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With a movie adaptation coming to theatres on October 26th, we kick-off David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas, check in with the folks over on Goodreads, and giggle like schoolboys at the titles of a few of Tom’s favorite pieces of pulp fiction! 

More about our October Pick, David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas: 
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49628.Cloud_Atlas

Discussion Threads:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/972592-renegade-read-for-august-september…
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/999082-post-your-pulp-gems
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/993638-serialised-novels-what-do-you-think

Railsea review by David: http://youtu.be/fV17ak0C0_8

Check out the Calendar for upcoming interviews and book picks:http://swordandlaser.com/calendar

We wrap up the Shadow of the Torturer with special guest Josh Lawrence. And there’s a lot to chew on! Where did Dorkus come from? Is the botanic gardens a time travel device? Like a Tardis? And what’s with Severian’s Mommy issues.

QUICK BURNS

Publication delays for the next Ian Tregellis novel

More DANCE WITH DRAGONS and GAME OF THRONES news

A Storm of HBO Videos

Stephen King has a new “Dark Tower” book coming in 2012

Richard Morgan finishes the Cold Commands

Neal Stephenson’s gold farming thriller, REAMD

New Shel Silverstein book scheduled for September

CALENDAR

3/29/2011 “Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente Tor

3/29/2011 “Soft Apocalypse, Will McIntosh (Nightshade)

3/31/2009 “A Kingdom Besieged by Raymond E. Feist

4/1/2011 “Sea of Ghosts by Alan Campbell

4/12/2011 “After the Golden Age, Carrie Vaughn (Tor)

4/12/2011 “All the Lives He Led, Frederik Pohl (Tor)

BARE YOUR SWORD

Odd coincidences btw your SF/F reading and the real world

List of 12 recommended dystopian novels on HuffPost

What do you think the Claw is?

BOOK WRAP-UP

Shadow & Claw: The First Half of ‘The Book of the New Sun’ (Book of the Long Sun)

A comic book adaptation of Shadow

ADDENDUMS

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Another year, another Dragon*Con come and gone! Thanks to everyone who came out to the live show at the Hilton in Atlanta, we had a total blast. A very special “thank you” goes out to our wonderful guest, author David Gerrold (who famously wrote The Trouble with Tribbles for the original Trek). So please enjoy this extra long episode, and stay tuned for the video version coming soon!

INTERVIEW
Bio: David Gerrold – a winner of the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award – is the author of dozens of novels, including Jumping Off the Planet, Bouncing Off the Moon, The Man Who Folded Himself, When Harlie was One, and the The War Against the Chtorr series.

It’s time to pick a new book, but for some reason we just can’t stop talking about George R. R. Martin. And in some cases singing about him. But we DID pick a new book and it’s The Forever War by Joe Haldeman. It involves relativity, interstellar war and sad soldiers. In fact it’s sometimes thought of as an anti-Starship Troopers. We think this book is a timely choice as Ridley Scott is making a 3D movie out of it. More on that in this and future episodes. If you want a sneak peek, take a look at this Forever War’ Concept Art .

Also don’t forget we’re doing a live Sword and Laser in Atlanta at Dragon*Con! The show takes place Friday evening, September 4 at 8:30 PM in Hilton room 204. It will be Veronica, me and special guest Timothy Zahn. Other guests may be announced as well.

BARE YOUR SWORD – feedback from the audience.
Audio books are no good for SF
Do you like your endings with everything-wrapped-up or open-ended?
Hi Tom and Veronica,
John Anealio’ George R. R. Martin is not your bitch.

QUICK BURNS – unrelated news of the month
Robo-Ethicists Want to Revamp Asimov’s 3 Laws
A Game Of Thrones pilot script leaked
A brief history of SteamPunk
Personal Effects: Dark Art by JC Hutchins. The book with a lot of cool extra materials.

Tagline Contest
Congratulations Barry O’Neil “Different worlds – different discussion”