It’s episode 100! I decided to do a special episode. I don’t talk about a specific book, but instead I explain, in looong self-indulgent detail, the reasons WHY I do what I do, from podcasting to writing to juggling to photography and all my other creative pursuits.
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It’s episode 100! I decided to do a special episode. I don’t talk about a specific book, but instead I explain, in looong self-indulgent detail, the reasons WHY I do what I do, from podcasting to writing to juggling to photography and all my other creative pursuits.
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Luke reviews The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss.
Luke blogs at: http://www.lukeburrage.com/blog
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Luke writes his own novels, “Minding Tomorrow”, “Combat”, and “The Monster Story Conference”, so download them for free at: http://www.lukeburrage.com/fiction.html
Check out listener recommended books: http://www.goodreads.com/lukeburrage
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The SFFaudio Podcast #064 – Scott and Jesse talk to with Julie Davis and Luke Burrage about The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester!
Luke blogs at: http://www.lukeburrage.com/blog
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Luke writes his own novels, “Minding Tomorrow”, “Combat”, and “The Monster Story Conference”, so download them for free at: http://www.lukeburrage.com/fiction.html
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Talked about on today’s show:
Forgotten Classics, Science Fiction Book Review Podcast, Richard K. Morgan’s The Steel Remains, The Invisible Man, Robert Sheckley’s The Status Civilization, exploding volcanoes, Gulliver Foyle, jaunting as teleporting, BAMF, The Uncanny X-Men, Jumper by Steven Gould, Charles Fort Jaunte (is a reference to Charles Fort), Fortean Times, The Tyger by William Blake,Tā moko (Maori facial tattoo), religion, swearing, tabernac, future swearing, Louis Wu in Larry Niven’s Ringworld, the frivolity of the wealthy, satire, sailing as conspicuous consumption, telepathy, Paul Williams, The Stars My Destination as a “pyrotechnic novel”, the power of the narrative imagery, the audiobook (a Library of Congress Book for the Blind version), the heirs of Alfred Bester are fighting over the rights, transformation, Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift, “Most scientific!”, Alfred Bester’s years writing comics, WWII, the Wikipedia entry for The Stars My Destination, synesthesia, the long forgotten histories of synesthesia, Of Time, And Gully Foyle by Neil Gaiman, cyberpunk, a hard-boiled Philip K. Dick novel, passive schlubs, The Count Of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pyrenees, the induction scene in William Shakespeare’s The Taming Of The Shrew, a shotgun approach to transformation, The Stars My Destination as meta book, Peter F. Hamilton, the renaissance man, Classics Illustrated #3 The Count Of Monte Cristo, Fourmyle of Ceres, PyrE, (the inspiration for Pyr Books?), Napoleon Bonaparte, thought turning into action, our overcrowded future, Second Life, Surrogates, only in a cyberpunk future, retroactive foreshadowing, the 1991 BBC Radio Drama version of Alfred Bester’s Tiger Tiger, the old language, Hyperion by Dan Simmons, The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, Pyrene, cyborgs, wired nerves, bullet time, you can’t spoil a book like this.
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Luke reviews The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A Heinlein.
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Luke writes his own novels, “Minding Tomorrow”, “Combat”, and “The Monster Story Conference”, so download them for free at: http://www.lukeburrage.com/fiction.html
Check out listener recommended books: http://www.goodreads.com/lukeburrage
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Luke reviews The Chrysalids by John Wyndham.
Luke blogs at: http://www.lukeburrage.com/blog
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Luke writes his own novels, “Minding Tomorrow”, “Combat”, and “The Monster Story Conference”, so download them for free at: http://www.lukeburrage.com/fiction.html
Check out listener recommended books: http://www.goodreads.com/lukeburrage
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Luke reviews part one of the Song of Ice and Fire: A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin.
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Luke writes his own novels, “Minding Tomorrow”, “Combat”, and “The Monster Story Conference”, so download them for free at: http://www.lukeburrage.com/fiction.html
Check out listener recommended books: http://www.goodreads.com/lukeburrage
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Luke reviews Calculating God by Robert J. Sawyer.
Luke blogs at: http://www.lukeburrage.com/blog
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Luke writes his own novels, “Minding Tomorrow”, “Combat”, and “The Monster Story Conference”, so download them for free at: http://www.lukeburrage.com/fiction.html
Check out listener recommended books: http://www.goodreads.com/lukeburrage
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Luke reviews Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge
Luke blogs at: http://www.lukeburrage.com/blog
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Luke writes his own novels, “Minding Tomorrow”, “Combat”, and “The Monster Story Conference”, so download them for free at: http://www.lukeburrage.com/fiction.html
Check out listener recommended books: http://www.goodreads.com/lukeburrage
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This graph shows the total number SFBRP episodes per month for the last two years. I noticed an upswing in the listener numbers recently, so I wanted to see what it looked like over time. Pretty good, I think! In April, random people across the world downloaded just under 25,000 individual episodes. That’s more downloads than I had in the entire of 2008!
I’ve asked for listener feedback, regarding where the new listeners were coming from, how they found out about the podcast, and why they started listening. The range of answers is quite interesting:
– Interested in science fiction, did an iTunes search, found the podcast.
– Did an iTunes search, found the podcast.
– Just searched using iTunes.
– An iTunes search.
– iTunes.
So, it’s really that simple. It’s not a scientific survey, so maybe people who hear about podcasts via word of mouth aren’t the kind of people who like sending in emails.
I’ve yet to bash the numbers for individual episode downloads, because the stats I have are month on month. This means that if a podcast is released late in the month, the initial week of download figures are split over two months. In April 2010, the most downloaded podcast was SFBRP #089 – Dani and Eytan Kollin – The Unincorporated Man, with 2,421 downloads.