How to Fail At Podcasting: From a Listener’s Perspective

The great thing about podcasting is that just about anyone can do it. The bad thing about it is that a hell of a lot of people try it, but end up producing a product that is of low quality, even if top-quality equipment and top-notch audio editing skills are employed. Some of the below […]

Survival By Storytelling: Win a Copy at LitDrift

This will be brief, because there’s not much to say. If you’d like to win a free copy of the first issue of Survival By Storytelling, head on over to LitDrift. All you have to do is leave a comment! The giveaway closes fairly soon, I believe. Anywho! P.S.: I was going to add the […]

The SWTXPCA Conference: Day Three (Conference Day Four)

The final day of the SWTXPCA conference. Sad? Yes, indeed so. But all good things must come to an end, right? Right?! The final day of the conference proved to be slower than previous days. For one, the panels started later and ended sooner. Second, the conference folks apparently had planned some sort of trip […]

The Cyborg Returns: Regular Programming and a Musical

I have finally settled back in from my trip to the SWTXPCA conference. If you’ve been following along, you’ll know that I had a blast at the conference and expect I will attend it again in the future. There’s one more post about the SWTXPCA coming, by the way. Having returned, I will be resuming […]

The SWTXPCA Conference: Day Two (Conference Day Three)(Updated)

The second day at the SWTXPCA proved to be one hell of a long day. I’m going to split it all up by sections, since a lot happened. PanelsAnother big day for panels; I spent most of the day visiting the science fiction folks, rather than doing what a true academic does by filling his […]

The SWTXPCA Conference: Day One (Addendum)

I forgot to mention that I had the opportunity to see the most excellent Mexican science fiction film called Sleep Dealer. If you haven’t seen it, you should. It’s certainly not a perfect movie (the ending is kind of silly), but I think it is one of the best foreign SF films currently in existence, […]