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Luke reviews one of the Top 10 Fiction Novels of 2009 (according to Time magazine) – The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi. He also talks about his new fiction release, called The Monster Story Conference. Luke blogs at: http://www.lukeburrage.com/blog Follow Luke on twitter: http://twitter.com/lukeburrage Luke wrote his own novels, “Minding Tomorrow” and “The Monster Story Conference”, so download them at: http://www.lukeburrage.com/fiction.html Check out listener recommended books: http://www.goodreads.com/lukeburrage More information on the SFBRP Wiki

Luke recounts his experiences with listening to a long audiobook, then reviews Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds. After some actual research, it turns out Alastair Reynolds DOES have a PHD in Astronomy, so the “amateur cosmology” jibe is a bit out of place. Recorded weeks ago, but due to being locked out of my own website… Luke blogs at: http://www.lukeburrage.com/blog Follow Luke on twitter: http://twitter.com/lukeburrage Luke wrote his own novel, “Minding Tomorrow”, so download it at: http://www.lukeburrage.com/mindingtomorrow.html Check out listener recommended books: http://www.goodreads.com/lukeburrage More information on the SFBRP Wiki

Luke reads and reviews a novel in one day: Blindsight by Peter Watts. You can download this novel for free at http://www.feedbooks.com/book/976 Watch Luke’s new video, International Juggler 2009: Luke blogs at: http://www.lukeburrage.com/blog Follow Luke on twitter: http://twitter.com/lukeburrage Luke wrote his own novel, “Minding Tomorrow”, so download it at: http://www.lukeburrage.com/mindingtomorrow.html Check out listener recommended books: http://www.goodreads.com/lukeburrage More information on the SFBRP Wiki

Luke is joined by Jesse from SFFaudio.com to discuss Smoke by Donald Westlake, and talk a bout a lot of other things besides. Here’s what we talked about: Luke’s The Invisible Man podcast (SFBRP#78), The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells, Donald E. Westlake’s Smoke, invisibility, Freddie Urban Noon, crime, Smoke is an invisible man story done right, Memoirs Of An Invisible Man by H.F. Saint, Memoirs Of An Invisible Man (the 1992 film), invisibility in Fantasy (J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord Of The Rings), invisibility in Science Fiction (The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells), invisibility in a comic crime story, what are the problems with being an invisible thief?, humor, New York, Richard Stark, hard boiled crime, 5 Writing Lessons Learned from Donald Westlake, “When the phone rang Parker was in the garage killing a man.”, The Writing Excuses Podcast, Luke’s review of Makers by Cory Doctorow (SFBRP #74), big tobacco, Westlake’s way of telling a story “he went into the unspeakable kitchen.”, Westlake is a masterful writer of sentences, Peg Briscoe (Freddie’s girlfriend) is a competent confederate, how do you steal things when you’re invisible? (people will see the stolen goods floating down the street!), how do you sell stolen goods when you’re invisible? (you’ll need a confederate), invisibility is a small but well known meme, comparing the memes of invisibility and time travel, nailing small coffins and flogging tiny horses, The Man With The Getaway Face by Richard Stark, the Stark novels are faced paced and utterly absorbing, the differences between Stark novels and Westlake novels, The Hunter by Richard Stark, Payback (the 1999 film), more invisible men, Hollow Man (the 2000 film), Sony used a fake reviewer to shill its movies, unlikeable characters in novels vs. film, the concept of invisibility is a human concept and not a worldly phenomenon (and what that does to our perception of possibility), negating a phenomenon doesn’t create a new phenomenon, invisibility in The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy series, Jack Ward, The Sonic Society, Superman, why Superman is impossible, invisible men cannot smoke or drink or eat if they want to remain wholly invisible, Neil Morrisey, The Vanishing Man (1998), future memes and themes for podcasts: THE YELLOW PERIL, when will China take over the world? (soon), David Wingrove’s Chung Kuo series, The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer, the Judge Dee mysteries, Starship: Flagship by Mike Resnick, Kirinyaga by Mike Resnick |READ OUR REVIEW|, ***watch out for the false ending*** Alan Moore’s The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Captain Nemo, Mina Harker, Allan Quatermain, the National Treasure series, Indiana Jones, 6 Insane Fan Theories That Actually Make Great Movies Better, the best television show ever made: The Adventures Of Young Indiana Jones, doing something with a television show that no-one has ever done on TV before or since, automating your podcast with Audacity, python. http://www.sfbrp.com/?feed=podcast iTunes 1-Click |SUBSCRIBE| Luke blogs at: http://www.lukeburrage.com/blog Follow Luke on twitter: http://twitter.com/lukeburrage Luke wrote his own novel, “Minding Tomorrow”, so download it at: http://www.lukeburrage.com/mindingtomorrow.html Check out listener recommended books: http://www.goodreads.com/lukeburrage More information on the SFBRP Wiki

Luke is joined by Jesse from SFFaudio.com to discuss H G Wells’ The Invisible Man Jesse’s notes: Here’s what we talked about: The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells, the public domain status of the writings of H.G. Wells, Luke and Jesse in conversation, The War Of The Worlds, The Island Of Dr. Moreau, The First Men In The Moon, Luke’s review of The Time Machine, Sussex, invasion literature, mad scientist, horror, thriller, the village of Iping, invisibility, scientific invisibility, What Was It?, haunted house, the 2000 film Hollow Man, Smoke by Donald E. Westlake, the development of the invisibility meme, creating tension in a scene with exposition, Luke’s review of Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, the Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Lawrence Kasdan Raiders Of The Lost Ark story conference |PDF|, a Nazi monkey, Griffin (the titular Invisible Man) as an anti-hero, The Ring Of Gyges (found within Plato’s The Republic), invisibility as a cipher for moral character, invisibility is good for nothing other than spying, if you’re an invisible person you’ll need a confederate, The Hobbit and The Lord Of The Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien, Miss Pim’s Camouflage by Lady Stanley, WWI, Invisible Agent, WWII, isolation, moral isolation, anonymity, Eric Rabkin’s point about, refractive index, albinism, the sleight of hand that H.G. Wells uses in The Invisible Man and The Time Machine, The Crystal Egg by H.G. Wells, Mars, long distance communication, what is the serious problem with invisibility? [the answer is a DEFEATER for any truly HARD SF story], the background for The Time Machine is Charles Darwin, evolution and the class system, the background for The War Of The Worlds is invasion literature, war and colonialism, Eddie Izzard’s colonialism through flags, the background for The Invisible Man is personal responsibility, isolation and moral character, Thomas Marvel (the tramp with an invisible friend), the parallels between The Invisible Man and Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fawlty Towers, psychopathy, sociopathy, the one ring’s invisibility, invisibility for burglary is only half as useful as you’d expect, imagine the Sauron’s ring in the hands of Denethor, Boromir, or Gandalf!, the filmspotting podcast, visit Luke’s website! http://www.sfbrp.com/?feed=podcast iTunes 1-Click |SUBSCRIBE| Luke blogs at: http://www.lukeburrage.com/blog Follow Luke on twitter: http://twitter.com/lukeburrage Luke wrote his own novel, “Minding Tomorrow”, so download it at: http://www.lukeburrage.com/mindingtomorrow.html Check out listener recommended books: http://www.goodreads.com/lukeburrage More information on the SFBRP Wiki

Luke does his first ever review of an audiobook/podcast novel, Scott Sigler’s The Rookie. Luke blogs at: http://www.lukeburrage.com/blog Follow Luke on twitter: http://twitter.com/lukeburrage Luke wrote his own novel, “Minding Tomorrow”, so download it at: http://www.lukeburrage.com/mindingtomorrow.html Check out listener recommended books: http://www.goodreads.com/lukeburrage More information on the SFBRP Wiki

Another long podcast, but this time Luke reviews the 6 fantasy novels he’s read in 2009: A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursuala K LeGuin, Warbreaker and Elantris by Brandon Sanderson, The Steel Remains by Richard Morgan, Shadowmagic by John Lenahan, The Warrior-Prophet by R Scott Bakker. Luke blogs at: http://www.lukeburrage.com/blog Follow Luke on twitter: http://twitter.com/lukeburrage Luke wrote his own novel, “Minding Tomorrow”, so download it at: http://www.lukeburrage.com/mindingtomorrow.html Check out listener recommended books: http://www.goodreads.com/lukeburrage More information on the SFBRP Wiki

An epic-length review of an epic-sized novel, Luke tackles Neal Stephenson’s Anathem. Luke blogs at: http://www.lukeburrage.com/blog Follow Luke on twitter: http://twitter.com/lukeburrage Luke wrote his own novel, “Minding Tomorrow”, so download it at: http://www.lukeburrage.com/mindingtomorrow.html Check out listener recommended books: http://www.goodreads.com/lukeburrage More information on the SFBRP Wiki

h boy. Luke is soooo disappointed with Cory Doctorow’s latest novel, Makers. Luke blogs at: http://www.lukeburrage.com/blog Follow Luke on twitter: http://twitter.com/lukeburrage Luke wrote his own novel, “Minding Tomorrow”, so download it at: http://www.lukeburrage.com/mindingtomorrow.html Check out listener recommended books: http://www.goodreads.com/lukeburrage More information on the SFBRP Wiki

Luke reviews the modern classic from Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Is the hype justified? Check the lyrics attached to the MP3 to see Luke’s notes for this episode. Luke blogs at: http://www.lukeburrage.com/blog Follow Luke on twitter: http://twitter.com/lukeburrage Luke wrote his own novel, “Minding Tomorrow”, so download it at: http://www.lukeburrage.com/mindingtomorrow.html Check out listener recommended books: http://www.goodreads.com/lukeburrage More information on the SFBRP Wiki

Luke chats to Jesse (from SFFaudio.com) about many topics including: R. Scott Bakker Brandon Sanderson Wheel of Time Peter Watts Greg Bear Courtney Brown Science Fiction and Politics Podcast Feminist Utopias Herland Cloning Nature and Nurture Invisible Man Shrinking Man Fantastic Voyage 1 and 2 Photons hitting things Aristotelian Goods Darwin’s Radio Century Rain Robert Sawyer Interview on SFFaudio Flashforward Michael Crichton Podcast production About this podcast Savvy marketing Good women writers Prolific authors Elmore Leonard Charles Stross Lobsters Halting State End of an Era Science as a basis of fiction My second novel Jesse made his own list of things we talked about: R. Scott Bakker, audiobooks, Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson, Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan, Blindsight by Peter Watts, Moving Mars by Greg Bear, Courtney Brown, Science Fiction and Politics Podcast, feminism, utopias, Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, cloning, remote viewing, nature vs. nurture, nurture as a subset of nature, epistemology, The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells, The Incredible Shrinking Man by Richard Matheson |READ OUR REVIEW|, Fantastic Voyage and Fantastic Voyage II by Isaac Asimov, the strange life of a photon, combat, Aristotelian values, Darwin’s Radio by Greg Bear, Century Rain by Alastair Reynolds, The SFFaudio Podcast #041, FlashForward by Robert J. Sawyer, FlashForward the TV show, Michael Crichton, podcast production, savvy marketing, good women writers, Ursula K. Le Guin, Octavia Butler, prolific authors, Out Of Sight by Elmore Leonard, Lobsters by Charles Stross |READ OUR REVIEW|, Halting State by Charles Stross, End of an Era by Robert J. Sawyer, science as a basis of fiction, Luke’s second novel (tentatively titled either Monster Story or Teeth and Claws).

Luke reviews The Dispossessed by Ursula K LeGuin. You can watch a video of this recording at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/lukeburrage Check the lyrics attached to the MP3 to see Luke’s notes for this episode. Luke blogs at: http://www.lukeburrage.com/blog Follow Luke on twitter: http://twitter.com/lukeburrage Luke wrote his own novel, “Minding Tomorrow”, so download it at: http://www.lukeburrage.com/mindingtomorrow.html Check out listener recommended books: http://www.goodreads.com/lukeburrage More information on the SFBRP Wiki

Luke reviews Market Forces by Richard Morgan. Luke blogs at: http://www.lukeburrage.com/blog Follow Luke on twitter: http://twitter.com/lukeburrage Luke wrote his own novel, “Minding Tomorrow”, so download it at: http://www.lukeburrage.com/mindingtomorrow.html Check out listener recommended books: http://www.goodreads.com/lukeburrage More information on the SFBRP Wiki

Third try to get this into the feed. HARD SCIENCE with Greg Egan. Luke reviews Schild’s Ladder. Luke blogs at: http://www.lukeburrage.com/blog Follow Luke on twitter: http://twitter.com/lukeburrage Luke wrote his own novel, “Minding Tomorrow”, so download it at: http://www.lukeburrage.com/mindingtomorrow.html Check out listener recommended books: http://www.goodreads.com/lukeburrage More information on the SFBRP Wiki

Luke takes a trip to Barsoom. Luke blogs at: http://www.lukeburrage.com/blog Follow Luke on twitter: http://twitter.com/lukeburrage Luke wrote his own novel, “Minding Tomorrow”, so download it at: http://www.lukeburrage.com/mindingtomorrow.html Check out listener recommended books: http://www.goodreads.com/lukeburrage More information on the SFBRP Wiki