Podcasts for 2007/09/20

Rather than ramble on senselessly, I'll be using this space to talk about the podcasts that I found interesting last week. The honor goes to Astronomy Cast's discussion of astronomy in science fiction shows as they cover science in Battlestar Galactica, Eureka, Star Trek, and Babylon 5 (and the one movie that Sean Connery sucked).

Also what caught me off guard was Wandering Geek as I expected talking heads but instead I got catchy, geek-related songs from their Friday Night Live special episode.

Fiction/Writing

• Jay Lake interviews Paul Gude. (From SF Signal)
• John Siuntres of Word Balloon interviews Brian Reed and talks about his video games and comic work. He also interviews Brent Schoonover on his indie work.
  
• Germaine Greer of Guardian Unlimited talks about Shakespeare's wife Anne Hathaway.
• Mur Lafferty of I Should Be Writing interviews JC Hutchins. (She also won 1 Parsec from Dragon Con!)
• Rick of The Agony Column interviews Ed Kaufman of M for Mystery Books, Saul Landau, and Charlie Huston. He also gives snippets from the Singularity Summit. As a change of pace, we also get to hear Kathryn Petruccelli talk with Belle Yang.
  
• The Signal's latest episode covers a couple of presentations from Dragon Con.
• Tom Doherty over at Tor Podcast interviews Larry Niven.
• Podictionary's vocabulary for the week includes 24/7, issue, intend, naughty, and temperature.
• The Guardian has a podcast of the young adult novel Wolf Brother. What makes it extra geeky is that it's recited by Sir Ian McKellen. Since there's too many links, you can check it at the source at SFF Audio. (From SFF Audio)
• The Word Nerds talk about transitions.
• Writers Talking tackles short stories.
• It's Hard to Tell the Truth is the title of the new podcast from Storytellers Unplugged.
• The Penguin Podcast featured Dana Thomas last week and George Saunders this week.
• The Sci Phi Show interviews Denyse O'Leary and Harry Turtledove.
  

Gaming

• Dragonlance Canticle has photos and a recording of their Q&A during Gen Con.
• It's part two of Canon Puncture's Gen Con coverage.
• Carpe GM has uploaded part two of its post-4E coverage.
• Geek Label Radio covers Dragon Con and your regular geeky stuff.
• Midnight's Lair has a recording of last year's RoyalCon Long Term Campaigns Panel (a whopping two hours!).
  
• Nuketown Radio Active covers several topics including Gen Con, Podcamp Philly, the difficulties of purchasing a Mac, and various other podcasts. A new episode is also up and aside from more Apple stories, they cover Heroic Cthullu as well.
  
• House of the Harping Monkey plugs a new podcast entitled Something Wild. First episode is here and Josh talks about Spirit of the Century.
• All Games Considered's new episode is up and it's entitled Two Player Games.
• Head Gamed Podcast reviews Nature of the Beast.
• If you liked Spirit of the Century, you'll be enthused that Master Plan interviews Leonard Balsera of Evil Hat Productions.
• The Durham 3's new podcast is named after their guest, Joe.
• A bit delayed on my part but Goblin: The Gaming Broadcast Network has their first podcast up.
• Sons of Kryos's new episode is up and they talk about cut scenes and Creation Stories with Vincent Baker.
• Monte Cook!!! At Have Games Will Travel.
• More seminars from Pulp Gamer which include the importance of prep time before podcasting and buyer's training. They also review the game Dungeon Twister.
  
• The Rev Up Review covers Dragon Con.
• Clyde of Theory from the Closet interviews Chris Moore and Michael Lingner, ash-can designers.
• Fear the Boot talks about Designing Villains and Urban Campaigns.
• Fell Calls Episode 15 from Fell Calls.
• Grimm Studios asks the question Where Does It End?
• Wandering Geek has their latest episode up and they cover Dragon Ccon among other things.
• Fist Full of Comics and Games has several podcasts up: an interview with Jamie Chambers of Margaret Weis Productions, Castlemourn part 1, part 2, part 3 and part 4.
• The Basics of the Game covers Star Wars Saga Edition.