegener of Atomic Robo fame drops in for a quick hello. NEWS Major Studios not attending convention? LINKAGE REVIEWS Stephen Red Robin #24 Written by FABIAN NICIEZA Art and cover by MARCUS TO and RAY MCCARTHY To survive the Assassination Tournament, Red Robin must survive an attack from Scarab's Covenant of Ka, make it to Russia in time to rescue a critically injured oligarch, track the mercenary Promise and come to an unexpected confrontation with the mysterious sister of Ra's al Ghul! [rating:3/5] Rodrigo Witch Doctor #1 CREATOR/WRITER: BRANDON SEIFERT CREATOR/ARTIST: LUKAS KETNER PUBLISHER: SKYBOUND/IMAGE COMICS It's a sick world — literally. The universe is a living thing, and the monsters of legend are its parasites. Earth’s immune system — humanity — has been at war with supernature for all of history. But to fight a disease, you don’t need soldiers. You need doctors. Doctors like Vincent Morrow, excommunicated from the medical community and headhunted into an exciting new career in the black arts. Morrow serves the world with both hands — one in magic, one in medicine — as earth’s protector. Earth’s Witch Doctor. It’s a sick world — he’s here to treat it. [rating:3.5/5] Matthew Crysis # 1 (of 6) Richard K. Morgan (w) • Peter Bergting (a & c) From the lead writer of the Crysis 2 video game!Set in the world of the award-winning Crysis games comes the newest hit series from EA Comics! Earth, 2020. United States Special Forces Major Laurence “Prophet” Barnes and the soldiers of Raptor Team thought their deployment on the Lingshan islands was a basic covert op against North Korean forces. But they couldn’t be more wrong. What archaeologists awakened on the island had lain buried for millions of years, and was utterly hostile to human life. Now an alien race are stirring, first contact has turned into humanity's worst nightmare, and Prophet's squad are the last remaining survivors. Only one real question remains - can Prophet get his people off Lingshan alive, and back to civilization in time to warn the rest of the human race what's on its way. [rating:2/5] MAJOR SPOILERS POLL OF THE WEEK Back in the 1985, the Coca-Cola company made the decision to change its secret formula and unleash New Coke upon the world. That decision backfired, but fortunately, the company was prepared with Coke Classic, which has continued as the company's most popular drink. This week, we want to know are you a New Coke, or Coke Classic fan? VOTE! Coke Classic New Coke Hey, You can't fool us, we know you're making a reference to DC's Relaunch news! Okay, you got us... VOTE! [poll id="187"] VOTE DC Relaunch Live! We’re making a change to the Major Spoilers Podcast this week. Instead of a regular show, we will be doing a live show, featuring your call ins! DC Comics has released the complete solicitations for September that features all of the new issues coming from the company. Here is your chance to call in and talk with us about the changes. We’ll also have other topics for discussion, as well as an open line time that you can call in to talk about anything and everything. Contact us at podcast@majorspoilers.com Call the Major Spoilers Hotline at (785) 727-1939. A big Thank You goes out to everyone who downloads, subscribes, listens, and supports this show. We really appreciate you taking the time to listen to our ramblings each week. Tell your friends about the podcast, get them to subscribe and, be sure to visit the Major Spoilers site and forums.
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