S&L Podcast – #62 – A blonde Gimli running through my head

Shows / May 10th, 2011

This week we discuss how the Game of Thrones series is shaping up, how we make mental pictures of characters when we read, and the meaning of Hodor.

QUICK BURNS

Book Publishers, AOL To Launch New Book Recommendation Site

CALENDAR
5/10/2011 Fuzzy Nation by John Scalzi
5/10/2011 The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi (Tor)
5/17/2011 Embassytown by China Mieville
5/19/2011 The Order of the Scales by Stephen Deas
5/24/2011 The Falling Machine, Andrew Mayer (Pyr)
5/25/2011 Chasing the Moon, Lee Martinez (Orbit)

BARE YOUR SWORD

How do you imagine characters when you read a novel?

Epic vs. Epoc

Hodor.

BOOK CHECK-IN

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin

N. K. Jemisin is an African-American female writer of speculative fiction. Her 2010 debut novel, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, was nominated for the 2010 Nebula Award and the 2011 Hugo Award, and was ranked #5 on Amazon’s “editors’ pick” list of the year’s best ten works of science fiction and fantasy.

The Inheritance Trilogy
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (2010)
The Broken Kingdoms (2010)
The Kingdom of Gods (forthcoming in 2011)

Tech News Today 238: Wikipedia Sued By Bacon

Shows / May 10th, 2011

Anonymous civil war, HP starts its own cell data, Drudge beats Twitter for news referrals, and more!

Download or subscribe to this show at http://twit.tv/tnt.

We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes at wiki.twit.tv.

Thanks to Cachefly for the bandwidth for this show.

Video URL: 
http://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp4/twit.cachefly.net/video/tnt/tnt0238/tnt0238_h264b_864x480_500.mp4

Video URL (low quality): 
http://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp4/twit.cachefly.net/video/tnt/tnt0238/tnt0238_h264b_640x368_256.mp4

Running time: 

37:37

Tech News Today 235: Beating The Crap Out Of Moore’s Law

Shows / May 4th, 2011

Apple fixes the tracking thing, CNET gets sued by FilmOn guy, Intel gives Moore’s law a whoopin’, and more!

Guest: Ina Fried

Download or subscribe to this show at http://twit.tv/tnt.

We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes at wiki.twit.tv.

Thanks to Cachefly for the bandwidth for this show.

Video URL: 
http://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp4/twit.cachefly.net/video/tnt/tnt0235/tnt0235_h264b_864x480_500.mp4

Video URL (low quality): 
http://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp4/twit.cachefly.net/video/tnt/tnt0235/tnt0235_h264b_640x368_256.mp4

Running time: 

43:39

S&L Podcast – #61 – Literary blue balls

Shows / May 3rd, 2011

We get excited about the reality of George R. R. Martin’s A Dance with Dragons and the scariness of a movie based on Ender’s Game. We discuss how much vampires distracted from the concepts of Blindsight.  And Veronica expresses her frustration at books without clear, satisfying endings.

QUICK BURNS

ENDER’S GAME WILL BECOME A LIVE-ACTION FILM

George R. R. Martin has delivered A Dance with Dragons to the publisher

…and another less vague post

Pre-order A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin

Bantam confirms that ADWD will NOT be split

How to remember and discover Joanna Russ

CALENDAR

5/3/2011 The Inheritance by Robin Hobb
5/5/2011 The Deserter by Peadar Ó Guilín
5/10/2011 Fuzzy Nation by John Scalzi
5/10/2011 The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi (Tor)
5/17/2011 Embassytown by China Mieville
5/19/2011 The Order of the Scales by Stephen Deas

BARE YOUR SWORD

Is Mark Zuckerberg a vampire?

BOOK WRAP-UP

Blindsight by Peter Watts

Two Word Reviews of Blindsight

NEW BOOK PICK!

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin

Discussion of the new book on GoodReads.

ADDENDUMS

This podcast is brought to you by Audible.com the internet’s leading provider of audiobooks with more than 75,000 downloadable titles across all types of literature, including fiction, non-fiction and periodicals. For a free audiobook of your choice, go to audiblepodcast.com/sword.