While being a stay-at-home-dad, I have had many opportunities to listen to podcasts with science fiction stories – of course only when my son is sleeping. Here are a few that I have enjoyed.

Escape Pod SF podcast

EP 204: The Fifth Zhi

Episode 198: N-words

Episode 197: From Babel’s Fall’n Glory We Fled…

EP195: 26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss

EP192: Sumo21

EP187: Summer in Paris, Light from the Sky

StarShipSofa

Graves by Joe Haldeman (maybe not SF, but really well written!)

We See Things Differently by Bruce Sterling

Mars: A Traveler’s Guide by Ruth Nestvold

Gift Of Joy by Ian Whates

The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate by Ted Chiang

Stories by Cory Doctorow

When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth

The Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away

+ The Gospel According to Mark by Jorge Luis Borges

The message below is great news.
I hope the series is a great success – there is really a need for good science fiction comics.
Mattias Elftorp is one of the few people that could actually pull it off.

DYSTOPIA

From Wikipedia:
A dystopia is the often futuristic vision of a society in which
conditions of life are miserable and characterized by poverty,
oppression, war, violence, disease, pollution, nuclear fallout
and/or the abridgement of human rights, resulting in widespread
unhappiness, suffering, and other kinds of pain.
More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dystopia

In short, DYSTOPIA is a series of comic short stories about the dark
future that may be coming, or the one that is already here. These books
will contain science fiction, cyberpunk, horror, current political
subjects and other stories that fit into the concept.

We want these stories to move their readers and we want them to matter. To
warn us and help us chose a better future for ourselves.

SUBMISSIONS
We accept submissions from anyone who has something interesting to say on
the subject, after the following specifications:
-Each book can be one story (24 pgs max) or be done as a split, a flip
book between two artists if the stories are shorter.
-The format is 140x182mm.
-Both color and black & white is acceptable.
-DYSTOPIA will be made in two editions (Swedish and English). If you can’t
do both versions yourself, we can help you with the translation.
-Send digital material. Line art should be 1200dpi. Gray or color should
be at least 300dpi.
-.TIF is a good file format. .JPG is bad (don’t use if avoidable). If you
aren’t sure, ask us for advice.
-Questions, submissions or ideas for submissions to mattias @ elftorp .
com (delete the spaces).

Unfortunately, we can’t pay anyone for their contributions at this stage.
Participants will get 5 copies for a full book and 3 copies each for a
split. Language optional.

There are no deadlines. Simply send us stories and if we accept them we
will publish them as we go along, depending on our situation when it comes
to time and money.

PUBLISHER
DYSTOPIA is a cooperation between Wormgod and the Swedish Comics
Association. Editor is Mattias Elftorp.

http://www.wormgod.net
http://www.serieframjandet.se

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Jag gick igenom en halvgammal tidning här hemma och läste Sverker Sörlins essä Dags för världen att gå från kunskap till handling.

Essän handlar om varför det är så svårt att faktiskt göra något åt klimathotet, trots att kunskapen om den ökade växthuseffekten är så etablerad och välkänd.

Jag slås av att det så ofta ska vara antingen individuella eller kollektiva lösningar. Det måste till både statliga och överstatliga regleringar och personliga ändringar av livsstil. Alltså både lagar, bränsleskatter, ransonering och mindre köttätande, bilkörande, utlandssemestrande osv.

Att det ska vara så svårt…

Did you know that Spotify playlists follow you wherever you go? …

I dagarna lanserades sajten killfrågor.se av föreningen Män för jämställdhet. Det är ett forum där unga killar ska kunna prata om jämställdhet, heteronorm, våld och liknande med någon som är lite äldre. Jag hoppas att det blir en bra sajt som gör nytta.

Jag är själv involverad såtillvida att jag har programmerat ett verktyg som kommer att användas för att handleda volontärerna och utvärdera metoden.

He’s making a list,
He’s checking it twice,
He’s gonna find out
who’s naughty or nice.

Santa Claus is coming to town!

He sees you when you’re sleeping,
He knows when you’re awake.
He knows when you’ve been bad or good,
So be good for goodness sake!

So…You better watch out,
You better not cry
You better not pout,
I’m telling you why.

Santa Claus is coming to town.

Translation from Chinese to English
Mr. Ban and the International Criminal Court and the State party:
Here, I would like to inform all mankind is this: with a research institute that continues to the illegal use of five sets with my brain that \
Wireless connected machines, illegal track and monitor my thoughts and actions, for I am doing the inhuman abuse and torture, destruction of personality, \
Wanton violation of my human rights. The arrest warrant just a case of two police vehicles, the official and the official administration of justice have not yet \
Office of the case.
For three decades, the illegal cover up their power and ability to cover up such a powerful power, and they are definitely not just for shielding \
78 individuals, but their value orientation, political orientation, judicial orientation. The people in the official public declaration read in less than a \
The other side. That is in contempt of law, human contempt, contempt for human rights, contempt for life.
”UN Charter” ”reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, dignity and value.” A research institute of those people and the illegal cover up their \
The power and the ability to cover up the power of this power, so wanton violation of human rights is a ”UN Charter” smear \
Subject. Both big and small, strong and weak, the permanent members, non-permanent members, other Member States, should not contempt ”\
The United Nations Charter. ”
”World Declaration of Human Rights,” claimed second paragraph of Article 29th: Everyone in the exercise of his rights and freedoms, subject only to the law determined by \
Constraints, to determine the sole purpose of such restrictions is to ensure that the rights and freedoms of others and to give due recognition and respect, and \
In a democratic society just requirements of morality, public order and general welfare in a democratic society. Those people with a research institute and non-\
Law protecting their power and ability to cover up such a powerful power, the past three decades, the illegal exercise of their rights that they had not been \
Laws. Illicit tracking and monitoring other people’s thoughts and actions, theft of another’s privacy, abuse others, personality, interfering with the lives of others \
Peace, ignoring the rights and freedoms of others. Cruel means despicable. This is absolutely not the 6.5 billion human and social morality and order \
, Rights and desires are allowed. This is the ”Universal Declaration of Human Rights” in contempt. Both big and small, strong and weak, the permanent \
Members, non-permanent members, other Member States, should not disregard the ”World Declaration of Human Rights.”
”International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,” Article VII provides that: No person shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman \
Or degrading treatment or punishment. In particular, no one shall be subjected without his free consent to medical or scientific experimentation. A \
Institute of those people and the illegal cover up their power and ability to cover up such a powerful power, the past three decades for me to impose \
Cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. Long night, trying to overcome pain, woke up, I know I still live \
Forward. Alive, like a pig when the firm has not been rescued. They did engage in a stranger living is a contempt for international conventions. Whether \
Big and small, strong and weak, the permanent members, non-permanent members, other Member States, should not be flouted international conventions.
6.5 billion human society is no need for such Yigu humanity forces. 6.5 billion human beings need is freedom and peace, human \
Rights and development. It shares anti-human forces, such as blood-sucking zombies, they have an extremely painful extremely painful to the human hobby. They are \
Power harboring and feeding dogs. Power and to what extent? Power to three decades can not enter the legal process.
I hope that the international community and humanity in the moral, in the public opinion in international affairs activities, attacked it shares anti-human forces, so that \
They have deserved end. Of course, including the illegal cover up their power and ability to cover up such a powerful power.

Victims: Huang Di Hay
October 8, 2008
In Guangzhou

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