Sci-fi Unchained

Today I'm joined by the author of To the Brink, Matt Charles to discuss his writing style, his book, and a bit of shared nerd perspectives!

We've had the Bad Batch series finale, the Tales of the Empire anthology episodes, trailers for the Acolyte and an interesting May the 4th promo video drop. IS it all still a dumpster fire?.......yeah

I'm seriously wanting to write this love story now.....

A friend of mine, Paul Avery Tindol, came out with a great scifi thriller! Hunting Snipe: and Other Notes on the East Texas Cattle Mutilations. I had the great pleasure of reading it before our chat and MAN I cannot recommend it enough! Paul and I actually studied theatre together at SFA, so its REALLY cool for me to see a colleague of mine create something as enthralling as this book!

There were a ton of interesting things going on that I wanted to talk about, so I summed them all up and did one episode instead of a bunch of smaller ones!

The latest hit show courtesy of Amazon Prime is out and wild: Fallout! If you havent carved out a few hours to burn through it like the radiation that permeates the wastelands of post apocalyptic America in the series, you definitely need to do so! Though I think the success of the show could potentially lead to something else......

I got to sit down and talk to a great friend of the show, author and voice over artist, Aaron Ryan, about his new book Dissonance Volume II: The Reckoning! Head on over to Amazon and pick it up, it is an absolute GREAT read!

We all have some natural fear of the dark. But why? Why are embodiments of fear and darkness so compelling as characters in our stories? Can we overcome them? How?

There have been all manner of creatures in science fiction, fantasy, historical fiction, anime, graphic novels, and cereal box one offs, but I cannot find ANY examples of a being that is completely made out of sound waves.

ONE! SINGULAR SENSATION!!!..........Skipping down our evolutionary timeline, we can imagine pretty easily that the next drastic environmental change will be that our planet will have to contend with is: nuclear fallout. But how will human beings adapt?

Dealing with another foundational cornerstone in the bedrock of science fiction and its tropes, religion plays a HUGE part in whatever story it appears.

Okay so this show NEEDS TO BE a success or the franchise will be demolished, the fans will be lost, no one will care about Mando season 4 or the movie, people are already turned off about the Rey movie, everything is going to be absolutely WRECKED........so lets talk about it.

I really want this story/movie/show to happen. But I would also be SCARRED of it happening because I would not want it being screwed up to an utter oblivion like how so many beloved franchises and projects have been massacred recently.

Its easy to relate to a stories main characters, side characters, even the villains. But what about what we CANT relate to? Where are all the stories about the eldritch and mysterious? Lets have more of THAT!

We need to explore it, point blank period. We know frighteningly little about the ocean floor, the creatures that are able to live down there, the dinosaurs that survived the meteors and following ice ages wiping out their land based counter parts. And I REALLY want us discovering all the sunken cities and ships that are down there!

Messing with time is fun, especially when you write a story it or a DND character that does it. Its a fun thing to play around with because theres almost nothing concretely known about what goes into time travel or time manipulation. I would definitely choose it as my ultimate power, being able to bend the tempest of time to my will.

Have you heard of one of the WORST live action, straight to garbage can tv shows of all time? Well you have now! Halo is by far one of the most depressing things I have ever seen and by all things holy please dont watch it. Let me suffer FOR you, thats what Im here for!

Today I sat down for a great chat with voice over artist, singer and author Aaron Ryan to talk about his new book, Dissonance, as well as a smattering of nerdling quandaries and quibbles. Aaron is a really fun and easily relatable guy, the conversation went by way too quickly and his new book is reflective of a man as articulate that spares no detail, like his clear inspiration J.R.R. Tolkien.

Do you wonder what it would take for humans first settlers out in space to make it out there in the cold, unrelenting void? WELL I DO! ALOT!

Do YOU have a shopping addiction? Always find yourself wanting more? Can never seem satisfied enough? Well come on down to the endless maw of the Abyssal Store! You will be able to purchase so many products, you will BECOME the product itself!

Have you ever wondered what [REDACTED] while he was drinking and mad at the [CLASSIFIED] all of creation? Do [REMOVED BY ORDER OF THE 0-5 COUNCIL] at night screaming for someone [REDACTED] help and they just wont [REDACTED]? Take a dive into the SCP Foundation and [REMOVED TO PRESERVE SANITY]!

We get a ton of cool, seemingly unstoppable future weapons and space guns. But do we not get enough of? Thats right. ARMOR. Strong suits of space metals that can stop space bullets!

Is the real world better than what we could create for ourselves in the matrix we all know is coming? Let's skip over what "real" means for this episode and focus on what we really want out of our evolutionary path forward while using apparati like the virtual world of the matrix.

There is an impending doom hanging over all of us: the apocalypse. Its just a matter of what form it will take. My money is on nukes. How will we best survive it though?

Getting kind of bored or uninterested whenever a show or movie unveils that it has a multiverse? I know I am and I think I'm very much not alone.