We discuss Foundation, S3E03, "When a Book Finds You."Now, you may find yourself grooving in a Kalgan rave.Or, you may find yourself with an intuitive giraffe.Or, you may find yourself in the stacks of a large imperial library.Or, you may find yourself with a dubious prince, with a dubious beard.So you may ask yourself, "Huh, how did I get here?"It was the book. The book found you as it found us all. But what was the book?Was it some needlepoint mathematics in a Toblerone box, or Foundation and Empire?It could have been The Zen of Positronic Robots by Sunmaster 74, or even How to Subjugate the Galaxy On Less Than 30 Altairian Dollars a Day by Magnifico Giganticus!It almost certainly wasn’t The Sensuous Dirty Old Man by Dr. A.So join us! Come along for the ride as we discuss what we’re calling “Possibly the best episode of season three so far!” You’ll be glad you did!
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Stars End S6E02 - A Podcast for the End of Everything
In which we discuss Apple TV+'s Foundation, S3E01, "A Song For The End of Everything."Now we're into the meat of our new even-numbered season as we finally have a real teevee episode to talk about! As always, this way lies spoilers. If you care about such things, get thee to the platform! We'll be here when you're ready!The premier is dense, and it's a barn-burner! We welcome the return of friend of the podcast, Alexander Siddig! We recognize Brothers Dawn and Dusk, but we're not sure what we should call the other guy. Is Demerzel having a mid-life crisis? Is that guy really the Mule? Where's Bayta? And what is it with the name "Han," anyway?So we have questions! Do we have answers? Tune in and see! Let's GO!
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Stars End S6E01 - I Can Worm My Way Into People's Podcasts
It's an even-numbered season of the Stars End podcast! You know what that means! Our Second Interregnum has come to a close! The big news, of which you're already, no doubt, aware, is the return of Foundation to Apple TV+! New episodes are officially set to appear in a mere 65 hours or so! We're here and we're ready! We're going to watch 'em! We're gonna talk about 'em! It's why we came together as a podcast to begin with!There's still some of Season 5 in Post-Production. We'll get that out in parallel with season 6!And we had a question from a listener about whether we have a forum where those interested could find the three of us. Our Twitter account used to serve that purpose, but you know we've mostly evacuated from that cesspool. We've established a new beachhead on Reddit, and all three of us can now be found at r/StarsEndPodcast! Here are the "official teaser" that came out a few weeks ago and the official trailer!
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Stars End S5E20 - I remember my Podcast. I had a Podcast!
We start Asimov's third (or second) Galactic Empire Novel, The Currents of Space, by discussing chapters 1 through 6. This nearly corresponds to the first installment published in the October 1952 issue of Astounding Science Fiction which covered 1 through 7.A friend tells me that our episodes are better when we’re enjoying the stuff that we’re reading.We certainly enjoy reading The Stars End Mail Bag! This time when we opened it up, it inspired a short conversation about My Living Doll starring Julie Newmar and Bob Something-Or-Other.And we’re liking The Currents of Space so far! It hits the ground running with a threat of planetary destruction and a hero in the mists of amnesia! This is the Good Doctor’s take on race relations in the American South making it a nice companion to The Caves of Steel which tackled the issue in our northern cities. This gave us a lot to think about!Like, what year was this written? It looks like the answer is actually 1952 and not 1951 like I, Joseph, thought.We see parallels to three (count ‘em! 3!) Star Trek episodes! But which ones? Not "The Omega Glory," I'll tell you that much.Is Ol’ Isaac reading comic books on the side?And how does this compare to the other Galactic Empire Novels?Plus, another round of “Where’s Daneel?“ Have we figured that out yet?And more! You’ll have to listen to find out!
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Stars End S5E19 - We the People... Do Ordain and Establish this Podcast
We conclude our coverage of The Stars Like Dust ―, with chapters 15 through 22. That corresponds to part 3 of Tyrann as published in The March 1951 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction.
"We the People… Do Ordain and Establish this Podcast."
As we rejoin our heroes The USS Enterprise, trailer firmly attached by tractor beam, is approaching planet Omega 4. There they find the derelict USS Exeter in orbit. Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and Galloway beam over to the Exeter where the entire crew has mysteriously been turned into common rock salt, just like you can buy from any neighborhood hardware store.
No, wait. I'm confused. That's the "Omega Glory," S2E23 of Star Trek. I swear, sometimes these Star Trek references just write themselves.
Anyway, the beginning of the episode is actually pretty good, but the ending is very, very dumb. So dumb that it lands it in the "So bad you have to see it to believe it" category. Unfortunately for the episode, people only seem to remember that ending.
To Asimov's credit, we know that he did not like that ending, Strangely he didn't like it even some 15 years or so before the episode aired. How does that work? I guess you'll have to listen to our episode.
Meanwhile, being of a certain age myself, I can't seem to get this little earworm out of my head.
Let's all sing along! "Ee Plannista, enor durtofo amo orper fectyoo nion..." Everybody!!
We’re a group of middle-aged guys who loved this series as teenagers. In season one we finished revisiting the original trilogy in anticipation of the TeeVee show.
Now that the show is here we won't just be enjoying it, we'll be bringing you our thoughts and predictions every week!
Hopefully, through this podcast, we'll bring you along for the ride. We want to do our part to bring this series to a new group of fans who are hopefully far more diverse than the three of us.
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