Beam Me Up episode 303 now online

Strange and creepy are the cornerstones of this week’s Beam Me Up broadcast. I start off first with T. Fox Dunham’s spin on a well worn science fiction theme. I read his “Freedom Day” Where a long lost space traveler only to find humans enslaved by mechanical overlords. Upon freeing the oppressed human race our stalwart traveler garners a reward that was far beyond anything he could have imagined.

Next from Earth Sky - news on the VLA telescope soon to be fully operational in Chile called Alma and feathers caught in ancient tree sap helps demonstrate that early flightless dinosaurs and ancient birds both used feathers but for varying purposes.

From there I head over to the Beam Me Up blog to discover that dinosaurs themselves were plagued by fleas just as much as modern animals, but these were no ordinary fleas! Next I review the blu-ray Batman: year one which follows the genesis of the Batman mystique from the comic book history time line, Hubble has detected a gas cloud thought to be the precursor to a supernova that could happen at any moment, Some voice over actors find it difficult to drop their assumed personas once the project is finished. Watch Ben Shelton's web series The Daly Show - I have a link and the mentioned video - funny just can not describe it! The most distant object in the visible universe had been discovered. Light from the GRB has been traveling to us for 13.2 billion years, that makes it 96% of the age of the Universe itself. I find another Darwin hopeful....this brain trust is not to be believed! And finally from the blog comes one of the most disturbing ideas yet to improve on meat production. You will not believe your ears!

And finally part two of Nancy Fulda’s story Movement which is up for the Nebula this year in the short story department. Good Luck Nancy!

News From Nancy Fulda

Nancy Fulda is a wildly talented writer whom I have read on BMU in the past.

Mz. Fulda just sent in this update on the story title that I read starting on episode 248 of the podcast/radio program.

• I thought your listeners might like to know that "Knowing Neither Kin Nor Foe", which you read on Beam Me Up some time ago, is now available as part of an ebook collection.
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• The collection is called "The Breath of Heaven and Other Stories". In addition to "Knowing Neither Kin Nor Foe", it also includes "The Breath of Heaven" (A story compared by one reviewer to the work of Asimov and Clarke) and "In the Halls of the Sky-Palace", a fantasy tale originally published in Jim Baen's Universe. Interested readers can find links to the book at http://www.nancyfulda.com.