Podcast Episode 10: Can artificial intelligence become self aware?

In Episode 10, best-selling author Frank Fiore and I chat about his novel, Cyberkill. During the conversation we tackle such questions as: Can artificial intelligence become self aware? If it did become self aware, would it be more analytical like Spock or emotional like McCoy? What does it mean to be human? Can you improve [...]

Cyber Kill Frank Fiore Book Trailer

Travel Reads: Procession of the Dead

Bestselling young adult novelist Darren Shan makes his first foray into adult fiction with an urban fantasy trilogy that begins with Procession of the Dead. For me, this novel felt like a cross between an old style gangster story (you half expect James Cagney or Edward G. Robinson to appear around the corner) and a [...]

Podcast Episode 9: Is God Really an Alien?

WARNING: The content of this podcast is a bit controversial. My guest talks about how alien races affected human civilization and some may see what he has to say as heretical.
In Episode 9, I chat with Dr. Bryan Carlile about his novels, Romancing Jehovah and Immortal Dying, as well as his theories on alien life. [...]

The Genre Traveler Podcast Snippet, Episode 8, Joe Kane

Author Joe Kane talks with The Genre Traveler about his new behind-the-scenes book, The Night of the Living Dead, which tells the tale of George Romero’s film and its sequels. For the complete episode, go here.

Travel Reads: Star Trek Reader’s Reference to the Novels: 1990-1991

First, let me be totally honest … I did not read this book from cover to cover. Who would? It would be like reading a volume of the Encyclopedia Britannica from cover to cover. Who does that?
Ultimately this isn’t really a “travel read” but it is a very good, well-researched reference work on the novels [...]

Podcast Episode 8: Behind Night of the Living Dead

In Episode 8, author Joe Kane and I talk about his new behind-the-scenes book, The Night of the Living Dead, which tells the tale of George Romero’s film and its sequels. Along the way we talk about the rising popularity of zombies, how the film became the icon it is and how it lost its [...]

The Genre Traveler Podcast Snippet, No. 7: Cynthia Kraack

Take a Shore Leave in July

Shore Leave is a fan-run science fiction convention held each year in the Baltimore area. It often has a Star Trek emphasis, but has expanded beyond that, as well. The 33rd convention will be held July 8-10, 2011 and registrations are now open.
Guests have yet to be confirmed or announced, but they usually include actors, [...]

Travel Reads: Changeless

The second book of Gail Carriger’s The Parasol Protectorate trilogy is a delightful supernatural steam punk novel with a sharp British wit.
Summary
As Changeless opens, Alexia Maccon, formerly Alexia Tarbotti, has been Lady Woolsey for about three months. Her werewolf husband is having a heated discussion with the castle’s ghost, waking her at some un-Godly hour [...]


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