Roundup: podcasts and predictions

Today’s post takes a different approach from most at Yellowed Perils. It’s more of a roundup of items I want to call your attention to.

The Shadow Fan

Barry Reese, librarian and New Pulp author, added podcaster to his resume a while back. If you haven’t tuned into his pulp podcast, “The Shadow Fan,” you’ve been missing out.

I’ve enjoyed Barry’s enthusiasm for one of my favorite pulp heroes. It’s clearly one of his favorites, too. (Now if Barry would only start using a shock-mounted microphone.)

Today’s episode is No. 50. And to mark the occasion, Barry has a special guest lined up: Michael Uslan. Uslan worked on The Shadow comics back in the 1970s and ’80s, and is now a film producer, with the recent Batman trilogy and the upcoming Doc Savage movie.

He has been attached to a potential movie featuring The Shadow, but there has been little talk of it recently. Maybe he will have some big news to share.

Heinlein’s predictions

Isaac Asimov‘s technological predictions from 1964 have been making the rounds on the Internet for the past few weeks. Now it’s time for a turn by his sf compatriot Robert Heinlein.

While Asimov was pretty accurate, Heinlein’s prognostications were, well, not so much. Take for instance:

“10. By the end of this century mankind will have explored this solar system, and the first ship intended to reach the nearest star will be a-building.”

I wish.