Stars End Podcast

Stars End: A Foundation Podcast

Fiction EN ↓ 106 episodes

We’re a group of middle-aged guys who loved this series as teenagers. In season one we finished revisiting the original trilogy in anticipation of the TeeVee show. Now that the show is here we won't just be enjoying it, we'll be bringing you our thoughts and predictions every week! Hopefully, through this podcast, we'll bring you along for the ride. We want to do our part to bring this series to a new group of fans who are hopefully far more diverse than the three of us.

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Episode 6 - A Podcast is a Good Weapon but It Can Point Both Ways 30.06.2021 45:21

Episode 6 is now available!  This week, Dan starts his tenure as quizmaster, Joseph learns what wasn't covered in his Shakespeare class (way back in 1988) and as always Jon tries to keep us all on track. We also have breaking news!  So breaking that we had to add an addendum in post-production!  That means Monday. And of course, we start discussing "The General," the first section o...

Episode 5 - No podcast has to be true but every podcast has to sound true 20.06.2021 57:32

In which we wrap up Foundation with a discussion of “The Merchant Princes.” and get ready to start Foundation and Empire .   We’ll also have another Apple TV+ minute for you and another installment of Asimov Trivia!  Is this true?  It certainly sounds true! 

Episode 4 - A Podcast is the Last Refuge of the Incompetent 08.06.2021 56:30

Our fourth episode, "A Podcast is the Last Refuge of the Incompetent" is now available for your edification.  We've run out of Laws of Robotics and have moved on to famous Salvor Hardin aphorisms.  That's a bit more on-brand for a Foundation podcast. We talk about "The Traders," part four of Foundation .  This story first appeared, with surprisingly little fanfare in the October 194...

Episode 3: A Podcast must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Episode 25.05.2021 45:55

As foretold! Mayors! Bridles! Saddles! (Oddly, no actual horses) and the ultimate answer to the ultimate cliffhanger!  Also show news, we react to the trailer (which you can find here )...and more Asimov trivia!  Join us!  Please rate and review. Music: "Creative Commons It is Coming" by Alex Mason is licensed under CC Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 International

Episode 2: A Podcast must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Episode 11.05.2021 43:30

We start discussing the first novel, Foundation , in earnest and get all the way through the first two stories, "The Psychohistorians," and "The Encyclopedists."  We also try our hand at doing a new segment, "Asimov Trivia." Please join us. Music: "Creative Commons It is Coming" by Alex Mason is licensed under CC Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 International

Stars End Episode 1 - A Podcast must not harm a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm 27.04.2021 38:46

An introduction to us and this podcast. Music: "Creative Commons It is Coming" by Alex Mason is licensed under CC Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 International