Tag: Stanislaw Lem

The StarShipSofa podcast, the U.K.’s answer to The Kick-Ass Mystic Ninjas

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Starship Sofa PodcastStarship Sofa is a very cool podcast from the UK. The hosts, Tony and Ciaran, are into the literature side of Science Fiction and are determined to ramble, and very intelligently, about some of their favorite retro authors and movies. Their format is a little looser than the Kick-Ass Mystic Ninjas podcast, which is very much a mirror to Starship Sofa, Ciaran and Tony are far more likely to stray off topic than are Summer, Joe and David. They often talk about who was born a particular year a novel came out, what films were playing that year and what was happening in the news at the time. Occasionally I find myself enjoying their rambling, (I dig Momento too guys) but mostly I find myself wanting to spin ahead to the topic on offer. Despite these reservations, I enjoy Starship Sofa immensely and think you all might too…

Shows so far:

Show # 1: Classic Author: Alfred Bester |MP3|
Show # 2: Classic Author: John Brunner |MP3|
Show # 3: Classic Author: Algis Budrys |MP3|
Show # 4: Classic Author: Cordwainer Smith |MP3|
Show # 5: Classic Author: Stanislaw Lem |MP3|
Show # 6: Classic Film: Dark Star |MP3|
Show # 7: Classic Author: Philip K. Dick (Part 1) |MP3|
Show # 8: Classic Author: Philip K. Dick (Part 2) |MP3|
Show # 9: Classic Author: Philip K. Dick (Part 3) |MP3|

To subscribe to the podcast plug this feed into your podcatcher:

http://starshipsofa.libsyn.com/rss

posted by Jesse Willis

ABC Radio National: The Philosopher’s Zone on Stanislaw Lem’s Solaris

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ABC RADIO NATIONAL's The Philosopher's ZoneABC Radio National (Australia’s public radio broadcaster) has finally got into podcasting. This is a very good thing, especially for those outside of Australia – just think, no more calculating what time a show is on at what time tomorrow or yesterday! And now The Philosopher’s Zone, a show all about philosophy, has a cool program available for download…

“The great Polish science-fiction writer Stanislaw Lem—author of the novel, Solaris, on which two movies have been based—died last month. This week, The Philosopher’s Zone explores the philosophy underlying his visionary work.”

Check out the MP3 of it HERE.

Or subscribe to the feed:

http://abc.net.au/rn/podcast/feeds/pze.xml

Posted by Jesse Willis

MP3 documentary on Stanislaw Lem

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Benjamen Walker's Theory Of EverythingBenjamen Walker‘s Theory Of Everything, which we first mentioned back when Ben did a show on Philip K. Dick, has made a similar eclectic audio mini audio document about recently deceased SF author Stanislaw Lem. In the piece both Ben and his friend Bill Marx mourn the death of the influential author and reminisce, in part “about how if Lem didn’t get the Nobel prize for literature before he died [they] would have to go to Stockholm and fuck shit up”. You can download the MP3 about Lem HERE.

And by the way, the original PKD documentlet is available HERE too (it was the very first T.O.E. show).

posted by Jesse Willis