In which we meet the mysterious Pallas at last, who is heroic, brave and noble. No wonder Timson wanted her gone…

Episode recap by Barry Koleman.

Promo: Nawashi

Shot glasses are available for pre-order!

 

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In which Keepsie makes a new friend, Clever Jack pulls in reinforcements, and we learn a little more about Barry’s power.

Episode recap by Shannon Farrell, Third Wave hero.

Promo: Morevi Remastered

Information about the John W. Campbell Award as well as the Hugo and Campbell ballot.

Buy Voices for the Cure to benefit the American Diabetes Association; get short stories from Cory Doctorow, Mike Resnick and an edited version of “Barry Koleman, Hero.”

 

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Thanks to Rich Sigfrit for this fantastic promo! No Governators were harmed in the making of this promo. Please distribute.

 

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1. Audio is going up this morning. I found some errors and had to do some more editing.
2. There was an error in Issue 9 of the PDF - it inexplicably was missing Chapter 23. The file has been fixed and reuploaded. Very sorry for the mistake.
3. Issue 11 will be going live today as well.
4. Thank you for your patience in all of our bumbling here toward the end!

Both Natalie Metzget and S. Gallatin have sent me awesomeness recently!

I donated an edited version of “Barry Koleman, Hero” to this anthology that benefits the American Diabetes Association. It recently got distribution through White Rocket Books.

Join Robert J. Sawyer, Mike Resnick, Cory Doctorow, and others as a cop-for-hire solves a murder aboard a space station…a Chicano science fiction writer takes mind-blowing (literally!) ride through the Singularity…a third-rate superhero with useless powers finds a place to belong…an antique collector learns that one alien’s junk is mankind’s treasure…a geologist discovers that pretending to be a god isn’t all it’s cracked up to be…a journalist learns how to fend off zombies using Linux and a dead badger…

All this and more await you in…

Voices for the Cure:
A Speculative Fiction Anthology to Benefit the American Diabetes Association

Edited by James Palmer. A White Rocket book.

ISBN: 978-0-6151-8727-3

This week…a touching long distance dedication from an anonymous listener.

Stories of the Third Wave is a companion piece to Mur Lafferty’s Playing for Keeps, and is a terrific excuse for a bunch of other people to play in her world. The show contains no book spoilers.

Want to contribute to Stories of the Third Wave? See our Submission Guidelines!

 

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In which Dr. Timson learns a little bit about Third Wave power, Peter loses something and we learn something private about Tattoo Devil.

Episode recap by Feedback from Who Wants To Be A Superhero? season 1.

Promo: Down The Road

Have you purchased your print version of Playing For Keeps? And call the Third Wave Hotline at 919 794 8498! And FOUR pint glasses are left! We are OUT of pint glasses!

 

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An interview with White Lightning…erm…Squid Boy, a note for Barry Koleman, and some awful bloody good new music provided by iTom! (Song Copyright 2005 by Tom Smith - All Rights Reserved - Used With Permission)

Stories of the Third Wave is a companion piece to Mur Lafferty’s Playing for Keeps, and is a terrific excuse for a bunch of other people to play in her world. The show contains no book spoilers.

Want to contribute to Stories of the Third Wave? See our Submission Guidelines!

 

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You all know my love affair with this show - so you can imagine my distress when I got this email from last week’s episode recap reader, Shockwave:

At Mid Ohio Con I heard that Nash Entertainment was only contracted to do two seasons of the TV show “Who Wants to be a Superhero?”. We’ve had people in our superhero community confirm this by calling Nash.

This isn’t to say that a Season Three won’t be made, but we’re thinking of trying to convince Sci-Fi. Thus, I’m starting a grass-roots attempt to get the Sci-Fi Channel to make a third season. I’m calling it “Save Superheroes.”

Basically, like the “Save Jericho” and “Save Dresden” campaigns, we’ll be sending Bonnie Hammer pictures of us in our superhero costumes and drawings of other superheroes.

“Shockwave”

Bonnie Hammer David Howe (apparently Hammer recently left the position)
Executive VP of SCI FI
SCI FI Channel
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY 10112
Mark Stern

Executive VP Original Programming
NBC Universal/Sci-Fi Channel
100 Universal City Plaza, Bld. 1440, 14th Fl.
Universal City, CA 91608

Phone: 212-413-5000
Fax: 212-413-6509
POW! Entertainment
9440 Santa Monica Blvd.
Suit 620
Beverly Hills, CA 90210

Nash Entertainment
1438 N. Gower Street
Building 35, Room 150
Hollywood, CA 90028

Telephone: +1 (323) 993-7384
Facsimile: +1 (323) 993-7385