Scifi Thoughts

The Reinvented Detective presents stories that complicate law and order as well as the concept of criminals, detectives, punishment, and justice for all. It does this by showing how new technologies, the rise of sentient AIs, and changing social attitudes may affect what is not only acceptable, but expected, within both real world and digital communities—and everything in-between.  These stories reinvent detective and true crime tropes, recasting them for the 21st century, and above all, experimenting, astonishing, and entertaining.  Some of the best writers in speculative fiction explore how rapid development will change the role of the traditional sleuth in the years to come.  The editors of The Reinvented Detected are on the show, award-winning authors Jennifer Brozek and Cat Rambo. The Reinvented Detective is available in many bookstores, one of which is Barnes and Noble. Jennifer Brozek's website: http://www.jenniferbrozek.com Cat Rambo’s Website: http://www.kittywumpus.net Cat

The Reinvented Detective presents stories that complicate law and order as well as the concept of criminals, detectives, punishment, and justice for all. It does this by showing how new technologies, the rise of sentient AIs, and changing social attitudes may affect what is not only acceptable, but expected, within both real world and digital communities—and everything in-between.  These stories reinvent detective and true crime tropes, recasting them for the 21st century, and above all, experimenting, astonishing, and entertaining.  Some of the best writers in speculative fiction explore how rapid development will change the role of the traditional sleuth in the years to come.  The editors of The Reinvented Detected are on the show, award-winning authors Jennifer Brozek and Cat Rambo. The Reinvented Detective is available in many bookstores, one of which is Barnes and Noble. Jennifer Brozek's website: http://www.jenniferbrozek.com Cat Rambo’s Website: http://www.kittywumpus.net Cat

Are you interested in police procedurals? How about one set on a different planet? Author @katrchrdsn talks about her novel BLOOD ORBIT in episode 254: https://LancerKind.com/series/scifi-thoughts/?utm_source=twitter Mentioned in this episode   Alfred Bester’s THE STARS MY DESTINATION: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/333867.The_Stars_My_Destination NYT article about Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth’s THE SPACE MERCHANTS: https://archive.nytimes.com/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/30/chicken-little-cometh/ More about THE SPACE MERCHANTS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Space_Merchants More about KR Richardson Kat’s other website which contains trailers to her Greywalker series: https://www.katrichardson.com/books/greywalker/ A Buzzy Mag interview of Kat Richardson about Grey Walker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOD4rPDuIV0

Are you interested in police procedurals? How about one set on a different planet? Author @katrchrdsn talks about her novel BLOOD ORBIT in episode 254: https://LancerKind.com/series/scifi-thoughts/?utm_source=twitter About the Wah Mee Massacre: On Feb. 19, 1983, 13 people were killed during a robbery at a gambling club in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District. News reporter revisits: https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle/40-years-seattle-wah-mee-massacre/281-9ebbd71a-b7ec-4c83-ae5e-4caef45b7d52#:~:text=Wah%20Mee%20Massacre.-,On%20Feb.,his%20role%20in%20the%20robbery. Kat Richardson’s FaceBook is: https://www.facebook.com/Kat.Richardson.Writer/ Check out the lovely noir style website for Blood Orbit: https://www.bloodorbit.com A Buzzy Mag interview of Kat Richardson about Grey Walker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOD4rPDuIV0 Kat’s other website which contains trailers to her Greywalker series: https://www.katrichardson.com/books/greywalker/

Are you interested in police procedurals? How about one set on a different planet? Author @katrchrdsn talks about her novel BLOOD ORBIT in episode 254: https://LancerKind.com/series/scifi-thoughts/?utm_source=twitter About the Wah Mee Massacre: On Feb. 19, 1983, 13 people were killed during a robbery at a gambling club in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District. News reporter revisits: https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle/40-years-seattle-wah-mee-massacre/281-9ebbd71a-b7ec-4c83-ae5e-4caef45b7d52#:~:text=Wah%20Mee%20Massacre.-,On%20Feb.,his%20role%20in%20the%20robbery. Kat Richardson’s FaceBook is: https://www.facebook.com/Kat.Richardson.Writer/ Check out the lovely noir style website for Blood Orbit: https://www.bloodorbit.com A Buzzy Mag interview of Kat Richardson about Grey Walker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOD4rPDuIV0 Kat’s other website which contains trailers to her Greywalker series: https://www.katrichardson.com/books/greywalker/

Are you interested in police procedurals? How about one set on a different planet? Author @katrchrdsn talks about her novel BLOOD ORBIT in episode 254: https://LancerKind.com/series/scifi-thoughts/?utm_source=twitter About the Wah Mee Massacre: On Feb. 19, 1983, 13 people were killed during a robbery at a gambling club in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District. News reporter revisits: https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle/40-years-seattle-wah-mee-massacre/281-9ebbd71a-b7ec-4c83-ae5e-4caef45b7d52#:~:text=Wah%20Mee%20Massacre.-,On%20Feb.,his%20role%20in%20the%20robbery. Kat Richardson’s FaceBook is: https://www.facebook.com/Kat.Richardson.Writer/ Check out the lovely noir style website for Blood Orbit: https://www.bloodorbit.com A Buzzy Mag interview of Kat Richardson about Grey Walker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOD4rPDuIV0 Kat’s other website which contains trailers to her Greywalker series: https://www.katrichardson.com/books/greywalker/

Are you interested in police procedurals? How about one set on a different planet? Author @katrchrdsn talks about her novel BLOOD ORBIT in episode 254: https://LancerKind.com/series/scifi-thoughts/?utm_source=twitter About the Wah Mee Massacre: On Feb. 19, 1983, 13 people were killed during a robbery at a gambling club in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District. News reporter revisits: https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle/40-years-seattle-wah-mee-massacre/281-9ebbd71a-b7ec-4c83-ae5e-4caef45b7d52#:~:text=Wah%20Mee%20Massacre.-,On%20Feb.,his%20role%20in%20the%20robbery. Kat Richardson’s FaceBook is: https://www.facebook.com/Kat.Richardson.Writer/ Check out the lovely noir style website for Blood Orbit: https://www.bloodorbit.com A Buzzy Mag interview of Kat Richardson about Grey Walker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOD4rPDuIV0 Kat’s other website which contains trailers to her Greywalker series: https://www.katrichardson.com/books/greywalker/

Kat Richardson’s FaceBook is: https://www.facebook.com/Kat.Richardson.Writer/ Check out the lovely noir style website for Blood Orbit: https://www.bloodorbit.com A Buzzy Mag interview of Kat Richardson about Grey Walker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOD4rPDuIV0 Kat’s other website which contains trailers to her Greywalker series: https://www.katrichardson.com/books/greywalker/ About Noir Fiction: https://www.masterclass.com/articles/noir-fiction

Apple TV+ series: https://g.co/kgs/NBcyk5 About the Foundation series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_series Isaac Asimov interviewed on David Letterman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIB1b_8hqB0 BBC episode about Isaac Asimov and psychohistory: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000d84g A BBC Radio 4 radio production of Foundation (start with the episode at the bottom of the webpage and work up wards): https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thefoundationtrilogy Mark’s call to action: Check out this sci-fi game on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/753640/Outer_Wilds/ If you enjoyed this series, you’ll be interested in the SciFi Thoughts Foundation Season 1 series which you can find here: https://lancerkind.com/listen-to-the-scifi-thoughts-podcast/the-foundation/ Even life in Ancient Mesopotamia had Challenges CAVEMAN FUNK, a novelette by Lancer Kind Young Akiya is the runt of a tribe that's legendary for feats of strength. So Ak

Apple TV+ series: https://g.co/kgs/NBcyk5 About the Foundation series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_series Isaac Asimov interviewed on David Letterman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIB1b_8hqB0 BBC episode about Isaac Asimov and psychohistory: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000d84g A BBC Radio 4 radio production of Foundation (start with the episode at the bottom of the webpage and work up wards): https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thefoundationtrilogy Even life in Ancient Mesopotamia had Challenges CAVEMAN FUNK, a novelette by Lancer Kind Young Akiya is the runt of a tribe that's legendary for feats of strength. So Akiya prefers feats of intelligence but that gets him no respect from his peers. He get's into more trouble when he accidentally disrupts his tribe's corner-on-the-market of hauling goods due to his invention using levers, which becomes so popular that the neighboring tribes no longer require hauling services. To make matter worse

Apple TV+ series: https://g.co/kgs/NBcyk5 About the Foundation series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_series Isaac Asimov interviewed on David Letterman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIB1b_8hqB0 BBC episode about Isaac Asimov and psychohistory: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000d84g A BBC Radio 4 radio production of Foundation (start with the episode at the bottom of the webpage and work up wards): https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thefoundationtrilogy Interested in Nanotech and AI? Check out Bit Storm by Lancer & Shelli Kind It's the near future. Nanowear and truly artificially intelligent machines exist. Diff is an AI engineer. He gets into a friendly online debate with a nano-hacker about whether a culture's most important trait is compassion or skill at war. Unknown to Diff, the hacker runs a simulation on Diff's AI machine to prove his point during Diff's Halloween party. Learn if it's compassion or war that succeeds during a

Apple TV+ series: https://g.co/kgs/NBcyk5 About the Foundation series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_series Isaac Asimov interviewed on David Letterman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIB1b_8hqB0 BBC episode about Isaac Asimov and psychohistory: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000d84g A BBC Radio 4 radio production of Foundation (start with the episode at the bottom of the webpage and work up wards): https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thefoundationtrilogy Interested in Nanotech and AI? Check out Bit Storm by Lancer & Shelli Kind It's the near future. Nanowear and truly artificially intelligent machines exist. Diff is an AI engineer. He gets into a friendly online debate with a nano-hacker about whether a culture's most important trait is compassion or skill at war. Unknown to Diff, the hacker runs a simulation on Diff's AI machine to prove his point during Diff's Halloween party. Learn if it's compassion or war that succeeds during a futu

Dr. Jonathan Jiang’s paper Avoiding the “Great Filter”: A Projected Timeframe for Human Expansion Off-World can be read here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2108.01730.pdf Interested in reading a space opera? Check out MEMORY'S VICTIMS by Lancer Kind Arcadie struggles with the rest of his shipmates to become immigrants rather than settlers. He adapts better than his sister who seems always involved with lost causes and he becomes part of space force. But he gets mixed up in a mystery about a woman who is breaking interstellar treaties by tampering with generation ships, and her reasons for doing so sound similar to his sister's affliction—an out-of-control savior complex.

Dr. Jonathan Jiang’s paper Avoiding the “Great Filter”: A Projected Timeframe for Human Expansion Off-World can be read here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2108.01730.pdf Interested in reading a space opera? Check out MEMORY'S VICTIMS by Lancer Kind Arcadie struggles with the rest of his shipmates to become immigrants rather than settlers. He adapts better than his sister who seems always involved with lost causes and he becomes part of space force. But he gets mixed up in a mystery about a woman who is breaking interstellar treaties by tampering with generation ships, and her reasons for doing so sound similar to his sister's affliction—an out-of-control savior complex.

Dr. Jonathan Jiang’s paper Avoiding the “Great Filter”: A Projected Timeframe for Human Expansion Off-World can be read here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2108.01730.pdf Interested in reading a space opera? Check out MEMORY'S VICTIMS by Lancer Kind Arcadie struggles with the rest of his shipmates to become immigrants rather than settlers. He adapts better than his sister who seems always involved with lost causes and he becomes part of space force. But he gets mixed up in a mystery about a woman who is breaking interstellar treaties by tampering with generation ships, and her reasons for doing so sound similar to his sister's affliction—an out-of-control savior complex.

Dr. Jonathan Jiang’s paper Avoiding the “Great Filter”: A Projected Timeframe for Human Expansion Off-World can be read here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2108.01730.pdf Love Cyberpunk? Read Honolulu Hottie by Lancer Kind A surfer, a beautiful activist, and corporate sponsored ecoterrorism. Enjoy this Hawaiian cyberpunk novelette. Nafi is a retired pro surfer who works security at a pineapple plant. He falls for a girl who uses him to break security so she can investigate a conspiracy to destroy Hawaii’s pineapple crop. Unfortunately she gets caught, Nafi gets in trouble, and the epidemiologist who is behind the pineapple virus is out to kill them. Honolulu Hottie is a cyberpunk, action-adventure novelette set in post global-warming Hawaii. Click the book cover above to buy on Amazon.

Dr. Jonathan Jiang’s paper Avoiding the “Great Filter”: A Projected Timeframe for Human Expansion Off-World can be read here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2108.01730.pdf Love Cyberpunk? Read Honolulu Hottie by Lancer Kind A surfer, a beautiful activist, and corporate sponsored ecoterrorism. Enjoy this Hawaiian cyberpunk novelette. Nafi is a retired pro surfer who works security at a pineapple plant. He falls for a girl who uses him to break security so she can investigate a conspiracy to destroy Hawaii’s pineapple crop. Unfortunately she gets caught, Nafi gets in trouble, and the epidemiologist who is behind the pineapple virus is out to kill them. Honolulu Hottie is a cyberpunk, action-adventure novelette set in post global-warming Hawaii. Click the book cover above to buy on Amazon.

If you enjoyed listening to this episode, hear Will talk about his space opera science fiction adventure, BLAZESKY: https://lancerkind.com/listen-to-the-scifi-thoughts-podcast/blazesky-a-space-opera-video-game/ Looking Backward, a novel about the future written in 1880s by Ed Bellamy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looking_Backward Looking Backward on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Looking-Backward-2000-Edward-Bellamy/dp/B0B1C94PQ9/ Even life in Ancient Mesopotamia had Challenges CAVEMAN FUNK, a novelette by Lancer Kind Young Akiya is the runt of a tribe that's legendary for feats of strength. So Akiya prefers feats of intelligence but that gets him no respect from his peers. He get's into more trouble when he accidentally disrupts his tribe's corner-on-the-market of hauling goods due to his invention using levers, which becomes so popular that the neighboring tribes no longer require hauling services. To make matter worse, music television marketeers from the future are meddl

If you enjoyed listening to this episode, hear Will talk about his space opera science fiction adventure, BLAZESKY: https://lancerkind.com/listen-to-the-scifi-thoughts-podcast/blazesky-a-space-opera-video-game/ Tout Caveman Funk

If you enjoyed listening to this episode, hear Will talk about producing his space opera science fiction adventure, BLAZESKY: https://lancerkind.com/listen-to-the-scifi-thoughts-podcast/blazesky-a-space-opera-video-game/ Ecumenopolis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecumenopolis Issac Author video about Ecumenopolises: EcumenopolisesYouTube · Isaac Arthur37 minutes, 6 secondsJul 7, 2016 Tout Caveman Funk If you enjoyed listening to this episode, hear Will talk about producing his space opera science fiction adventure, BLAZESKY: https://lancerkind.com/listen-to-the-scifi-thoughts-podcast/blazesky-a-space-opera-video-game/ Ecumenopolis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecumenopolis Issac Author video about Ecumenopolises: EcumenopolisesYouTube · Isaac Arthur37 minutes, 6 secondsJul 7, 2016 Even life in Ancient Mesopotamia had Challenges CAVEMAN FUNK, a novelette by Lancer Kind Young Akiya is the runt of a tribe that's legendary for feats of strength. So