#035 -- SciFi -- The Science Fiction channel, which runs SciFi.com, has decided to shut down their short-story magazine arm, SciFiction. This is a sad day for science fiction writers, and for fans of the short form. It's also just another data point in the decline of the once venerable science fiction short story. However, the decline in readership is balanced by a thriving interest on the part of writers, and some of the very best stuff in the history of the form is being written now. Strange, huh? Background music by The Crystal Method, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Gillian Welch, and The Reverend Horton Heat.

#029 -- SciFi -- Thinking about the future of man-machine interface. The qwerty keyboard, in case you don't know, is designed to slow you down. But the answer is not a dvorak keyboard... the answer is neural interface. Includes a peculiar sidetrack into the spritual implications of -- and mandate for -- the integration flesh with technology. Background music includes: the ZZ-Top v. Pink mashup, Ani Difranco (Modulation), The Sugarcubes (Blue-Eyed Pop), Beck (Mixed Bizness), Moby (Natural Blues).

#024 The Singularity has been one of the most challenging new ideas in science fiction: challenging for writers to approach in interesting ways, as well as a challenge to everyone's beliefs about the significance of humanity. This show discusses some of the specifics of Vinge's idea, and presents some objections. It also takes a quick look at what the concept has meant for science fiction. Background music by Hallucinogen (Trancespotter), The Chemical Brothers (In Dust we Trust), and The Crystal Method (Ready for Action). Also read Vernor Vinge's Paper on the Singularity (http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~phoenix/vinge/vinge-sing.html), and check out more art by Francis A. Lohmueller (http://www.f-lohmueller.de/index.htm).

Show #017: Science Fiction has long explored ideas about the next step in human evolution: steps that we will consciously choose; science isn't quite catching up on all fronts, but scientists *are* undermining the very notion of consciousness. With background music from Tom "T-Bone" Stankus, Laurie Anderson, Underworld, Khan, and Gurdieff, plus a clip from a new (old) podcast! Action packed episode!

#010: Here's something new... a film review, and of an unlikely gem of a movie, Space Truckers, from 1996 and starring Dennis Hopper. Directed by Stuart Gordon. You would expect a movie with this title to be a bad bit of sci-fi B-movie fluff, and it's all of that except, in my opinion, actually bad.

#006 : On well-produced podcasts, too much nattering, the limitations of time, and most of all -- genre purists in science fiction and fantasy. Music clips from Art of Noise and Fatboy Slim.

#001 : Coffee, Clarion West, and Science Fiction, with music clips from ClockDVA and Timo Mass / Deep Dish.