I have a feeling that this topic will not go away any time soon, and it’s our own damned fault for going down the crazy trail chasing the idea. Feel free to add your own theories on whether the Pak’ma’ra would consume zombie flesh. Would Pak’ma’ra consider them dead, and thus carrion for the taking, […]
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Asked & Answered, Part 3
Rants, religion, money, sex and Star Trek… just a few of the topics covered in the most volatile release of the entire Asked & Answered series.
Part 3 (pages 779-1,183) includes more than 1,100 missives.
JMS talks
There is a nice article about the talk jms gave to aspiring writers at Comic Con on July 23rd His overarching theme: the importance of writing what you deeply care about. IO9 Article and here is a video link to his MIT lecture from earlier in the year. jms MIT lecture (link taken down, sorry It will […]
The Babylon Podcast: 2009 Parsec Award Finalist
The Babylon Podcast is a finalist for a Parsec Award, in the category of “Best Speculative Fiction Fan Podcast”! We’re up against The Signal, The 9th, The ScapeCast, and Tuning Into SciFi TV, with the winners to be announced at Dragon*Con. See the Parsec Awards website for a list of all finalists in all categories. […]
Asked & Answered, Part 2
Part 2 (pages 387-778) includes more than 800 missives grouped into the following topics: Fan Interaction, Five Year Arc, Fun with JMS, Influences, JMS on JMS, JMS on Politics, Legacy of Babylon 5, Merchandise of Babylon 5, Music of Babylon 5, Online Experiment, Physics & Babylon 5, Places & Planets, and the Production of Babylon 5
Babylon 5 at Westercon 62
This coming weekend, July 2-5th, Westercon 62 (FiestaCon) is being held in Tempe AZ, at the very nice Tempe Mission Palms Resort and Hotel. When I saw that they were including a Babylon 5 panel (for the first time in a long time), I knew I needed to be the moderator! BABYLON 5: THE ENDURING […]
Winners: Dreams with Sharp Teeth
Congratulations to our 5 winners of a downloadable copy of the Harlan Ellison documentary, DREAMS WITH SHARP TEETH: Josh B, Val S, Neil O, Gary L, and Jeffrey S
Added treats for Babylon Podcast subscribers
I have to toss a shout-out to Gary from Jacksonville for this one. He’d noticed that more podcasts were adding bells and whistles that enhance the listener experience, such as cute little displays for folks who use the iPhone and iPod Touch. So, starting with Show #160, people can choose to view the show notes […]
To Arc or Not to Arc
Jonathan Wright, a blogger at The Guardian, wrote an article last week about “Torchwood: Children of Earth” and it’s 5-part story arc. He laments the fact that all of the scifi he loves has become more heavily laden with story arcs, and at first glance, this fact irks him, and he lays blame at our feet
Orbiter – your last, best time sink
In the wake of our conversation about the last mission to repair Hubble, John Bucsek sent us a link to Orbiter, a spaceflight simulator. A quick glance at the website reveals an app which realistically models the behavior of spacecraft, from liftoff to rendezvous to return. You can fly the Space Shuttle or the Deltaglider, […]
