Podcast 478

I start this week with a story from David Scholes called Other Side the I mistakenly call Reincarnation, it's good no matter what the case.

From the blog, it would seem that Germany's fusion reactor works!  David has a story collection available on Amazon. Pluto has structures similar to ice pressure ridges but on a truly vast scale. 

Finally I play David's Urban Pacifiers, which is a really great short tale.

podcast 478

Some of Nimoy's Stage Credits

Listner Phil really knows his theater.  I asked him what he knew about Nimoy and stage and he

sent me back a "did you know" list:

Here are just a few stage shows that Leonard Niemoy was in and parts he played.

Musical Theatre

Melody Top Theatre Milwaukee, WI (Regional Theatre)

Camelot - Arthur (1973)

Fiddler on the Roof - Tevye (1974)

My Fair Lady - Henry Higgins (1976)

Oliver - Fagin (1972 - 1973)

The King and I - The King (1974)

Dramas

Atlanta Theatre Guild, Atlanta, GA (1955)

A Streetcar Named Desire - Stanley Kowalsky

University of Alabama Town and Civic Center Clark Memoiral Theater

Cat on A Hot Tin Roof - Brick

Town and Gown Repertory Theatre - Birmingham, AL. (1959)

One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest - Randle Patrick McMurphy

Little Theatre on the Square - Sullivan, IL. (1974)

The Fourposter - Michael (1975)

The bladed terrain of Pluto’s Tartarus Dorsa region, that were photographed by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft during its epic flyby in July 2015, as ice ridges 1,650 feet or so tall.  On Earth, these structures rise just a few feet above the ground in cold, mountainous regions of Earth.

The gargantuan size is predicted by the same theory that explains the formation of these features on Earth. 

On Earth however the structures are made up of snow or water ice, whereas Pluto's ridges are mostly methane and nitrogen ices. 

Researchers say that Pluto's structures probably formed within the past few tens of millions of years.

R.I.P. Carrie Fisher

Carrie Fisher, the actress best known as Princess Leia from the Star Wars films, has passed away at age 60. Her daughter, Billie Lourd, confirmed her mother's passing in a recent statement.

Fisher passed away at 8:55 Tuesday morning December 2016.

Fisher suffered a heart attack while flying from London to Los Angeles on December 23. After arriving at a hospital, her condition was later upgraded to "stable," but she passed away the morning of December 27.

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David Scholes Newest Publication

David Scholes wants to let us know that he will be publishing another collection of sci-fi short stories probably in late January through Amazon Create Space.  

He describes his newest work as 36 stories in all called “A Collection of Science Fiction Gems.”  Some of these have been published individually over the past year or so on various sites: Antipodean SF, Farther Stars Than These, 365 Tomorrows, the WiFiles, and Beam Me Up Pod Cast. Though many of the stories have not yet seen the light of day.