Conduit XX: Jaleta Clegg Nexus Point and more.

Jaleta Clegg is a local author from Utah.  Her most recent work Nexus point contains ship, explosion and the feudal age (in laymen terms, the dark ages).

excerpt from her book:

When Captain Dace crash lands on a primitive planet, she finds herself on the run from villagers who are sure she’s a demon and the Patrol, who’s sure she’s a smuggler. Accused of piracy, facing death or worse at the hands of those who should be rescuing her, she must find not only some way to survive but also escape. Unfortunately, the world has other plans….

Jaleta  (jay let ah) is not only candid and a geek, she is a great asset  to the written word.

More information can be found here:

http://home.earthlink.net/~jaletac/

http://www.nexuspoint.info/

and just to prove it,  here is a pre-interview pic of Jaleta !

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Maximilian Werner ~ Black River Dreams

Max Facebook imageMaximilian Werner a writing professor from the Univeristy of Utah and Jeff from iscifi.tv spoke about the work on Black River Dreams, living in Utah’s unique writing style.
Black River Dreams won the 2008 Utah Arts Council’s Original Writing Award for Nonfiction in the Book category.

Max will be at The Kingsenglish Bookshop in salt lake city, for a book reading, and discussion on Thursday Febuary 4th .
http://www.kingsenglish.com/event/maximilian-werner-and-black-river-dreams.

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Black River Dreams, available at Amazon.com

Direct links to here :

http://digg.com/arts_culture/Maximilian_Werner_Black_River_Dreams

http://iscifi.tv/podcast/2010/01/maximilian-werner-black-river-dreams/

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Larry Correia ~ Monster Hunter International

mr hnack from iscifi.tv talks with Larry Correia. author of Monster hunter International.

Home Planet: Earth.

Location :Utah, USA

Description: Male, 32. Very large. Very bald.

Occupation: Gun Dealer. Writer. Firearms Instructor. Accountant.

 

Larry is a big guy, bald and an accountant but owns some bad ass guns and is pretty cool. We will be looking out for more of Larry in the near future. Pick up a copy of his book right now on Amazon.com.

Monster Hunter International

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About Larry: http://larrycorreia.wordpress.com

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Conduit 2008 ~ Theresa Mather

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Theresa Mather has been a professional artist since 1989. She sat down with iSCIFI.tv and talked about how one creates and collects art and what influenced her to start and continue to create some very cool artwork.

You can read more about Theresa on her web sites at http://www.rockfeatherscissors.com/

Movie Review ~ Cloverfield

CLOVERFIELD MOVIE REVIEW

A bunch of 20somethings in New York throw a going away party for Rob ( Michaael Stahl-David ). During the party all hell breaks loose in the city from a loud bang, the head of the Statue of Liberity flying down the road to several other events that may just bring the city to its knees.

The movie is told through a video camera that was found in Cloverfield aka New York’s Central Park. The opening scene in the movies give you the images from the camera that was ‘found’ near the incident area of Cloverfield , as if we were watching what the government found first time. Be warned since this movie was filmed with handheld camera, just like your home movie, the shaking of the camera, the closeup to wide angle changes will give you a bad case of veritgo or even flu like symptoms. I suggest sitting at least 10 rows back, if not up higher in a theater that offers stadium seating.

Our heroes of this movie, is mankind. We do not know where this creature came from, but we know through the eyes of the camera, its just scary as hell to be in New York. This creature eats building, people, tanks and only gets more aggressive when the military comes after it. With the wild camera movement, you see what looks like smaller versions of the creature that are akin to Starship Troopers bugs, or spideras from 8 Legged Freaks. Either way, they will bit you and you will die with massive hemorrhages , well who wouldn’t after getting bit by a critter 80% you body size.

The hype this movie got was so similar to 1989’s Batman, and I give the PR company and the production company and A+ on their marketing of this film. For months we asked ourself what the heck is Cloverfield. No after the movie I’m still asking myself that!

I would epected this movie to fair well aside from the sea-sickness you might get. When this movie hits the home market on DVD, HdDVD/Blueray it should fair well , since the handheld camera should translate well to the home market.

Overall I give this movie 2.5 stars. Wish we had move time to address some of the relationship issues in this film, or to see another retrospective of this film e.g. photo’s or footage from other witnesses.

Cloverfield is Rated pg-13. For scenes of mayhem, language, violence, terror, disturbing images.

Episode 323 ~ Matt Browne

Episode #323 with Matt Browne author of The Future Happens Twice. A very unique science fiction book based in the far future.
Original air date 08-Nov-2007

Matt’s Personal website http://www.meet-matt-browne.com

The Future Happens Twice: The Perennial Project (Future Happens Twice) Buy this book from Amazon!

Episode 322 with Ken Rand

Ken Rand is a fan of sci-fi, he is a published author with many short stories and books out. We sit down and talk to him about his work.
http://www.sfwa.org/members/Rand/

Episode #314 ~ Harry Potter Speculation

Harry Potter! Hey if you read the book all ready who cares, we talk about some cool ideas as to how the book should have gone.

Episode 311h ~ Facade of Shadows

Rick Chiantaretto the author of Facade of Shadows joins us tonight.

Facade of ShadowsBuy this book!

Episode 307 ~ Alan Dean Foster ~ Full

Episode 307 with guest author Alan Dean Foster.
This is the entire episode rather than a 50/50 split

Alan Dean Foster on WikiPedia