Interview with Laurie R. King – The S&L Podcast #032

Shows / May 26th, 2010

This week we’re very pleased to have a chance to talk to author Laurie R. King. Ms. King is the author of the  Mary Russell series of historical mysteries, featuring Sherlock Holmes as her partner, and a series featuring police officer Kate Martinelli, as well as several standalone novels. King’s first book, A Grave Talent (1993), received the 1994 Edgar Award for Best First Novel. Her latest book is The God of the Hive.

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East Meets West 208 – You need a vacation

Shows / May 23rd, 2010

Roger and Tom chat about what a vacation really does for you and how vacations got started, plus venture into the world of celebrities and why they’re popular, plus a quick dissertation on all this live streaming video on the Net these days.

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The Windup Girl Wrapup – The S&L Podcast #031

Shows / May 19th, 2010

We’ve finally finished the Windup girl and we’r ready to wrap it up, but we also have news, some sad (RIP Frank Frazetta) and some glad (Game of Thrones!) Plus we have some excellent thought-provoking commentary from the Goodreads group.  And best of all, we announce we’ll have another episode next week!  Find out who our special guest interview is. (raised eyebrow)

News

Frank Frazetta, RIP       
        
Nebula Award Winners (Includes Windup Girl)              
        
Game of Thrones News       
        
George R. R. Martin talks ‘Game of Thrones’ as the HBO show’s ‘Daenerys’ departs       
        
Winter is Coming – A blog about Game of Thrones series on HBO      
        
Has ‘A Dance with Dragons’ been announced? Check here. Every day.   
               
BOOK Wrap-up

Wind-up Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi   

NEW BOOK!

Bitter Seeds by Ian Tregillis

BARE YOUR SWORD – feedback from the audience        
        
Cannot finish. Will not finish   
        
The Blade Itself – thoughts on this book?   
        
Last man on earth / post apoc book   
        
Emails:        

Stephen Baxter has a tendency to destroy the Earth in a number of his books. Notably:

Moonseed – Earth wiped out completely starting in the opening scene.
Evolution – Human evolution from triumph of mammals to the end of humanity (Earth survives, people don’t)
Flood – All land gone. Some humans survive.

He’s one of my favourite “Laser” authors and well worth reading.
Regards,

Simon Williams
UK    

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This is a little old but in catching up on my rss feed of i09.com I
came across this. Ridley Scott!

Thanks for the great group & podcast.

Peter Hansen  

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