{"id":2661,"date":"2020-12-07T20:47:04","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T02:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lfs.org\/blog\/?post_type=aiovg_videos&p=2661"},"modified":"2020-12-10T13:29:06","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T19:29:06","slug":"podcast-sf-writers-andy-weir-ken-macleod-john-hunt-karl-gallagher-and-travis-corcoran-discuss-their-2017-prometheus-finalist-novels-with-geek-gab-host-danny-warpig","status":"publish","type":"aiovg_videos","link":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/aiovg_videos\/podcast-sf-writers-andy-weir-ken-macleod-john-hunt-karl-gallagher-and-travis-corcoran-discuss-their-2017-prometheus-finalist-novels-with-geek-gab-host-danny-warpig\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast: sf writers Andy Weir, Ken MacLeod, John Hunt, Karl Gallagher and Travis Corcoran discuss their 2017 Prometheus-finalist novels with Geek Gab host Danny Warpig"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cI\u2019m on the short list for the Prometheus for the third novel of a trilogy, \u00a0The Corporation Wars,\u00a0<\/i>set a thousand years in the future,” novelist Ken MacLeod said.<\/p>\n

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“A robot interstellar colonization is going on, and there\u2019s the usual hand-waving post-singularity about downloading and so on, and some of the robots become self-aware and basically reinvent their Lockean property rights from the ground up, and things get sticky after that,\u201d MacLeod said.<\/p>\n

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Prometheus Award-finalist sf authors Travis Corcoran, Karl Gallagher, John Hunt, Ken MacLeod, and Andy Weir discuss their novels with host Danny Warpig in Episode 138 (April 14, 2018) of Geek Gab, a weekly podcast about books, movies, TV, comics, music, RPGs, tabletop gaming, video games, sci-fi, fantasy, etc. where \u201canything geekish goes.\u201d
\nAmong the topics discussed: artificial intelligence, computer programming, anarchocapitalism, libertarian ethics and the most surprising elements of their books for many readers.
\nAlong with Sarah Hoyt (Darkship Revenge), the participating novelists were selected as finalists for the 2018 Prometheus Award for Best Novel for Corcoran\u2019s The Powers of the Earth (which ultimately won), Gallagher\u2019s linked-trilogy Torchship, Torchship Pilot and Torchship Captain; Hunt and Doug Casey\u2019s Drug Lord: High Ground, MacLeod\u2019s The Corporation Wars: Emergence; and Weir\u2019s Artemis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","aiovg_categories":[],"aiovg_tags":[],"class_list":["post-2661","aiovg_videos","type-aiovg_videos","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aiovg_videos\/2661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aiovg_videos"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/aiovg_videos"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"aiovg_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aiovg_categories?post=2661"},{"taxonomy":"aiovg_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aiovg_tags?post=2661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}