Join us as we have some cold brew and ramble on about starship designs in sci-fi.  What's our favorite, what's not.  We'll probably take a few detours, but they're important to the rambling. 

We talk about what has inspired us from sci-fi.  Was it the concepts and beliefs of the great Gene Roddenberry,  the bizarre tales of Rod Sterling, or just wanting to have a friggin' phaser.Crack a cold one and get inspired or... just crack a cold one and listen. 

Ah.  Yes.  If you long for a sweet orange flavor with  subtle hints of aluminum, then you remember Tang.  The drink of astronauts.  It might be  better than Gagh - at least it's not moving, but how does it compare to a Roumulan Ale, or Apollo ice cream.  Well, crack a cold one and give this a listen as we ramble on about sci-fi food - all compliments of Gerber baby food in a squeeze tube.  

In the darkness of space, a lonely hunk of metal drifts silently as the light from distant stars reflecting upon its worn surface and radiating outward, mix with the twinkling glow of hundreds of windows, causing it to shine as a beacon, a place of refuge,  to all those lost in the cold abyss.   Ehhh,  or it's just another piece of space junk.We're talking sci-fi space stations.  The great ones, the real ones, the ones that could really work and the ones that have or should just burn up in the atmosphere.  Crack a cold brew and join us.   

We're were digging around in the vault (Amazon Prime) and found some sci-fi TV of our past.  They weren't great, but damn - they were cool.  Join us as we crack a cold brew and dig into the the ancient shows of UFO and Space 1999.  

There's no plan for this episode, as usual.  Except the beer.  However, we start with another essay by Issac Asimov that refers to an article in Harpers Magazine in September of 1939 by Bernard Devoto, a literary critic, called "Doom Beyond Jupiter".  Mr. Asimov did not seem to take well to Mr. Devoto's opinion of science fiction.  Join us as we begin our journey in to the realm of sci-fi at a point in time where sci-fi began to emerge as a part of our culture.   

In this episode we talk old-school sci-fi and how important sci-fi is to our technological advancement, and dive into an essay written by Isaac Asimov that appeared in the April, 1957  issue of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.  We also talk a little beer, a little culture, a little sci-fi and probably some rambling that will be completely entertaining.  The complete list of the Magazine of Fantasy and Sci-FiPDF's of each edition can be downloaded via Google Drive by clicking the text of the episode date.