The Sword and Laser discussion

New episode is up! AND THERE IS NOT ONE SINGLE MENTION OF GRRM.

http://www.swordandlaser.com/home/201...

Tom's pronunciation of "jawohl" ... oh my.

A certain writer worked on the Twilight Zone revival. I won't say his name because we've had too much of him, but his initials are G. R. R. M..

Well, to be honest, I think the discussions are fine as is, with or without George R.R.Martin. I understand some people getting tired of it, but its a discussion, and anyone who makes the choice to listen has to accept at some times they will discuss something you are not interested in, Some of us ARE interested in that subject, so I would suggest Veronica and Tom just continue doing what they have always done, have frank and interesting talks on subjects they are interested in, which we get to listen in on and then render our opinions here on the forums (which we are wont to do)

So .. umm .. next book? Feed, The Dervish House, or maybe By Light Alone

I too am intrigued by what our next pick will be! Hopefully next week or the week after. In the meantime, I'm happy to continue with Stand on Zanzibar. :)

my vote is for By light alone. But, do we want to read another laser book (sci-Fi). I am allergic to zombie's by the way;)

Damn fruit fly!

Will wrote: "Damn fruit fly!"

Just wondering was fruit involved at all :)

Damn fruit fly...

Tamahome wrote: "Damn fruit fly...

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lol

Would anyone be opposed to maybe having a few Novella's or Novellete's as book selections? We could read two or three of those in the time we give one book and it would be little different. I've read The Lifecycle of Software Objects and plan on reading "For Want of a Nail". They are nice and bite sized and some of them really are good.

Dang you guys! I usually have months to read a S&L pick before we move on to something else, and I am not at the top of the queue at the library for Flashforward yet. Expect some insightful and lonely feedback in a few weeks, ha!

I'm also eager to see what we read next!

For our next book...how about The Postmortal?

Jenny wrote: "Dang you guys! I usually have months to read a S&L pick before we move on to something else, and I am not at the top of the queue at the library for Flashforward yet. Expect some insightful and lonely feedback in a few weeks, ha!"

I was just about to post the same thing. I only just got my copy from the library yesterday but I'm in the middle of another book so I'm not even going to start reading it yet. Anyway, I'll be looking forward to some insightful feedback and just to let you know, you won't be alone.

Boots wrote: "I was just about to post the same thing. I only just got my copy from the library yesterday but I'm in the middle of another book so I'm not even going to start reading it yet. Anyway, I'll be looking forward to some insightful feedback and just to let you know, you won't be alone. "
Woohoo! I secretly believe someone in my town is in Sword and Laser too, because the book the group is about to read is almost always checked out.

Jenny wrote: "Woohoo! I secretly believe someone in my town is in Sword and Laser too, because the book the group is about to read is almost always checked out. "

I bet it's Lepton!

The fruit fly, code for GRRM? ;)

Michael wrote: "The fruit fly, code for GRRM? ;)"

So, Veronica keeps GRRM buzzing around her room. :) Now we know why it takes him so long to finish his books.

Really enjoyed the discussion of Flash forward. I didn't read it but I got a lot from T and V's talking about the concepts and the story. I would like to vote for The Dervish House for our next read. Glad to not hear about the author who shall remain unmentioned. Veronica you need a miniature baby dragon to eat your fruit flies.

Veronica wrote: "New episode is up! AND THERE IS NOT ONE SINGLE MENTION OF GRRM.

http://www.swordandlaser.com/home/201..."

lol Love it.

Yay! finally an episode i can listen to... I have 5+ episodes backed up and have boycotted this site for over 2 months now...

still got 2.5 books to go in my re-read before i can even touch Dances with Dragons... ARGGG!

sooo much.... social interaction... missed..

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern mentioned in the Calendar part is the free "Pick of the Week" iBook at Starbucks.

I finally finished reading the book today and listened to the podcast afterwards and I thoroughly enjoyed both.

So now that I'm done Flashforward, I'm going to pick-up Reamde from the library tomorrow and I have Ready Player One on order, but there's a huge lineup for that one. Which leads me to ask if it would be possible to get a week or two heads-up on what were reading in the future from book to book?

Boots, the kick-off *is* the heads up. Once we decide we announce it. Then we try to give enough time before we wrap it up to give you a chance to get it and read it. There won't be an episode this week so there's at least one, and I'm guessing it'll be a few more weeks before Veronica catches up with me on RP1. Reamde is a long one so I imagine we won't wrap it for awhile.

Ah okay, it kind of makes sense when I think about it that way, I just have to start reading faster.

Thanks Tom!