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SciFi Thoughts
Science fiction author Lancer Kind teases and tantalizes with this genre from the future. Science fiction has many dozens of sub genres with different story telling styles which attempt to bring new possibilities into how the world is seen. My mission is to expand what science fiction means to you by exploring this genre that is diverse as the stars in the sky. SciFi thoughts will, like the James Web Telescope, draw focus on a discovery and tantalize you with thoughts on movies and literature…
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182 Origins of Science Fiction discussed with Professor and Author Adam Roberts, Editor of CLASSIC SCIENCE FICTION
Adam Roberts’s books are available on Amazon and other book sellers. Here is his Amazon Author…
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181 University of London English Professor Adam Roberts on Tolkien
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180 Adam Roberts, Vice President of the HG Wells Society, reveals scandalous bits about HG Wells
Adam Roberts’s books are available on Amazon and other book sellers. Here is his Amazon Author…
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179 Tips from a Lunar Explorer on how you can be an Explorer too
Glossary:  Vikram is the name of the lunar lander. Chandarayaan2 is the name of the mission. Chandra – is Hindi for moon Yaan – Hindi for…
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178 Manual work for Discovering Alien Objects on the Moon
Glossary: Vikram is the name of the lunar lander. Chandarayaan2 is the name of the mission. ISRO, Indian Space Research Organisation is India’s space…
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177 How Discovering Moon Debris made a Software Engineer Famous
Glossary:  Vikram is the name of the lunar lander. Chandarayaan2 is the name of the mission. ISRO, Indian Space Research Organisation is India’s…
SciFi Thoughts176 Software Engineer gets the Keys to the City and State
Glossary: Vikram is the name of the lunar lander.Chandarayaan 2 is the name of the mission. Chandara means lunar. Yaan means vehicle.ISRO, Indian Space…
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175 Real Life Discoverer of Lost Lunar Lander—Shanmuga
Glossary:  Vikram is the name of the lunar lander. Chandarayaan2 is the name of the mission. ISRO, Indian Space Research Organisation is India’s…
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174 Author David Ebenbach comes clean on why NO sex on Mars
David Harris Ebenbach is a U.S. writer of fiction and poetry, a teacher, and an editor. He is the author of nine books, and he is the recipient of the Drue…
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173 HOW TO MARS: Should there be Law on Mars?
David Ebenbach is a U.S. writer of fiction and poetry, a teacher, and an editor. He is the author of nine books, and he is the recipient of the Drue Heinz…
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172 David Ebenbach’s HOW TO MARS novel
David Ebenbach is a U.S. writer of fiction and poetry, a teacher, and an editor. He is the author of nine books, and he is the recipient of the Drue Heinz…
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171 Sorry but there will be No SEX on Mars
David Ebenbach is a U.S. writer of fiction and poetry, a teacher, and an editor. He is the author of nine books, and he is the recipient of the Drue Heinz…
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170 The Alien Stars, a reading by its Hugo Award winning author Tim Pratt
Purchase The Alien Stars: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-alien-stars-tim-pratt/1138650676?ean=9780857669285 Tim Pratt’s…
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169 Making it in the Arts, advice from Hugo Award winning author Tim Pratt
Tim Pratt in Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Pratt Tim and I mention attending the Clarion Writers Workshop (you must apply 6-12 months in…
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168 Hugo award winning author Tim Pratt on Growing up in Rural North Carolina
Tim Pratt in Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Pratt Tim and I mention attending the Clarion Writers Workshop (you must apply 6-12 months in…
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167 Learn how to Live in UNITY, as Read by Novelist Elly Bangs
Get Unity here in Kindle and paperback: https://www.amazon.com/Unity-Elly-Bangs/dp/1616963425/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1IKEZCEJFZS8Y&keywords=unity+book+elly+ba…
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166 Being part of a Collective Consciousness in the Novel UNITY
Get Unity here in Kindle and paperback: https://www.amazon.com/Unity-Elly-Bangs/dp/1616963425/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1IKEZCEJFZS8Y&keywords=unity+book+elly+ba…
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164 Active Studio Displays of the Mandalorian
Mandalorian’s active display studio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpUI8uOsKTM And more here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gX4N5rDYeQ Buy…
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163 Korean Pirates, Voice Acting, and dissing Pokémon Cards
Buy BlazeSky on Steam Games (sometimes for as low as $10) : https://store.steampowered.com/app/1208980/BlazeSky/ A review about BlazeSky Creating V…
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162 BlazeSky Short Story and Why no Michael Ironside
You can buy BlazeSky on Steam Games (sometimes for as low as $10) :  https://store.steampowered.com/app/1208980/BlazeSky/ A review about BlazeSky Video…
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161 Characters of BlazeSky
You can buy BlazeSky on Steam Games (sometimes for as low as $10) : https://store.steampowered.com/app/1208980/BlazeSky/ A review about BlazeSky Video…
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160 The Foundation’s Psychohistory—religion or science?
About the Late Adopters curve: https://www.ou.edu/deptcomm/dodjcc/groups/99A2/theories.htm About…
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159 The Foundation and Manifest Destiny
Rotten Tomatoes article: https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/everything-we-know-about-the-foundation-streaming-series/ The Foundation won a Hugo…
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158 What is the “Foundation?”
The Foundation won a Hugo for “Best All Time Series”: http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/1966-hugo-awards/ Foundation (the…
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157 Kardashev Scale, The big picture on space civilizations
Here is a visual representation of the Kardashev scale and the amount of energy for each step: …
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156 PK Dick award nominated FAILED STATE by Christopher Brown
Christopher Brown’s homepage: https://christopherbrown.com/about/ Christopher Brown’s Amazon author page…
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155 How Texas is a Stimulating Place for Writing SF, told by Christopher Brown
Christopher Brown’s homepage: https://christopherbrown.com/about/ Christopher Brown’s Amazon author page…
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154 Christopher Brown loses twenty bucks to Hunter S Thompson
Christopher Brown’s homepage: https://christopherbrown.com/about/ Christopher Brown’s Amazon author page…
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153 CliFi, SciFi, and Legal Thrillers, The Pillars of a Christopher Brown Novel
Christopher Brown’s homepage: https://christopherbrown.com/about/ Christopher Brown’s Amazon author page…
SciFi Thoughts152 Christopher Brown’s Gonzo Lawyerly Science Fiction
Christopher Brown’s homepage: https://christopherbrown.com/about/ Christopher Brown’s Amazon author page…
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151 Author M.R. Carey Reads from The Book of Kohli
About The Girl with All the Gifts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_with_All_the_Gifts_(film) By The Girl with All the Fights here…
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150 M.R. Carey Plies his Talent between Comics and Novels
About The Girl with All the Gifts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_with_All_the_Gifts_(film) By The Girl with All the Fights here…
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149 M.R. Carey tells us about writing The Girl with All the Gifts
About The Girl with All the Gifts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_with_All_the_Gifts_(film) By The Girl with All the Fights here…
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148 M.R. Carey, author of The Girl With All The Gifts
Watch how the greenery grows across The Book of Koli via Google Lens: https://fb.watch/v/8-McT2mIP/ Links to M.R. Carey…
SciFi Thoughts147 Bill Preston’s Reading from HELPING THEM TAKE THE OLD MAN DOWN
FREE for Kindle Unlimited is Bill Preston’s first book of the Old Man Series…
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146 How being a publishing science fiction writer affects how you teach English, plus a tip from George Saunders
FREE for Kindle Unlimited is Bill Preston’s first book of the Old Man Series…
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145 Much ado about Genre, Ray Bradbury, and Early American Writers
Contact Bill Preston via Twitter: https://twitter.com/wmpreston Bill (William) Preston’s author page on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B008BTWZ1Y
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144 Author and Educator Bill Preston talks Literary Science Fiction, Ray Bradbury, and Spock
Contact Bill Preston via Twitter: https://twitter.com/wmpreston Bill (William) Preston’s author page on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B008BTWZ1Y
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143 Tiki Al’s brush with Mouse Jail
First off, if today’s date is around May there is a Tiki market place in North Hollywood at Kahuna Tiki Tu: http://www.kahunatiki.com…
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142 Props Master Al Zequeira reveals his Secrets to getting into the Props Biz
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141 Tiki Al and the Goods and Bads of Shanghai
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SciFi Thoughts140 Tiki Al goes to Hollywood
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139 From high school to Hollywood, Life of a Hollywood Props Master
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138 Al Zequeira Hollywood Master of Props
First off, if it’s around May (specifically May 2nd in 2021) there is a tiki market place in North Hollywood at Kahuna Tiki Tu: http://www.kahunatiki.com…
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137 Love is the Key Ingredient to the Survival of our Human Civilization
This episode is part of an ongoing series that started on episode 133.  Here is the show archive: https://LancerKind.com/series/scifi-thoughts/ Here is…
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136 The Time and Location of Peak Civilization—Life initiated by Love then ends in Self Destruction
This episode is part of an ongoing series that started on episode 133.  Here is the show archive: https://LancerKind.com/series/scifi-thoughts/ Here…
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135 Civilization Self Destruction is the most Influential Parameter in Why there’s a Fermi Paradox
This episode is part of an ongoing series that started on episode 133.  Here is the show archive: https://LancerKind.com/series/scifi-thoughts/ Here is…
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134 The Factors to Intelligent Life on Planets in the Milky Way
A Statistical Estimation of the Occurrence of Extraterrestrial Intelligence in the Milky Way Galaxy, by Xiang Cai, Jonathan H. Jiang, Kristen A. Fahy, Yuk L…
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133 JPL scientist Jonathan Jiang Investigates the Fermi Paradox
Enrico Fermi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Fermi A Statistical Estimation of the Occurrence of Extraterrestrial Intelligence in the Milky Way Galaxy…
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132 Novelist Tom Doyle tells us about American Craftsman
Tom’s books on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tom-Doyle/e/B00A77W3KQ?ref=dbs_m_mng_rwt_byln Tom Doyle’s Border Crosser novel…
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131 Novelist Tom Doyle Reads from Space Opera BORDER CROSSER
Tom Doyle’s Border Crosser novel: http://tomdoyleauthor.com/border-crosser/   Tom offers links to free text and audio of his short fiction…
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130 Novelist Tom Doyle describes the psychological foundation of his novel Border Crosser
Tom Doyle’s Border Crosser novel: http://tomdoyleauthor.com/border-crosser/   Tom offers links to free text and audio of his short fiction…
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129 Tom Doyle talks of Eris’s Borderline Personality Disorder
Tom Doyle’s Border Crosser novel: http://tomdoyleauthor.com/border-crosser/   Tom offers links to free text and audio of his short fiction…
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128 Space Opera that JG Ballard would have wanted, authored by Tom Doyle
Tom Doyle’s Border Crosser novel: http://tomdoyleauthor.com/border-crosser/   Tom offers links to free text and audio of his short fiction…
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127 There are those who write Short Stories and then there are Garrulous Bastards who write Novels
Bud Sparhawk’s author page on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Bud-Sparhawk/e/B00BH17R3O Bud Sparhawk’s blog: https://www.budsparhawk.com Bud…
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126 Virtual Science Fiction Conventions
Bud Sparhawk’s blog: https://www.budsparhawk.com Bud Sparhawk video interview Fast Forward: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcgFWq3Szx4 Bud Sparhawk…
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125 Confessions of an Analog MAFIA Hitman, Bud Sparhawk
Bud Sparhawk’s blog: https://www.budsparhawk.com Bud Sparhawk video interview Fast Forward: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcgFWq3Szx4 Bud Sparhawk…
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124 Bud Sparhawk on, Life of a Short Fiction Author
Bud Sparhawk’s blog: https://www.budsparhawk.com Bud Sparhawk video interview Fast Forward: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcgFWq3Szx4 Bud Sparhawk…
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123 How RZ Held feels about writing Space Opera
Get a copy of RZ Held’s novellas: https://rhiannonheld.com You can find an another interview series with RZ Held at…