The Sword and Laser

Sci-Fi / Fantasy Book Club

The Sword and Laser is a book club for sci-fi / fantasy nerds!

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#020 - The S&L Podcast: Here There Be Dragons

While we’re kicking off reading A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin, we’re also proud to announce we’re going to Dragon*Con in Atlanta to do a live episode of Sword and Laser! We’re very excited about that, especially because Veronica has been reading a book about dragons and is hoping to [...]

Pardon our dust!

We’re working on a fix for why the full podcast listings don’t show up with our old theme (previously, you could only see the last ten or so podcast entries). We’re also migrating our feedburner stuff, so if you see anything wonky, let us know in the comments!

#019 - S&L Podcast: Talking Daemon with Rick Klau!

We’re very pleased this week to have Rick Klau, product manager at Blogger, as a guest to talk about the book Daemon. Rick is friends with author Daniel Suarez and gives some insight into the books creation and the long road to publishing. We also give our impressions of the book. Which we probably [...]

Exactly how our book cover would look!

Aaron Harvey from our Ning forums created this amazing “book cover” for Sword and Laser! I think it marries the science fiction and fantasy genres perfectly! I also feel pretty honored that Aaron took the time to create something so cool for the community.

#018 - The S&L Podcast: Kwisatz and the Haderachs

It was Dune time and we found out how much of nerd I (Tom) am for Frank Herbert’s stuff and how hard it is to pronounce pretty much anything he wrote when you try to say it out loud. We also found out that there are Dune influences all over popular culture including Films, spinoffs, and [...]
 

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