Archive for September, 2011

Subtitle: Veronica goes “SQUEEE!!!”

Since practically the first moment we discussed doing the book club, Veronica has told me how Tad Williams was the foundation of her fantasy reading history.  Today, we get the pleasure of talking with Tad about what he writes, how he writes, and why he’s become the godfather of Sword and Laser.

QUICK BURNS

Congrats to Peter Dinklage!

The Mountain is recast, plus some new villains for THRONES

German student creates an illuminated edition of THE SILMARILLION

AN EVENING WITH NEAL STEPHENSON

CALENDAR

9/20/2011 Reamde, Neal Stephenson
9/20/2011 Goliath, Scott Westerfeld
9/22/2011 The Islanders by Christopher Priest
9/27/2011 Ganymede, Cherie Priest (Tor)
9/27/2011 The Hum and the Shiver, Alex Bledsoe
9/27/2011 The Immorality Engine by George Mann
10/1/2011 Manhattan in Reverse by Peter F. Hamilton

INTERVIEW

Bay Area-based Tad Williams is the author of many outstanding books, including several series, such as Memory Sorrow and Thorn, Otherland, and Shadowmarch. On a personal note, his novel Tailchaser’s Song was the book that basically got Veronica interested in fantasy in the first place! Follow him on Facebook!

BARE YOUR SWORD

In your discussion on the use of German in FlashForward, I cringed when you pronounced “jawohl”. It is pronounced like “yah-VOLE”, and is something you would expect to hear on Hogan’s Heroes reruns, or in the phrase “”Jawohl, mein Herr!”", but I never heard it in Germany when I lived there for several months in the mid 80′s.

I love your podcast,

Kevin Hansen

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Hi Tom and Veronica,

As promised, here’s a small pronounciation lesson for some of the German words that you talked about in the last episode.

If you have any more questions, just ask.

Have a great day and looking forward to the next podcast, Anne.

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“Sword and Laser” in different languages

NEW MEMBER HELLOS

Gantt, AJ, Michael, Joseph, Adam, and Daric!

BOOK PICK

Next time we’ll kick off: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. And Reamde, if you’re so inclined!

ADDENDUMS

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

Open up your Google Wallet, Netflix makes it worse, OS X passwords easier to steal, and more.

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Running time: 47:34

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

We reveal who’s buying Yahoo, China wins the Internet, save battery life and wireless performance, and more.

Guest: Nicole Lee

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Running time: 43:48

I had the distinct pleasure to join Dan Cohen, Amanda French, Mills Kelly and Tom Scheinfeldt on the Digital Campus podcast. They discuss in depth the surprising lawsuit by the Authors Guild against five universities and HathiTrust, related to the ongoing Google Book Search legal saga. They also look at whether a “Netflix for books” is possible or desirable. And Dan awards me a gold badge. In fact he gets pretty free with the badge awarding. He promises you’ll get a badge for listening to this week’s freewheeling podcast.

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

We reveal who’s buying Yahoo, China wins the Internet, save battery life and wireless performance, and more.

Guest: Nicole Lee

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Running time: 43:48

More on hoarding, giving gifts and how it messes with the economy.

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Hosts: Brian Brushwood and Tom Merritt

Smart-TVs, Star Wars on Blu-ray, Netflix Updates, Sony Google TV news, and more.

Guest: Scott Wilkinson

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Running time: 1:00:31

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

Microsoft puts a nail in Flash’s coffin, Paypal’s approach to mobile payments, Netflix’s shocking admission, and more.

Guest: Darren Kitchen

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Running time: 42:57

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

Facebook crushes Twitter, Microsoft, AOL and Yahoo team up, Sony hoardes the Vita, and more.

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Running time: 38:03

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Tom Merritt

Most known for his political activism, writing lyrics for the Grateful Dead, his essays on the internet, and founding member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, John Perry Barlow, is this week’s guest.

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Running time: 55:12