I can go on at length about SF radio shows.

Buying a Playbook let me discover that anthology-style sf radio dramas are something I am very interested in. Who knew? But a decently done play* based on a book is good too and so far Canticle is the best one I've found.

Enjoy!

https://archive.org/details/ACanti…

If you like this, WHA also did Mindwebs, a series adapting SF of the 1970s and earlier:

https://archive.org/details/Mindwe…

But the quality of some of the files is not great.

This taught me that I didn't need to finish every book I begin.

(Of course, now I have to but at least I get paid to finish it and I get to complain at length if I didn't like it)

Let me do you a huge favour.

Can anybody persuade me otherwise?

Lieber's "A Pail of Air", for this passage:

Wanted a tree, saw one that is was not guarded. After that they changed their apartment lock.

Aughra looked astoundingly like a friend's evil step-mom. To give some idea what the step-mom was like, she once stole my friend's Christmas tree from my friend's apartment.

Aughra looked astoundingly like a friend's evil step-mom. To give some idea what the step-mom was like, she once stole my friend's Christmas tree from my friend's apartment.

Yeah, maybe not a good week for this particular claim:

http://cbc.sh/63980oY

Excuse me while I point and laugh. 4Helium is 28 ppm of lunar regolith, which I admit is better than the numbers for lunar 3He. It's about 500 ppm in Earth's atmosphere, iirc. Which makes more sense as a source, the 28 ppm in the baked regolith of a hostile alien world on the other side of a delta vee gulf, or the 500…

I am currently working my way through all the Clarkesworld fiction podcasts, all 7GB of them. The quality so far is pretty good.

I only got to talk to Pohl twice. Once was about a bit of SFBC history (it turned out that in the fifty years since it was founded, the name of the first editor had been misplaced) but the other time was when he was on a panel. I am proud to say he said my comment about the implications of relativity* was the most…

Nobody has come up with a compelling enough reason to build one given the cost and it doesn't help that a lot of proposed reasons don't pass the sniff test.

In part, I blame Apollo's Manhattan Project-style approach for giving people unrealistic expectations about the time scale needed and the amount of funding that…

What the US didn't do in space since the end of Apollo:

Put a human on the surface of another planet.

What the US did do in space since the end of Apollo:

Place a variety of advanced telescopes in space

Sent fly-by missions to every planet.

Put orbiters around Earth, the Moon, Venus, Mars, Vesta, Jupiter and Saturn.

…

It was an example of a kind of anthology particular to a specific era, the one where space probes were completely changing how people saw the solar system. As a goodbye to the old system, editors put together anthologies* of old style stories about each world. Jupiter has exactly the old stories about Jupiter that it…

This was, I think, the first book I bought with his name on it. It also played a role in me buying books with John Berkey covers.

I am happy to have been the one to point out in 2010 his blog made him eligible for the best fan writer Hugo.

Unfortunately I don't think the author currently has an American publisher but I believe he may have when this came out (Warner?). If I am wrong, I guess you could try Chapters.