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The 2013 All-star game will take place at Benden Weyr on Pern this Saturday. The fan voting is in, which determined the starters. The five non-starters in each division who had the most votes make up the reserves The coaches, chosen from last year’s playoff teams, each have made one additional pick. The teams are ready to suit up! Thanks to everyone who voted. Total percentage of vote for starters is listed next to each name.

Ladies and gentlemen, your 2013 all-star teams!

East
Coach – T’Pel (VUL)
Assistant Coach – Palpatine (COR)
C- Jean-Luc Picard (SF) 51%
BM – Bruce Banner (NYA) 40%
O – Tony Stark (NYA) 53%
D – Thor (NYA) 44% (by 1% over Data)
U – Leonard “Bones” McCoy (VUL) 43%

RESERVES
69 – Data (D)
49 Boba Fett (O)
41 – Steve Rogers (C)
39 – Mara Jade (U)
38 Kirk – (BM)

COACHES PICK
27 Spock – (C)

West
Coach – Joffrey Baratheon (LAN)
Assistant Coach – Paul Atreides (ARK)
C- Gandalf (RIV) 45%
BM – The Doctor (GAL) 67%
O – Bronn Sellsword (LAN) 40%**
D – Amy Pond (GAL) 44%
U – Tyrion Lannister (LAN) 69%

RESERVES
59 Bilbo Baggins (O)**
43 Jack Harkness (C)
36 Cersei Lannister (D)
33 Paul Atreides (C)
31 Bombur (D)
29 K-9 (U)**

COACHES PICK
27 Gregor “The Mountain” Clegane (BM)

**Bronn Sellsword was dropped from the Lannisport roster after the ballots were created. As such he still retains the title of all-star but cannot participate in the game since he is not currently signed with an FSL team. Bilbo Baggins of Rivendell will start and K-9 of Gallifrey was assigned as a reserve alternate based on fan vote.

Tech News Today 788: The Stalking Pillow

Shows/ Tech News Today / July 3rd, 2013

Tech News Today

Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell

Motorola’s design-it-yourself phone, Samsung snaps up Boxee? Microsoft’s unstoppable Julie Larson-Green, and more.

Guest: Natali Morris

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Running time:: 0:43:49

S&L Podcast – #135 – Wrap-up Among Others, Kick-off Ringworld

Shows/ Sword and Laser / July 2nd, 2013

Tom blows Veronica’s mind, she implies dirty things, I imply them back and we all look forward to Ringworld. It’s like going to camp.

WHAT ARE WE DRINKING?

Tom: Murphy’s Irish Stout

Veronica: Hendry Ranch Pinot Gris

QUICK BURNS

Science Fiction and Fantasy Author Richard Matheson Dead At 87

2013 Science Fiction Hall of Fame Inductees

WINNERS: 2013 Locus Awards

Your First Look at the Epic Fantasy Novel Everybody’s Raving About

Neil Gaiman’s ‘Sandman’ prequel launching October 30th, first image and plot details emerge

Online Voting is Open for The 2013 Hugo Award and John W. Campbell Award

Why Big Publishers Think Genre Fiction Like Sci-Fi Is the Future of E-Books

Pop Culture References You Probably Didn’t Know Were Created by Science Fiction Writers

CALENDAR

TV, MOVIES AND VIDEO GAMES

William Shakespeare’s Star Wars: exclusive excerpt

OUTLANDER TV series greenlit

BOOK KICK-OFF

Kick-off Ringworld by Larry Niven

Ringworld Wikipedia article

Larry Niven Wikipedia Article

Official Larry Niven site

The Guide to Larry Niven’s Ringworld

Interactive guide to Ringworld (includes a kind of Google Maps for the Ring)

Don’t forget : ‘Ringworld’ miniseries in the works at Syfy

Alternate Pick – Redshirts by John Scalzi

BOOK WRAP-UP

Wrap-up Among Others by Jo Walton

Anyone else get this through Interlibrary loan? – Erik

Who Died? – Paulo

Magic In the book – Nathan

The books! All those books! – Rob

Novels mentioned in Among Others

ADDENDUMS

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