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SciFi Thoughts, 361 episodes. Page 3 of 4.

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164 Active Studio Displays of the Mandalorian

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163 Korean Pirates, Voice Acting, and dissing Pokémon Cards

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162 BlazeSky Short Story and Why no Michael Ironside

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161 Characters of BlazeSky

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160 The Foundation’s Psychohistory—religion or science?

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159 The Foundation and Manifest Destiny

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158 What is the “Foundation?”

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157 Kardashev Scale, The big picture on space civilizations

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156 PK Dick award nominated FAILED STATE by Christopher Brown

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155 How Texas is a Stimulating Place for Writing SF, told by Christopher Brown

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154 Christopher Brown loses twenty bucks to Hunter S Thompson

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153 CliFi, SciFi, and Legal Thrillers, The Pillars of a Christopher Brown Novel

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152 Christopher Brown’s Gonzo Lawyerly Science Fiction

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151 Author M.R. Carey Reads from The Book of Kohli

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150 M.R. Carey Plies his Talent between Comics and Novels

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149 M.R. Carey tells us about writing The Girl with All the Gifts

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148 M.R. Carey, author of The Girl With All The Gifts

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147 Bill Preston’s Reading from HELPING THEM TAKE THE OLD MAN DOWN

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146 How being a publishing science fiction writer affects how you teach English, plus a tip from George Saunders

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145 Much ado about Genre, Ray Bradbury, and Early American Writers

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144 Author and Educator Bill Preston talks Literary Science Fiction, Ray Bradbury, and Spock

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143 Tiki Al’s brush with Mouse Jail

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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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140 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

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137 Love is the Key Ingredient to the Survival of our Human Civilization

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136 The Time and Location of Peak Civilization—Life initiated by Love then ends in Self Destruction

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135 Civilization Self Destruction is the most Influential Parameter in Why there’s a Fermi Paradox

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134 The Factors to Intelligent Life on Planets in the Milky Way

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133 JPL scientist Jonathan Jiang Investigates the Fermi Paradox

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132 Novelist Tom Doyle tells us about American Craftsman

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131 Novelist Tom Doyle Reads from Space Opera BORDER CROSSER

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130 Novelist Tom Doyle describes the psychological foundation of his novel Border Crosser

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129 Tom Doyle talks of Eris’s Borderline Personality Disorder

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128 Space Opera that JG Ballard would have wanted, authored by Tom Doyle

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127 There are those who write Short Stories and then there are Garrulous Bastards who write Novels

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126 Virtual Science Fiction Conventions

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125 Confessions of an Analog MAFIA Hitman, Bud Sparhawk

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124 Bud Sparhawk on, Life of a Short Fiction Author

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123 How RZ Held feels about writing Space Opera

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122 RZ Held and Dungeon Scrawlers, a D&D Livestream with Literary Friends

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121 RZ Held talks of Downshifting during COVID times

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120 RZ Held reading from CLEAN INSTALL, a space opera novella

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119 RZ Held’s Amsterdam Institute, a Space Opera Series

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118 RZ Held’s Space Opera brings back Rome and France, but not exactly

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117 Tim C Taylor on Why Understanding People is as Equally Important to Writing well as Writing

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116 Tim C Taylor’s Human Legion

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115 How Beer inspired Tim C Taylor’s The Human Legion

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114 Tim C Taylor’s Military Space Opera Fusion

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113 Valence, an Audio Drama

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112 Wil Williams growing up with Science Fiction

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111 SciFi Audio Dramas with Wil Williams

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110 More Christian Slater and Will the Thrill

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109 Vic Valentine: Space Cadet, by Will the Thrill Viharo

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108 Slipstream and the Tiki Movement

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107 Christian Slater and Will the Thrill Viharo

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106 Will Viharo and the Launch of Thrillville

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105 Solarification and Tips for Pampering your EV

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104 Garden of Eatin’

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103 Living Sustainably with David Silvan

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102 Tim McDaniel’s Guaranteed System to Getting Published in Analog, or Is It?

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101 Tim McDaniel, going from Peace Corps to Good Morning Vietnam, then to Science Fiction, and finally Jedi of Long Story Titles

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100 Robert Heinlein told Tim McDaniel, Don’t Stop Writing

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099 Why BlazeSky is a Game instead of a Book

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098 BlazeSky Role-plays “Why no Aliens?”

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097 Space Opera BlazeSky from Double Robot

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096 Great Fiction for Covid times—the Writing Craft of Matheson’s I AM LEGEND

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095 Great Fiction for Covid times—I AM LEGEND, the Author and his Works

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094 Great Fiction for Covid times—I AM LEGEND, how the book ends

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093 Great Fiction for Covid times—Matheson’s I AM LEGEND

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092 Necropolis PD, Steampunk Peridot Series, and Military SF from Parvus Press

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091 PoliSci SciFi, IF THIS GOES ON, from Parvus Press

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090 Parvus Press talks about the Book Publishing Biz

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089 Parvus Press Science Fiction and Fantasy

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088 RPGs, Lost in Space, and BSG

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087 Katharine’s Literary SciFi Reads, Minority Cultures, and Privilege

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086 Growing up Episcopalian with Star Trek The Next Generation

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085 Director Guy and what it’s like to release a 15-month project

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084 Creation and selling Director Guy, with Edward Gauthier

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083 Star Trek Discovery, with Ian Thomas Malone

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082 Growing up with Star Trek

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081 Deep Space 9, Lithuania, and Serialized versus Episodic

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080 Trans Novelist Talks on Equality in Star Trek and Mr. Rodgers

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079 Star Trek Voyager’s doctor, AI, and Morgan Freeman with Ian Thomas Malone

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078 Savvy Rotten Tomatoes (approved) Critic Discourses on Trek and Discovery

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077 Best Selling author Roy Huff on Time Travel, Space Opera, and Everville

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076 Best Selling Author Roy Huff’s Think Smart Not Hard

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075 Best Selling Author Roy Huff’s Outlining Process

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074 Inside the mind of novelist Roy Huff

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073 How a Geek finds a Niche growing up in the South, Roy Huff

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072 Roy Huff, Meteorologist and Author

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071 The Architect who writes Literary SciFi, Chip Houser

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070 Literary Science Fiction with Chip Houser

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069 Fiction that Hugo Award winner Will McIntosh is cooking up in his Writer’s Room

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068 Hugo Award winning author Will McIntosh talks about Tough Revisions

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067 Hugo Award Winner or just a Nominee?, Will McIntosh

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066 Hugo Award Winning author William McIntosh

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065 Dark Mirror and Greek Tragedy Tropes with Maggie MacAlpine