Hosts: Tom Merritt and Scott Johnson

We’ll need a disaster to teach us computer security, but we won’t have those nasty keyloggers since we’ll all use tablets.

Guests: Dwight Silverman and Tony Wang

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Running time: 49:59

We realise right off the top of the show that we need to start planning for our 100th episode.  Soon!  We also figure out why SciFi is sometimes better than reality and dish what we thought of The Hunger Games movie. Also: GAME OF THRONES!!!

WHAT ARE WE DRINKING?

Tom: 2011 Viñedos Errázuriz Ovalle Merlot/Malbec Panilonco Reserve Viñedos Marchigüe

Veronica: 2006 Bruno Rocca Barbaresco

QUICK BURNS

Expecto Patronum! Harry Potter is now an e-book 

On sci-fi and technology 

Could the Amazon Kindle Revitalize Science Fiction? 

John Hodgman and Rob Reid talk Year Zero, Aliens, and the RIAA 

CALENDAR

BARE YOUR SWORD

What books would you recommend to someone scared of the Genre?

What do you do when reading?

TV, MOVIES AND VIDEO GAMES

HBO releases extended GoT world map 

Here there be White Walkers in stylized Game of Thrones maps 

GAME OF THRONES companion book announced 

BOOK CHECK-IN

The Magicians by Lev Grossman 

 

There is a dragon.  And a spaceship castle.

Hosts: Caterina Fake and Tom Merritt

Caterina Fake creator of Flickr and new venture “Pinwheel” a way to find and leave notes around the world.

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Running time: 48:37

We’re psyched to interview Scott Lynch, who, spoiler alert, is the Scott who gets welcomed in the new member hellos too! Plus we delve into the Ender’s Game controversy and pick good audio books for road trips.

WHAT ARE WE DRINKING?
Tom: Water 
Veronica: 2006 Bruno Rocca Barbaresco 

QUICK BURNS
Teacher Suspended For Reading Ender’s Game To Students
How does 1Q84 stack up to Haruki Murakami’s classic novels? 
Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Series That Started Out as Trilogies 
EXPANSE Book III given a title 

CALENDAR

BARE YOUR SWORD

The Lies of Locke Lamora > Boing Boing’s List of Vagabonds 
Time for a road trip! (No, we don’t mean we’re going on tour) 

TV, MOVIES AND VIDEO GAMES
Twilight slashfic takes Hollywood 

INTERVIEW
Scott Lynch
The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1) by Scott Lynch

BOOK PICK
Help pick our May book (It’s a laser)

EMAIL
Hey there! I am an assistant librarian at Parman Library here in San Antonio, TX. I was wondering, since you guys have quite the following, if you could have an option on your site or goodreads site where people can submit their book groups/social clubs for others to search for.  For instance, I have a science fiction book group at our library called Escape the Earth! and if it were listed on your site, which gets a lot of traffic from SF fans, it would bring my community closer together in our nerdom. Just a thought… Been enjoying the podcast!
 
Tyler D. Lutz
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Hey Tom and Veronica.
Congrats on the video show, I’d actually always hoped we’d see a video show (though I always imagined it would have been a TWiT.TV show).
Anyway I have a couple of thoughts.
1. You mentioned the video show needing to be pretty strictly PG. Do you feel this is going to have a real impact on the book choices?
2. What’s going to happen with Game of Thrones TV discussion? I’d really like you to think about doing a separate small 10-15 minute audioshow after each episode and drop them in the podcast feed. 
Anyway really looking forward to the video show.
Jason (Australia).
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I know you cant talk about it on sword and laser because of your sponsor but I think people should know about
http://librivox.org/
It is a website that is trying to record all public domain books into audio books and then publish them on the web under creative commons.  People can volunteer to read books or chapters and upload them back to the site.  They are all surprising well done and although not on the same level as paid versions.  They are very easy to listen to, unlike computer synthesized voices.
I first heard about from the roku channel on the nowhere man’s privet channel page
http://thenowhereman.com/roku/
I would love to know what you think about it
Thanks
-Andrew 

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