Curious about what Tom Merritt’s up to? Well here ya go.
Mar 31st 2009TomSword and Laser
Someone named Clive has started a cool project to get folks to help him remix three songs into even better rockinger anthems than they already are. One of the songs is called ‘The Sword and the Laser’ and is based on our book club Sword and Laser.
If you at all are even amused by such bands as Kansas, Rush, Billy Thorpe, etc., you will love it.
Check it out at TheCliveRoyalProject.com.
Mar 30th 2009TomGuest Appearances
I had the distinct pleasure of sitting down with Dan Patterson at SXSW and talking about the future of all things. Well tech things. Well news, radio, and social media.
You can get the full interview here.
Mar 24th 2009TomPodcasts & Sword and Laser
Really, most of the episode is about The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan:
UPDATE: Hopefully the file will work now in iTunes!
We disucssed the paralells to other fantasy worlds like Lord of the Rings and even World of Warcraft. We also passed along Randy’s post from the Ning site about the Robert Jordan convention which you can find out more about by visiting
www.AgeofLegends.net.
But then we got to talking about Watchmen near the end and one thing led to another. It all came back around to Robert Jordan though as we discussed Sean O’Hara’s Ning thread called Sexbots and dragons.
Speaking of the Ning group, we called out a couple of user-created groups that aren’t related to official book club selections. Take a gander at the Alternate History group if you like to pretend things are different than they way they really are. And a really cool group that crosses TV fandom with literature, The Lost literary references group.
Finally we settled on Frank Herbert’s Dune as the next book. We’ll kick it off in the April episode, so if you have any questions, or non-spoiler thoughts for newbies to the book, let us know here in the comments
As promised in the most recent podcast, our good friend Ryan (a.k.a. TuxOtaku) has set up a Sword and Laser IRC channel! Here are the details:
Server: irc.revision3.com
Room: #swordandlaser
We’ll be doing some scheduled chats soon, but otherwise feel free to pop in and say hello from time to time! Just be mindful of spoilers (in fact, let’s keep current book discussion to a minimum unless otherwise noted).
Tom and Roger review Watchmen, Battlestar Galactica and the philosophical and economic repercussions thereof.
Listen to the episode at this link: http://www.archive.org/download/RogerChangandTomMerrittEastMeetsWest154/eastmeetswest154.mp3
