S&L Podcast – #59 – Throne Games

Shows / April 19th, 2011

We’re still agog over the premiere of HBO’s “A Game of Thrones” television adaptation, but we also both got suckered into being spoiled and we’re intrigued by the sexual landscape of “Blindsight’.

QUICK BURNS

Game of Thrones recap

When Joe Met George

HBO option Neil Gaiman’s AMERICAN GODS

Win a speaking role in the American Gods audiobook

CALENDAR 

4/19/2011 “The River of Shadows by Robert V.S. Redick

4/21/2011 “The Dragon’s Path by Daniel Abraham

4/26/2011 “Will Super Villains Be On the Final? Naomi Novik (Del Rey)

4/28/2011 “Titus Awakes by Mervyn Peake and Maeve Gilmore

5/3/2011 “The Inheritance by Robin Hobb

BARE YOUR SWORD

Blindsight > Post-Sex Society

Did you ever read a book that you really hated?

BOOK CHECK-IN

Blindsight by Peter Watts

ADDENDUMS

Our iTunes app is live! Thanks to Nicole Spagnuolo!!

Tech News Today 222: Google Does Not Hurt Pandas

Shows / April 15th, 2011

The truth about the Android Skype vulnerability, new Windows 8 features, Government wants to eliminate passwords, and more.

Guest: Chris Dehghanpoor

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S&L Podcast – #58 – Blindsight Kick-off

Shows / April 13th, 2011

We’re kicking off our brand new book selection, Blindsight, by Peter Watts! We don’t have too many Quick Burns today… mostly just GoT news. Would you expect anything less?

QUICK BURNS

OMG GAME OF THRONES STARTS APRIL 17
Map of the free cities.

CALENDAR
4/12/2011 After the Golden Age by Carrie Vaughan

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

4/19/2011 “The River of Shadows by Robert V.S. Redick

4/21/2011 “The Dragon’s Path by Daniel Abraham

4/26/2011 “Will Super Villains Be On the Final? Naomi Novik (Del Rey)

4/28/2011 “Titus Awakes by Mervyn Peake and Maeve Gilmore

5/3/2011 “The Inheritance by Robin Hobb

BARE YOUR SWORD

The Kingkiller Chronicles > Penny Arcade Comic

Novels About People Playing Videogames

Geek Smackdown: George R.R. Martin disses on Lost

sword and laser question ( sales credit)

BOOK KICK-OFF
Blindsight by Peter Watts

From Wikipedia: Blindsight is a hard science fiction novel by Peter Watts, published by Tor Books in 2006. On 29 March 2007, it was nominated for the Hugo Award in the Best Novel category.[1] Watts has also released the novel online under the by-nc-sa Creative Commons license.[2] The novel deals with a crew of astronauts investigating an extraterrestrial entity and explores the nature of identity and consciousness. The title refers to blindsight, a neurological condition with implications for philosophy of mind.

The Chinese Room scenario features prominently in the book.

EMAILS
Thanks to Harold for making us an Infostripe!