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Secret Life of Bots, by Suzanne Palmer. 2018 Hugo award for best novelette, 2018 finalist for Theodore A. Sturgeon Memorial Award, 2018 finalist for WFSA Small Press Award. There is audio and text to the story at the end of this link: http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/palmer_09_17/ Suzanne's website is: http://zanzjan.net The 2019 World Science Fiction Convention (WorldCon) is in Ireland. The WorldCon website will give you the up to date information on locations and upcoming locations: http://www.worldcon.org How to vote for a Hugo If you read something and want to nominate it for a Hugo Award, you must get a membership to the upcoming World Con. You can do this by: Visit the WorldCon website to get the upcoming location www.worldcon.org The upcoming convention will be given a nickname (Dublin2019 for example). Visit the specific website for the upcoming location (for example, this year it's in Dublin https://dublin2019.com/memberships/) 1. Search the specific Con's site for the word Membership (this should

Get a copy in the hands of youth, namely, 12, 13, 14, 15 year olds. http://clarkesworldmagazine.com If you want to join their Destiny​ clan: https://www.bungie.net/en/Profile/254/8350152/clarkesworld

CONNECT Welcome to SciFi thoughts where for a few short minutes I’ll  tease and tantalize your mind with this genre from the future. Register your email address at LancerKind.com and you’ll get cool extras about science fiction such as convention schedules and other nifty stuff. ==>Lancer— Kind 017 The Worst Thing that's ever Happened to Neil Clarke http://clarkesworldmagazine.com Clarkesworld Magazine is available online and in bookstores. Here is their homepage: http://clarkesworldmagazine.com ​

Neil Clarke, one of the founders of Clarkesworld, tells us how it all got started. Clarkesworld http://clarkesworldmagazine.com

Alternative Truthes Alternative Children Stories Alternative Amendments The China Syndrome is a 1979 American disaster thriller film about a television reporter and her cameraman who discover safety coverups at a nuclear power plant. The China Syndrome premiered at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival, where it competed for the Palme d'Or while Lemmon received the Best Actor prize. The film was released theatrically on March 16, 1979, twelve days before the Three Mile Island nuclear accident. The Day After is a television film that first aired on November 20, 1983, on the ABC television network which clearly showed how now matter how you prepared, the chance of surviving a nuclear war is quite unlikely. http://www.bcubedpress.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_China_Syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident Click here to listen to other episodes of this series.​ ​ ​

Alternative Theologies is available here.  Alternative Theologies, Parables for the Modern World is available at B Cubed books. The anthology contains works of fiction from the following professional authors: Larry Hodges, Philip Brian Hall, Joyce Frohn (Frrawn), Mike Resnick, David Brin, JW Cook, Rebecca MacFarland Kyle, P James Norris, Jim Wright, Christopher Nadeau (nih-dough), Melvin Charles, Anton Cancre (Canker), Liam Hogan, Deborah Godfrey, Sara Codair (Cuh-dare), Louise Milton, Colin Patrick Ennen, MJ Holt, Adam-Troy Castro, Charles Walbridge, Paula Hammond, Kara Race-Moore, Megan Bee, Joanna Michal (Mee-How) Hoyt, Gwyndyn T. Alexander, Jill Zeller, C. A. Chesse (Chess), Lillian Csernica (Sir-nick-ah), David Gerrold, E.E. King and edited by Irene Radford and Bob Brown Click here to listen to other episodes of this series.​

CONNECT Welcome to SciFi thoughts where for a few short minutes I’ll  tease and tantalize your mind with this genre from the future. Register your email address at LancerKind.com and you'll get cool extras about science fiction such as convention schedules and other nifty stuff. ==>Lancer--- Kind 013 A New genre TRUMP PUNK is Born! No lyrics posted. Do you miss them? Tweet @LancerKind and tell him so. Here is BCubed Press: http://www.bcubedpress.com ​

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B Cubed Press has put out Alternative Theologies, book 3 in the Alternative Series. http://www.bcubedpress.com/available_now/ Next episode we'll reveal another layer of writer, editor, publisher Bob Brown. More about the 2015 Hugo awards in Spokane: On this site they didn't use asterisks on the site but simply said 'No Award.' http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2015-hugo-awards/ https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/4/12/1376743/-Freeping-the-Hugo-Awards Click here to listen to other episodes of this series.​

As a note, B Cubed has put out Alternative Theologies, book 3 in the Alternative Series. Perhaps go over the entire book list. http://www.bcubedpress.com/available_now/ Next episode we'll hear from Bob about the Spokane Con incident and how it's possible to lose a delegate position at a party convention. ​ Click here to listen to other episodes of this series.​

No lyrics posted. Do you miss them? Tweet LancerKind and tell him so. Here is BCubed Press: http://www.bcubedpress.com Attributions Whitehouse photo by Aaron Kittredge from Pexels: https://www.pexels.com/photo/white-house-129112/  http://www.thestudio.red/?ref=pexels This podcast frequently uses sound effects from FreeSound.org and specifically used samples available via the Creative Commons license from the following FreeSound members: kangaroovindaloo. Click here to listen to other episodes of this series.​

CONNECT Welcome to SciFi thoughts where for a few short minutes I’ll  tease and tantalize your mind with this genre from the future. Register your email address at LancerKind.com and you'll get cool extras about science fiction such as convention schedules and other nifty stuff. ==>Lancer--- Kind 007 Star Trek Discovery Season 2 Trailer Reaction Last year I and my kids really enjoyed Discovery. It was every Sunday night the kids would remind me to play the stream as soon as it was available. Many a late night to bedtime had happened because of it. https://www.cbs.com/shows/star-trek-discovery/video/C27A0B2A-7159-3C7A-3EAB-B8A6D4FCB578/star-trek-discovery-season-two-premiere-first-look-trailer/?ftag=AAM-00-10afd3a Oddly enough there is a generation gap to those willing to pay for CBS-Access. People born before Y2K seem to be very reluctant. For me it's a no brainer. I really hate commercials. I was the first person I know to pick up a Tivo and I haven't looked back since then. Once you stop watching comm

CONNECT Welcome to SciFi thoughts where for a few short minutes I’ll  tease and tantalize your mind with this genre from the future. Register your email address at LancerKind.com and you'll get cool extras about science fiction such as convention schedules and other nifty stuff. ==>Lancer--- Kind 006 The Eras of Science Fiction (Set the stage by: Recap the idea of sf sing a 500 year tradition along with science fiction words used in ancient Hindu texts called the Vedas...) If you’ll indulge me, I’m going to borrow the idea of eras from science. These eras are independent of genre as genres are closely tied to the human condition at the time rather than the technology to produce story. I expect that the eras will continue to change faster as we speed toward the Singularity.  I offer free a poster of how the seminal work of a new scifi-genre  maps into an era. Eras Period BCE - 1450 ACE Description Ancient BCE-1450 ACE  Ancient Civilization Sci-Fi  & 1ACE - 1500 Monastic bible industrialization

CONNECT Welcome to SciFi thoughts where for a few short minutes I’ll  tease and tantalize your mind with this genre from the future. Register your email address at LancerKind.com and you'll get cool extras about science fiction such as convention schedules and other nifty stuff. ==>Lancer--- Kind 005 Science Fiction becomes a word ​Although science fiction existed in the 1500s, we don't get the word "science fiction" until the 1900s, when critic, publisher, and writer Hugo Gernsback came up that compound word along with several other alternatives, most of which didn't stick. The early 1900s was an era of standardization as critics like Hugo used their critical voices to influence the market to be critical what was science fiction and what was not, as well as complaining about the quality of the science in science fiction. For example, Hugo refused to publish any science fiction that featured people walking or floating in the vacuum of space without a space suit. Printing continuous to improve in efficie

CONNECT Welcome to SciFi thoughts where for a few short minutes I’ll  tease and tantalize your mind with this genre from the future. Register your email address at LancerKind.com <http://lancerkind.com> and you'll get cool extras about science fiction such as convention schedules and other nifty stuff. ==>Lancer--- Kind 004 SciFi Genesis Perhaps you're new to SciFi or perhaps you've been reading SciFi for a few decades. Have you wondered when science fiction came about? For example: Did you know that this story telling genre about the future is quite old? <needle scratch> Take a moment and form a guess in your mind. How old do YOU think science fiction is? You have that number in your mind? Let me give you some clues: it was before there were airplanes, gas burning cars, or even steel railroads. Have you adjusted that number? Did you know that the science fiction genre is 500 years old? That the first science fiction book came off a printing press in the 1500s? It turns out, the idea of wri

​It's the early 1800s and before Rudolf Diesel and Henry Ford. Electricity is still a lab experiment. But it doesn't matter. We don't need any of what those guys were selling. The true motors of Innovation are started with firing up a boiler, copper or brass tubing, and driving pistons of power. Your clockwork butler is powered with a small coal boiler. Your self driving carriage is steam powered. You need to leave London and go visit the colonies? The first class traveler travels on airship powered with steam generators and handled with pneumatic control systems. Steampunk-- It's a big and visual movement at the conventions: ladies in corsets trimmed with copper tubing, men in shin high-boots and victorian jackets but a steam powered blunderbuss at his side. Steampunk is about fashion, high adventure, and genteel conduct. (Tone change) It probably shouldn't contain the term punk. Unlike it's cousin, Cyberpunk, steampunk isn't focused on high-tech lowlifes but instead the characters are well educated and sa

It was the 1960s.  Young science fiction readers and writers were tired of the usual space travel and adventure tales.  They yearned to read something that used what was happening around them which was too edgy for the earlier fiction which tended to be cleaned up for young adult readers.  The fiction of the New Wave incorporated and even focused on the gritty parts of humanity that most people never saw or only read about in the scandal sheets--drugs, crime, casual sex, corporate malfescience, dishonest governments.  If it was bad and dirty, it'd show up in one of these science fiction novels.  Many of them incorporated the promises of new computer technologies and how they would be used to improve the human condition, make it faster, smarter, more acute.  Then how these cybernetic tools would be used for abuse and for retaliation to abuse.  These high tech low lines, these punks were put into enough stories that a new genre emerged, called cyberpunk.  These stories more frequently took place on Earth and wi

Welcome to SciFi thoughts where for a few short minutes I’ll  tease and tantalize your mind with this genre from the future.  SciFi has many dozens of sub genres with different story telling styles which attempt to bring new possibilities into how you see the world.  Our mission is to expand what science fiction means to you by exploring this genre that is diverse as the stars in the sky.  SciFi thoughts will, like the James Web Telescope, will draw focus on a discovery and tantalize you with thoughts on movies and literature through intelligent and engaging discussion. I hope you enjoy the show, Lancer Kind