Apple TV+ series: https://g.co/kgs/NBcyk5 About the Foundation series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_series Isaac Asimov interviewed on David Letterman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIB1b_8hqB0 BBC episode about Isaac Asimov and psychohistory: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000d84g A BBC Radio 4 radio production of Foundation (start with the episode at the bottom of the webpage and work up wards): https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thefoundationtrilogy Interested in Nanotech and AI? Check out Bit Storm by Lancer & Shelli Kind It's the near future. Nanowear and truly artificially intelligent machines exist. Diff is an AI engineer. He gets into a friendly online debate with a nano-hacker about whether a culture's most important trait is compassion or skill at war. Unknown to Diff, the hacker runs a simulation on Diff's AI machine to prove his point during Diff's Halloween party. Learn if it's compassion or war that succeeds during a futuristic Halloween party that goes sideways in a very physical way. Bit Storm, a novelette by Lancer & Shelli Kind, received Honorable Mention in the Writers Of the Future contest. It's available on Amazon's Kindle.

Apple TV+ series: https://g.co/kgs/NBcyk5 About the Foundation series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_series Isaac Asimov interviewed on David Letterman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIB1b_8hqB0 BBC episode about Isaac Asimov and psychohistory: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000d84g A BBC Radio 4 radio production of Foundation (start with the episode at the bottom of the webpage and work up wards): https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thefoundationtrilogy Interested in Nanotech and AI? Check out Bit Storm by Lancer & Shelli Kind It's the near future. Nanowear and truly artificially intelligent machines exist. Diff is an AI engineer. He gets into a friendly online debate with a nano-hacker about whether a culture's most important trait is compassion or skill at war. Unknown to Diff, the hacker runs a simulation on Diff's AI machine to prove his point during Diff's Halloween party. Learn if it's compassion or war that succeeds during a futuristic Halloween party that goes sideways in a very physical way. Bit Storm, a novelette by Lancer & Shelli Kind, received Honorable Mention in the Writers Of the Future contest. It's available on Amazon's Kindle.

Dr. Jonathan Jiang’s paper Avoiding the “Great Filter”: A Projected Timeframe for Human Expansion Off-World can be read here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2108.01730.pdf Interested in reading a space opera? Check out MEMORY'S VICTIMS by Lancer Kind Arcadie struggles with the rest of his shipmates to become immigrants rather than settlers. He adapts better than his sister who seems always involved with lost causes and he becomes part of space force. But he gets mixed up in a mystery about a woman who is breaking interstellar treaties by tampering with generation ships, and her reasons for doing so sound similar to his sister's affliction—an out-of-control savior complex.

Dr. Jonathan Jiang’s paper Avoiding the “Great Filter”: A Projected Timeframe for Human Expansion Off-World can be read here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2108.01730.pdf Interested in reading a space opera? Check out MEMORY'S VICTIMS by Lancer Kind Arcadie struggles with the rest of his shipmates to become immigrants rather than settlers. He adapts better than his sister who seems always involved with lost causes and he becomes part of space force. But he gets mixed up in a mystery about a woman who is breaking interstellar treaties by tampering with generation ships, and her reasons for doing so sound similar to his sister's affliction—an out-of-control savior complex.

Dr. Jonathan Jiang’s paper Avoiding the “Great Filter”: A Projected Timeframe for Human Expansion Off-World can be read here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2108.01730.pdf Interested in reading a space opera? Check out MEMORY'S VICTIMS by Lancer Kind Arcadie struggles with the rest of his shipmates to become immigrants rather than settlers. He adapts better than his sister who seems always involved with lost causes and he becomes part of space force. But he gets mixed up in a mystery about a woman who is breaking interstellar treaties by tampering with generation ships, and her reasons for doing so sound similar to his sister's affliction—an out-of-control savior complex.

Dr. Jonathan Jiang’s paper Avoiding the “Great Filter”: A Projected Timeframe for Human Expansion Off-World can be read here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2108.01730.pdf Love Cyberpunk? Read Honolulu Hottie by Lancer Kind A surfer, a beautiful activist, and corporate sponsored ecoterrorism. Enjoy this Hawaiian cyberpunk novelette. Nafi is a retired pro surfer who works security at a pineapple plant. He falls for a girl who uses him to break security so she can investigate a conspiracy to destroy Hawaii’s pineapple crop. Unfortunately she gets caught, Nafi gets in trouble, and the epidemiologist who is behind the pineapple virus is out to kill them. Honolulu Hottie is a cyberpunk, action-adventure novelette set in post global-warming Hawaii. Click the book cover above to buy on Amazon.

Dr. Jonathan Jiang’s paper Avoiding the “Great Filter”: A Projected Timeframe for Human Expansion Off-World can be read here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2108.01730.pdf Love Cyberpunk? Read Honolulu Hottie by Lancer Kind A surfer, a beautiful activist, and corporate sponsored ecoterrorism. Enjoy this Hawaiian cyberpunk novelette. Nafi is a retired pro surfer who works security at a pineapple plant. He falls for a girl who uses him to break security so she can investigate a conspiracy to destroy Hawaii’s pineapple crop. Unfortunately she gets caught, Nafi gets in trouble, and the epidemiologist who is behind the pineapple virus is out to kill them. Honolulu Hottie is a cyberpunk, action-adventure novelette set in post global-warming Hawaii. Click the book cover above to buy on Amazon.

If you enjoyed listening to this episode, hear Will talk about his space opera science fiction adventure, BLAZESKY: https://lancerkind.com/listen-to-the-scifi-thoughts-podcast/blazesky-a-space-opera-video-game/ Looking Backward, a novel about the future written in 1880s by Ed Bellamy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looking_Backward Looking Backward on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Looking-Backward-2000-Edward-Bellamy/dp/B0B1C94PQ9/ Even life in Ancient Mesopotamia had Challenges CAVEMAN FUNK, a novelette by Lancer Kind Young Akiya is the runt of a tribe that's legendary for feats of strength. So Akiya prefers feats of intelligence but that gets him no respect from his peers. He get's into more trouble when he accidentally disrupts his tribe's corner-on-the-market of hauling goods due to his invention using levers, which becomes so popular that the neighboring tribes no longer require hauling services. To make matter worse, music television marketeers from the future are meddling with the culture of the region. At first Akiya is excited by the strangers but then realizes that there is a danger in becoming dependent. But the strangers' pull is drawing the youth away from their tribes. Akiya must find a way to save his people: join EmTeeVee with its technological magic or join with his elders who have rejected him. Caveman Funk, a novelette available on Amazon's Kindle.

If you enjoyed listening to this episode, hear Will talk about his space opera science fiction adventure, BLAZESKY: https://lancerkind.com/listen-to-the-scifi-thoughts-podcast/blazesky-a-space-opera-video-game/ Tout Caveman Funk

If you enjoyed listening to this episode, hear Will talk about producing his space opera science fiction adventure, BLAZESKY: https://lancerkind.com/listen-to-the-scifi-thoughts-podcast/blazesky-a-space-opera-video-game/ Ecumenopolis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecumenopolis Issac Author video about Ecumenopolises: EcumenopolisesYouTube · Isaac Arthur37 minutes, 6 secondsJul 7, 2016 Even life in Ancient Mesopotamia had Challenges CAVEMAN FUNK, a novelette by Lancer Kind Young Akiya is the runt of a tribe that's legendary for feats of strength. So Akiya prefers feats of intelligence but that gets him no respect from his peers. He get's into more trouble when he accidentally disrupts his tribe's corner-on-the-market of hauling goods due to his invention using levers, which becomes so popular that the neighboring tribes no longer require hauling services. To make matter worse, music television marketeers from the future are meddling with the culture of the region. At first Akiya is excited by the strangers but then realizes that there is a danger in becoming dependent. But the strangers' pull is drawing the youth away from their tribes. Akiya must find a way to save his people: join EmTeeVee with its technological magic or join with his elders who have rejected him. Caveman Funk, a novelette available on Amazon's Kindle.