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“Cap’s gonna be on broadway!”

Our wives join us on this episode! Kim Johnson thinks we’ll finally go paperless soon, but Eileen Rivera thinks it won’t be soon enough, because we all die in 2012.

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We’ve finally finished the Windup girl and we’r ready to wrap it up, but we also have news, some sad (RIP Frank Frazetta) and some glad (Game of Thrones!) Plus we have some excellent thought-provoking commentary from the Goodreads group.  And best of all, we announce we’ll have another episode next week!  Find out who our special guest interview is. (raised eyebrow)

News

Frank Frazetta, RIP       
        
Nebula Award Winners (Includes Windup Girl)              
        
Game of Thrones News       
        
George R. R. Martin talks ‘Game of Thrones’ as the HBO show’s ‘Daenerys’ departs       
        
Winter is Coming – A blog about Game of Thrones series on HBO      
        
Has ‘A Dance with Dragons’ been announced? Check here. Every day.   
               
BOOK Wrap-up

Wind-up Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi   

NEW BOOK!

Bitter Seeds by Ian Tregillis

BARE YOUR SWORD – feedback from the audience        
        
Cannot finish. Will not finish   
        
The Blade Itself – thoughts on this book?   
        
Last man on earth / post apoc book   
        
Emails:        

Stephen Baxter has a tendency to destroy the Earth in a number of his books. Notably:

Simon Williams
UK    

*****

This is a little old but in catching up on my rss feed of i09.com I
came across this. Ridley Scott!

Thanks for the great group & podcast.

Peter Hansen  

*****

ADDENDUMS        

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“We’ve found the rebel base”

“The lawnmower man solved my roach problems”

“The IT Crowd is Coming Back!”

Brian Brushwoood of NSFW Show and Scam School guests in place of Roger and tells us among other things how he thinks Lost will end. Tom gives it a 36% chance of being right. Also, Tom tells how the whole job change from TWiT to CNET went down.

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Roger Chang and Scott Fletcher tell us why tailor-made newborns fear the forbidden lands around Las Vegas, the last outpost of humanity.

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I’m happy to announce that my new show, Tech News Today, on Leo Laporte’s TWiT network will debut on June 1. I’ll record it live at 5:30 Eastern/2:30 Pacific every day Mon-Fri (just in time for evening drive time on the east coast).

Here’s a few other things to know about the show:
- I’ll have a co-host which will be in rotation for now. Probably a lot of Leo at first, but more to come on this!
- TNT will be put out as an audio podcast by 5:30 pacific, with video a few hours later.
- People will be able to watch it live by going to http://live.twit.tv, Justin.tv, or Ustream. They can listen to it live on http://live.twit.tv, at http://twit.am or in the iTunes radio listings. They can listen or watch live from the TWiT iPhone app or the TWiTpad app, and also in the ustream apps on the iPhone OS and Android OS. Additionally, if they go to Live.twit.tv on their iPhone/iPad, they can watch live using 3G – no wi-fi needed.
-The show will be around 30-40 minutes.
- You can send email to [email protected], which is already set up.