RIP: Jason Kahn

It is with great sadness that I report that one of BMU's most favored authors, Jason Kahn, has succumbed after a valiant 18 month battle with brain cancer, at the age of 45. 

Jason as you know has been with Beam Me Up for several years now with his ongoing story arc 'In Plain Sight'.   One of his last projects was to make sure that his series IPS, which was part of the Dark Inspectre series, was finished and up to date.  So that fans of Beam Me Up could enjoy the series well into 2015.

His passing will leave a large void in the heart of Beam Me Up and myself.  He will be greatly missed.

Beam Me Up episode 396 Now online

Here we go with another installment of Beam Me Up.  This is episode 396.

The first thing I play today is a track off John Aneilo's newest album Walk the Fire, and wow, does he have a winner here.  The cut I play is "The Ferryman" and this song hits you where you live.

Next is a short piece called "The Loaner" Dave Rigby.

I spend a bit of time on Twilight zone trivia

Then from the Beam Me Up blog: Opportunity Rover celebrates it's 10th anniversary on Mars this year.  The Sun may not bake the Earth into a cinder as soon as we thought.......How was the Milky Way galaxy formed?  I close this week with episode 24 of "The Dark Inspectre Series" by Jason Kahn.

All in all, a good program this week.  I hope you enjoy it.

Thanks for listening.

BMU #343 Call Me Joe pt5 -Poul Anderson - In Plain Sight ep15 - Jason Kahn

Wow, what a confusing day at the podcast.  This will give you a hint...I had to totally remix i twice when I got to my own home recorder.  But anyway - I open with some Christmas music.  I play "I want the Mellium Falcon for Christmas by John Anealio of Scifisongs.blogspot.com.

My first article asks what laws of robotics should robots use.  I use a slightly offbeat answer buy asking what laws?!

Next is the first story of the afternoon.  Poul Anderson's "Call Me Joe" pt5.

Earth Sky had some really good articles this week, from giant stars to galactic collisions.  

Followed by Star Trek Trivia

I start the blog with my review of The Amazing Spider Man and my review is a bit less than stellar.  From there there are articles about what NASA has in store after the Curiosity rover,   I think all were a bit disappointed with the release of Curiosity's SAM lab data, which is certainly not for the history books.  Wanna go to the moon?  well if you have a spare 1.5 billion you can according to start up Golden Spike.  and a Darwin should have been.

Finally In Plain Sight ep16 by Jason Kahn is our closing story of the afternoon!

Enjoy episode 343 of Beam Me Up

Beam Me Up Episode 281 now online

This episode for the first week in October 2011, as usual I go in for stories that are seasonal I think you would say.

With that in mind the first story of the evening is the conclusion to The Dark InSpectre written and read by Jason Kahn. This is episode 17 of Unfinished Business in which our intrepid psychic detective Jack Garrett puts the finishing touches to one of the most horrific murders he has ever seen.

The second story this week is a classic piece from the pages of Analog Magazine call “Am I still Here?” by James R. Hall. Here, in a tale set into the near future where any and everything can be repaired or replaced in a human body, the question is asked…when do you stop being you and become something or someone else that just thinks it is you?

In news…Earth Sky speaks about water flows on Mars and the makeup of mysterious rogue waves. I read the impressions of some NASA astronauts that have taken the ride home in a Soyuz capsule.

From the Blog

Doug Hilton sends us a note on his news short story collection: How We Play Football in Alabama And Other Short Stories. Mark Wilson over at About SF writes that The movie Source Code is coming to the small screen as a series. The giant particle accelerator The Tevatron is shutting down 9/30/11 and a great project becomes victim like SETI, to budget cuts and apathy.

Thats episode 281 of Beam Me Up

Beam Me UpEpisode 266 online!

This week on Beam Me Up episode 266 - I start first with a geek tribute to nerd Farthers everywhere! Singer songwriter John Anealio gives us Geek Dad which can be downloaded for free mind you!

The first story of the day is our ongoing serial Dark Inspectre from writer Jason Kahn. In this month’s episode para-normal detective Jack Garett finds that his investigation has brought him to the wrong of the table when brought in for questioning in an unusually brutal murder investigation - only to find a warning of dangerous dealings from a most unusual ally.

The Main story this week is part one of Luna Voices on the Solar Winds by Nick Wood. In the first part of this great story - a research outing on the surface of the Moon goes horribly wrong when a science / research outing gets trapped in the open by a solar eruption which blinds their maps, and scrambles their communications. Plus the leader of the expedition knows where they are, only problem, he is unconscious. Now a man caught between the old ways of his grandfather and being accepted in the high tech present and a deaf girl must learn to communicate and trust each other to find their way back to base. Help come in an unusual voice from the past.....

From the beam me up blog: I review the anime version of Witchblade, thankfully its not the crappy tnt version!, Is Dark Energy a lie? Is there no such thing or is time simply running out? Voyager one is closer than ever to leaving the solar system proper. Will turbines replace the beating human heart someday, and a Japanese researcher has created fake meat from all thing, sewage mud! Believe it or not its the world’s first Turd Burger?!

BMU episode 266

Beam Me Up Episode 256

This week in episode 256 of Beam Me Up I start with a fast paced piece of music from Yu Kobiachi called Fight or Flight. This is the closing theme music for the anime series Dragonauts which is not really all that bad of a series. The “Dragons” are alive, but they are almost like living fightercraft with pilots which bond with them. It gets complicated, but has it’s moments.

The first story I play this week is episode 11 of the Dark InSpectre series by Jason Kahn and thing seem to be getting quite dicey for our favorite mind reading detective...., and I end this weeks program with part one of In Fall by Ted Kosmatka. A very mysterious tale of two men on a ship on the brink of an endless chasm, on young, the other old and both prisoners of their belief.

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