KAMN Show #17: The Demolished Man

Welcome to Show #17!

Summer, Joe and David tackle the first novel to win the Hugo Award, Alfred Bester’s The Demolished Man. The story is on the surface a pulp police procedural where a weary yet tenacious detective must catch a killer. What sets this story apart from typical pulp novels is the incorporation of telepaths and telepathy as integral necessities of society, for business and commerce, lifestyle quality, and for deterring crime.

The Demolished Man is generally recognized as the first novel to delve into telepaths and society, and many stories that followed, in both literature and television, borrowed heavily from the telepath behaviors Bester set up in this story.

Did you know that there is a feature film currently in production? I didn’t at the time we recorded this show back in July…

Listener feedback: We discuss a comment from an anonymous caller about Ninja work habits. Since this show is being posted almost a month later than I’d wanted to get it out, I really have nothing to say, except that after Dragon*Con, we’ll be back on our regular schedule of every other week.

If you have a comment on anything we’ve discussed, let us know! You can call us at 206-666-5266, or send us an email us and let us what you think.

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Promo: Holly Lisle : Holly Lisle On Writing podcast
Link: Wikipedia: The Demolished Man

 

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Ninjas Update

Yeah, I know.

This past summer has been a little hectic, and the shows have suffered because of it.

That’s changing, and I’m wondering if we might not better off doing shows once a month during the summer months, given the heavy travel that’s expected of the denizens of FarPoint Media during the busy summer SF con season.

Dragon*Con is this weekend, and along with how busy the podcasting track will be keeping us, there’s also the Parsec Awards and the pomp and partying that will go along with that awards event.

Enjoy the new KAMN show… we should be back on a two-week schedule now, and we should have cleared out all computer-related problems that plagued my Mac back in May and June.

Knights of Arcadia

This week’s episode of Galacticast is just too good to pass up.