This podcast is a production of Finpods Pty Ltd and Phil Muscatello. Phil is the host of the Shares for Beginners podcast. You can find out more about Phil and listen to Shares for Beginners at https://www.sharesforbeginners.com/ Many successful investors credit their success to ongoing learning and education, but if you’re riding the share market solo, where do you start? Equity ASA is brought to you by the Australian Shareholders’ Association to help you stay informed and to build financia ...
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Exploring classic science fiction, with a focus on the 1950s to the 1990s.
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The real China: history, culture, revolution and governance
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Join journalist, Kizzy Cox, and comedian, Onika McLean, the hosts of What’s The 411, as they do a quick take on people and events from hip-hop and pop culture; and a fresh take on the activities of people and subjects in the news or, just because they want to. Check us out for comedy and hilarity, and seriousness, especially if you get called on the carpet. An Ebony #1 pick by someone named Ebony, What’s The 411 has interviews with celebrities and wannabe celebs, as well as, authors and info ...
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In this Podcast series, Aaron J. Armstrong interviews expert business leaders, military leaders, entrepreneurs, professional athletes, and world class performers to motivate listeners to #besomebody by learning insights on business, leadership, and life.
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In this Podcast series, Aaron J. Armstrong interviews expert business leaders, military leaders, entrepreneurs, professional athletes, and world class performers to motivate listeners to #besomebody by learning insights on business, leadership, and life.
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Need the perfect playlist? I got you covered!!!! Stream & Share Below https://afrocaribbeanvibesmix.com/mixtapes/ 1. Elvis Francois - Broken Pieces 2. Hailey Kilgore - Hold Me 3. Montell Jordan - Now Or Never 4. Muni Long - Hrs and Hrs 5. Eli Derby x 6LACK - Lately 6. JaeRene (feat. Marqus Clae) - Synergy 7. Alecia - Always Find My Way 8. Amber Jade - Layers 9. Afra Kane - Building 10. Cherise Ransome - The Bridge 11. Naya Shea - Risk 12. Kate Usher - What You Read About Me 13. Sensei Yaebae ...
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I suffer terribly 24/7 because of a flu vaccine I got in 2010. It took me 14 years to learn the name. I have Guillain-Barré syndrome and it is daily hell. China Rising Radio Sinoland 240923
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#128 Space and the mind: The Black Corridor (1969) by Michael Moorcock and Hilary Bailey
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The hugely prolific Michael Moorcock is credited with making a major contribution to New Wave science fiction, mainly due to his editorship of the pivotal British magazine New Worlds. Moorcock wrote relatively few science fiction novels, certainly compared to his huge output of fantasy work, which he used to help support New Worlds financially. How…
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#127 Science fiction in disguise: Inversions (1998) by Iain M. Banks
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The time has come to continue exploring Iain M. Banks' Culture series. Inversions is the fifth of nine novels, and also the last to be published in the 1990s. This time, Banks stretched himself further than ever before, experimenting with a radically different view of his post-scarcity setting. What does the Culture look like, viewed from a medieva…
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Mario Cavalo invites Jeff J. Brown on his CounterPoint China Show to overview the long history of germ and chemical weapons. China Rising Radio Sinoland 240905
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Anonymous ROK (AROK) is back! With books, essays and videos. He is ready to engage the fans via the comment section of this interview. China Rising Radio Sinoland 240803
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#126 A very British disaster: The Day of the Triffids (1951) by John Wyndham
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No discussion of classic British science fiction could be complete without mentioning John Wyndham, and perhaps especially his 1951 novel The Day of the Triffids. A pioneer in the noble tradition of the British disaster novel, this influential classic piles not one, or two, but three catastrophes onto the world. The protagonist, Bill Masen, must na…
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Ian Hudson: Columbus who? The Chinese got to the Americas generations before him; he used their map! The proof is everywhere we look. China Rising Radio Sinoland 240828
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#125 Future faith: Let the Fire Fall (1969) by Kate Wilhelm and Strength of Stones (1981) by Greg Bear
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This episode covers two quite different science fiction novels by two quite different writers, published more than a decade apart. What links them is their emphasis on religious themes. Let the Fire Fall by Kate Wilhelm was published in 1969, and is largely forgotten. Set in a near-contemporary world, it deals with alien visitation and a manipulati…
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Moving back to China once and for all! Thus, you will see much less here till October. This is my 11th (!) intercontinental move and they are complicated.
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The most drug-drenched, chemically altered team in sports history only managed to tie the cleanest, most tested one in sports history, for Olympic gold medals. Eternal shame on Dope King USA and B-R-A ...
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Mario Cavalo talks about his quarter-century living, working in China, the changes and what makes the country so unique. China Rising Radio Sinoland 240812
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Don Hank, fluent in Russian discusses his fine work covering Russia, Ukraine, Palestine and Zionism, to give you unique news and analysis found nowhere else. China Rising Radio Sinoland 240811
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Victoire Slakey invites Jeff J. Brown on her convo show to discuss the West’s “7 E’s of Racism”, the nature of evil, plus where China fits in. China Rising Radio Sinoland 240809
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#124 Moral hazard: Preferred Risk (1955) by Frederik Pohl and Lester del Rey
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Back in episode 111, I took a trip back to the 1950s, and looked at three books written collaboratively by Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth. The first two of these, The Space Merchants and Gladiator-at-Law, are major landmarks in the development of social science fiction. In 1955, while that collaboration was ongoing, Frederik Pohl published an…
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Alex Krainer: the good and evil of Western banking+finance and how Russia, China and the Global South are adapting. It’s all changing very fast. China Rising Radio Sinoland 240805
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#123 In love with death: Rogue Moon (1960) by Algis Budrys
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Originally published in 1960, Rogue Moon is an excellent novel by the Lithuanian-American author, critic, and editor Algis Budrys. If you read classic science fiction and encounter contemporary reviews of those books, you are sure to have heard Budrys' name. He was a major critic of SF for many years. However he was also a highly capable writer of …
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#122 Suffering for art: Meridian Days (1992) by Eric Brown
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A debut novel which deals with guilt, art, and suspicious happenings on a troubled colony founded on matter transmission. The British SF author Eric Brown passed away in March 2023. He first came to prominence through his short fiction in the 1980s. Following the publication of his first collection, Brown was given the chance to put out his first n…
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#121 Seeing is believing: A Wreath of Stars (1976) by Bob Shaw
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What if we share our world with a different intelligent species, but are separated from them by a failure of perception? And what if that gap could be bridged by a new technology, a new way of seeing? That is the premise of Bob Shaw's 1976 novel A Wreath of Stars. In his ninth novel, the Northern Irish writer combined his interest in optics with sp…
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#120 Cities at war: Oath of Fealty (1981) by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
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In a recent episode, we looked at Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth, who formed the most important science fiction writing team of the 1950s. This instalment looks at a key book by a dominant collaboration of the 1970s and 1980s - Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. These right-wing hard SF authors worked together on numerous books, and even collaborat…
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#119: A case of consciousness: The Soul of the Robot (1974) by Barrington J. Bayley
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Barrington J. Bayley's novel The Soul of the Robot (1974) fits within the wider context of robot stories in SF - these include Isaac Asimov's influential tales from the 1940s, and the more subversive work of John Sladek in the 1980s. The protagonist of Bayley's novel, the fully conscious robot Jasperodus, can be seen as a kind of middle ground betw…
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#118 Schlock and awe: The Paradox Men (1953) by Charles L. Harness
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Charles L. Harness' 1953 novel The Paradox Men was originally published under the title Flight Into Yesterday. It is a classic example of elevated pulp, which features swordfights, superpowers, voyages to the sun, and a strange furry creature that can speak - if only to speak the phrase "don't go..." The Paradox Men is featured in David Pringle's 1…
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#117: Man and machine: “A Meeting with Medusa” (1971) and The Medusa Chronicles (2016)
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Originally published in the December 1971 issue of Playboy, “A Meeting With Medusa” is generally thought of as Clarke’s last significant shorter work. Notably, it won the Nebula Award for Best Novella the following year. It was also an early inspiration for two of Clarke’s successors in the British SF scene. 45 years after the novella’s publication…
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#116 End of days: The Forge of God (1987) by Greg Bear
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In The Forge of God (1987), the Earth’s demise is an inevitability. Greg Bear’s novel of apocalypse was published when he was establishing himself as a leader of American hard SF in the 1980s. This is a sophisticated, chillingly believable, and scientifically rigorous view of the end of the world. Crucially, Bear is as interested in human beings as…
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#115 Faith in the stars: To Open the Sky (1967) by Robert Silverberg
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Robert Silverberg's To Open the Sky (1967) combines five pre-planned stories originally published in Galaxy magazine in 1965 and 1966, it is an interestingly structured piece of work published at a time when Silverberg was just entering his own personal golden age. It also combines themes of religion, psychic powers, terraforming, immortality, and …
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#114 A Thousand Worlds: Dying of the Light (1977) and Tuf Voyaging (1986) by George R.R. Martin
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George R.R. Martin is easily one of the best-known, most successful, and wealthiest genre writers still working today - albeit slowly. While Martin is a giant of modern fantasy writing, even some of his ardent fans may not be aware that he first made an impact in science fiction. This episode first covers his debut novel from 1977, Dying of the Lig…
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#113 A pair of Aces: The Atlantic Abomination (1960) and Sanctuary in the Sky (1960) by John Brunner
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John Brunner was a startlingly prolific British writer of science fiction, whose reputation rests on four acclaimed books he published from the late 1960s to the mid 1970s. However, earlier in his career he wrote many SF adventures which while less ambitious, are a rich source of pulp excitement. This episode focuses on two of these many novels. Th…
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#112 Empire in time: The Fall of Chronopolis (1974) by Barrington J. Bayley
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Pure SF pulp, The Fall of Chronopolis (1974) is the fifth novel by British author Barrington J. Bayley. While it superficially resembles a space opera, it is really more of what could be called a "time opera". The Chronotic Empire rules hundreds of years of human history, using powerful time-ships to head off threats from the past and the future. B…
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#111 SF’s greatest partnership? Three novels by Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth (1952 - 1959)
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This special feature episode focuses on three novels written in partnership by Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbbluth - The Space Merchants (1952), Gladiator-at-Law (1955), and Wolfbane (1959). Each unique in their own way, these three books are classics of the genre in the 1950s. They are the products of a special partnership between two writers wh…
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#110 Outside context problem: Excession (1996) by Iain M. Banks
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Winner of the BSFA Award for Best Novel, Excession (1996) is the fourth novel in Iain M. Banks ever-popular Culture series of SF novels. In this entry, the awesome power of the post-scarcity Culture civilisation is challenged by two linked threats. One is the increasing aggression of a cruel species, the Affront. The other is the emergence of a vas…
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#109 No brakes: Tau Zero (1970) by Poul Anderson
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Poul Anderson's Tau Zero, published in 1970, is a landmark of hard SF which pushes out far further, beyond the Milky Way and into the frightening emptiness of intergalactic space. It also deals memorably with time dilation, and a vast spain of eons. Significantly, Anderson does all of this in a scientifically convincing way, with a plot strongly gr…
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M. Hurtado Rivas, General Counsel Brands and Marketing Properties, Anti-Counterfeiting & Licensing at Nestlé
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Welcome back to Heroes of Brand Protection, a podcast powered by Red Points, the fastest-growing brand protection company in the world, and hosted by Daniel Shapiro. The show delves into the stories of anti-counterfeiting and brand protection leaders from renowned companies and organizations around the globe. In today's episode, we were privileged …
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#108 Fashion victim: The Garments of Caean (1976) by Barrington J. Bayley
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The Garments of Caean is a science fiction novel by the British author Barrington J. Bayley (1937 - 2008). It forms a part of his classic run of unusual and energetic books in the mid-1970s, and is included in guide 100 Must-Read Science Fiction Novels. This is a space opera with an odd hook - it is about clothes, specifically an incredible Frachon…
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#107 Living with the dead: The Falling Woman (1986) by Pat Murphy
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American fantasy in the 1980s is often associated with big, bloated series of novels steeped in Tolkien and Dungeons and Dragons. The Falling Woman is something very different. It isn't set in some imagined world stuck in the middle ages - the story occurs in contemporary Mexico, in and around an archaelogical dig site. But this is a fantasy novel …
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#106 Raising Titans: Imperial Earth (1975) by Arthur C. Clarke
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Imperial Earth is the second of three novels Arthur C. Clarke published during the 1970s - and of those three, it is the least well-known. The main focus of this episode is to assess this tale of 2276, which takes in the quincentennial of the United States, a technological utopia, and Clarke's coy take on sexuality in science fiction. This episode …
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#105 Pulling the trigger: Use of Weapons (1990) by Iain M. Banks
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Use of Weapons (1990) is the third novel in the Culture series of science fiction novels by the much-missed author Iain M. Banks. Originally drafted in 1974, the book follows the interstellar supersoldier Cheradenine Zakalwe, an efficient agent of the Culture. Combining two interleaved narratives, Use of Weapons tells a complex story about military…
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J. Dedouit, Deputy Head of Global Brand Relations at Ebay
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#104 Finding a place in the future: China Mountain Zhang (1992) by Maureen F. McHugh
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Maureen F. McHugh published her debut novel China Mountain Zhang in 1992 and it went on to win multiple awards. An impactful social science fiction story, the book is set in a 22nd century world in which China is the dominant superpower. Zhang Zhongshan is a young, gay construction engineer in New York City, trying to make his way in a world where …
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J. Franklin, Trademark Corporate Counsel at Harley-Davidson
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#103 A dishonourable discharge? Commandos: Strike Force (2006)
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In 2006, Spanish developers Pyro Studios had big hopes for the fourth entry in the successful Commandos series. Strike Force was intended to help them break into the World War II shooter market, and onto consoles. Unfortunately, it was a critical and commercial disaster. Strike Force sank the Commandos series, and took Pyro Studios down with it. Th…
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Episode 169 - An AI Clone of Yourself - Suman Kanuganti
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In this interview with A.I. specialist Mr. Suman Kanuganti, we delve deep into the accomplishments of a distinguished two-time venture-backed entrepreneur with a profound passion for Artificial Intelligence. Honored with the Forbes 40 Under 40 and Smithsonian’s Top Innovator to Watch awards, Mr. Kanuganti stands as a beacon in the tech world. As th…
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