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SCIENCE FICTION FANDOM is a series of TV shows showing activities at various Science Fiction Conventions (Cons) that have taken place in the Boston, Massachusetts, USA area. The show was created for, and originally broadcast on Malden Access TV, but is available for broadcast on other cable access stations. The shows below are in Real Player format. A broadband connection is needed to view them.
39. January 2009
The Appeal of the Lawless Elite
Panel discussion at BOSKONE 45. Description from the
Program Guide. Panel member Patrick Nielsen Hayden has said,
"Much of the genre works by appealing to our wish that the
world's extra-legal violence be under the control of the kind of
smart
people we admire. The Second Foundation and the X-Men ... and,
for that matter, the Scooby Gang and the Laoudry .. are all,
to some extent, basically the Ku Klux Klan, except that the
extrajudicial violence they carry out is (we're assured) merited
and just."
Panel members: Karl Schroeder, Paul Park, Alexander Jablokov,
Beth Meacham, and Patrick Nielsen Hayden.
Also available as a mp3 audio file
40. February 2009
ARISIA 2009 MASQUERADE
The costume contest with your "Monster of Ceremonies",
Marty Gear. This video is about 1hr 30min long.
(no mp3 for this .. it's a *visual* event folks!)
41. March 2009
Global Warming: Facts and Myths (and All
That Jazz)
Description from the Boskone 46 program guide: Last year the sea
ice grew, reversing a trend. Global warming is proven,
but how bad can it be, really? And would it be so terrible to
someday have no snow for Boskone?
Panel members: Vince Docherty, Mark L. Olson, Chad Orzel &
James Morrow
Also available as a mp3 audio file
42. March 2009
PUSHING DAISIES
Description from the ARISIA 09 Program Guide: "Picasso siad,
'Good artists copy: great ones steal.'
Pushing Daisies wears its influences openly... and yet transcends
them and achieves something utterly original."
Panel members: Mimi Noyes, Sonya Taaffe, Eric M. Van, Michael A.
Burstein & Nomi S. Burstein.
Also available as a mp3 audio file
43. April 2009
TORCHWOOD
Description from the ARISIA 09 Program Guide: "This
is one of the world's hottest SF programs.
Is it the cutting edge, or did it jump the shark with the
shocking ending?" .. (of season two)
Panel members: Samantha Dings, Robert Hafner, Toni Lay, &
Jennifer Pelland
Also available as a mp3 audio file
NOTE: SHOW
# 40 POSTED AS OF MAY 19, 2009 ... the ARISIA 09 Masquerade is now
on-line
44. May 2009
ALTERNATE WORLDS of SF
Description from the Boskone 46 Program Guide:
"What if Frankenstein hadn't been published? If Star
Wars came out the day
the Challenger exploded? If Heinlein had been a woman? What other
interesting branchpoints can we imagine in the history
of our genres themselves, and what would the alternative SF,
fantasy, or horror scenes look like today?"
The panel did stray from the subject somewhat, and often talked
about 50's "pulp" SF fiction in both the US and UK
markets.
Panel members: Jane Jewell, Don D'Ammassa, Darrell Schweitzer,
Fred Lerner, Lawrence Schoen & Farah Mendlesohn
Also available as a mp3 audio file
45. July 2009
15 Years Of BABYLON 5
Description from the ARISIA 2009 Program Guide:
"It's been 15 years ... how has B5 changed SF on TV?
B5 pioneered CGI, long-arc storytelling, and a novel-for-TV
concept."
Panel members: Hugh Casey, Michael A. Burstein, James Zavaglia
and The Marvelous MERV
Also available as a mp3 audio file
For more information on the BOSKONE
science fiction convention click
here.
For more information on the NOREASCON4
convention click here
For more information on UNITED FAN CON click
here
For more information on ARISIA '07 click here
For more information on Pi-Con click here
If you are a fan of Farscape or Firefly
/ Serenity you may enjoy listening to the
podcasts:
The ScapeCast: http://www.scapecast.org
The Signal: http://www.serenityfirefly.com
For more information on the show, SCIENCE FICTION FANDOM, contact the producer, Richard Amirault ( ramirault_at_verizon_dot_net )
