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THIS WEEK (31 August/1 September 2003) on SCI-FI OVERDRIVE, heard on the Business Talk Radio Network: The Universe and Enderverse collide! Hr. 2- science fiction author Orson Scott Card. Hr. 3- Dr. Michelle thaller on the Space InfraRed Telescope Facility. Hr. 4- Prof. Lynn Cominsky on the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope.
Hour 1 (2 AM ET): sci-fi news and commentary, including the Weekly World News world news of the week with your hosts Joey Donovan, David Durica, Erich Landstrom, Lauren Urban, and Charles Blake.
Hour 2 (3 AM ET): The “Sci Sky” with Stuart Goldman, associate editor of the essential magazine of astronomy “Sky and Telescope.” Interview with Orson Scott Card. Card created Ender Wiggin, perhaps the most beloved—and the most complicated—character in contemporary science fiction. When "Ender's Game," the novella that introduced Ender, was first published over 25 years ago, few would have predicted that it would become one of the most successful ventures in publishing history. Expanded into a novel in 1985, Ender's Game has become a cultural phenomenon. It won both the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award for Best Novel, has never been out of print, and has been translated into dozens of languages. Now, Tor Books is proud to publish FIRST MEETINGS in the Enderverse, an illustrated hardcover collection of novellas set in Ender's world. Within the pages of FIRST MEETINGS in the Enderverse, readers will learn of Ender's origins—and his destiny. Visit the author at: www.hatrack.com!
Hour 3 (4 AM ET): Interview with Dr. Michelle Thaller. Thaller manages the education and public outreach program for the recently launched Space InfraRed Telescope Facility. She also writes a monthly science column for the Christian Science Monitor. She received a B.S. degree from Harvard in 1992 and a Ph.D. in astrophysics from Georgia State University in 1998. Her research interests have included hot stars, colliding stellar winds, binary star evolution and evolved stellar companions. When she is not out teaching the masses about infrared astronomy and SIRTF, Thaller may be seen renaissance dancing! SIRFT will search for “the Old, the Cold, and the Dirty,” referring to the oldest, coldest and most dust-obscured objects and processes in outer space: intergalactic dust clouds, stellar discs, and comets. Sensing that heat would allow astronomers to detect discs around other stars where planets may be forming, and provide valuable information about the early life of the universe. More information about the mission is available at http://sirtf.caltech.edu
Hour 4 (5 AM ET): Interview with Dr. Lynn Cominsky. Cominsky is a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Sonoma State University. She leads the education and public outreach efforts (and is a co-investigator) for the Swift Gamma Ray Burst Mission and NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST). GLAST is an international and multi-agency mission planned for launch in 2006. It will study the cosmos looking at objects that emit high energy wavelengths, such as black holes, hyernovae, colliding binary neutron stars, and uber-mysterious gamma ray bursters. More information about the mission is available at http://glast.sonoma.edu/
SCI-FI OVERDRIVE is the only nation-wide weekly radio talk show exclusively covering science fiction and its related genres, such as comic books, animation, role-playing, horror and fantasy. We also highlight real science stranger sounding than fiction, including astronaut interviews, NASA news on missions of discovery and exploration, and the "Sci Sky" with Stuart Goldman, associate editor of the essential magazine of astronomy, Sky & Telescope. Guests span the sci-fi spectrum from actors to authors to animators to astronomers to astronauts, too!
SCI-FI OVERDRIVE is heard Monday mornings (2-6AM EDT, 11PM-3AM PDT, 7-11AM BST, 4-8PM AEST) nationwide over 23 affiliate stations of the Business Talk Radio network http://www.businesstalkradio.net and streamed over the Internet using Windows Media Player.
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Wow! I wonder if I can hit that Salina, KS station from my house (90 miles away). And also-- can I drag myself out of bed at 2 AM? Posts: 9538 | Registered: Aug 2003
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I'm counting on the whole "archives in MP3" part. Plus I'm several hundred miles from the nearest station listed.
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I believe that once they archive it, you will be able to download it in .mp3 format and listen to it whenever you want! Posts: 879 | Registered: Aug 2000
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an idea for calvinmaker... should I burn the interview out to cd, then have OSC sign it at the next book signing? Posts: 879 | Registered: Aug 2000
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I can bet that bow that you sugested that, Noah will do just that. :shakes his head and sighs: Posts: 2689 | Registered: Apr 2000
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I was going to consider dragging myself out of bed, recording it on a tape and going back to sleep once I hit record. Then I realized that it's on Monday morning, and I don't wanna lose sleep that early in the week. Plus I hate getting up at random times. So I guess it's mp3 for me.
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Please bear in mind that a typical .mp3 download of SFOD runs about 41MB. You probably want to tackle it over a 56K dial-up if you have about 2 hrs free time.
Also, OSC is going to be on the show again, this time for a full hour, on November 4th. If you have questions for him (and obviously you do, otherwise you wouldn't be on this forum...), go ahead and either email or start a thread where I can get all the posts. I'll read them to him and he can answer them on the air.
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Well, at least it will be playing on Labor Day (here in the US) so I don't have to go to work that day -- maybe I CAN make myself stay up until 2 AM, since I can sleep late.
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I forgot about Labor Day. Maybe I will get up to listen to it. Or get up to tape it. One or the other. Cool.
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It's unfortunate that we don't have more advanced technology - I want to listen to the interview but I'm a pretty decent way from any station listed. I'm at least too far from one to receive the signal. Ah well, I can wait a little while.
"Remember, the enemy's gate is down"
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Yeah, I'm checking today to see if I can actually get the station closest to me. I'd better keep my fingers crossed. Posts: 981 | Registered: Aug 2003
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Well, my reception is REALLY bad so I'm gonna try, but there's no guarantee that I'll even be able to understand what anyone's saying. I may have to just listen to it online tomorrow. On the plus side, I would get more that way. Since those radio people put the show at 2 am I wonder if there's any way to get them to switch it Then I'd be Posts: 981 | Registered: Aug 2003
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Well, I'm going to try to stay up for the interview! I'm about halfway between that Salina, KS station and the one in Enid, Oklahoma, so if the wind is just right and the air is clear, I might be able to hear it!
Rented a couple of videos to watch to keep me up until that time. Now if I can just convince my old body to stay awake the way I used to be able to as a teenager....
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I got up at two this morning, but it seems there are two stations playing on the same wavelength and the music was much louder and clearer. Oh well, I guess I'll have to go to that website now.
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Well, tried to catch it here, but just couldn't get the station to come in clear enough to understand anything. AM stations just don't have the range or power of FM, so I couldn't hear it.
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quote:AM stations just don't have the range or power of FM, so I couldn't hear it.
Actually, if I'm not mistaken, AM signals carry further than FM signals. AM stations often sound fainter simply because their signals are fewer and farther between.
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Where is the interview at, Taalcon? And it's true, AM (amplitude modulation) waves carry further. They can exit the earth's atmosphere and go on until their signal dies out, while FM waves (frequency modulation) hit the earth's atmosphere and come bounce back at weird angles. But FM waves are stronger because they never exit the atmosphere. So you're both right!!
"Remember, the enemy's gate is down"
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Just a reminder that I am checking this thread for your questions to ask OSC on-air during our next interview (4 November 2003).
This will be the last week our interview with OSC will be up on the SCI-FI OVERDRIVE webpage. So if you haven't heard it streamed or downloaded it, this is your final opportunity http://www.interstellartransmissions.com/sfod/past.phpPosts: 9 | Registered: Aug 2003
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Sci-Fi Overdrive Radio Program for 10 November THIS WEEK (10 November 2003) on SCI-FI OVERDRIVE, heard on the Business Talk Radio Network:
Hr. 2 - Chris DiBona, Vice President of Marketing and Founder, Damage Studios Hr. 3 - author Orson Scott Card Hr. 4 - composer Don Davis
Hour 1 (2 AM ET): sci-fi news and commentary, including the Weekly World News world news of the week with your hosts Joey Donovan, David Durica, Erich Landstrom, Lauren Urban, and Charles Blake. http://www.scifioverdrive.com
Hour 2 (3 AM ET): Interview with Chris DiBona, Vice President of Marketing and Founder, Damage Studios. Chris DiBona brings extensive experience in marketing and community relations to Damage Studios. As the third executive hired at VA Software, Mr. DiBona spearheaded the acquisitions of Linux.com and Andover.net, and worked on the largest ever IPO in Nasdaq history. He also ran developer and Linux community relations and played a vital part in the OSDN media organization. Prior to VA, Mr. DiBona held developer positions in computer security with Tandem Computers (Acquired by Compaq) and the United States Department of State. He is a frequent commentator on open source and development issues and has spoken on game development at the Gaming Developers Conference. http://www.dibona.com
Hour 3 (4 AM ET): Interview with author Orson Scott Card. Card won the Hugo and Nebula awards for best novel two years in a row for Ender's Game and its sequel, Speaker for the Dead, in 1986 and 1987. Warner Brothers also recently announced that it has made a deal for director Wolfgang Petersen to bring Ender's Game to the big screen. Perhaps Card's most innovative work is his American fantasy series The Tales of Alvin Maker, whose first five volumes, Seventh Son, Red Prophet, Prentice Alvin, Alvin Journeyman, and Heartfire are set in a magical version of the American frontier. The most recent volume, The Crystal City (November 2003), and the final volume, Master Alvin, will complete this reexamination of American history. France awarded Heartfire its highest science fiction award, Le Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire 2000. http://www.hatrack.com
Hour 4 (5 AM ET): Interview with composer Don Davis. Don Davis collaborated with the Wachowski when he scored their films THE MATRIX trilogy, as well as THE ANIMATRIX project and the video, and BOUND. His composing credits also include Jurassic Park III, Universal Soldier House On Haunted Hill, Warriors of Virtue, House Of Frankenstein, Robin Cook's Invasion, Pandora's Clock, The Beast and In The Best Of Families, as well as for the TV series SeaQuest DSV, Capitol Critters, My Life and Times, Tiny Toon Adventures, Star Trek: The Next Generation and Beauty And The Beast. http://dondavis.filmmusic.com/
SCI-FI OVERDRIVE is America's premier talk radio program about science fiction, the only nation-wide weekly radio talk show exclusively covering sci-fi and its related genres, such as comic books, animation, role-playing, horror and fantasy. We also highlight real science stranger sounding than fiction, including astronaut interviews, NASA news on missions of discovery and exploration, and the "Sci Sky" with Stuart Goldman, associate editor of the essential magazine of astronomy SKY & TELESCOPE. Guests span the sci-fi spectrum from actors to authors to animators to astronomers to astronauts, too!
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quote: THIS WEEK (31 August/1 September 2003) on SCI-FI OVERDRIVE, heard on the Business Talk Radio Network: The Universe and Enderverse collide! Hr. 2- science fiction author Orson Scott Card.
I was wondering if anyone had a copy of this that they would be able to send me. Or have a link to it somewhere. The most recent that I see is on 10/27/03. Also I was wondering if there are any before this that I might be able to listen to. Thanks
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Would anyone be able to summerize briefly what was said on Nov. 10? I don't get a good signal of that station and my computer is too annoying to play the clips.
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Here's a posting from Enumclaw, over at Ornery.org http://www.ornery.org/forums/essays/cgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=6;t=002543 -------------------------------------------- Okay, you bandwidth-challenge folks... here's a transcript. For the most part, I got it right I think... well, there's only one part that I might have messed up on. Careful readers will no doubt spot it.
They spent about 5 minutes talking about political things and Ornery and OSC's experiences with PC thinking.
Please forgive any typos.
Finally, be advised there is a minor spoiler from the OSC book "The Crystal City".
Cheers- Paul ----------------------------------
Erich- "We were talking about the 'American ideal, the gumption that makes us Americana' and interestingly enough, not only do you run Hatrack.com, you've also got another little side project that works well, with authors such as Ben Bova, which is called "The Ornery American".
It's www.ornery.org (spells it out). Can you tell us a little bit about your philosophical ramblings on that website, Orson."
OSC- "Well, actually, my philosophical ramblings on that website are really a weekly column that I do for a local paper here in Greensboro, North Carolina, and then they're put up online shortly after that.
I started writing it in the aftermath of 9/11, talking about the war that we were in, whether we wanted to be in it or not, and, ah, you know, my views on that.
It's a weird thing, of course, because of my position on the war, and so on, I'm taken by many people to be conservative, though actually in some ways I'm more liberal than the Democratic Party that I belong to."
host- "Yes"
OSC- "What I do detest is mindless political correctness and so that shows up on the Ornery American. I just have a very low tolerance for... what is it that the letters "B" and "S" stand for... something..."
(hosts laugh)
OSC- "I don't respond well to it, and so that, of course, shows up on Ornery. There are a lot of other people that post there as well, although none are nearly the genius that some guy from a town called Enumclaw are. I sometimes have guest columns.
The idea is I don't put my politics in my fiction, so I gotta put it somewhere. And since nobody listens to me at home, I might as well publish it for other people."
host- (chuckling) "I gotta admit, when you go out to cons, do you ever find yourself in the minority of, in your way of thinking? Writers are..."
OSC- "Oh... there're people who assume that because I'm a Mormon, I'm a Republican arch-conservative, which, of course, I'm not... so I stopped going to conventions in America, basically, with World Fantasy Con many years ago, when I found myself on a panel about political correctness -and of course I was going to sneer at it- and I found that the reason I had been invited to be on the panel was so I could be the designated target.
And as soon as I discovered that was the role some people wanted me to play, at conventions, well I just stopped going."
hosts- "mm. That is definitely a reason to not go. It means to go have a big target, a bullseye painted on your back."
OSC- "Well, the funny thing is that these people who assume they know what I believe about everything, just because of the group I belong to... of course, for one thing, they know nothing about the group I belong to, so they're even wrong about their stereotypes.
But they also are wrong about me. So, you know, I ended up actually being in some ways the most liberal person on the panel, but they weren't prepared even to hear that, even though that's what I was doing.
So it's just one of those frustrating things, that people get judged by their label, instead of by who they actually are. I mean, sticking a Republican label on Arnold Schwarzenegger doesn't change the fact that he's a Democrat in almost everything that he believes, with the possible exception of fiscal policy... but we'll see, won't we?"
host- "yes"
OSC- "And, you know, I'm a self-designated Democrat because in this country you get to decide which party you're going to join. But my wife is a Republican, and we usually wind up voting for the same people, in each election, crossing party lines both ways.
But by being in both parties that way, we get to vote in both primaries. So that's cool."
host- "In Crystal City you've got Alvin...with Peggy, actually, I should say, is pregnant with the second child, and I guess that could be construed as a sort of "right to life" argument, I mean, you, umm...
OSC- (a bit agressively) "Oh, you mean every pregnancy is a right to life argument? That would be a really odd world to live in, don't you think?
But I suppose..."
host- (interrupting defensively)"I'm just suggesting that if you had the knack to be able to change it, whether it was HooDoo from the native American- ah, the New Orleans, ah, or whether it was the native Americans, they all have the knack, so..."
OSC- "Sure, right, I mean, but you know the funny thing is... For a lot of us, having the ability to kill something, and choosing not to kill it, isn't really, like, this noble choice. We just start from the assumption that we're not going to kill things.
It's only the killing that would be a choice, a real radical change.
So the fact that this married couple, who love each other, are pregnant with a baby and didn't kill it, is not really remarkable; it's kind of what they call 'normal'.
It's the other that's the aberration. It's an odd time we live in, isn't it, where choosing to have your baby is regarded as somehow strange."
host- "Your words are strange, one called Card... we'll be having even stranger words coming up, we gotta take a commercial break, guys, keep listening to the radio, this is great conversation and we'll continue it on Sci-Fi Overdrive after these brief commercial announcements."
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Ummm... on the subject of Alvin and Peggy having another baby... Rien's birth control charm is discussed. Should we assume from the 5 year span between the children that Peggy used a charm or that they were abstinent? Or was rhythm method practiced at all back then?
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Or it's possible that despite trying, they failed to get pregnant. They also spent a pretty good deal of time apart, I believe. Or perhaps Alvin took a cue from his younger brother, who had some rudimentary control over his... faculties?
Maybe gestation periods were a little bit more flexible back then -- look at my family!
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(I'm pooka by the way, and I'm a little worried that Pat hasn't posted since 11-28)
Being thing and stressed both correlate with preterm birth, as well as lowered fertility to begin with. So I guess it isn't that weird.
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Icky... bad bumper music. It's like listening to some kid trying to make industrial on his Cascio keyboard that his mom got him on HSN. <shudders>
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so I'm gonna try, but there's no guarantee that I'll even be able to understand what anyone's saying. ![[Cry]](graemlins/cry.gif)
I may have to just listen to it online tomorrow. On the plus side, I would get more ![[Evil]](graemlins/evil.gif)
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