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Well we’ve seen ol’ Katniss, Peeta and Gale through to the end, and we wrap up all three books in The Hunger Games series. We also have some good book picks to get you through until July 12 when we start our next book, and book-bingers of the world unite!

QUICK BURNS

Congrats to Brandon Sanderson

Jeff VanderMeer’s public fiction project: The Journals of Doctor Mormeck

Who should be cast as the leads in the American Gods miniseries?

The Song of Ice and Fire So Far: Part 1 – Ancient History

CALENDAR

6/28/2011 Dragon’s Time: Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey and Todd McCaffrey
6/29/2011 Naamah’s Blessing, Jacqueline Carey (Tor)
7/5/2011 Heaven’s Shadow by David S. Goyer and Michael Cassutt
7/5/2011 The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection
7/12/2011 A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin

Audiobook pic Fuzzy Nation by John Scalzi

BARE YOUR SWORD

The Hunger Games > WAIT A MINUTE

Are you a book-binger?

books I dislike” by good authors.

BOOK CHECK-IN

Hunger Games series
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

NEW MEMBER HELLOS

Hello to Blindman (came to us from Major Nelsons podcast), Dani, Robert (what is this, the cast of Game of Thrones?), Jason and Vladimir!

ADDENDUMS

Help us with sound effects! T-shirt contest! Send your .wav files of VERY SHORT segment sound effects to [email protected] by July 12 to win a Sword and Laser t-shirt!

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East Meets West 255 – You can’t broil the truth

Shows / June 20th, 2011

An episode that starts reviewing Nerdtacular, rapidly devolves into a show about cooking and especially grilling.

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Tech News Today 266: This Sucker Tweets

Shows / June 18th, 2011

Lulzsec’s press release, RIM loses a big investor, Spotify possibly close to US release, and more.

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Running time:

41:16

Triangulation 15: David Bradley

Shows / June 17th, 2011

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Tom Merritt

Developer of the original IBM ROM BIOScode and inventor of the “three-finger salute,” David Bradley, is this week’s guest.

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Running time: 47:52

Tech News Today 265: Ethernet Powered Post-its

Shows / June 17th, 2011

RIM’s earnings call is bleak, Facebook’s Project Spartan leaks, Lulzsec versus Anonymous, and more.

Hosts: Randall Bennett

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Running time:

52:07

Tech News Today 264: Get Virtually Pregnant

Shows / June 16th, 2011

Google’s next Nexus, Facebook secret photo app, Duke Nukem PR snafu, and more.

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Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Darren Kitchen and Jason Howell

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40:30

Tech News Today 263: Leave The Wii Be

Shows / June 15th, 2011

Citibank hack a URL hack, Google’s speech recognition and instant pages, Bloomberg accuses Comcast of violating FCC agreement, and more.

Guest: Cali Lewis

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42:29