A word on AI-generated content.Reader"s Room: Sentimentality
Reader's Room ponders the best speculative fiction and and science for the month. This month we talk about how we become attached to technology and Analee Newitz's new novel Autonomous. And there's a little piece of original flash fiction up front.
Show links:
- Highlights of the Cassini mission. from NASA.
- Autonomous: A Novel by Analee Newitz
- The Imaginary World podcast is a fascinating interview show about all kinds of worldbuilding.
- From Siri With Love the story of an autistic child and how his digital assistant became his best friend. (Also part of collected memoirs that just came out.)
- Short story Islands in the Dark by Sarah Goldman over at the Escape Pod podcast. (Audio and text are at the link.)
- Where we bury spacecraft over at Business Insider.
Reader's Room: Searching for Answers
Reader's Room ponders the best speculative fiction and and science for the month. This week we talk about searching for answers in the wake of worldwide disaster and local tragedy, and N. K. Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy.
Reader's Room: Manufacturing Reality
Reader's Room ponders the best speculative fiction and and science for the week. This week I visit some of the same craters that the Apollo astronauts walked on fifty years ago, and we talk about making up some history just so we can mess it up later.
Show links:
- Cinder Lakes Training Field (PDF) where the Apollo astronauts trained.
- S. (aka Ship of Theseus) by Doug Dorst and J. J. Abrams
- Linkdump:
- Steal The Stars Tor Labs weekly dramatic podcast
- The Economist explains algorithms
- Robot Priests leading funerals in Japan at the Guardian.
- Ten best SF stories you can read for free at The Chicago Review of Books
- Support:
- Nevada Museum of Art, launching a satellite for the sake of art. (Kickstarter)
- Escape Pod, weekly genre podcasts. (Patreon)
- Story Hospital weekly, quality writing advice from a talented editor.
Reader's Room: Making a Journey
Reader's Room ponders the best speculative fiction and and science for the week. This week think about what makes up a journey, and Kij Johnson's novel The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe.
Show links:
- Should robots be given copyright protection?
- Advice for journalists writing about (and readers reading about) artificial intelligence.
- Uncanny Magazine's Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction
- Supported creators:
- Clarkesworld Magazine and Podcast.
- Fireside Fiction
- Author Yoon Ha Lee
- A print from Yuko Shimizu
- Space T-shirt from Julieah Kaliski
Reader's Room: The Crazy Idea
Reader's Room ponders the best speculative fiction and and science for the week. This week we talk about the crazy ideas that have propelled us forward, even if we didn't know we could reach them.
Show links:
- Elon Musk's presentation Making Humans a Multi-Planetary Species (pdf) (Available until July 5, 2017)
- Ordinary rockets sometimes land on farmhouses.
- Linkdump:
- Sylvain Neuvel's Waking Gods, the sequel to Sleeping Giants.
- Curtis Chen's Kangaroo Too, the sequel to Waypoint Kangaroo.
- The XPrize foundation put a bunch of SF authors on a plane and sent them 20 years into the future. Here's what they saw